Words can't explain the gratitude my family and I feel for finding Dr. Mark Roby. He has been instrumental in changing the way my mom lives her life. From the way she thinks about things to the way she eats, it is all different then before she was diagnosed with cancer. My mom has completely changed her lifestyle. If you have cancer, than you should read this book. Take notes, follow the resources, do your homework, and it will make a difference. If you know someone who has cancer, get them this $20 gift, if they use it there is no doubt it will help. Here is a much abbreviated version of our story: Spoiler alert (I could not wait to tell you): My mom is surviving cancer. She is an amazing woman who is so strong. She is healthy and living a fun, full life with lots of energy. If you didn’t know she had cancer (and a really aggressive deadly one at that) you would not know she is even sick. I can’t express how proud I am of her and how incredible she is to have made the changes she has. Not only that, but she continues to live these lifestyle changes every day. She continues to fight. It may be hard, but she makes it look so easy. Everyone who knows her is truly blessed and lucky, because she is not only wonderful, but continues defying all odds. She is doing this in large part because of her will and also in part because of the advice from this book and from Dr. Mark Roby. My mom was diagnosed completely out of the blue with a very aggressive cancer known as Cholangiocarcinoma. An easier way to remember it is as Bile duct Cancer. The cancer was situated in an area that is very hard to operate in and intersecting with major areas such as the liver, gallbladder and intestines. At first the doctors were optimistic they could operate, but after operating on her determined there was no way to remove the growth. The cancer was too large and in too dangerous of an area, unresectable as the surgeons called it. So they sowed her back up and left us clueless as to what to do. We immediately started researching options. But, in the beginning we really didn’t know what to do. Everything we read was doom and gloom. This is a deadly cancer. Then we heard of Dr. Roby and his amazing story from a friend. Almost immediately when he got involved things changed. With our own research we came up with some good life changes that would help my mom. But Dr. Roby’s book helped us focus on what mattered. With the help of his amazing story, real life examples, personal traumatic experiences, and sage advice we began to put a plan together. Some of plan was implemented before Dr. Roby ever got involved, but his advice helped us to fine tune our options and put my mom on the path to survival. This book is chalked full of sound advice, some of which are really simple common sense things that you just don’t think of because you are under so much stress and shock when something like this happens. Other advice is real outside of the box thinking that can give a patient the extra hand when it comes to survival. Dr. Roby teaches principles that personally helped him overcome cancer and is good advice for anyone fighting the fight. Things like a Triad of Survival, Backup Plans, Lifelines, multiple opinions, personalized treatments, building a team, and targeted medications and treatment plans are just the tip of the iceberg in this book. He gives great advice about how you have to continuously ask questions, question your doctors, treatments, do your own research, follow up with doctors and practitioners, and become your own expert. The book is also full of personal stories and antidotes from both the author and survivors he has coached. These can help give a patient and their loved ones direction and hope. In addition, there are so many resources given in this book relevant to all cancer patients. These resources are ones Dr. Roby and his patients have used in the past and are extremely useful. In fact, this resource alone would more than pay for the cost of the book. Besides writing a great book Dr. Roby has personally consulted with my mom and our family throughout this ordeal. He is a true expert and we are very grateful. Picture is of my "sick" (only in the fact that she has this cancer) mom and sister just taken last week and over a year and a half after diagnoses. The book is well worth it, buy it!