Metabolic Therapy
In this video, Francisco Contreras spends about 25 minutes speaking on "Metabolic Therapy" at the 40th 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 remember having a conversation with my father about twenty five years ago, and we're discussing, you know, the great advances that we had for medicine and integrative oncology. And one of the issues that we were discussing is how we could implement this, these therapies for more patients. And as time went by, it happened through several means, plagiarism. We taught other people and they're doing it. So not only do we have more clinics in Mexico doing the therapies as my father began to do them, and then we have, you know, hospitals in many parts of the world saying that they have alternative therapies and they have integrative oncology. And I'm very happy to see that. But it took us 50 years for us to find a partner, somebody with the same heart, with the same mission, with the same vision and the same love for the patients to be able to partner with.
And I am going to allow Dr. Liron committee. We have partnered with her to open up the Oasis of Hope in Irvine. And this is an institution that now it has matured. We are now three years of age in Irvine. We have been tweeting now hundreds of patients with excellent results also here in America.
We developed specifically a protocol that would be able to be practiced legally here in the States.
There are still some things that we could do in Mexico that we cannot do in the States, but we're very happy and proud to have this program. Now in the states and be able to help a lot of American patients and for some reasons can not go to Mexico or do not want to to go to Mexico. So I'm going to ask Dr. Lee and continue to come and talk to you a little bit about our oasis of hope in Mexico. Please are in Irvine, I'm sure.
I think this works.
Good afternoon, everyone. And you guys have listened to an amazing variety of individuals that are educating you and empowering you. And this is a really special, special time in medicine, because integrative oncology was really started 50 years ago with Oasis of Hope, Mexico and the United States. Now, it is an amazing emerging field and really, really growing. And what is integrative oncology? People think, oh, it's a little surgery, a little radiation, chemo, massage and meditation. And, you know, it's happening. No, this is a very, very true science. And what has been happening to Oasis of Hope in Mexico? We, fortunately, are privileged to have all of the amazing research, investigation, trials, experiments that they've been doing over