Katrina Bos

Why do we get cancer? Is it all just carcinogens and unlucky genetics? The answer is no.

What If You Could Skip the Cancer? delves into the underlying reasons why some of us get cancer while others do not, and explains many of the mysteries of why we get sick. Why is a cancer diagnosis a death sentence for some and a life-changing opportunity for others? What allows some people, when given weeks or days to live,
to be happy and healthy for decades to come? Most importantly, what lessons can we learn from those who have beaten illness, so that we can live happily and healthily without ever having to get sick?

An Excerpt from the Introduction:

In many great fables, there is often the “eccentric outsider” who helps the hero see their life more clearly.  They show them the pitfalls in their life that they can’t see because they have lived in the same village for their whole lives.  It takes the wisdom of the traveller to help them see their way out of their problems.

This is what happened to me.

I come from a long line of women who die from cancer at a young age.  When I found lumps in my breast, I didn’t want to become another link in that chain.  I was desperate to find a different path.  This is when my fable began, the eccentric outsider stepped into my life and everything I knew got turned upside down.

This is not a book about alternative medicine vs. conventional medicine.  It is about ideas beyond these things.  It is about looking at aspects of our lives that have a huge impact on our health regardless of what treatment path we take.

It is about understanding how and why cancer would come to us in the first place.  It is about looking at why it runs in families.  It’s about looking at some of our sacred cows and wondering if they are helping or harming us.  It’s about understanding why some people live and some people die regardless of what (if any) treatment that they take.

It is about the important shifts that we can make in our lives right now before we get sick.  It is about changes that we can make so that we model something different for our children – so that they won’t have to fear cancer either.