This book is addressed to those cancer patients who are discharged from hospital on the completion of their treatment and return home, to the same lifestyle and environment in which they became ill.

They are not given any advice on how to introduce the many changes that are indispensable if patients are to be lastingly fit and well: all they are required to do is turn up for periodic check-ups. That, however, itself yields no protection from a recurrence.

Only a carefully structured programme, designed to strengthen and renew body and soul, is able to ensure complete healing and...