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Brandon LaGreca had been healing people in his private acupuncture practice for ten years when he received a devastating diagnosis: Stage 4 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. More than a third of people with the diagnosis die within five years. LaGreca didn’t.

Within eight months of following an integrative oncology protocol, he achieved remission. The experience led him to a powerful insight about the nature of cancer—that the disease isn’t just physical, and facing it requires emotional and psychological introspection.