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"I knew the prognosis. Sooner or later, it would come back. I could decelerate the inevitable; I could gain a few years. But there was nothing I could do to make this cancer disappear forever. So this was it. This is the relapse. THE BEST One." Nineteen years after his original prognosis, having adopted a worldwide mission toward anticipation and options for those with malignancy, David Servan-Schreiber submits to an emergency MRI that confirms his most significant fear: the mind cancer has delivered. Here he shares his approaching to terms with the news and, with courage and candor, examines his life from the idea of view of one who realizes that his health problems is terminal. As the writer of and spokesman for an anticancer program, a doctor who have given desire to millions of readers and patients, David honestly acknowledges the challenges of adopting a fully "anticancer" lifestyle nowadays and examines the options involved in doing this. Weaving in the reviews of a number of clinical conditions, he reaffirms this program that enhanced and prolonged his life and the lives of so numerous others. From diet and exercise to slumber and deep breathing, the process he implemented allowed him to live a life to the fullest for just two years beyond medical expectation. The storyline he tells raises some of the most complex and personal questions about how exactly we choose to live a life and how we prepare for loss of life, striking a fragile balance between the limits of medicine and the anticipation that sustains us even as we confront them. It really is powerful, genuine, and truly inspiring.