Mesothelioma Survivor Speaks With Other Cancer Patients

Cancer Monthly · New User Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 1

In March of this year, CancerWire interviewed Paul Kraus, who is probably the world?s longest living survivor of malignant mesothelioma (8 years). He is still doing well and has now made himself available to speak to cancer patients. A free teleconference is being held on December 8 for mesothelioma and lung cancer patients. The teleconference is being organized by Cancer Monthly www.cancermonthly.com

To register go to: http://www.survivingmesothelioma.com/index.cfm

More Information about Paul Kraus is below. His original interview is available at: http://www.cancermonthly.com/cancerwire.asp

In June 1997, Paul Kraus was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a deadly cancer that has an average survival of less than 12 months. In his case, the prognosis was not even that optimistic. He was told that he had only ?a few months to live? and was offered palliative treatments of surgery and chemotherapy. Palliative means that the treatment would not cure him but might help reduce his symptoms. After the extensive side effects were explained, Mr. Kraus decided to reject these therapies.

Instead, he immersed himself in learning about alternative treatment approaches to cancer. This is a hot subject in which many orthodox oncologists believe there is little value. Nonetheless with over $40 billion spent on orthodox cancer therapies by the National Cancer Institute in the last ten years and no real progress made in extending the survival of patients with metastatic solid cancers like mesothelioma, it is a subject that has seen increased interest by patients and politicians. According to a recent survey in the Journal of Clinical Oncology three-quarters of cancers patients use some type of complimentary or alternative treatment. And the federal government has spent over $300 million researching complimentary and alternative therapies through its CAM programs in the last five years.

For Paul Kraus his own personal research paid off. He took an alternative approach to healing his cancer. Now, more than eight years later, he is alive with a good quality of life having rejected repeated offers of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.

As news of his achievement spread through an ever widening network of ?terminal? cancer patients, he decided to share his approach with others by putting it down on paper. The book, Surviving Mesothelioma and Other Cancers: A Patient?s Guide details the author?s approach to healing cancer. In the book?s Introduction, he wrote, ?My survival has been hard work. The underlying assumption with all that I have done, and continue to do, is a strong belief that our bodies are designed with amazing self-healing capacities.?

Mr. Kraus? book has impressed some orthodox trained physicians. Bernie Siegel, M.D (medical doctorate from Cornell Medical College and surgical training at Yale University) reviewed the book and commented, ?Paul Kraus? book has all the information a cancer patient needs to have in order to learn what survival behavior is about. He has lived the experience, is a native in cancer land and can guide you through the territory.?

Stancer · Regular Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 10

Thank you for the informative post.
I'm really new here, so I have to check all the ressources I can find.
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lestard · Regular Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 11

Very, very informative.

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Great info.

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wefightcancer · New User Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 3 Location: Iowa, USA

Great resources and information. I'm also new here but have read a lot lately on the many types of cancer since my sister's diagnosis with Non-Hodgkins. This is some of the best reading I've done here and I'll definitely be passing it on.

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dr_jack · New User Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 1

Hope this info would definitely improver the self-confidence among the mesothelioma victims. My suggestion is just make this thread as Sticky in foruum on mesothelioma.

One of my friend died due to mesothelioma mainly due to loss of confidence. This article might have helped him a lot, if I get this at least an year ago...

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