Metabolic Therapy
In this video, Francisco Contreras spends about 24 minutes speaking on "Metabolic Therapy" at the 37th 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, it's really a pleasure to be here with you, and I hope that you notice what what I'm showing you here. It's this oasis of hope, California. It doesn't say Baja California. It says California. And I want to talk a little bit about that, because this is a project that began about 10 years ago in the recent for this. Is that at the Oasis of Hope Hospital in Tijuana, Mexico? We feel that we have something to offer for the whole world and not just for Mexico. We have been labeled by many as a Laetrile clinic, but we're far from that. We've used Laetrile for a long time. We believe that Laetrile is one of the most useful tools against cancer, but it definitely is not the only one. And it's not the solution to cancer. And I think you've been hearing a lot about the failure of cancer therapies around the world, especially conventional therapies. And it is true that it's easy to measure the failure if more people are dying this year than last year. That what we're doing is not necessarily working. And so we believe that it's not necessarily a technical problem or a scientific problem, but more a philosophical problem. The reason for the failure in in cancer therapy lies on basically two things. The industry in in in the cancer world is trying to destroy tumors. And so philosophically, everything that we develop is to destroy tumors. At the Oasis of Hope Hospital, our goal, our target is the patient. We are developing therapies to help our patients survive.
And it makes a big, big difference when when you talk about that philosophy. Secondly, if you look at the way we are, we are conducting research now in the world. 90 percent of the money that is used on research is to study primary tumors. Unfortunately, only 10 percent of the patients die from primary tumors and 90 percent of the patients die from the metastases that the tumor Gibbs and only 10 percent of the money goes to the study of metastases. And so the basic reason why we're failing to help cancer patients is because of the wrong philosophy based on that. The way we treat patients is is based on on two great pillars. The first one is that we should not hurt our patients. And that's what the father of medicine said. He poverties told us premium is not the first is not to harm. And most drugs that we use to destroy tumors are very, very harmful. In fact, there are many studies that show that about 70 percent, up to 70 percent of