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Lawrence LeShan's treatment for cancer patients is focused not on what is wrong with the patient but what is right with him or her. He has helped people find what gives them satisfaction, a solid reason to continue living. Even though people can't always give a straight answer to what they want their lives to be like, their commitment to start a quest for meaning has an immediate impact of their immune system, which is compromised in cancer patients.

Spontaneous cancer remissions have puzzled doctors for decades. Many scientists have tried to explain why people, who supposedly had their days numbered, suddenly improve and have their cancer disappear. Among the professionals with a holistic view of the human body, a few have contributed interesting hypotheses that involve a correlation between the mind and the body.

John R. Voell, a Florida resident and an experienced businessman, lost some dear ones to cancer. Turning grief into strength, he became passionate about researching the topic of health and illness. The most recent product of his pursuits is the Cancer Report, a book gathering facts and inspirational stories, hypotheses and a recovery guidance, in words that come from both cancer patients and experts.

Voell's partner in this project is Cynthia A. Chatfield, who has worked for more than 15 years in alternative medicine, holistic education and spirituality. She was also touched by the death of her life partner, who suffered from colon cancer.

The book is written in simple terms and can be used by patients, health professionals and caregivers alike. It includes studies based on 30 years of research with more than 70,000 cancer patients, and includes contributions by renowned scientists in the field of psychoneuroimmunology, such as W. Douglas Brodie, Candace Pert, Susan Silberstein, Lydia Temmoshok, Lawrence LeShan, and Ryke Geerd Hamer, doctors and counselors convinced that the key to curing cancer lays in other approaches different from the conventional invasive cancer treatments.

A psychotherapist, Dr. LeShan, considered a pioneer in mind-body therapies, has worked with cancer patients for fifty years. According to the report, "Over the past thirty years, approximately half of LeShan's cancer patients with a poor prognosis have gone into remission."

The founder of what later become The Cancer Recovery Foundation and author of The Cancer Conqueror, Greg Anderson decided to heal his relationships with everybody, when he realized he had only a few weeks to

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