Understanding cancer -- Eavesdropping on the mind-body conversation -- Nutritional healing: food for nourishment, balance, and joy -- Heroic biochemicals: vitamins, minerals, and other healing substances -- The wisdom of herbs -- Contending with cancer: coping with symptoms and side effects -- Envisioning wholeness: meditation and creative visualization -- Sensual healing: using sound, touch, sight, and smell -- A time to every purpose -- Emotional healing -- Healing through expression -- The best medicine: laughter as therapy -- Weighing the options: assessing and utilizing alternative medicine -- Holistically specific -- The unknown destination: facing our fear of death.