A Banner Day!
If all goes well today, I should step over a long-awaited threshold. Nine years ago, I lost my wife, Connie, to breast cancer after a three-year battle. Chemo, radiation, and surgery brought three months of remission at one pont before we were back in therapy as it spread to the liver. That horrendous experience prompted me to launch what would become a never-ending quest for a better answer to cancer treatment. I have been doing research for for almost nine years. The last three years have involved refining that research into a book titled, A New Strategy for the War on Cancer.
During Connie’s treatment, I watched her condition deteriorate day-by-day. After almost three years of devasting therapy including a couple of clinical trial therapies at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, we went to Mexico out of desperation to receive care not available or even legal in the U. S. Connie died soon thereafter having suffered a septic infection without the benefit of a viable immune system. At her death, I vowed to devote a major part of my life to learning everything I could about cancer treatment and how it could be improved.
My findings have led me to the conclusion that what we have been doing in cancer care for the last half-century has not worked, is not working, and will not work. Conventional cancer treatment has made some progress, but we are in a stagnant state fed by institutionalize bias. Thankfully, there is something better that shows great promise. It is called integrative cancer treatment or integrative oncology. The integrative aspect has to do with natural therapies that complement conventional therapies. Therapies such as nutrition, food supplements, acupuncture, mind-body focus, meditation, biofeedback, hypnosis, hyperthermia, spiritual emphasis, massage, etc. are proving to increase the effectiveness of conventional treatment, decrease its negative side effects, and reduce its duration. In pursuing research into these complementary therapies, breakthroughs in fighting the disease are very possible. The problem is lack of awareness and support from the public. That is the purpose of the book.
Before this day is over, I should click “send” and transfer my final manuscript draft of A New Strategy for the War on Cancer to my publisher in New York. What an exciting day! I’ll tell you more about it tomorrow.