Metabolic Therapy
In this video, Francisco Contreras spends about 21 minutes speaking on "Metabolic Therapy" at the 44th 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
OK.
Yeah, we met when gray hair was not in. Well, it's a pleasure to be here this afternoon with you.
And I want to talk a little bit about what happened, said at the Oasis of Hope. And if you have any questions after I'm done, we're in booth one of three so that I do not interrupt the next speaker. Many of you probably have heard that Oasis of Hope is an alternative hospital. We've been doing this for 53 years. But the truth is that we're more of an integrative hospital. We will use whatever elements are necessary and beneficial for our patient. And sometimes the alternative doctors get mad at me or the conventional doctors get mad at me because I use alternatives and vice versa. And so my point of view is there is one. I just want to do not alternative or conventional medicine. I want to do the best medicine for for our patients. And so the main difference of what we do, what the choice of a hospital is not technical, but philosophical. Our philosophy is that we are going to provide our patients with resources for them to heal themselves and actually exploit in the good sense of the word, the capacity that our body has to heal itself. And the reason why we developed diseases is because basically our immune system fails us for many, many reasons. The most common reasons are that we provoke that failure. But there are children that develop cancer. And so it is the answer is not as easy as just, you know, your your lifestyle is the reason why you develop cancer. So in providing resources to our patients, we not only do the physical elements like medications, nutrition, immune stimulation, but also taking care of the whole person by providing them emotional and spiritual support.
So let me just show you a few cases of patients that have being treated at the oasis of hope. So this is a patient that came to us with unheard patu carcinoma and thirty eight, eight years of age from Kenya had used everything possible. And and it's interesting that doctors will say, you know, he failed to chemotherapy. The truth is that chemotherapy failed the patient. We'd just like to say politically correct, but it is incorrect. So you see that the. That there's a tremendous amount of little tumors all around the liver and here it's a better picture of it. So many, many tumors in the liver and they had been growing in spite of therapy. He came to us first on the 20th of January of 2014. And by the 15th of March