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Triumphing Over Cancer Plus 40 Survival Strategies You Can Use If you're a cancer patient or a caregiver don't go through the experience without the helpful material in Triumphing Over Cancer Plus 40 Survival Strategies You Can Use. It's about engaging the threefold force of body, mind and spirit for the healing process. You won't go into battle alone. The wisdom of others will go with you through the pages of this book. Patients have found inspiration and encouragement here. Dr. Judith Rolfs' studies in the field of psychoneuroimmunology enable her to blend the practical and the spiritual aspects necessary to survive. Marriage and family psychotherapist Dr. Rolfs knows the trauma you experience when cancer charges into your life or the precious life of someone you love. You're desperate to know how to get through as a survivor at the end of the battle. You seek information about physical and emotional challenges you'll face and need encouragement that others have made it through. Triumphing Over Cancer Plus 40 Survival Strategies You Can Use was written in response to the real needs Dr. Rolfs observed during more than one hundred days and evenings she spent on cancer wards during her eighteen-year-old son's battle with this illness. "Time and again," she says, "I saw newly diagnosed cancer patients crumble under the news as if it were more death sentence than diagnosis. I realized they lacked the emotional, intellectual, and spiritual tools necessary to triumph." Rolfs tells readers, "I'm sad beyond words that cancer has entered your life because I know the trauma, the terrible pain, emotional as much as physical, that this disease brings to people. Our eighteen-year-old son has survived this cursed illness, and his life is forever touched not only by cancer, but also being hit by a drunk driver three months after his diagnosis. By God's grace plus the dedication and expertise of doctors and researchers our son lives thirty years later." Her advice is don't despair