Lung Cancer
In this video, Carl Helvie spends about 23 minutes speaking on "Lung Cancer" at the 41st Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Carl Helvie
CARL HELVIE, R.N., Dr. P.H. graduated from St. Lawrence School of Nursing, Ogdensburg, New York and passed the national certification for registered nurse in 1954. He completed a bachelor’s degree in nursing from New York University in 1958, a master’s degree in public health nursing from the University of California, San Francisco in 1961, a master’s degree in public health in 1966 and a doctorate in public health in 1969 both from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
He has over 60 years experience as a nurse practitioner, educator, author, and researcher including staff positions at the Monroe County Hospital, Rochester, New York, and the V.A. Hospital in San Francisco, California and staff and head nursing positions at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. He was a Staff Public Health Nurse at the Oakland and San Francisco, California Health Departments. He later held teaching positions at the University of California, San Francisco, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, and the University of Applied Sciences, Frankfort, Germany.
He has published 10 books and chapters in 4 additional ones, and has published over 100 articles and research papers presented internationally He has been host of the Holistic Health Show on BBS Radio Network, Paradise, California since July 2008. His show broadcasts every other Saturday at 12 noon PST on Station 1 and includes series on natural and integrative interventions for health concerns such as arthritis, diabetes, seasonal allergies, cancer and other chronic illnesses. Guest include Integrated Physicians, Homeopathic and Naturopathic Physicians, Researchers and others. All shows are archived under the blog at www.HolisticHealthShow.com In the past 5 years he has been interviewed on over 150 radio and television shows about his books on cancer and one, You Can Beat Lung Cancer: Using alternative/Integrative Interventions, was a best seller.
Dr. Helvie is a 44 year lung cancer survivor who was given 6 months to live by traditional medicine and subsequently used all natural, holistic interventions. Continuing with a modified holistic lifestyle following recovery he has avoided a recurrence of cancer and until recently at age 86 avoided other chronic illnesses. In addition to being host of his radio show, Dr. Helvie is currently President and Treasurer of the Carl O Helvie Holistic Cancer Foundation, www.HolisticCancerFoundation.com and is marketing his 10th book to make money for the foundation.
Presently he has an office in Hampton, Virginia and can be reached through his websites www.HolisticCancerFoundation.com or www.HolisticHealthShow.com
Transcription
Good morning. I'm going to talk with you about my experience with lung cancer, 30.
Actually, it's 39 years as of July, but in my book, which came out earlier, it was 38.
So I'm going to talk with you about this. My. Objectives are at the end of the presentation. You will be able to describe a holistic regime of natural interventions that were effective against lung cancer. Explain holistic, natural interventions that can be used to remain healthy and prevent reoccurrence of of cancer. And discuss the value of a holistic approach to cancer treatment. My journey started in 1974 when I had a dream that told me to go for a chest x ray. And I pay attention to my dreams because I believe that this is one way that God speaks with us. If we listen. So I went to my doctor because at that time it was required that you have a referral from your primary physician before you did anything. And I had a very conservative primary physician and he kept asking me, did I have symptoms? And I kept saying no, but I wasn't about to tell him. I came because I had a dream, because I knew he wouldn't understand this. So he finally agreed. And I had an x ray and I had a spot on my lower right lung that had not been there previously. And he got all excited. And he sent me for a biopsy and I had a biopsy. And the results came back and he and the surgeon met with me. They told me I had lung cancer. I had three, six months to live. They were going to do chemo. They were going to do surgery. I said, wait a minute, I don't make snap decisions. I go home. I pray about it. I make a rational decision. You may or you may not see me again. Now, that was very unusual for a nurse back in the 70s to talk with the doctor that way, because nurses and the public pretty much looked at doctors like they were God. But it was my life. And as a nurse, I had seen too many people that were debilitated, that it had jaws removed head to head body body parts removed. That was no quality of life and the quality of life. I figured if I've only got six months to live, I want quality.
So I went home. My doctor never knew that I was close friends with his sister.
His sister was the opposite of my doctor. She was very progressive. So she said, well, let's watch our dreams. Let's pray. Ask for guidance.