Class: Suzanne Somers, whom I’ve met once, is being interviewed tonight about her new book “Knockout” on CNN’s Larry King at 9:00pm EST. Along with her are two doctors I know, one of which is a long time client Nicholas Gonzalez MD, an expert on pancreatic cancer. Suzanne’s new book, being released tomorrow, is about new, more realistic treatments for cancer and Nick is the featured doctor. Suzanne interviewed nine of his patients, who, had they been treated with conventional cancer treatments, would have been dead years ago. The show was taped last Tuesday. I was preparing Nick for the interview for over a week. There were two doctors brought on the show to act as counterpoint. Originally, the two counterpoint doctors were the oncologists that treated Patrick Swayze and Farrah Fawcett – but they both backed out when they found out what the interview was actually about. Had they brought Fisher, Swayze’s doctor, Nick would have been asked point blank by Larry King “Dr. Gonzalez, if Patrick Swayze had come to you with his pancreatic cancer problem, instead of Dr. Fisher, would he be alive today?” Nick’s answer would have been “Yes Larry, he would be, and he’d be around for years to come.” This is a monumental victory – reaching all the way into the conventional media. Just so you know – I have access to the real data about cancer and the war on cancer. In short, official studies show that the most standard of treatments, chemotherapy, has ONLY a 2.1% five-year survival rate. That’s right, 97.9% of the people with cancer who go the chemo route, are dead before five years. And, the cost of the treatments usually breaks the families financially. We, the people have been fighting the “War on Cancer” since 1972 and cancer now gets a bigger percentage of the population than it did then. That fact says it all about the quality of, and who controls, the US health care system. Tim Bolen
