Metabolic Therapy
In this video, Francisco Contreras spends about 25 minutes speaking on "Metabolic Therapy" at the 36th 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
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It's called aging successfully. It's a pleasure to be here and an honor to to be here at the thirty sixth already annual convention. And I would like to spend some time talking to you about the swimming against the current. And that's why I named this Chad a counterculture approach to cancer. And not only are we swimming against the current. We actually have a completely different culture, a completely different idea on the treatment of cancer in 1971. It was in December of 71 that President Nixon, in his famous one hundred word address, officially declared the war on cancer. And based on the fact that the director of the NCI told them that if the government would give them sufficient money, they would find a cure for cancer in 10 years.
Seventy one to now, you know, we still. We're still waiting for that corner. They say that that the cancer cure is just around the corner. It's a mighty long corner.
Twenty years after the fact. Another director of the NCI started justify justifying the failure in and then 90's they published in Cancer, one of the most procedures, journals from the American Cancer Association. Sir Samuel Broder said Although we are still searching for answers, the hallmark of the 90s will be the application. Research results from the 80s was a lot of research, a lot of knowledge, but still no practical application, even in the 90s. And then his assistant director, Dr. Yarbro, said progress in cancer research in the 80s has led to predictions of major improvements in cancer prevention and treatment. In the 90s and here we are in the 2000s and still we have very little to show for in this. Dr. Robert Anthony, a very macho American businessmen, said once waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life. Reasons and results and reasons or excuses simply don't count.
And that's where we are with. With cancer. We just.
Hearing all of these these reasons why we can't find the cure for cancer. And since the 1930s to now, cancer is just rising and rising, both in incidence and in death rate, in men and in women between 72. And today, the cancer death rate has risen 73 percent, one and a half times faster than the population growth. In spite of intense research, treatment efforts and soaring funding to now, they have received more than 250 billion dollars, just the NCI. And