How to Starve Cancer: Without Starving Yourself

This is an absolutely fantastic book, and I gave it 5 stars, even though it has some caveats. It is a real page turner, thanks to the author's prodigious writing talents, and she stays on point 98% of the time, offering pearls of advice and information on killing cancer, even though it relates her personal story. The main caveat is that, even though the first 300 pages are an easy read and utterly engaging, dispensing vital information throughout, at the same time, the last 100 pages suddenly become exponentially more technical, and somewhat difficult to decipher, at first. You may want to read some sections here more than once to get it clear. Secondly, it becomes so technical regarding "fine tuning" your program, which requires your own research ( she offers basic guidance how to do it) and diagnostic tests which only a trained physician would know what to utilize, such that, ultimately, you will need to seek out a holistic MD/oncologist focused on cancer. But, she does, to her credit offer an exhaustive list of medical references. Another minor complaint is that there are a huge number of "broad spectrum", completely natural nutraceuticals such as modified citrus pectin, fermented wheat germ, saffron, resveratrol etc, etc which are invaluable in killing both cancer stem cells and fast dividing daughter cells which she ignores. Also. she relies exclusively on off-label drugs such as statins, which she vociferously defends, stating that they have received a "bad rap, and that their serious side effects take a year to manifest whereas she employs it only short term, but she brings no reference to support her claim. All in all, these criticisms are relatively minor, and this is an indispensable reference book to have. I would suggest to anyone interested in the subject to subscribe to Dr. Ralph Moss's website which is truly exhaustive and offers invaluable information which will broaden your horizons and offer additional, crucial strategies (I get no commission!)

This book is a must read for anyone battling cancer; in particular for anyone looking for an alternative route beyond the western standard of chemo and radiation. Jane McClelland writes a very detailed but also very readable book for the average non-medical person, explaining the many pathways cancer is prone to take if it runs into a road block such as chemo. Rather than just having a single approach to fighting the disease, she offers a multi-pronged metabolic approach in which one blocks other pathways before the cancer even heads down them explaining that most often, chemo will reach a point at which it will stop working. Hence the need to block other pathways before that happens. As a survivor of stage 4 cervical cancer herself, she has walked the walk and is now educating others on what she researched and learned and what she recommends. in her own words, her process in a nutshell is "starve it, stop it spreading, THEN snuff it out," which she writes in her intro. She offers a ten-step process to accomplishing this which she lays out in the book as well. HIGHLY recommend! Her book also contains many resources including a website rich with information, podcasts, courses, and websites to help you find a doctor in your area that follows her methodologies. Not sure? I'd say get the book and read what she has to say. Might not be for you, but I think it's an incredibly sensible approach that I intent to pursue. I've read a lot of books about cancer treatment; books on what to eat, what supplements to take, etc. I've read more articles than I can count about promising testing and approaches, etc. But this by far offers the most in terms of how I can help myself put forth my best effort toward fighting this disease with *specific* things I can do to help myself. It offers hope as well - and while it is no cure, it helps you make it another day and another and another in the hopes that one has an opportunity to see actual progress and perhaps even success.

I have bought and read countless books and articles on cancer treatment since my sister was diagnosed 4 years ago with ovarian cancer, and this one stands alone in its usefulness with strategies to really turn the oncology world on its collective ear. All practitioners, whether allopathic or naturopathic and every approach in between, can offer real benefit to their patients if they will use the information that Jane has exhaustively dug up and shared in this book. My sister has had several go rounds with chemo, was in a clinical trial that probably wasn't of benefit, gets weekly Mistletoe and IV Vitamin C, and she started the Care Oncology Clinic (COC) protocol in February 2018. She hasn't achieved remission in several years, but her cancer has mostly been stable (up until this past PET scan) and her oncologist has called her his miracle patient on more than one occasion - this since starting the COC protocol, which helps the chemo. She stayed on that chemo regimen (Taxol) for 15 months. Now that it has apparently stopped working, we are working on a new strategy. This with her Naturopathic Doctor and her oncologist. The good news is, even though her cancer has grown, it is happening slowly and her quality of life is good. We definitely attribute her entire regimen to this, as we often hear of cancers exploding once they evade treatment. The gist is that there are many drugs designed for other purposes that incidentally kill cancer, most of them well known and studied, and safety profiles are well established. The COC protocol includes 4 of those drugs, but Jane presents many more options beyond those 4, and details the ones that saved her life, and describes how she came to find these drugs. She also used quite a few supplements, and she explains these as well. Her journey happened before the days of widespread internet use - she didn't have the luxury of just "Googling" for answers. Her success was no trivial accident and her tenacity in digging for information is truly amazing. The fact that she put her journey and her findings into a book for the world to learn from is a blessing, as is the fact that she is still actively involved and still digging for more answers. Jane's story of surviving stage IV cancer twice is inspirational, but more than that, she lays out in her book a map of sorts to help the reader create a regimen that attacks cancer metabolically from all pathways. It's definitely a work in progress - there is a Facebook group created to work on the puzzle as a community, and so much more is becoming known about repurposing drugs to attack cancer. I have already given a copy of this book to my sister's oncologist, who is surprisingly receptive to it, and her Naturopath already read it and is incorporating some of it into her treatment. The cocktail is still evolving, and this book is a big part of the foundation from which we are working to attack her cancer.

This book addresses cancer as a methodology of blocking metabolic pathways for cancer cells. By blocking these biochemical reactions inside the cells, the cancer cell can be starved and weakened. Setting it up for the kill phase called Ferroptosis. The book is very comprehensive and detailed, almost 500 pages. If you have a weak background in chemistry, you will find the book a bid tedious. The book delineates the many metabolic pathways that cancer cells use to conduct cellular activities, ie., to grow, nourish, divide, etc. As there are many pathways to block or inhibit, there are may options in the way of off-market drugs and natural herbs that can perform the task of inhibiting these pathways and thereby starving the cancer. Conventional treatments of radiation and chemotherapy have been largely unsuccessful for many. These treatments may kill only the fast-dividing cancer cells, but not the stem cells. Often the damaging effects of the treatment are worse than the disease and will kill you quicker than the cancer. So therefore more natural and less harsh treatments are desired for a growing number of people. I highly-recommend this book as a source for alternative treatment methods. The author, having survived some horrendous cancer, is a living testament that her methods have worked for some.

Informative book

I love this book. This book offers an intriguing exploration of cancer treatment by focusing on metabolic weaknesses and the emerging concept of ferroptosis. The ideas are explained clearly for me to understand, you don't need a scientific background to read this. Some of the ideas and perspectives don't go along with conventional medical approaches, but the book encourages critical thinking and more research. Great read for anyone interested in innovative cancer science. Probably best viewed as educational, and not medical advice.

Very informative book.

The last part of book has all the info on how to starve cancer. Though rather technical. Good charts. For me too much of her story. I wanted to know how to starve cancer without reading 5/6 of book to get to the how to