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What resources do the bookshelves hold for women hoping to reduce their risk of breast cancer? Bantam Books has published a series called If It Runs in Your Family that includes Breast Cancer: Reducing the Risk. Only a few years ago, a book like this would not have been published for lack of an educated market willing to acknowledge this threat. The book helps you evaluate your own chances based on genetic, environmental and nutritional factors. Just out in paperback is Dr. Susan Love‘s Breast Book which covers all aspects of breast care and breast cancer. Described by Ms. Magazine as _one of the most important books in women‘s With statistics claiming breast cancer will affect one in five women in the ‘90s, and one in three by the year 2000, this aspect of the plague must be faced headâ€"on. In fact more women in the US are dying each year from all forms of cancer than all the deaths so far from AIDS. All the excuses for not doing breast selfâ€"examinations and having mammoâ€" grams taken are loathsome once a diagnosis of cancer spreading has been received. Women are reacting with anger and dismay to these numbers, and to the fact that most cancer research has focused on white males as representative of the population. What can you do to prevent cancer? Beyond the obvious aniswers of quit smoking and reduce fat in your diet, lies a whole range of physical and emotional factors that you can influence. The Complete book of Cancer Prevention has sold over 100,000 copies. It lists foods, lifestyles and selfâ€" care issues for each type of cancer. Making lifestyle changes is all the more difficult because no outside force like an imminent diagnosis compels us to change. But by the time we must change, it may be too late to reverse the damage we‘ve inadvertently suffered. Specializing in thee. The field of preventive medicine has been around for years as the poor cousin of the medical establishment. An article in May 12th‘s Kâ€"W Record pointed out the financial quandary of our health system where no limits exist on the cost of health care, regardless of the quality of life for the ‘‘saved patient. This contrasts to a minimal percentage of medical dollars applied to preventation. Who do you know that has cancer? This question meets with some response from just about anyone you ask. Even a few years ago many of us felt remoter from cancer patients. But the American Cancer Society predicts that by the year 2000, one out of two people will have developed some form of cancer, with the figure rising to four out of five people by 2020! We can be forgiven for brandishing the term ‘plague‘ to describe it. So far the American Cancer Society has collected and spent over a trillion dollars on cancer research. Surely it‘s time to get better informed so that the death bell tolls not for MARANTA TILE Bookstore offers help for those coping wi#ikcancer Fax (519) 747â€"5724 ED AND VINCENT 747â€"5755 â€" 90 Frobisher Dr. CERAMIC TILE MARBLE AND SLATE MEXICAN FLOORS ALL TYPES OF APPLICATION Mon.â€"Thurs. 9â€"5:30 Fri. 9â€"8, Sat. 9â€"3 10% OFE Expires June 1/91. Don‘t wait till the next time you hear of a friend with a cancer diagnosis to get hold of some of these books to better inform yourself. The local branch of the Canadian Cancer Society is ready to help at 886â€"8888. Many women have drawn similar inspiration from a book called Composing a Life by Mary Catherine Bateson. She examines the lives of five women all of whom have been thwarted by tragedy and disrupâ€" tion. Their genius was in improvising their altered agendas creatively, integrating their grief in ways that empowered them to lead fuller lives than they hagd before. She recognizes women‘s unique ability to combine the complex sectors of career, parent ing, and a do%en other priorities into a rich framework. The Canadian Cancer Society has long known that those best equipped to counsel women with breast cancer are those who have been patients themselves. This principle is affirmed in Audre Lorde‘s book The Cancer Journals. A black feminist poet, Lorde‘s experience of mastectomy aroused feelings of anger, despair, sadness and growth. Her ultimate message is one of courage and triumph. health in the last decade,"‘ the book is authoritative without being preachy. And once cancer has been diagnosed, what resources are there to help you cope, that give you the strength to fight it? Laurence LeShan, author of You Can Fight for your Life, has just written Cancer as a Turning Point. in his preface he warns against those who blame the patient for getting cancer or not getting better. He also states: " .. . the immune system is strongly affected by feelings, and certain kinds of psychological action can affect the immune system positiveâ€" ly . . . The same psychological approach that leads to full effectiveness of the immune system is the approach that leads to the fullest and richest life â€" both during the time a person has cancer and afterwards.‘ Imagery therapy is becoming a more accepted component of selfâ€"treatment for cancer patients. Basically a refinement in positive thinking, the goal is to mentally combat the cancer cells by affirmative visualization. For more tools, look to Shakti Gaâ€" wain‘s Creative Visualization, Norman Cousin‘s Anatomy of an Iliness and Head First, and Bernie Siegel‘s Love, Medicine and Miracles. 2L .h Prior ’I;‘ BETWEEN COVERS WATERLOO BOWLING LANES 14 PRINCESS ST. 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