Anti-Oxidants, Cancer

Hi, everybody. Trying to put up here. Let's escape, I guess. Chuck's not doing this, I'm doing this. Let me see.

Let me just while they're getting us set up on the Metro oncologists, I trained at the National Cancer Institute and also radiation oncologist trained at the University of Pennsylvania. When I got involved in the issue of cancer nutrition, I did so while I was at the National Cancer Institute. Vice President Humphrey was referred to me. Thank you. Vice President Humphrey was referred to me and he was dying not of his cancer, but rather of malnutrition. Then another man my own age had advanced cancer, asked to be kept alive to see the birth of his young son. We did. And we kept gave him lots of chemotherapy, radiation therapy. But he's still dying at last resort. I gave him high doses of vitamins and minerals to to I. What I thought would be no avail. But he parked right up and it taught me a big lesson. I knew nothing about vitamins. I knew nothing about minerals. And I knew less about nutrition overall. So what I did was start looking into that and research in it. And the first book evolved called Cancer Nutrition. We have those in the back as well. Cancer nutrition came out in 1980, the first of a genre. But I'm going to talk about three topics today rather briefly. I can give you lots more information at the back or e-mail the information to you. I know we're under time constraints because of Jonathan and the rest of the meeting, so I want to go over three topics rather quickly. I'll be available for the next couple days. The first topic is very critical. Antioxidants and other nutrients used with chemotherapy and radiation therapy. These are the books I wrote, the first one is Cancer Nutrition, all these books have this information in it, but we just published a couple peer reviewed articles with all that data in it.

We know that from 1930 to the present time, we have made little or no treats, experimental rather life span changes in people and adults with chronic diseases like breast cancer, prostate cancer, etc.. So since radiation therapy began in the 20s, combination chemotherapy in the 60s, immunotherapy in the 70s, fancy MRI scans, PET scans, et cetera, minimal changes in overall lifespan of patients. What we're trying to do is find out why that is. And radiation chemotherapy continue to play a role in treatment, but with great morbidity.

But in direct opposition to clear scientific findings since 1970s, patients are told not to use food, supplement antioxidants and