Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds

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Kelly Turner: That was the one factor that was the most embarrassing for me to have to put in my dissertation. I was embarrassed because it’s not a scientific topic. I could spin all of the other factors into a term that was somewhat acceptable by Western medicine, right? Like “social support.” I specifically use that word –“social support”– because I didn’t want to call it “being open to receiving love,” which is how my research subjects described it. Kelly Turner: Primarily, I realized that I wasn’t the only one interested in radical remission. The success of the book really shows me, more than anything, that people–just like I was–are fascinated by these real life cases. These are not made up cases. These people aren’t faking it. They really had cancer. And they really got better. Only two items are physically related to your body: changing your diet and taking supplements. While some diets and supplements may be more well-founded than others, at least the author periodically reminded readers to consult their doctors, e.g., "Remember, always speak to your doctor first in case your fast needs to be medically supervised." (p. 28)

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Marianne Cirone: I’ve met so many people through the cancer center that were stage four diagnosis and they’re just doing great and they’re either in remission, or there is no sign of cancer, or they’re off all conventional medication. So, many of them ignored that voice at first and for the people that I’ve studied, ignoring that voice was a mistake, in the sense that by ignoring it they did not get to full healing. The people that I’ve studied, again, I’ll just qualify this by saying, “the people that I’ve studied in-depth.” I can’t speak for anyone else, but for the people that I’ve studied, when they started listening to that voice, as opposed to ignoring it, that is when their healing started turning around and being more complete. Not all the stories were as off-beat as the one involving John of God, but many of them had alternative medicine elements. Ultimately, I felt conflicted by the personal stories included in each chapter. On the one hand, they were very inspiring and would certainly give hope to a cancer patient with a poor prognosis; on the other hand, all the alternative medicine therapies were beyond belief, if you ask me. It’s upsetting for me to hear that over and over again, but it’s okay. That’s where things are and that’s what we have to deal with.Regarding the first factor (changing your diet), the majority of people Turner studied greatly reduced or eliminated sugar, meat, dairy, and refined foods, and greatly increased fruit and vegetable intake, choose organic food, and drink filtered water.

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So what were the 9 key factors that these patients with radical remissions employed? Dr. Turner goes into much more detail about these 9 key factors in the book. In fact, each factor has its own chapter, as well as stories of how patients used these factors to participate actively in their healing journey. But here are the nine overlapping factors her research uncovered. Kelly Turner: Yes. I’ve written a screenplay about radical remission and that’s actually my main focus right now, trying to get that film made. About 80% of my time right now is spent on that, which is really stressful, but also exciting. I can’t tell you how many of the people I studied who told me that I was the first doctor or researcher — and, again, I always tell them a researcher, not a medical doctor — but they said, “You’re the first PhD or MD to ask me what I did to heal.” They said, “My oncologist didn’t ask me that.”Kelly Turner: One of those factors, just on its own, reduces the risk of cancer by 50%, so imagine them combined. I definitely interview people who, as soon as they were diagnosed, they were drenched in fear, of course, because that System One took over. And then they heard this loud voice, because instinct takes over and they’re in fight-or-flight/survival mode. They were operating by instinct and that instinctual voice came and said, “Quit your job. Your job is killing you.” Then the frontal cortex said, “Oh, but I can’t quit. I can’t quit my job, because what about money, and what about this, and what about that?” So, they didn’t quit their job. And then they get cancer treatment and they have their health insurance, but then it’s not working and they’re getting closer to death as opposed to farther away from death. And then they quit their job, and then they’re suddenly so much happier. Using personal stories to illustrate each key factor, Dr. Turner shows how survivors overcame dire circumstances and diagnoses using modalities beyond the conventional treatments of surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and other “standard” cancer treatments. Interestingly, seven of these nine key factors that Radical Remission survivors reported using are psychosocial (mental/emotional) factors, while the other two are nutritionally-related. I would schedule most of my interviews for an hour and they all went at least an hour and a half, if not two or three hours. That’s because no one had listened to these people before; no one had even asked them [how they healed].