In my oppinion, reading this book could very easily mean the difference between life and death. This book is extremely well written (and believe me when I say that I am a perfectionist), and it gives several resources for each aproach to cancer. What I think is great about non-toxic treatments is that they won't poison you like chemo, so you can saturate the blood with such substances, and not die... which of course is in contrast to chemo that usually kills you before the cancer gets the chance. Almost all of these treatments are combinable, and many of the ways to "outsmart your cancer" are unbelievably effective on even the worst forms of metastasized cancers, which promisses radient hope to even the most hopeless cancer patients out there. Many people do not yet know that cancer does indeed have numerous characteristics that healthy cells don't have, so outsmarting cancer is a simple task. Cancer gets it's energy anarobically from fermentation rather than by oxygen, so it makes only 1 ATP molecule per glucose instead of 32 that a healthy cell would make. Cancer is the only type of cell in the human body that has a negatively charged protein coating on it... it is the only cell that produces chorionic gonadotrophic hormone in any abundance... etc. My point in this is that cancer cells are very different from normal cells, and there are dozens of ways to effectively "outsmart them"... in this book, Tanya Pierce does an excellent job explaining the why behind some of the most effective therapies available anywhere. I rate this book as superb because she explains the why... WHY these therapies are so effective. She also gives the factual supression of these therapies in a very subtle tone that I think any nonbeliever in these therapies would find refreshingly interesting. The supression is obvious because if you researh anyone that practices any of these therapies, they have all been sued for no reason by the NCI, AMA, and FDA, and virtually all of the practitioners with PH D's that have dedicated their lives to helping people have been driven out of the country, and harrassed. There is a pattern here... the people that care the most are assalted... the people with the best cure rates are harrassed, and driven out of the country... virtually all of them. Why? Anyway, I learned a lot from this book, and others like it, and my hat is off to the author. Very well written.

Most people who read this book either have cancer or know someone with it. If they're reading this book they must already have some idea that the conventional treatments (slash, burn and poison) have limited success and significant risk of doing more harm than good.

Ms. Pierce is especially good at explaining how statistics are skewed to make products look good when they are backed by "Big Pharma". Patients are apparently told to take a toxic chemical because of a good "tumor response rate", when the truth is that you often cannot kill all the cancer cells before you kill too many normal cells. Then the ones that survive live to another day and because they are a special breed with resistance to the chemo, they multiply and come back stronger than ever. I have seen this myself in a friend who went through several chemo treatments and then died. I also know a few people who were successfully cured of cancer by chemotherapy, however they were all young people suffering from either Hodgkins or testicular cancer (like Lance Armstrong). These cancers are likely curable because they affect mostly the young and the young are better able to live through the poisoning effect. I have often thought that there must be less dangerous cures for older, less vigorous people, although slower. Well, here they are in this book.

Contrary to what some may think, Ms. Pierce doesn't completely reject the conventional treatments, as they might be useful in situations where the slow method can't work because of the fast progression of the disease. However she gives useful information and questions to ask the doctor so that a patient may determine if this is necessary and also may determine if they are being put through misery for nothing because the chemo may not really have much chance of helping. It is useful to know that rejecting a horrible treatment is more valid than one might be led to believe when talking to physicians may be more interested in protecting their behinds from liability than quality of life. They may tell you that something is better than nothing and that something needs to be backed by Big Pharma.

The alternative treatments discussed are certainly not "snake oil". Every treatment she chose to cover is based on research which identifies differences between cancer cells and normal cells. The products exploit this difference to make cancer cells self-destruct. I immediately identified some of the research as corroborating with articles I have read over the years in the science sections of mainstream newspapers, such as the Wall Street Journal.

Will they cure you? She always says that there are no claims that any of the treatments will cure everybody. What they do claim is that the cure rates are better than those of conventional chemotherapies, once you account for the misleading nature of chemotherapy "cure" rates. The alternative treatments claim that when you're cured you are actually cancer free, whereas the chemotherapy cure rates count anyone who is still alive five years after diagnosis, even if they still have cancer and are about to die five years and two days after diagnosis. Why is this convincing? Well, if you believe that big business will skew statistics in order to recover a big development investment and make profits, then you have to think about this. It's true that nobody is interested in spending hundreds of millions on trials of a substance which is so readily available that they can't sell it exclusively. Until medical care is provided on a non-profit basis I don't believe we will seek out effective, inexpensive treatments which can be self-administered instead of controlled by expensive physicians.

I also found this book to be a very easy read, despite the technical nature of her discussions. She is clear and often offers analogies which get at the meat of the concept. I give it an A+!

It has been most encouraging to learn that more and more people are searching for and seeking alternative methods and therapies to not only treat, BUT TO ACTUALLY BEAT, the cancer disease. There has been very substantial progress in recent years in the field of Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments for Cancer That Actually Work.

Many people are also aware of the facts that conventional therapies ( Surgery, Radiation, and Chemotherapy ) that have been used for years and years to treat cancer leave much to be desired, and,in fact, it must be said that the track record of treating cancer with these conventional therapies must be described in an overall sense as dismal, at best.

When this Writer learned recently that I had lung cancer at almost 70 years of age, I decided very quickly that I would most probably not subject my body to the rigors and destruction that is very ofter associated with cancer treatment using conventional therapies.

I went immediately to a " crash " program of buying almost every book that I could find on the subject of Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments for Cancer, and have spent countless hours online doing Research on this subject in recent months in an attempt to learn everything that I possibly could, as fast as I could.

And then, "VOILA", there appeared Tanya Harter Pierce's EXCELLENT BOOK entitled, " OUTSMART YOUR CANCER - Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work ". My Son found this book and made me aware of the book. It was abundantly clear after looking this Book over for only a couple of hours that this Author had written without doubt a book that must be considered " La Creme De La Creme " in this area of Alternative Non-Toxic Cancer Treatments.

It is also clear that the Author must have done vast amounts of Research, and the " picking of the brains of many, many very knowledgeable people " before even starting to write this Book.

This Book has it all. It is 1) Complete - the Book covers every available Alternative Non-Toxic Treatment for Cancer that is known at present, 2) Detailed and Thorough - each topic is presented in sufficent detail including additional websites, references, etc. that the Reader can understand clearly the topic at hand, and thereby determine at least preliminari;y if that particular thereapy is for him and/or her and 3) Very Well Written - this Author has an excellent writing style that makes this Book both easy to understand and interesting to read.

It is certain that this Author has become an expert in the field at hand, even if she might not have been when she started this project.This Writer has been very impressed with this Book, refer to the book essentially every day, and have no doubt that I will have probably commited most of this Book to memory within the next 2-3 months. This Book is just that good.

It is my strongest recommendation that every person who has cancer should purchase " OUTSMART YOUR CANCER - Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work " immediately, and study the Book from Cover To Cover and, in fact, to live with this Book. This recommendation is also intended for those cancer patients, who either have already completely their conventional therapies, as well as those who are in the process of undergoing conventional therapies.

Finally, this Writer recommends this book to any and everyone who simply wants to become informed and knowledgable in these most important areas.

If this review sounds to you like I am most impressed with this Author and her Excellent Book, YOU WOULD BE CORRECT.

Larry Durrett
The Woodlands, TX