The group that received practical advice about lifestyle changes had a 56 percent lower mortality risk over the eleven-year period. ... If results like this were ever achieved with a new drug, every oncologist in the world would feel obligated to prescribe it. Whether its learning to relax and better control our minds, or better nourishing ourselves, or practicing regular physical exercise, there’s really only one secret. We need to give ourselves a way in which we can steer the course of our own lives instead of being subjected to them in helplessness and distress.