Suzanne Somers: She's Not a Doctor, but She Plays One in the Bookstore

Having been recently diagnosed with malignant melanoma and gone through a round of surgery to deal with it, I try to read as much as I can on the subject.
Suzanne Somers’s latest “health” book hit the bookstores this week, and this time she's offering her advice on how to cure and prevent cancer. As if people with cancer don’t have enough problems.  What's next?  Cancer Cure Happy Hour at the Regal Beagle with Mr. Farley as DJ?
Of course, Somers has had no formal medical or scientific training, but considers herself an authority—in part because she’s survived breast cancer after choosing not to have chemotherapy, and because she’s a regular on the alternative-medicine circuit.  And, I think she believes her hawking of the medical breakthrough, "The Thighmaster" on the QVC and Home Shopping Networks in the late 80s, at least qualifies her as a physical therapist.
It’s noteworthy that her promotion of the book began by publicly blaming Patrick Swayze’s recent death on the use of chemotherapy, rather than his pancreatic cancer. (She has since apologized to his family.)
I for one, hope that here are great advances in alternatives to radiation and chemotherapy in cancer treatments, but I'll wait until that info comes from a more learned source than Suzanne Somers. 

Ms. Somers is not a cancer specialist, but she is a specialist.  Her real specialty is understanding that when a celebrity writes a controversial book, it doesn’t matter how much mainstream doctors and serious researchers attack it, or whether people’s health is put at risk. Those attacks bring publicity, and publicity sells books. Cha-Ching Chrissie!