Complementary and Alternative Medicine Conference--the big guns

NattyOnFrostyLake

http://annieappleseedproject.org/4thevcoalcac.html

They have scholarships too! 

Lise Alschuler, N.D., F.A.B.N.O. Naturopathic Physician with a specialty in Oncology. "Influencing our Internal Landscape: "Using an integrative approach to fight cancer"

Jeanne Drisko, MD, University of Kansas,"Efficacy and safety of intravenous ascorbate in cancer"

Christine Horner, MD FACS Surgeon, Author - "Waking the Warrior Goddess: Dr Christine Horner's Program to Protect Against and Fight Breast Cancer, winner of the 2006 Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) "Best Book of the Year for health/nutrition/medicine", describes all the research-proven natural approaches - foods, supplements, herbs and activities - that (help)... protect against breast cancer.

Ursula Jacobs, GmbH Klinik "New individual diagnostic options/therapies for cancer: immunotherapy, supplements, and prevention

Patricia L. Judson, MD Clinical Investigator, Gynecological Oncology "Clinical Trials in Complementary and Alternative Therapy for People with Cancer"

Meena Katdare, PhD Professor & Scientific Director Skin of Color Research Institute Hampton University "Prevention of Breast Cancer by Dietary Phytochemicals: A Mechanistic Approach"

Mark J. Kaylor, PhD, MH "Ancient Remedies, Modern Medicines; Discover the Path to Vibrant Health & Longevity"

Richard Linchitz, MD "Of Insulin Potentiation Therapy in an Personalized Integrative Anti-Cancer Program"

Ralph Moss, PhD - a leading author Antioxidants Against Cancer, Cancer Therapy, Questioning Chemotherapy, and The Cancer Industry, as well as the award-winning PBS documentary The Cancer War, and consultant on cancer treatment. "CAM Cancer Clinics around the World"

George O'Clock, PhD, Consultant, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Pulmonary Disease/Critical care, "Overview of the Electrical Properties of the Body at the Molecular, Cellular, Tissue and Organ Levels: Therapeutic Implications for Cancer and Visual Disease"

Klara Rombauts, Medical Chemist, Belgium, "Charting information on the effectiveness of both conventional and non-conventional treatments"

Troy Sanford,CN, ND ""Ionized Alkalized Water - Fact or Fiction?"

Sicco Schwenzfeger, MD Lymphologist (a physician trained in the management of lymphatic system disorders).

Oliver Szasz, PhD, CEO of the Hungarian firm, Oncotherm, Ltd, from Hungary will speak on "Oncothermia method of treating cancer"

Walter Wainright President,"Management of Estrogens, Estrogen Receptors, Estrogen Metabolism & Cellular Immunity in the Treatment of Cancers"

Helayne Waldman, MS, EdD, NE, Founder Turning-the-Tables ^TM, "Nutrition for Breast Cancer Patients and Survivors

Jeanne Wallace, PhD, CNC "Oncometabolic Syndrome: Modulating the Milieu that Fosters Tumor Growth & Progression"

George Wong, PhD - 4th generation Chinese Herbalist treating those with breast cancer, researcher, will provide pro bono consultations with attendees.

Workshops & Classes

Tony Jiminez, MD, "SonoPhotodynamic Therapy"

Kimmarie LaRue, LMT - a multi-faceted healer, teacher and speaker who applies the skills acquired over 30 years to facilitate personal healing and wholeness. "Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction"

George Love, DOM, Qi Gong workshop (great feedback from this year's presentation).

Sharon M. O'Connor, RN, Certified Hypnotherapist and Guided Imagery Practitioner "Make the Mind Body Connection for Conquering Cancer"

PANELS

Breast Cancer Symposium: Julia Chiappetta, author Breast Cancer-the notebook. Christine Horner, MD, Meena Katdare, PhD, Sicco Schwenzfeger, MD, Helayne Waldman, MS, EdD, NE, George Wong, PhD

althea

What a great list of speakers and topics.  Thanks for posting that.  I read Chrstine Horner's book "Waking the Warrior Goddess' a while back, and it was one of my favorite books on bc that I've read. 

mollyann

Thanks for the book tip, Althea.

I've heard the title before but your endorsement means a lot. I will get it!

Do we know anyone who can report back from the conference? I would go if I wasn't committed that weekend. By committed, I mean to attending an event, not to an institution

hlth4513

Mollyann-

If I am able to work it out to go - I will be happy to report back.

Beth

gpawelski

Ralph W. Moss' new book "Customized Cancer Treatment" talks functional profile. He makes a very good case for drug sensitivity tests to see which drugs will work best. He does a tremendous job turning over every single stone why The Test (as he calls it in the book) has struggled to gain acceptance in the billion dollar cancer medicine industry, and putting together in one book all of the research I've ever read over the last decade about cell culture assays.

I was intrigued by Moss' association of cell culture assays and CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) in the final conclusions of the book. He feels that there are many treatments of natural origin that have been proposed as candidates for cancer therapy. Some of these may have great value. He reminds us that about one-quarter of all chemotherapeutic agents had a natural origin.

Moss feels that cell culture assays, when applied to CAM, would provide a similar service as it does to chemotherapy and could become the ultimate guide to choosing treatments that are likely to work and avoiding those that do not, at least in terms of causing programmed cell death (apoptosis).

He points out that at the present time, none of the American chemosensitivity laboratories "routinely" screens natural agents, although one of them has communicated to me that on occasion, they have screened such agents if the patient and physician explicitly requests it and provides a sample.

Moss feels that there is no reason that other labs could not and would not do this sort of CAM testing if the cell culture assays were made routine. Not all CAM treatments work by means of stimulating programmed cell death, but those that do could be discovered via the assay.

http://www.amazon.com/Customized-Cancer-Treatment-Powerful-You/dp/1881025012