The author takes a well-reasoned and thorough reductionist approach to his presentation of herbs and nutrition for use in the treatment of cancers. He describes the nature, types, causes, and stages of cancer, the nutritional challenge that patients must undertake, herbal medicines and supplements important in cancer therapy, personal philosophies and spiritual foci, and lifestyle guidelines. Additionally, he covers other alternative modalities for healing, describes the current biomedical cancer therapies, and offers guidelines for making informed choices regarding conventional therapies and natural medicine. There is a helpful chapter on natural ways to relieve side effects of cancer and biomedical cancer therapies, and chapters specific to breast and prostate cancer.