Knockout by Suzanne Somers, Attacks Cancer Establishment by Jeffrey Dach MDSuzanne's new book, Knockout, relates her personal story with cancer in which she searches for doctors curing cancer with new techniques. In the book, Somers interviews pioneering MD's who successfully treat cancer patients using new or innovative treatments not recognized by the cancer establishment. The book brings to light new information that the cancer establishment desperately seeks to suppress, and indicts chemotherapy and mainstream cancer treatment as largely ineffective.
The Establishment Fights Back- Larry King Canceled
Suzanne's scheduled Book Interview on the Larry King Live show Monday night at 9 PM was canceled and hastily replaced by Wolf Blitzer's pablum. The canceled Larry King Show with Suzanne included two of the doctors from her book, Stanislaw Burzynski and Nicholas Gonzalez. Wolf says the show has been rescheduled for Friday night at 9 PM.
Why the cancellation? I suspect the networks are being pressured by the cancer establishment not to air the show. After all, cancer treatment is a big business run by large corporations that fund the television networks with huge advertising revenues. Allowing Suzanne Somers to highlight alternative cancer treatments that work is not in their best interest, nor is it in the best interest of the TV networks who depend on advertising revenue from these corporations. The last thing their shareholders want is a huge bite out of annual profits.
Book Interview With Ann Curry Today Show
Suzanne appeared with Ann Curry on the Today show Monday Oct 19, in a brief 4 minute Book Interview (see clip below).
Susan's Cancer Scare
Susan relates a frightening experience when she entered the hospital with respiratory symptoms and was told she had cancer spreading throughout her lungs. Thankfully it was a false alarm. A lung biopsy showed it was not cancer, rather it was a common fungal illness, Valley Fever, also called coccidiomycosis. Years ago in my training days as a radiologist, we commonly saw evidence of old "Valley Fever" infections on Chest X-Rays as characteristic small rounded calcifications in the lungs. These were incidental findings that required no treatment.
The Failed War Against Cancer
Regarding cancer treatment, I sense a general feeling of frustration in the population. On a personal note, I can tell you that many people in my community are stricken and dying from cancer with little help from the mainstream medical system. The medical treatments with cytotoxic chemotherapy are cruel and barbaric treatments, serving to prolong agony and suffering for a few additional months. Friends and family stand by, helplessly, watching their loved one gradually succumb.
This dismal failure of conventional cancer treatment was recently highlighted by the rapid demise of Ed Kennedy with a fatal brain tumor, a glioblastoma. In spite of the best care available in the US, a high profile personality who had actually crafted health care legislation himself, suffered the same dismal 6-12 month survival as any one else.
The Time is Ripe for Health Reform
Perhaps Suzanne Somers also correctly reads this public frustration with cancer. and her new book is perfectly timed to take advantage of the changing tide of sentiment.
Suzanne Somers trots out onto the stage three MD's working outside of the mainstream cancer paradigm with considerable success. Here they are:
Stanislaw R. Burzynski, M.D., Ph.D
Dr. Burzynski isolated peptides called antineoplastins which have anticancer activity. Results have been impressive for brain tumors, such as the one that killed Ed Kennedy, and another type of cancer called lymphomas.
James W. Forsythe M.D
Dr Forsythe has considerable success treating cancer with a nutritional supplement called Poly-MVA, invented by Merrill Garnett. This is a non-toxic nutritional supplement that contains palladium, and takes kills cancer cells while it spares normal cells.
Nicholas Gonzalez MD
Dr Gonzalez treats cancer with a protocol developed by William Kelly based on the work of embryologist John Beard called the Trophoblast Theory of Cancer. Gonzalez uses high dose pancreatic enzymes along with a detailed nutritional supplement program. Gonzalez has had considerable success with cancer remissions in advanced cases, especially pancreatic cancer.
Hounded by Regulatory Agencies
Rather than hailed has pioneers, all three have been hounded by regulatory agencies and persecuted for "thinking outside the box". Forsythe for example, was set up by a rogue FBI agent who posed as a patient asking for growth hormone. The case was thrown out of court. Burzynski battled in court with the FDA for many years ultimately emerging the winner. Gonzalez also has his brush with the New York State medical board. He was reprimanded in 1994 and license placed on probation for "departing from accepted practice". He eventually resolved the issue and remains fully licensed.
A More Favorable Interview at Insider
While the Ann Curry interview was somewhat hostile, a more friendly interview with Suzanne Somers appeared here, at this video with Insider Magazine.
