Announcing Cancer Control Society Conference, Labor Day, Near LA
Psychoneuroimmunology, Exceptional Healing and Beating the Odds
My primary purpose here is to announce this important upcoming conference I just discovered and to provide background information in the hopes that some will be able to attend and learn about promising, evidence-based approaches to cancer that address underlying causes. See explanation and details below. http://cancercontrolsociety.org/annual-cancer-convention/
Psychoneuroimmunology and Cancer
In the 1980s, as a licensed clinical psychologist, I developed a sub-specialty in psychoneuroimmunology (PNI), a new field of mind/body medicine, that investigates the connections between emotions, cognitions, attitudes, beliefs, perceptions, control over one’s environment, meaning and purpose in life, and relationships and their effects on the immune system.
I worked with the Center for Advancement in Cancer Education (CACE, www.beatcancer.org), near Philadelphia, founded Susan Silberstein, PhD. I studied people who beat the odds, outlived their prognoses and experienced exceptional healing. Many had explored treatments that addressed underlying causes, including detoxification, nutrition, immune boosting, biological repair, lifestyle improvements, social support, the expressing of emotions, finding new meaning in life, and making oneself a priority rather than being selfless, etc.
Conventional doctors dismissed their exceptional results as inexplicable “spontaneous remissions,” flukes of nature that nobody understood - or they must have been lab errors. Although surprised, few doctors had the curiosity to investigate phenomena outside their training and belief systems.
I worked with pioneers in the field like Bernie Siegel, M.D., surgeon and author of Love, Medicine and Miracles, and founder of Exceptional Cancer Patients. Bernie called these improvements “hard work miracles.” Here is a 12 minute video of him. I also worked with psychologist, Larry LeShan, author of Cancer As A Turning Point, considered a father of mind-body medicine (video 4:19).
Dr. William Kelly and the Gonzalez Protocol
Now that friends and many others have been recently diagnosed with new cancers, recurrences and a new phenomenon called “turbo cancers,” I began searching for oncologists with expertise in sophisticated methods using functional, naturopathic and regenerative medicine that emphasize detoxification, nutrition and other modalities that potentiate each other to promote deep healing and biological repair. I will write future Substacks to describe some of these treatments which are good for a variety of health conditions and prevention.
I recalled that Susan Silberstein, founder of CACE discovered the promising pioneering work of Dr. Nick Gonzalez. I then called my old friend, Herb Simmens, who owes his life to Gonzalez, to ask for referrals. Herb directed me to the website, https://thegonzalezprotocol.com which I was delighted to discover. The protocol is based on highly individualized diets, individualized supplement protocols that emphasize pancreatic enzymes with meals and on an empty stomach, and intensive detoxification.
While searching for oncologists trained in the Gonzalez protocol, I discovered a link to this amazing conference happening on Labor Day weekend near Los Angeles - http://cancercontrolsociety.org/annual-cancer-convention/ Note that doctors and clinics featured in the conference may use elements of the Gonzalez protocol and also integrate treatments studied more recently such as high dose intravenous vitamin C, Curcumin, ALA, ozone therapy, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, molecular hydrogen water, infrared sauna, nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals, etc.
As a student at Cornell Medical College, Gonzalez was sent by his mentor, Robert A. Good, MD, PhD, President of the Sloan-Kettering Research Institute, to investigate the discoveries of Dr. William Kelly. Gonzalez decided to conduct research applying Kelly’s protocol, described in detail with many case summaries here - http://www.alternative-therapies.com/at/web_pdfs/gonzalez1.pdf
“I quickly found evidence of what appeared to be patient after patient with appropriately diagnosed, biopsy-proven advanced and sometimes terminal cancer, who were alive 5, even 10 years after first beginning enzyme therapy.”
He then conducted a pilot study. “In such phase II studies, as they are technically called, a promising new therapy is administered to patients with an aggressive cancer for which there is no effective standard treatment. A pilot study involves no control group, but can still give important information about a treatment. Because inoperable pancreatic cancer has such a grim prognosis, with an average survival in the range of 3-6 months, the associate director who chaired the meeting suggested that if I could get 3 patients to live a year, that would be a significant success. “
Of 11 subjects with “biopsy-proven, inoperable disease, 8 of the 11 had stage IV, most had been very sick before consulting with us. .. 9 lived more than 1 year, 5 lived more than 2 years, 4 lived more than 3 years, and 2 lived more than 4 years. As a point of reference, in the clinical trial of gemcitabine (Gemzar), the latest drug approved for the disease, of 126 patients treated with chemotherapy, not 1 lived longer than 19 months.7 Ours were results that previously had not been reported for the disease.”
