Chronotherapy Helps Lung Cancer Patient on the Road to Recovery

Margaret Olszowka was diagnosed with lung cancerplan. Today, she is doing very well and enjoying her
on New Year's Eve, 2002. The prognosis was verytwo children and six grandchildren. She wants the
grim: her disease had advanced to Stage 4 and wasworld to know about the role chronotherapy played
inoperable. Doctors at a very well known universityin her survival in the hopes of helping other cancer
hospital told her there was nothing they could do forpatients.What is chronotherapy?Chronotherapy takes
her. They didn't even offer chemotherapy as aninto account how our body's natural rhythms' impact
option; she was told she had months to live.our ability to process medications. Patterns like
However, instead of giving up, she decided she wassleeping, menstrual cycles, even our physical response
going to fight the disease, and ultimately found herto the changing seasons, are different for everyone.
way to cancer specialist, Keith Block, MD, where sheIn the old days we called these biorhythms.
received chronotherapy as part of her treatment