Cancer, your fate into their own hands

Cancer patients seem to be getting more responsible for their illness, treatment and healing. It already starts when you're still healthy. We are inundated daily with information about what we should do or let to reduce the risk of the disease. That information is contradictory and extremely fragmented.
Once the diagnosis Is made, you can choose from a wide range of regular treatments or a multitude of alternative organisations which all healing promise. How do you make the best choice from the many possibilities? Role models if Lance Armstrong see cancer as something you can overcome. You are therefore responsible for your healing. You have the duty to struggle, to fight to the extreme. As a patient you become increasingly Director of your own disease process. On the basis of personal stories of patients and their handlers are the advantages and disadvantages of this tendency made clear.