Integrative Cancer Therapy
In this video, Michael Schachter spends about 28 minutes speaking on "Integrative Cancer Therapy" at the 31st Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Michael Schachter
MICHAEL B. SCHACHTER, M.D., C.N.S. is a magna cum laude graduate of Columbia College, and received his M.D. Degree from Columbia’s Physicians and Surgeons in 1965 in New York City. Although originally trained and Board Certified in Psychiatry, he has devoted most of his professional career to treating all kinds of patients, using a Complementary and Alternative or Integrative Approach. He is also a Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS), and has achieved Advanced Proficiency in Chelation Therapy from the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM).
Back in 1974, Dr. Schachter, along with the late David Sheinkin, M.D., established one of the first Nutritionally Oriented Orthomolecular, Integrative, Complementary and Holistic Practices in the tri-state area, in Nyack, New York. In 1991, the practice was moved to Suffern, New York and became known as the Schachter Center for Complementary Medicine.
Active in a number of professional organizations, Dr. Schachter was past president of the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM) and has been on the ACAM board of Trustees or an Advisor to the Board since the 1970’s. He is also a past president of the Foundation for the Advancement of Innovative Medicine (FAIM) and has been included in several publications of Marquis Who’s Who.
As a recognized leader in Orthomolecular Psychiatry, Nutritional Medicine, Chelation Therapy for cardiovascular disease, and Alternative Cancer Therapies, he has written numerous articles and is frequently called upon to lecture.
Dr. Schachter is familiar with a wide range of Alternative Therapeutic Modalities and has incorporated several of them into his daily work with cancer patients. These have included dietary suggestions based on an optimal, individualized Nutrition Program, Nutritional Supplements, High Dose Intravenous Infusions of Vitamin, Amygdalin or Laetrile Therapy, Detoxification and Psychosocial Modalities, including Visualization.
Co-author of The Food Connection (1979) and Food, Mind and Mood (1980, 1987) and author of The Natural Way to a Healthy Prostate (Keats, 1995), Dr. Schachter was a major contributor to Alternative Medicine’s Definitive Guide to Cancer (Future Medicine, 1997). His latest book is What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Depression (Warner, 2006). Several years ago, he wrote the introduction to the book The Cancer Survivors by Judith Glassman and his methods and views are discussed in Nancy Bruning’s book, Coping with Chemotherapy. A major review paper entitled Integrative Oncology for Clinicians and Cancer Patients was published in the Journal of the International Society of Integrative Medicine in July 2010.
The Schachter Center for Complementary Medicine is located in Suffern, New York 30 miles from New York City. It can be reached by phone 345-368-4700, website www.schachtercenter.com and e-mail [email protected]. The Schachter Center is pleased to follow-up with patients living in the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and adjacent areas who have been treated at one or more of the Mexican clinics specializing in Alternative Cancer Therapies.
Transcription
Fortunately, I'm having a little some computer problems here.
All right. Well.
You know, if you could come up maybe and hook up the old the other computer, I'll just start.
But I think maybe we should do the other one. Can you do that? Because this one I'm having trouble with.
I'd like to thank Lorraine Rosenthal and the Cancer Control Society for inviting me to speak in allowing me to share my ideas with you. I would also like to thank Monique Miljan Ski, the wife of Sylvie Belgian Ski MacCarthy and the daughter of the late professor Mirko Bell. Jan give as well as their company natural source for helping me to prepare the portion of this lecture that focuses on Dr. Bill Jantzi, his work and also for the sponsorship of this lecture. Professor Bell, Jan, ski's work is virtually unknown in the United States, and since I believe his research is important, I want to make you all aware of it. But more about this later. For those who are interested in getting more information about the Schachter Center, we have brochures available at the natural source booth booth number six. The brochures include the center's address, phone number, email and Web site contained on this slide, which you cannot see because it's not up yet.
Also, I'll be covering a lot of material and probably will be going too fast for some of you.
OK, thank you.
I think I can do.
These two mikes will discuss where you are in your life. So no matter where you are. OK. You don't have to speak to those. They will.
OK. So this is the slide that you didn't see. And I also, as I mentioned, I'll be covering a lot of material.
And I suggest that for those who are interested in if you miss some things, that you get a copy of the videotape of the lecture from Child Wontner of Malibu Video, who does an excellent job in videotaping these conferences.
I'd like to give you a make a disclaimer that the products discussed in this lecture are not approved by the FDA for an act, any medical purpose. They are natural substances available as nutritional herbal supplements. Much of the research suggests that they may be useful for patients, but they have not undergone rigorous and extensive research. That would be necessary for them to be approved as drugs. My intention is to make both clinicians and the public aware of some basic research, including animal studies and preliminary, anecdotal or clinical reports from my own experience and that of others who have used these products. This lecture is for educational