the-truth-about-cancer

Episode 7: How to Survive and Thrive
knew who I was. I happen to be on the Bob Atkin’s Show. Bob Atkin’s is
an old friend my journalism days. I’d included him in a couple of my
articles. So we remained personal friends. He had a very well listened to
national radio show back in those days and he knew about my Kelly
study. I’d given a copy which I couldn’t get published. And he had me on
his show and this patient’s social worker that she was consulting with
because of the stress of cancer happened to have an interest in
alternative medicine. She actually ironically she worked for the
American Cancer Society.
She kept her interest in alternative medicine secret. It’s like
pornography. You have to keep it a secret. You have to hide it because
they might do something. She might lose her job and end up in jail. So
she had a secret interest in alternative medicine. For her to be on the
show and she tells the patient you got to see Gonzalez. Even though I’d
only been in practice two months there was something on the radio
show, and Bob gave me like an hour that resonated with a social
worker. And the patient believes what the social workers who had came
to see me. That was interesting in 1987 been in practice two months.
Why would anyone trust me when we’re dealing with stage IV cancer
But she did.
And we’ve learned often the difference between success and failure is
the attitude of the patient. Yeah, we treat people biochemically, yeah.
My goal is life once I adopted science is my new lifestyle was to spend
my life at Sloan-Kettering doing basic science research. I never even
thought I’d see patients. But I’ve learned I have to change that. I’ve
learned a lot of this from Kelly that the attitude and the mind of the
patient are the single most important determinants. Patients that are at
peace with their situation are facing the practitioner always do the best. I
always tell patients if you don’t trust your practitioner whether it’s me,
Joe Schmo down the street, Sloan-Kettering, leave.
Find someone you believe in because your lack of belief, your lack of
faith or lack of trust will undermine your treatment, whatever it is,
chemo, radiation, or something else. She trusted me from the beginning,
did the program. I don't know why she did but there was something that
resonated. We got along great, did the program, didn’t want scans, said
what’s the point. They told me I’m going to be dead so why do scans
Why expose myself to the radiation Even back in the 1980s she was
thinking like that. Finally, 2001, 14 years later. I said look, I’m trained as
an academician. Humor me. Do a bone scan. We won’t do CAT scans.
Okay. I don’t want you getting the radiation. Let me do a bone scan. She
did—all the tumors were gone. And she’s alive and well now. It 26 and a
half years since her diagnosis with stage IV metastatic inflammatory
breast cancer developing metastases while on aggressive
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