Alternative Therapies
In this video, Paul Anderson spends about 22 minutes speaking on "Alternative Therapies" at the 46th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Paul Anderson
PAUL ANDERSON, N.M.D. is a graduate of the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland and practices as a Naturopathic Medical Doctor in Seattle, Washington and Rosarito, Mexico. He is CEO of the Anderson Medical Group which includes the clinic Advanced Medical Therapies, a state of the art medical center providing fully compliant IV, Hyperbaric and Mild Hyperthermia Therapies. He brings over four decades of medical training and experience together to allow his clinical and educational presence to grow and serve patients and physicians in the best way possible.
He is a well-known Continuing Education Presenter in the Allopathic, Naturopathic, Acupuncture and Nursing CME arenas. He speaks in North America and internationally to broad based health care audiences.
Dr. Anderson is former Chief of IV (Intravenous Therapy) Services for Bastyr Oncology Research Center and a past Professor at Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington where he continues to consult in research design and holds the rank of Full Professor. Additionally he is a medical author with a forthcoming book (Hay House Publishing) “Outside the Box Cancer Therapies” due to publish in early 2018. He is extending his medical education mission through the Anderson Medical Group CE site “ConsultDrA.com” a web based educational platform.
Transcription
All right. Well, thank you so much. And I know I'm standing between you and lunch, so we'll just get this moving this year.
Last year I talked about brain tumors and that was a very focused talk and focused on specific therapies, et cetera. And this year, I decided to kind of turn that around. And the goal of what I want to talk to you about is something that we often assume is going on in cancer treatment of any kind.
But often it's easy to lose sight of it because we, the doctors, get so busy with the other treatments we're trying to do, the patient gets busy, et cetera. And the reason that I think that some of these things that we assume are happening that don't happen is that not not by the fault of anyone, but just the fault of we're not mindful of them.
And the reason I wanted to talk about this today is I look back at the 25 years I've been working with people who have cancer and started to look for what what strung together the cases that worked better and what was in common with cases that worked worse. And what I found as we went along and I was involved in research and all of these things was it was less about the specific therapies and it was more about the foundation of the person who was dealing with the therapies and the cancer.
And so then that got me to thinking, well, how much energy are we putting into making sure that our patients are doing these things? And is there a way I can distill this down?
So if you feel you have a handout coming, that will be important in a moment.
This is my pedigree, if you need one. I've done research with the NIH on alternative cancer therapies. We have a center in Seattle where we do this. I consult for a number of places in other countries. So I always say if I if I say something that's illegal to do in the U.S., I'm talking about my experience in another country.
The other thing is occasionally it's true. That's true. So if you're listening from the government, that's what I'm talking about.
I go occasionally to the Food and Drug Administration or the FDA, and I testify about the integrative cancer and other therapies. And I'll be going there in about a week to do that again. Let me tell you, that is not a warm welcome that you get when you're back there talking about these things. So he's kind of moved through the pictures of where I work,