Mother Teresa, when asked to attend an anti–war rally refused, responding to those requesting her attendance by saying, “But if you ever have a peace rally let me know and I will attend.”

My husband and I went to see our brother-in-law today. Royce, who is married to Brian’s sister Merle, is in the last stage of cancer.

We hadn’t seen him for a few months because we had been so caught up with work, but when we realized that it would soon be Christmas, we decided we had to make the time to see him.

When Royce, who is a social drinker, first discovered he had kidney cancer a year ago, it had already advanced into the lymph nodes, and the doctors who had been hoping to remove the cancerous kidney had had to close him up again without removing the organ.

The prognosis, obviously, was not good. All they could do was to put him through chemo and on experimental drugs in the hope that one of these treatments would reduce the cancerous spread.

The family, as a whole, reeled from the shock. For the first time, cancer – which happened only to other people, as my mother-in-law said – had happened to us.

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When I was invited to write a review of this book, my answer was a resounding "Yes!". My own mother died of cancer of the pancreas within one year of diagnosis. This was a sign to me that cancer is already at my family doorstep and I need to consciously choose a holistic lifestyle and diet that promotes a disease-free outcome. I have been healthy most of my life and this makes me all the more determined to stay that way and it can be done, as illustrated from the courageous approaches of the people featured in the book.