Opening Speech for 46th Annual Cancer Convention

Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the Cancer Control Society and even personally would like to thank you for being here. The forty six annual Cancer Control Society convention. Labor Day weekend 2018. The lovely Hilton Hotel in Glendale, California.

As we wrap up the three days, I think you would agree it's been a very long three days. And I would expect that most of you would be tired.

And I talked to a lot of people that say that this weekend provides almost information overload. There are so many ideas, so many talks that it's hard to to take it all in. And I want to amend or review some of the speakers and the concepts. But the very first piece of advice that I have, and I do this on those tours and I tell people when during cancer consultation, the first thing you need to do before you start to try to absorb and conjugate and put all this information together is to go home and get a good night's sleep. You know, there is no substitute for sleep. I think I was talking with one of the I think one of the speakers has said that the pharmaceutical industry has not come up with a remedy for sleep. We still need to sleep. So before you do that, take the heat, get the DVD, take them home, pick up the books that that are pertinent, but take them home. But first, get a good night's sleep, get some rest so that you feel that you can really sit down and in review these things. The other thing is that there have been different ideas, different protocols, different interpretations of scientific and medical information. The physicians here, the HD, the the academics, they they study in an academic institution.

I want to admire medical doctors and I would like to even digress for a moment.

I spoke at a Tripping Over the Truth conference in Baltimore back in November, and that was a conference organized by physicians from George Washington University, Johns Hopkins, Boston, Emory University of Pittsburgh. And there was even, I think, someone from NCI that was there and they were looking at cancer and Alzheimer's and the things that that that are effective because they know that all the conventionally FDA approved things.

Don't work, but I started started my talk because I said, you know, and it was for physicians.

I want to say how much I admire medical doctors, because to become a medical doctor not only have to get your bachelor's degree, you're in essence a master's degree, but you have to study those extra three to four years. You have to spend. I think it's