Metabolic Therapy
In this video, Francisco Contreras spends about 24 minutes speaking on "Metabolic Therapy" at the 42nd 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 a pleasure to be with you this afternoon, who's been here before last year or so, most of you.
Well, I want to talk to you about some bureau, a few new things that that are happening in the world of of cancer and how in the alternative world we can take advantage of that. A few months ago, I was invited to participate in a panel of oncologists from California, and I was the only oncologist from Mexico to present the case of alternative therapy to the state representatives. It was a very interesting meeting. There was three oncologists from San Diego and myself and I was left to talk at the end of the war on cancer.
And these oncologists were, you know, driving the point that in Mexico and in many parts of the world, their alternative medicine is being presented or administered to patients that we have no clue what we're doing and that that it has to be evidence based medicine and that we're talking about all of the new things and how many publications have come about.
And I was listening to them.
And when my time came, I told them by George Orwell said, you know, in times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
And the truth is that in most of the most of the world, only outside of the states and not even in the states a lot of times, and in Europe, its existence based medicine, wherever we have at hand, we don't have the resources in Mexico that you have in the States. And so we have to deal with that. And so it cannot be just evidence based.
And I was letting them know that even though there's been great advantage. There's no question about that molecular about my molecular biologist bringing many things into the table. And nowadays, the big thing is the genetic entity of cancer and how gene mutations impact a cancer and makes it work. And so they develop this way of targeting tumors in a very specific way, in a very personalized way.
So through the Cancer Genome Atlas and the Cancer Genome Characterization Initiative, now they're targeting therapies and Target stands for therapeutically applicable research to generate effective treatment.
I love Americans how they come up with these things.
Target therapies. And so with this, you know, you will find out the mutations that make the wrong proteins. Then they try it in animals, how to block those proteins. And those are the targets. And that way you treat cancer in the. All of this is done, what with what it's called, signaling transduction. OK.