Metabolic Therapy
In this video, Francisco Contreras spends about 24 minutes speaking on "Metabolic Therapy" at the 33rd Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Dr. Francisco Contreras
Dr. Francisco Contreras serves as director, president and chairman of the Oasis of Hope Hospital. A distinguished oncologist and surgeon, Contreras is renowned for combining conventional and alternative medical treatments with emotional and spiritual support to provide patients with the most positive treatment experience possible.
Oasis of Hope was founded by Contreras’ father, Dr. Ernesto Contreras, Sr. in 1963, and since then the hospital has provided integrative cancer treatment for more than 100,000 patients.
As director, Contreras continues the practice of his father’s two fundamental principles – do no harm and treat the patient as yourself. Today, Contreras oversees the treatment of 800 cancer patients annually.
After graduating with honors from medical school at the Autonomous University of Mexico in Toluca, Contreras studied alternative therapy at the Oasis of Hope Hospital. He then completed his specialty in surgical oncology at the University of Vienna in Austria, where he also graduated with honors.
Contreras has authored and co-authored several books concerning integrative therapy, cancer and heart disease prevention and chronic illness, including “The Hope of Living Cancer Free,” “The Hope of Living Long and Well,” “Fighting Cancer 20 Different Ways” and “Dismantling Cancer.” His newest book with co-author Daniel E. Kennedy, “Hope, Medicine & Healing,” is scheduled for release in fall 2008.
In addition to writing for numerous medical journals, Contreras has participated in medical conferences such as the World Conference on Breast Cancer and is active in the Cancer Control Society. He has been a part of governmental organizations, including the Georgia House of Representatives Health Policy Task Force and the Japanese Medical Association. He has also been on special assignment to Slovakia as a member of the Mexican Health Advisory Board.
A qualified entry-level professional motorcycle racer, Contreras says that racing is similar to performing surgery in that it requires 100 percent focus. Contreras and his wife, Rosa, have four daughters and one son. The family attends church in Bonita, Calif., and enjoys skiing and travel.
Transcription
Good afternoon, I'm Dr. Comptrollers from the Oasis of Hope Hospital. It's a pleasure to be here with you. And I just want to talk a little bit to you about what we've been doing lately at the hospital. We celebrated our 40 second anniversary and we have been working. For many years, and we are we have been pioneers of the holistic movement for all of those years, and I think that my father was one of the first to acknowledge that we needed to treat the three entities of every patient, which obviously besides the body, we have a mind and we have a spirit. And I truly believe that one of the reasons for our success has been that we take care of the whole patient. Not only that, we have been pioneering eclectic medicine because my father said many years ago that on the alternative movement, we don't have all the pieces of the puzzle, but as well, the Orthodox world does not have all the pieces of the puzzle. But we both have some of the pieces and we work much better if we put those pieces together. We have been the oasis of hope for thousands of patients that have been deemed helpless and hopeless. And many of them that were given a few weeks to live are still alive after many, many years with excellent quality of life. More than one hundred thousand patients have visited our hospital, of which about 70000 have come to us for the treatment of cancer. I think one of the most important things is that at the Oasis of Hope Hospital, we are always researching for new things.
We have had tremendous success over the years, but there are many patients that have not responded to the therapies. And so we're always working to improve that. Last year I told you about some of the advances that we have made with ozone therapy and UV light irradiation in combination with diet and Laetrile, with a tremendous improvement of our results. But in the last five years, we've been working tremendously in trying to understand the metabolic pathways signaling of the malignant cell and the benign cells so that we can manipulate that and hurt the malignant cell even more. Without damaging the benign cell and understanding that signaling has helped us do a much better combination of age old nutrients in combination with new drugs, new in comparison to two foods, obviously. But some of the old drugs, like few chemotherapeutic agents, have proven to lose their capacity to damage people. And we are able to potentiates their tumor kill capacity. And so I think that at