With the help of this book， you will most probably be able to pro-<br >tect yourself from cancer for the full length of a long life. The<br >things you choose to eat are certainly capable of providing such<br >protection. In my family， from my one- and seven-year-old sons to<br >me， my wife， and my 74-year-old father， we re fully confident of<br >that and adhere to a phytonutrient cancer prevention diet.<br > Why do we do so? My mother died of breast cancer when I was<br >nine years old， and I don t want to have that experience repeated<br >for any of us or for any of you， my patients and readers.<br > The greatest cancer breakthroughs of our time have occurred<br >over the past decade without fanfare. These are not breakthroughs<br >in treatment--treatment remains extremely difficult--but break-<br >throughs in prevention. They are steps as specific to stopping can-<br >cer before it starts as wearing a seat belt is to lowering your risk of<br >a fatal automobile accident.<br > These great prevention breakthroughs are the reason for this<br >book. They are exciting to forward-looking physicians throughout<br >America. They are becoming the basis for a whole new physical<br >understanding of what we are. They vastly increase the likelihood<br >that most of us can live long and healthy lives in reasonable har-<br >mony with our own nature.<br >