Metabolic Therapy
In this video, Francisco Contreras spends about 24 minutes speaking on "Metabolic Therapy" at the 32nd 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
Well, this year is the first year that I come here when my father is not with us any four anymore. And just like to give you a little history of our hospital, which was started in 1963 by my father. My father was born in 1915 and he passed away in October of last year. And I think that my father made a tremendous impact to not only the world of alternative medicine, but to the world of medicine.
My father was a. Incredible.
Fighter for hope in this world, especially in the war against cancer. And through his 60 years of practice, he built a tremendous hospital in Tijuana, Mexico, that started from a little office where he was the only one working there to now a more than 60 thousand square feet foot hospital with all the amenities of a general hospital and a World-Class World-Class institution where research is done. He was graduated as a as a physician from the army. He was a doctor in the army. And very early on, the people in Mexico, especially from the Army, saw a great future in my father. And they sent him here to America to specialized specialized in oncology and pathology at Harvard University in Boston. And when he came back to Mexico, he was the founder of the oncological society in Mexico and the pathological society in Mexico. My father was a very orthodox renown doctor and he had the opportunity to come to Tijuana.
He was in Mexico City. In the late 50s to head the pathology department into one end, San Diego, California, at the same time, at that time, they had no pathologist in San Diego. And so my father was a pathologist for both sides of the border. And in 1963, a patient that was supposed to die from cancer of the breast heard of a product called Laetrile that were was being administered in Canada. So she went to Canada. She improved tremendously. And this product came back to San Diego. And nobody in San Diego wanted to touch Laetrile with a 10 foot pole. And a doctor from a hospital in San Diego at Mercy Hospital in San Diego told his native, well, there is a very kind doctor from Mexico who might want to apply this medication to you. Why don't you go to him in Mexico? And she came my father saw her history so that she virtually had no possibility of survival because the cancer was very advanced. And when she told her that she had actually felt better with this Laetrile, my father felt no problem in giving her something just to give her peace