现代医学还是没有打败癌症，所以我们需要更加了解如何预防以及治疗！本书探讨了水在生物体中的作用，这方面突破性的研究改变了我们对于癌症的由来以及治疗的想法！
这几十年来，科学家积极地研究癌症，但至今尚未找出它地由来以及治疗地方式。市面上充满了如何防癌以及治疗癌症地书，而我们看见确诊癌症地字数越来越高，患癌的人越来越年轻。对于那些比较常见的癌症，我们仍然在实用最传统、长久的方式：移除（手术）、燃烧（辐射），或者下毒（化疗）。
在这本书中，作者说我们失败是必然的，因为现有的理论是错误（至少是未完整）的。它基于一个有缺陷的生物学概念，其中 DNA 控制我们的细胞功能，从而控制我们的健康。作者认为我们其实应该考虑癌细胞中出现的体细胞突变是细胞退化的结果，与癌基因、DNA、甚至细胞核无关。根本原因是代谢功能障碍，它会破坏构成细胞质（因此也是细胞）健康基础的结构水。
尽管主流医学未能结束痛苦或兑现其承诺，但医生为癌症患者开除“护理标准”之外的任何处方仍然是非法的——无论该标准可能多么危险和无效——并且尽管事实上，存在更温和、更有效、更有希望的治疗方法。这是一位资深医生的热情恳求说，这些有希望的治疗方法值得我们关注并投入研究资金，并且患者在自己的生死问题上拥有获得信息、选择和医疗自由的权利。
关于作者：
Thomas Cowan, MD, has studied and written about many subjects in medicine, including nutrition, homeopathy, anthroposophical medicine, and herbal medicine. He is the author of Cancer and the New Biology of Water; Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness; and Human Heart, Cosmic HeartThe Fourfold Path to HealingThe Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby and Child Care. Dr. Cowan has served as vice president of the Physicians’ Association for Anthroposophic Medicine and is a founding board member of the Weston A. Price Foundation. He also writes the “Ask the Doctor” column in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts (the Weston A. Price Foundation’s quarterly magazine), has lectured throughout the United States and Canada, and is the cofounder of two family businesses, Dr. Cowan’s Garden (drcowansgarden.com) and Human Heart, Cosmic Heart (humanheartcosmicheart.com). He has three grown children and currently resides in San Francisco with his wife, Lynda Smith.
好评：
“Dr. Cowan provides a provocative overview of the philosophy of medicine in relationship to the issue of cancer. He discusses multiple alternative, nontoxic cancer therapeutic strategies that are especially relevant in light of a failed medical system.”—Dr. Thomas Seyfried, professor, Boston College; author of Cancer as a Metabolic Disease
“Cancer has perplexed generations of doctors and continues to puzzle and confound. I believe in clinical experience, however, and Dr. Cowan has plenty of clinical experience to share. As usual, his thinking is unconventional and compelling. This book affirms that the answer to the riddle of cancer is to be found only in nature and natural means of assisting the body in healing itself.”—Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD, author of Gut and Psychology Syndrome
“In Cancer and the New Biology of Water, Dr. Cowan dismantles the conventional explanation of how cancers grow with a credible counter-explanation based on the fourth phase of water. This not only gives us a biologically plausible mechanism for the etiology and growth of cancer, but also explains some of the many ‘miracle cures’ that we know exist but which cannot be explained by conventional theory. It only takes one fact to disprove a hypothesis, and the conventional medical explanation of cancer is destroyed by the multiplicity of facts presented by Dr. Cowan in this wonderful book.
“Most importantly Dr. Cowan explains what can be done, mostly without physician intervention, to allow the body to heal itself. All who wish to avoid cancer, and those who face stark choices as to how to manage their disease, must read this book and take control of their health. This book has changed my thinking and shaped my medical practice. Buy it, read it, and do it.”—Dr. Sarah Myhill, author of Sustainable Medicine and Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalitis
“An eye-opening book. With insights developed from years of medical practice and original thinking, Dr. Cowan presents evidence for an unsuspected protagonist in the development of cancer: water. He not only argues that the gel-like state of the cell, created by water’s structure, serves as the basis of cellular organization and function, but also that any compromise of that gel-like state can trigger the development of cancer. He connects well with readers, weaving threads of sensitivity and humanity through the fabric of the book. At the same time, he is not shy to criticize the cancer establishment for its narrow focus on genetics—which has arguably produced few gains over many decades. Highly recommended, not only for those interested in cancer—who isn’t?—but also for anyone interested in logical thinking in science.”—Gerald H. Pollack, PhD, professor, University of Washington; author of The Fourth Phase of Water
“As a doctor who wholeheartedly supports a terrain-centric approach to the prevention and treatment of cancer, I found Dr. Cowan’s book refreshing and inspiring. With nearly half the US population expected to have a cancer diagnosis in their lifetime, it is crucial to understand why in order to change these statistics. Dr. Cowan has never shied away from questioning conventional wisdom about the health-disease continuum, and this book is no different. In examining why the standard of care often falls far short of a positive outcome for those with cancer, Dr. Cowan dives into the disease’s actual metabolic and cytoplasmic origins—as opposed to perceived genetic origins—and explains cancer as the result of the fundamental breakdown of a crucial element within our cells: water. For decades, many of us have been exploring a terrain-centric approach to this devastating disease process—one of damaged mitochondria, murky cytoplasm, and a deviation from our true nature. Now, with Cancer and the New Biology of Water, Dr. Cowan makes another important contribution to that growing body of work, bringing vitalism back into modern medicine, examining the role of structured water in cellular health, and inviting us all to consider some truly out of the box thinking to address this growing epidemic.”—Dr. Nasha Winters, coauthor of The Metabolic Approach to Cancer
“Dr. Cowan has written a must-read for anyone on their cancer journey. Cancer and the New Biology of Water is filled with research on promising treatment options that help to bridge the gap between conventional and integrative medicine.”—Ivelisse Page, executive director and cofounder, Believe Big