Summary of Dr. David Servan-Schreiber's Anticancer

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I had been in Pittsburgh for seven years, and away from my native country for more than ten. I was doing my internship in psychiatry while continuing research I had begun for my PhD in neuroscience. I had never imagined what this research would reveal: my own disease.
#2 I was young and ambitious, and I wanted to live a fast track life. I didn’t want to leave my laboratory and my colleagues. So I lived alone in my tiny house between a bedroom and a study for a year.
#3 I was working on a movie script about my experience with Doctors Without Borders, and I was in love with Anna. But my life took a sudden turn when I was asked to participate in an experiment with student guinea pigs.
#4 I was in the scanner when I discovered a tumor in my right prefrontal cortex. I didn’t know what to think, so I asked the researchers what they thought it was. They said they weren’t sure, but it could be a brain tumor or an abscess.

Sujets

• Général
• Oncology

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 08 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669351337
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on David Servan-Schreiber MD PhD's Anticance
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had been in Pittsburgh for seven years, and away from my native country for more than ten. I was doing my internship in psychiatry while continuing research I had begun for my PhD in neuroscience. I had never imagined what this research would reveal: my own disease.

#2

I was young and ambitious, and I wanted to live a fast track life. I didn’t want to leave my laboratory and my colleagues. So I lived alone in my tiny house between a bedroom and a study for a year.

#3

I was working on a movie script about my experience with Doctors Without Borders, and I was in love with Anna. But my life took a sudden turn when I was asked to participate in an experiment with student guinea pigs.

#4

I was in the scanner when I discovered a tumor in my right prefrontal cortex. I didn’t know what to think, so I asked the researchers what they thought it was. They said they weren’t sure, but it could be a brain tumor or an abscess.

#5

I was paralyzed with fear, but I had to learn to face my life and the disease. I had been building up momentum for a long race, but suddenly I was thrown into the pool without any current. I was a captive in a place where I didn’t have any real ties. I was going to die alone in Pittsburgh.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The median is an abstract law that the human mind tries to impose on the diverse profusion of individual cases. In nature, the median is an abstraction, but for individuals, the question is where they fall in the range of variations surrounding the median.

#2

The lesson that can be learned from Stephen Jay Gould is that statistics are information, not condemnation. The objective when you have cancer is to make sure you find yourself in the long tail of the survival curve.

#3

Patients who participate in certain programs, such as that of the Commonweal Center in California, try to take charge of their cancer, live in greater harmony with their bodies, and seek peace of mind through yoga and meditation. They live twice as long as the average person with the same cancer at the same stage of development.

#4

Following the program, the researchers found that the men’s prostates were significantly less affected by the cancer, and that their blood was seven times more effective at fighting the cancer cells than the blood of men who had not changed their lifestyles.

#5

The idea of cancer genes that cause cancer may not be accurate. These genes may not be defective parts of our biological machinery, but rather genes that have responded poorly to the transition from our ancestral forms of nutrition to our modern-day, industrial processed diet.

#6

There is no natural approach that can cure cancer by itself. However, there is no inherent fatality when it comes to cancer. Like Stephen Jay Gould, we can put statistics in perspective and aim for the long tail on the right-hand side of the curve.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

When I was diagnosed with a brain tumor, I entered a colorless world. I was afraid of becoming invisible. I was afraid of no longer existing, even before dying.

#2

The next day, Anna, Edward, and I went for lunch near the hospital. We were in high spirits, and I was laughing so hard that I had to hold on to a lamppost. Doug crossed the street in our direction, and even though he looked both gloomy and disapproving, I was dismayed.

#3

The first reaction to the diagnosis of cancer is often disbelief. We cannot imagine our own death, and so we don’t believe that it could happen to us.

#4

When we put off till tomorrow the quest for the essential, we may find life slipping through our fingers without ever having savored it. When we are diagnosed with cancer, however, life becomes incredibly meaningful.

#5

The approach of death can sometimes lead to a kind of liberation. In its shadow, life suddenly takes on an intensity, resonance, and savor we may never have known before. We must taste life’s full flavor before we leave it.

#6

I decided to have surgery to remove the tumor. I chose the surgeon who seemed to understand me the best. I wanted to focus on the role of the prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia, which was now a generally accepted theory in neuroscience.

#7

I had a fleeting encounter with an elderly woman who was obviously on her way home from the hospital after a stay. I was surprised that they had let her leave in that state. I helped her into her car, then went into surgery in peace.

#8

We all need to feel useful to others. This is an indispensable nourishment for the soul. When this need isn’t satisfied, it leads to pain that is all the more searing if death is near.

#9

I have been celebrating the anniversary of my cancer diagnosis for 14 years. It was around October 15, and the period between the fifteenth and twentieth is a special time for me. I go on a private pilgrimage to a church, a synagogue, or a holy place to think about what happened to me, the pain, the fear, and the crisis.