Navigating the Cancer Maze: Sorting the wheat from the chaff – the often empty promise of cancer cures
January 11, 2013
Hosted by Grace Gawler
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Episode Description
In this week’s show I will be revisiting the all important issue of “Cancer Cures”. This is a most distressing area for many cancer patients and partners – the promise of a cure and making a diligent commitment to “do” many demanding regimens, take so many supplements and follow various theories and diets can be exhausting. We will visit the Vegan Diet and raw food diets as healing tools for cancer patients plus a address a list of questions about various cancer supplements emailed from listeners. We have said it many times – there is no one size fits all when it comes to cancer treatments. Perhaps the biggest issue is when expensive or believed in treatments don’t work – here either one of two things happens - Patients are most often left with a sense of failure, disappointment and hopelessness or they throw themselves even more diligently into the next wonder cure - often a recipe for tragedy. There will be lots of tips in how to navigate the ever-complex cancer maze.
Navigating the Cancer Maze
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Navigating the Cancer Maze aims to share time-proven strategies in a “Let’s talk about it” atmosphere with the aim of making the journey through cancer more easeful through knowledge. The program is solutions focused for patients at all stages of cancer. Acknowledging and dealing with fear and trauma surrounding cancer is essential for any Health Restoration Plan as is pre-planning for any setbacks that are likely to be met along the way. Although we hear a lot about cancer in the news, for many patients cancer remains a personal, silent and deeply unexpressed grief. It is important to acknowledge the reality of a cancer diagnosis, while being authentic about process and keeping possibilities open. The best outcomes are experienced when the best of conventional medicine is paired with the best of complementary supported by an empowered patient.
Grace Gawler
For almost 4 decades Grace Gawler has been the “rock” for thousands of cancer patients who seek her guidance and strategies. Grace has also assisted those who struggle to manage adversity and uninvited changes that life challenging or life threatening illness can bring. At 21, Grace became a full-time care-giver to her boyfriend. She married him, a cancer amputee with a poor prognosis. He survived and they established a non-profit organization to support people going through the trauma of cancer and other life challenging illness. She created Australia’s first breast cancer support group and residential program which led to authoring Women of Silence: the emotional healing of breast cancer, a 1994 best seller which remains a bible for women with breast cancer. Grace has worked in Government creating a new Women’s Health Plan. She was awarded the prestigious inaugural Rotary International Jean Harris Award for Services to Women in Society. In 1997, Grace experienced not only the collapse of her marriage but was soon hospitalized. Complications from a routine surgery created a major health crisis. After 20 surgical procedures over 13 years, she faced death many times. A bionic surgical procedure in the Netherlands gave her back life and vitality. Grace has survived and thrived and is passionate about helping others to walk in the field of all possibilities and navigate the cancer maze. She has her own cancer charity and consults to Hallwang Private Oncology Clinic in Germany.
