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Cancer patients face a world of frightening, difficult-to-understand information and an overwhelming array of confusing therapies and choices. Cancer authorities and survivors agree that information is critical to survival. However, with so little time, and under so much stress, cancer patients find it nearly impossible to acquire this vital information and rarely have a comprehensive resource they can rely on to begin their healing journey.
To help address this critical need, a television series, hosted by Walter Cronkite, was designed to provide an overview of all major topics that can help people survive cancer.
Documentary Benefits
• Designed specifically to help you learn what to do to survive cancer
• A jumpstart of information that would take months to research
• Nothing else available is as comprehensive, effective and inspiring
• Accessible and quick; the video form saves precious time and makes learning easy for those dealing with emotional distress of cancer
Examples
• Enhance survival odds by learning to access the Physicians Data Query (PDQ) to determine if you are receiving the right treatment
• Find out the best complementary therapies to use in addition to your primary treatment
• Learn how the timing of chemotherapy treatment and the timing of breast cancer surgery may effect survival odds
• Learn about new tests like chemo sensitivity testing to determine to if the chemo you plan to take is effective against your cancer
• When survival odds are low with conventional therapy, alternatives may be your only hope. Find out the most promising alternative therapies
• Discover the most realistic and powerful mind/body therapies
• Explore how prayer and your spiritual beliefs can assist in healing
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Cancer Increasing Your Odds for Survival wasn’t designed to be a review of the latest conventional cancer treatments. That is what your oncologist and comprehensive cancer centers are for. It was designed to and help you survive cancer.
The series has remained current because it is designed to be a road map. It informs the viewer of information essential to increase survival odds that conventional medicine most often fails to. It tells you how to acquire the latest conventional information and informs you of vital choices, advances, and complementary medicines essential for those who wish to survive.
In the past few years conventional treatments have changed little for most cancers. People still need to be aware of what their survival odds are with conventional treatment so they can evaluate if they would be wise to consider additional efforts.
The series and resource guide are particularly helpful for those with hard to treat cancers where survival rates are low and options are needed. It is also indispensable for those who realize that no matter how good the odds, it is important to do all one can to keep cancer from returning.

About Cancer

Cancer is a term used for diseases in which abnormal cells divide without control and are able to invade other tissues. Cancer cells can spread to other parts of the body through the blood and lymph systems.

Cancer is not just one disease but many diseases. There are more than 100 different types of cancer. Most cancers are named for the organ or type of cell in which they start - for example, cancer that begins in the colon is called colon cancer; cancer that begins in basal cells of the skin is called basal cell carcinoma.

Cancer types can be grouped into broader categories. The main categories of cancer include:

• Carcinoma - cancer that begins in the skin or in tissues that line or cover internal organs.
• Sarcoma - cancer that begins in bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other connective or supportive tissue.
• Leukemia - cancer that starts in blood-forming tissue such as the bone marrow and causes large numbers of abnormal blood cells to be produced and enter the blood.
• Lymphoma and myeloma - cancers that begin in the cells of the immune system.
• Central nervous system cancers - cancers that begin in the tissues of the brain and spinal cord.

Origins of Cancer

All cancers begin in cells, the body's basic unit of life. To understand cancer, it's helpful to know what happens when normal cells become cancer cells.

The body is made up of many types of cells. These cells grow and divide in a controlled way to produce more cells as they are needed to keep the body healthy. When cells become old or damaged, they die and are replaced with new cells.

However, sometimes this orderly process goes wrong. The genetic material (DNA) of a cell can become damaged or changed, producing mutations that affect normal cell growth and division. When this happens, cells do not die when they should and new cells form when the body does not need them. The extra cells may form a mass of tissue called a tumor.

Not all tumors are cancerous; tumors can be benign or malignant.

• Benign tumors aren't cancerous. They can often be removed, and, in most cases, they do not come back. Cells in benign tumors do not spread to other parts of the body.
• Malignant tumors are cancerous. Cells in these tumors can invade nearby tissues and spread to other parts of the body. The spread of cancer from one part of the body to another is called metastasis.

Some cancers do not form tumors. For example, leukemia is a cancer of the bone marrow and blood.