Please read this 7-part fascinating account of how Dr. Kelly progressively discovered each element of the protocol - https://thegonzalezprotocol.com/the-dr-kelley-story/
It is a tale of desperation, curiosity, intuition, perseverance, extensive research, luck, synchronicity, and genius. It also reveals a process of true scientific discovery, by one man. Gonzalez wrote a book, One Man Alone: An Investigation of Nutrition, Cancer, and William Donald Kelley includes 50 case histories of patients with poor prognoses or terminal malignancies who did well under Dr. Kelley's care, with copies of relevant medical records.
Substackers will not be surprised to learn that many of these nontoxic, natural, unpatentable treatments have been suppressed in the US over many decades. Doctors who use these methods, defamed as quacks, have resorted to building clinics in Mexico and other countries. For some reason, Big Pharma does not spend billions funding research on treatments that don’t make huge profits. However, we have decades of clinical experience, data, understanding of mechanisms of healing and people walking around healthy, years after their terminal diagnoses.
Cancer Control Society Convention
While searching for oncologists trained in the Gonzalez protocol, I discovered a link to this amazing conference happening on Labor Day weekend near Los Angeles - http://cancercontrolsociety.org/annual-cancer-convention/
After devoting much of my life to political psychology, conflict transformation and preventing nuclear war, I wanted to announce this conference and come out now as a former practitioner of PNI and Certified Cancer Support Educator.
I highly recommend this for anyone dealing with cancer in any way. Over 3 days you will hear lectures, meet people who have recovered from cancer, learn from doctors who practice regenerative medicine and are trained in methods of Gonzalez, Max Gerson, ozone therapy, and many other methods. I expect that in 3 days you will learn more than you would in a year. The conference will offer a bus tour of four clinics in Tijuana.
Please go if you can and spread the word to others. Check the website to get more information and register.
http://cancercontrolsociety.org/annual-cancer-convention/
Excerpt from website:
What is so special about the Cancer Control Society Convention?
We’re glad you asked. We believe it is the greatest conference/show devoted to Alternative and Integrative Therapies. Beyond our opinion, allow us to share what others have told us over the years:
“Your Convention is the best anywhere!”
“Your Convention made it easy for us to understand real options for my cancer.”
“Your Convention provided us with the knowledge and confidence to break away from Conventional Cancer Treatments.”
“Your Convention was a real eye opener.”
“Your Convention saved my life.”
“My mother is still alive because I attended your Convention.”
“Your Convention gave us a great balance between informative lecture presentations and personal discussions with exhibitors from various clinics and treatment centers in a relaxed, comfortable environment.”
What will I learn at the Cancer Control Society Convention?
Among the many topics to be presented and discussed at the Annual Cancer Convention:
What are Alternative Cancer Therapies?
How are Alternative Cancer Therapies different from Conventional or Allopathic Cancer Treatments?
What does non-toxic cancer therapy mean?
What is Mainstream Medicine?
Can cancer really be cured?
How do I know if I really have cancer?
Does a biopsy spread cancer?
Does a Mammogram detect early breast cancer and increase my chances for survival?
Can I visit some Alternative Cancer Clinics?
These and many additional topics will be presented over five exciting days at the Annual Cancer Control Society Convention. We hope to see you there!
This list of “Patterns of Exceptional Physical Healing” was developed with my dear friend, colleague and gifted healer, Steve Vasquez around 1986. We met on a 1984 trip to the USSR as citizen diplomats with the Association of Humanistic Psychology. Steve discovered his healing gifts on that trip in a meeting with a healer.
This was published in a newsletter of the Center for Advancement in Cancer Education, CACE, then called the Foundation for the Advancement of Cancer Therapy, FACT. It is used in their training program for Certified Cancer Support Educators. Check out www.beatcnacer.org for more information.
I see this as very important even groundbreaking work and I am so pleased over the event of the upcoming conference to put some light over these connections. GOOD LUCK!