Diana Dyer was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer, when she was six months old. She was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 34. She was diagnosed with a second breast cancer ten years after the first. Each cancer was treated by conventional medicine and included combinations of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. But because her cancer kept returning, Diana realized that for her, something other then treatment was necessary to sustain her through a long life. So she considered a healthy recipe for living -- a blend of traditional medicine and alternative methods too -- and she implemented a holistic approach to healing into her personal world. She has not had a recurrence since 1995 -- and she credits this to the changes she's made in her life. She has tipped the scales in her favor, she believes, and she shares her approach with others who want to begin a journey toward recovery and healing after cancer.

Diana is a cancer and nutrition specialist and has written a book called A Dietitian's Cancer Story. Diana shares with her readers her approach to lifestyle changes -- including diet, exercise, meditation, and other techniques that she now calls complementary and not alternative. Her techniques can be used during active treatment and during recovery from treatment. Diana shares recipes and sample menus and her thoughts on support groups and homeopathy and prayer and reading and nature too.

Diana has a wealth of knowledge that fills the pages of her book -- and much of her story can be found on her website too, where I learned that proceeds from Diana's book go to an endowment fund she established at The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) in Washington DC. Called the Diana Dyer Cancer Survivor's Nutrition and Cancer Research Endowment, it helps fund research projects for nutritional strategies to increase long-term survival after a cancer diagnosis.