Summary of Dr. David Servan-Schreiber's Anticancer

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#1 I had been in Pittsburgh for seven years, and away from my native country for more than ten. I was doing my internship in psychiatry while continuing research I had begun for my PhD in neuroscience. I had never imagined what this research would reveal: my own disease.

#2 I was young and ambitious, and I wanted to live a fast track life. I didn’t want to leave my laboratory and my colleagues. So I lived alone in my tiny house between a bedroom and a study for a year.

#3 I was working on a movie script about my experience with Doctors Without Borders, and I was in love with Anna. But my life took a sudden turn when I was asked to participate in an experiment with student guinea pigs.

#4 I was in the scanner when I discovered a tumor in my right prefrontal cortex. I didn’t know what to think, so I asked the researchers what they thought it was. They said they weren’t sure, but it could be a brain tumor or an abscess.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Feb 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669351337

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Insights on Dr. David Servan-Schreiber's Anticancer

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had been in Pittsburgh for seven years, and away from my native country for more than ten. I was doing my internship in psychiatry while continuing research I had begun for my PhD in neuroscience. I had never imagined what this research would reveal: my own disease.

#2

I was young and ambitious, and I wanted to live a fast track life. I didn’t want to leave my laboratory and my colleagues. So I lived alone in my tiny house between a bedroom and a study for a year.

#3

I was working on a movie script about my experience with Doctors Without Borders, and I was in love with Anna. But my life took a sudden turn when I was asked to participate in an experiment with student guinea pigs.

#4

I was in the scanner when I discovered a tumor in my right prefrontal cortex. I didn’t know what to think, so I asked the researchers what they thought it was. They said they weren’t sure, but it could be a brain tumor or an abscess.

#5

I was paralyzed with fear, but I had to learn to face my life and the disease. I had been building up momentum for a long race, but suddenly I was thrown into the pool without any current. I was a captive in a place where I didn’t have any real ties. I was going to die alone in Pittsburgh.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The median is an abstract law that the human mind tries to impose on the diverse profusion of individual cases. In nature, the median is an abstraction, but for individuals, the question is where they fall in the range of variations surrounding the median.

#2

The lesson that can be learned from Stephen Jay Gould is that statistics are information, not condemnation. The objective when you have cancer is to make sure you find yourself in the long tail of the survival curve.

#3

Patients who participate in certain programs, such as that of the Commonweal Center in California, try to take charge of their cancer, live in greater harmony with their bodies, and seek peace of mind through yoga and meditation. They live twice