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By Michael Lerner. 626 pp. Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press, 1994. $24.95. ISBN 0-262-12180-8.

Michael Lerner has undertaken to present a road map of the maze of therapeutic options presented to patients with cancer by doctors, family members, neighbors, friends, and the media in contemporary America. The book is for patients, and thus should be interesting to the physicians who care for them. Lerner discusses how to make choices among the conventional therapies for cancer, as well as among a variety of unconventional therapies (including nutritional treatment, pharmacologic treatment, physical and "energetic" approaches, exercise, massage, therapeutic touch, chiropractic, and traditional Chinese medicine). The author stresses the importance of a conventional oncologist for every patient . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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