Click here to return to book details Praise for Healing Outside the Margins: The Survivor's Guide to Integrative Cancer Care by Carole O’Toole, with Carolyn B. Hendricks, MD Washington Post: Eight years ago, when she was 38, Kensington resident Carole O’Toole was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer, a rare and aggressive form of the disease. Like most people diagnosed with cancer, she found herself having to cope with powerful emotions and unfamiliar choices about medical treatments, alternative and complementary options and all the related life-style questions — finances, family, nutrition, employment and more. Though her doctors told her she only had a year and a half to live, after 15 months of both traditional and alternative treatments. O’Toole emerged cancer-free. She also emerged eager to share her hard-who survivor’s knowledge and a database of local cancer-care providers and support services she’s amassed. She launched her career as a cancer coach. New Living Magazine: Complementary cancer care has become increasingly popular, with up to 70% of patients reporting use of complementary therapies in dealing with their disease. Healing Outside the Margins is by far, one of the few books that examines the vast myriad of complementary cancer care options available. Complementary medicine remains an unexplored area of science, but when faced with a diagnosis of cancer, it is freqently where patients turn. Sifting through all the information about this subject can be taxing and drain your emotional resources needed to fight the disease. Carole O'Toole has done the ground-work for you by providing information on each type of complementary medicine, so that you can work with your health care providers in intergrating some aspects of it into your treatment plan. — Lillie Shockney, RN., BS., MAS Director of Education and Outreach of the Johns Hopkins Breast Center — breast cancer survivor, diagnosed at age 38 Author of Breast Cancer Survivors' Club — a Nurse's Experience “Healing Outside the Margins is a wonderful, heartfelt resource that can provide great comfort, insight, and guidance for those seeking an integrative approach to healing. I recommend it highly!” — Jeremy R. Geffen, MD, FACP, author of The Journey Through Cancer “This guide is a great asset to those suffering from cancer and to their loved ones. Healing Outside the Margins belongs on the bookshelves of everyone who wants to keep in stride with advances in healing cancer.” — Former U. S. Congressman Berkley Bedell Founder and Chairman, The National Foundation for Alternative Medicine "Many people who have had cancer feel it's important to put together an individualized treatment plan — HEALING OUTSIDE THE MARGINS provide a roadmap for making informed choices for alternative approaches to cancer." — Self Healing, Dr. Andrew Weil's Newsletter, June 2002 New York Times, October 2002 "Complementary therapy, especially when it is sought after a diagnosis of cancer, can be a risky proposition if the patients substitutes it for the best conventional treatment available.  How to sort through the options and separate the quackery from effective treatment, and how to develop a treatment plan that includes your mainstream doctor's suggestions, is the basis for this helpful guidebook.  O'Toole's important message is that using complementary therapies can help with the transition back into everyday life after medical treatment has ended." "Carole O'Toole writes persuasively of the importance of actively participating in one's own healing-a message that is equally persuasive for all cancer survivors, regardless of their particular disease site or stage.  Her approach is truly holistic, reflecting her conviction that it is our responsibility (and opportunity) to maintain our general health and well-being-the theater in which cancer may occupy center stage.  HEALING OUTSIDE THE MARGINS is a well-researched and authoritative guide." — Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, July-August 2002 Reviewer: Elaine Parent, PhD Retired Assistant Dean, Office of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Minnesota Associate Researcher with the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition at the University of California - San Diego Click here to order from Amazon: Click here to return to book details