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    Not the Last Goodbye: on life, death, healing, and cancer
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    Not the Last Goodbye: on life, death, healing, and cancer

    By David Servan-Schreiber

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    I knew the prognosis. Sooner or later, it would come back. I could slow down the inevitable; I could gain a few years. But there was nothing I could do to make this cancer disappear forever. So this was it. This was the relapse. The Big One.

    Nineteen years after his original diagnosis, David Servan-Schreiber submits to an emergency MRI that confirms his greatest fear: his brain cancer has returned. Here, he shares his coming to terms with the news and, with courage and candour, examines his life from the point of view of one who understands that his illness is terminal, yet nevertheless lives every day fully and with hope.

    As the author of and spokesman for the Anticancer program, which has given hope to millions of readers around the world, Dr Servan-Schreiber frankly acknowledges the ways in which he departed from his own advice. Reaffirming the principles of the program — from nutrition and exercise to rest and meditation — he also weaves in the stories of a number of clinical cases, and offers a rebalanced approach, emphasising certain elements that he himself tended to ignore.

    The story he tells here raises many of the most complex and personal questions about how we choose to live and how we prepare for death, striking a delicate balance between the limits of medicine and the hope that sustains us as we confront them. It is powerful, honest, and truly inspiring.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScribe Publications
    Release dateOct 31, 2011
    ISBN9781921942297
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    Not the Last Goodbye: on life, death, healing, and cancer
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    David Servan-Schreiber

    David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D., was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and co-founder of the Center for Integrative Medicine. He co-directed an NIH laboratory for the study of clinical cognitive neuroscience and has published more than ninety articles in scientific journals. His last book, Anticancer, A New Way of Life, became an international bestseller and was translated into more than forty languages. His previous book, Healing Without Freud or Prozac was also an international bestseller. Following a yearlong battle with a relapse of brain cancer, David died in July 2011.

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    • 5/5
      This is an insightful look at facing one’s mortality after being given a terminal diagnosis. The author stresses the need for and importance hope, even as one is dying, as well as how to embrace the time left and to die with dignity.
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      A comfort to those facing terminal illness!