Other Doctors Interviewed with Chapters in the Book, Knockout:
Burton Goldberg, author of the book, Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide.
Julie Taguchi, M.D. Board Certified in Hematology, Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology. Staff physician at Sansum Medical Clinic in Santa Barbara. Co-author of book on Wiley Protocol using bioidentical hormones. Dr Taguchu has experience treating breast cancer patients with bioidentical hormones (Wiley Protocol). Dr Taguchi appeared in a previous Suzanne Somers book, Breakthrough.
Russell Blaylock MD, board certified neurosurgeon with three book publications.
1) Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills 2) Health and Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life 3) Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients, was released in April, 2003
Steve Haltiwanger, MD gave a presentation at the Rife 2004 International Conference in Seattle, Washington on “The Science of Rife: A Technical Discussion of the Science, Electrical and Nutritional Relationships of Resonant Frequency Technology. He is involved in Life Wave Technology Patches.
David Schmidt, inventor of the LifeWave technology and founder of the LifeWave nanotechnology patches .
Jonathan Wright, M.D. runs the Tahoma Clinic and Meridian lab, prolific author, lecturer, and originator of most widely used bioidentical hormone formula (Bi-Est and Tri-Est). CV here.
Steven Sinatra, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.C.N.. Board certified cardiologist in Connecticut, well known author and lecturer. Since 1977, Dr. Sinatra has been an attending cardiologist at Manchester Memorial Hospital in Manchester, Connecticut and served as chief of cardiology at the hospital on three separate occasions. Assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Books include Heartbreak & Heart Disease: A Mind/Body Prescription for Healing the Heart (1998), HeatSense for Women (2000), Optimum Health: A Natural Lifesaving Prescription for your Body and Mind (1998), and The Sinatra Solution: Metabolic Cardiology (2005). Today, Steve directs The New England Heart & Longevity Center
Michael Galitzer MD Dr. Galitzer's publications include "Clinical Bioenergetics", which is a patient's guide to BioEnergetic Medicine. Dr. Galitzer wrote the foreword to Suzanne Somers', "Fast and Easy," in 2002, a book about nutrition and health. He was interviewed in Suzanne Somers' N.Y. Times best-selling book, "The Sexy Years", a book about using BioIdentical hormones to improve the health of men and women. He was interviewed in Suzanne's 2005 book, "Slim and Sexy Forever." Dr. Galitzer wrote the foreword to, and was interviewed in her most recent best seller, "Ageless." Dr. Galitzer is the medical director of The American Health Institute.
Cristiana Paul, M.S. nutritionist and consultant involved in research support for Designs for Health. Her Book Interview with Suzanne here.
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I know that I am getting off topic here, but the relevant point is that we need more medical opinions allowed in the health care arena. I would love an environment in which doctors from all different disciplines would openly debate a patient's concern while the patient askes questions. Then, fully armed with the options, could make her or his decision.
Thank-you for posts such as this, I will look forward to seeing the Larry King Live special tomorrow... if it airs that is.
Suzannes story about being told by the BEST doctors in L.A. that she was dying of cancer and it was spread through her body just a year ago was horrifying. I heard her interviewed on Friday and it made me sick. Buy the book just for that story - it is crazy! They were wrong wrong wrong and never even said, oops! We're sorry.
Equally suspicious is that Ms. Somers will not name the hospital or doctors she is accusing of such implausible actions. She implies this is high moral ground; my suspicion, however, is that she know that HIPPA privacy laws preclude anyone's proving or disproving her outrageous story.
The fact is, she could have fabricated the ENTIRE story, or any part of it, and no hospital could contradict her, as she has not named any hospital. No one can prove that she was or was not a patient.
Except Ms. Somers. If she wants any credibility for this outlandish story, she could: produce witnesses who were with her that night - did her husband or her friends she was out with before she was rushed to the emergency room come with her to the hospital? Are they able to corroborate her story? She could also publish her medical records, with names of the doctors and hospital deleted - not difficult to do. I suspect she will not do these things, because I suspect she fabricated some or all of this story.
Being in the spotlight is addicting, especially for someone whose self-worth has been largely fed by her beauty and celebrity. Ms. Somers may be free of cancer, but I think she has some other issues that bear looking into.
I have some experience on the subject. I have a son that was at first given less than a month to live but now that he has begun MAINSTREAM treatment, his prognosis has been upgraded and we shall now have at least until Thanksgiving with him. So you see, mainstream medicine isn't as hopeless as some will lead you to believe.
