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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Who is the author of "Anti-Cancer: A new way of life"?


David Servan-Schreiber is the author of "Anti-Cancer:  a new way of life".  He is both a physician and a neuro-scientist.  Being an M.D. and Ph.D., he understands both medicine and the statistical mean of the cancer studies he has reviewed and compiled in his book.  He is also a cancer survivor.  In the pursuit of his research interests, a high quality MRI revealed a walnut sized mass in the front of his brain.  He went on to be evaluated and was told his life expectancy was 8 months.  Luckily, he understood that this expectancy represented the median of a statistical curve.  This meant the 1/2 of the people who experience his type of cancer are expected to live longer than 8 months.  Armed with this information, he was motivated to learn as much as he could about how he could put himself on the long life expectancy side of the statistical distribution.  This book summarizes what he learned in his quest.  

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