Choose your own survival plan. The physiology of the human race never changes. Reviews of this book will continue, it never dates. It is an exciting detective story and my own search for understanding of what has caused cancer and what can prevent it and what can teach the immune system to kill it. It is based on basic human physiology of what every cell in the body needs to stay well and to resist and prevent infection.

This is not just another anti-cancer diet book. It is a fascinating, true detective story and a scholarly yet practical survey that gives us clear guidelines for healing. In the depths of an air forgotten forest of the most successful treatments used by dedicated scientists of the past, Dr Ruth Cilento has discovered the connecting paths of recent research that lead to the actual cause of cancer.

We can no longer pretend that the cause is unknown when we follow the torturous paths to healing she so clearly maps out and substantiates. This is not alternative medicine, it is the basic physiological way to go. She teaches why cancer happens, how it happens and what methods help the body, mind and spirit to fight it.

In her holistic menu, Dr Cilento has presented the many courses available to us all. Jam-packed with a feast of vital recipes from her superbly detailed case histories that thousands of patients records and research has provided, Dr Cilento has given us choices in easily digested food for thought. It could be your menu for survival.

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Reviews

Vijayadev Yogendra

A masterpiece has quietly come onto the marketplace and taken its place amongst the many available for Cancer treatment. Yet this is not just another cancer book. Following the footsteps of her parents, both remembered for their pioneering work in medicine, Dr Ruth Cilento is trail-blazing in writing her book "Heal Cancer", a book that is compelling from the outset.

For the first time Dr Cilento describes in meticulous detail the scientific reasons why nutrition is so vital to the health of the human body. This softly spoken and unassuming author has packed a punch in this book. Backed by many years of painstaking research and investigations she describes, in terms easy to understand, the immune system, the cell structure and what can go wrong in an unhealthy environment. She discusses the concept of a stressed cell, the damaging effects of free radicals, saturated fats, sugar and the depletion of vital nutrients through adrenal overload caused by stress. This damaged or stressed cell is then entered by the cancer organism or virus and the onset of cancer is explained.

Dr Cilento's discussion of the cancer virus, and subsequent treatment through auto-vaccines is put almost nonchalantly as if this is an accepted viewpoint. She is persuasive in urging the orthodox medical practitioners to look beyond orthodox medicine. For most of us, it is a revelation. Once again her statements are backed up by research, with acknowledgement of the many other doctors, scientists and researchers who have spent their life studying the cancer virus, and there is no lack of it.

Moving from research to practicalities, Dr Cilento gives an outline of her "Survival Plan", describing and explaining the foods that can promote cancer; likewise listing and explaining the cancer protecting foods; emphasising the importance of juices; and giving a list of suggested nutritional supplements with their common food sources. Her complete dietary and nutritional program is placed in the context of conventional medical treatment with comments on the place and efffecti veness of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. It is a guide by itself for those confused bv contradictory advice- Le. what to do and when.

Almost every page of Dr. Cilento's book has a small quotation at the bottom - positive affirmations like "I give no one power to hurt me", or "I give thanks for what I have", which show the emphasis she places on the vital importance of re-educating the mind and of the human spirit in conquering cancer. From her scientific mind she describes how, through the settling of the mind and emotions, a person can stimulate their own immune system and thus cure their cancer. But the human spirit is more than science can understand as we see in reading of her many case histories. But her practical approach does not leave anyone in doubt that science is a handmaid of a common sense approach. She in fact has disarmed scientific thinking and turned it into a practical reality.

The love for her work and care for those suffering comes through in Dr Cilento herself is felt as we read of the painstaking work and meticulous research she has done; in her travelling all over the world, visiting the famous cancer clinics, meeting, discussing and sharing with like minded people; researching journals, assessing treatments and eventually forming her Survival Plan. In his forward, Dr Alan Cantwell Jr M. D. rightly says "It is a rare doctor who will challenge the system and dare to suggest that more can be done and should be done for the healing of cancer. It is a rare doctor who will encourage the patient to use the power of the mind and suggest meditations and affirmations in the fight against disease.' Rarely do physicians suggest dietary changes or the addition of supplements, vitamins and minerals as adjuncts for cancer treatment."

We feel her heartbreak and disappointment as she is ignored, even ridiculed when enthusiastically attempting to share her knowledge with the medical profession; and we feel her determination to continue on breaking the frontiers of medical science in the tradition of her parents. I was impressed not only by the massive number of facts, their co relationships within the total content, the lucid language and phraseology, but also by the simplicity, honesty and detached compassion of Dr Ruth Cilento.

This is a book that every cancer patient and doctor alike must read and make up their own mind about the theory of cancer, which when described by Dr Cilento, is simply common sense.

A Letter To You

Dear Reader,

I wrote this book in 1992 after my first ten years of complete dedication and medical commitment to studying, understanding and treating cancer. The physiology of the human body does not change. We always have cancer cells in our body and most of the time we have a good supply of defender cells and their programs working the immune system to prevent them overgrowing out of control. This book describes how that can go wrong and how it can be put right. It is a simple but intricate process of reviving body, mind and spirit that allows the natural healing processes within us to rekindle if they have been in disarray.

The killing properties of chemicals and radiation were in full swing against cancer cells when I started and I saw first hand the disasters of using factors for killing bad cells without any method of replenishing the good cells that allow natural healing to occur.

The reason why the Cilento Survival Plan described here has been so successful is that it works well not only alone but also in conjunction with chemotherapy, radiation and some specific herbal treatments. To use the bodies own defences is the first step and the ongoing easy survival mechanism necessary for all healing.

When the book was first published it was attacked savagely by cancer specialists who had no knowledge of these basic principles. There were some very influential but short-sighted specialists. They never read the book but banned it, denigrated and vilified it and some even told their patients it was quackery. Unfortunately all those patients died. My methods have never put down operations, chemotherapy or radiation. Most sick people quickly learned to read it and follow the Survival Plan in it but not discuss it if they were having treatment with other cancer specialists. So it was discovered that they could work most successfully together.

Over recent years with the advent of a huge burst of information available through the media, the Internet and the inexpensive publishing of millions of books, the wealth of world experience in healing methods has become available for all to study.

People can now learn about their own body processes and how illness may be caused or controlled by their own actions. People are able now to make responsible choices about their own prevention and healing. So my book which was revolutionary to the medical profession fifteen years ago, now does not raise opposition among specialists and is now smiled upon especially by the general practitioners and carers who are helping people with cancer to survive. It is also extremely beneficial for the incurable and those told they are terminally ill who come too late.

Those many unfortunate people find that by following the Survival Plan they can feel so much better, have more energy, less pain and depression and that it makes a very significant difference to the whole management and outcome of their disease. To commit to the Survival Plan in this book is still proving the very best way of helping the body to overcome its disabilities- not only with cancer, but all illnesses that cause disarray to the immune system. We are born with the healing vis naturae - the Force of Nature. True dedication to this plan shows us the way to use that Natural Life Force.

Anti Cancer Vaccine

Chapter 13 "What is a vaccine ?" pages 135-138 of Heal Cancer Book

Biological Products and Cancer Treatment

Read Chapter 14 in Heal Cancer Book.

Immune System Breakdown

Discussion in the Heal Cancer Book, Chapter 12

"What is the immune system ?" pages 128-134

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