This is a matter of personal choice. Everyone needs to make up their own mind about which they would perfer in the way of treatment WITHOUT the likes of the good doctor and the bimbo blonde throwing around quasi-facts in order to make a buck either on book sales or their own "treatments".
Just my Opinion.
If it (i.e., the story of the diagnosis) was true, then more power to her. But in view of this latest story, methinks -- or at least mewonders -- if she might not be just a wee bit histrionic when it comes to the whole issue of cancer, and overly quick to use it to forward her own crusades, as worthy as they might be in their own right.
Everybody who has something to gain from flogging Suzanne Somers, and himself as a conduit of expertise and salvation, raise your hand. Holy crap.
Another doctor of Suzanne's and mine, Dr. Robert Greene, wrote a terrific book a few years back, "Perfect Balance," written for both men and women and deals with much of what Suzanne extols as well.
And I can't say enough about "The Sexy Years!" That book is the most positive look at healthy aging and hope for women suffering some of the extreme and unpleasant symptoms of menopause and beyond. Well, I could gush on and on here about Suzanne, whom I have the utmost respect for on so many levels. She is not in any way some "washed up 2nd rate actress," as some have recently portrayed her in the light of her new book. There is enough room in this world for doctors of all disciplines and other choices, whether alternative, integrated or a combination of many medical choices along with natural life sustaining/improving methods. Most of us do not have the time or are willing to take the time that Suzanne Sommers has for over 2 decades, to research and share her findings and expereince with alternatives to western medicine. She is worth more than a read and has helped thousands of people who have run into brick walls elsewhere. Thank you so, so much for posting this!!!
I happen to want education on both sides of this issue. I will read this doctor for one side and Dr. Amy for the other. Neither one may encompass my point of view entirely, but a nice debate is always healthy and conducive. Some of you would rather the alternative viewpoint be shut out entirely - very hypocritical and troubling.
We are asked to believe that an entire alternative medical universe of doctors and researchers would surround a well-informed person like Suzanne, and that she would write a book providing compelling arguments and data for her case, only to short-circuit the lifesaving aspects of that work by telling lies and distorting events.
Buying into the arguments of Aging Hippie Chick can have only one conclusion: Disavow everything that Suzanne Somers writes in this book while dousing it with lighter fluid and igniting it in the nearest open grill, and go back to clinging to doctors who would load our systems with toxic chemicals that will kill us before the cancer does.
Pardon me, but I'm not buying. I'm frankly tired of this approach of killing the messenger. The same thing happened to Dr. Gary Glum when he wrote a book, "The Calling Of An Angel" about the life of Rene Caisse who brought awareness of the Essiac herbal compound to the world -- an effective cancer treatment that almost NEVER gets mentioned even in the world that Suzanne is living in.
IT HAS AN 85% EFFECTIVE RATE OF ELIMINATING KNOWN CANCERS. My mother is alive and well largely because of it. My brother's father-in-law went into complete remission from STAGE 4 colon cancer entirely because of it, having been sent home to die. Disbelieving doctors sent his blood tests back to the lab FOUR TIMES, unwilling to accept that the samples were cancer free. A friend's wife treated her own cervical cancer with it to the angry objections of doctors, only to return to the clinic 12 weeks later inexplicably cancer free.
It is thought that one of the elements of the herbal tea mixture (sheep sorrel) interferes with the invading cancer cell's ability to assimilate oxygen, an area of legitimate study within the cancer orthodoxy but they never, ever look at sheep sorrel because the alternative is TOO CHEAP. Anything that saves lives that doesn't generate tens of millions of dollars is unacceptable.
Why? Because the cancer treatment industry is the second largest dollar industry in the world next to the petrochemical industry. To release a statement proclaiming the effectiveness of Essiac would not only drive the costs of the four ingredients of the formula through the roof, but would have the same economic effect as nuking the six largest cities off the face of the earth.
All alternative therapies faces such challenge. Doctors with whom I am personally familiar are doing ground-breaking work with adult stem cells, and in one case involving a celebrity friend of mine, assisted him in REGROWING HIS OWN SKULL under a metal plate that had been inserted under his scalp years earlier to cover an injury that exposed his brain. No one, not even his own family, believed it was possible and were braced to file massive lawsuits against these doctors -- that is, until the therapy was a complete and utter success.
The medical orthodoxy works around the clock, desperately trying to find a way to shut these doctors down or silence them. I am not a conspiracy theorist -- I am a conspiracy ADVOCATE who is certain that a conspiracy is in place to silence any alternative medicine that challenges the orthodoxy.
Suzanne Somers is awake. It's time we all aroused from our sleep, before modern medicine kills us all.