Frontiers in Cancer Care

Dr Keith Block - The father of Integrative Oncology

Dr Keith Block was mapping out the territory of Integrative Oncology well before the term had been coined, combining mainstream conventional oncology treatments with any other modalities that proved themselves capable of delivering an improved result in terms of quality of life or outcome for his patients. The decades-long journey of discovery that followed has served to continually confirm his original intuition that integration could provide better results, and at this point Dr Block is clearly able to deliver treatment outcomes that are simply not possible within conventional medicine. In this episode we explore the thinking behind Dr Block’s unique journey as well as some of the many deceptively simple treatment decisions that are underpinning the extraordinary results he is achieving.

Dr Gary Onik - The search for better treatment

From the outset, Dr Gary Onik's career has kept him on the front face of the wave of developing cancer treatments, exploring ways to harness and support the power of the innate immune system to do the job it excels at - restoring and maintaining our health and wellbeing. This exploration has now led him to a position where he can approach all types of solid cancers, even at very late stages, with a reasonable hope of a good and permanent outcome.

Mark Taylor - Citizen scientist in search of answers

Mark Taylor heads up an organisation called Patient Led Oncology. After a cancer scare of his own, Mark became increasingly fascinated by the world of Integrative Oncology. He realised that while there were many useful therapies available, a comprehensive scientific overview that would enable patients to make well-judged choices was missing, and that as a result, many people were making mistaken choices that wasted their time and resources, or simply becoming overwhelmed by the range of options. So he set out to find out what is really working and for whom.

James Maskell & Diana Lindsay - The extraordinary power of group medicine

James Maskell is a healthcare activist who advocates powerfully for what he calls ‘Group Medicine’, backing it up with both the science and the experience to demonstrate its extraordinary capacity for tackling chronic diseases of all kinds, as well as a raft of psychological conditions. So effective is the group scenario, that it really doesn’t matter too much what the condition is, and while there’s still a need for a clinician to fulfil certain functions, a group is shown to be capable of addressing most of the important determinants of success, cheaply and effectively. Diana Lindsay is co-founder of Healing Circles Langley and Healing Circles Global. With her husband Kelly, she also co-authored the book "Something More Than Hope: Surviving Despite the Odds, Thriving Because of Them," the story of her recovery from stage IV lung cancer.

Dr Nasha Winters - Changing the face of cancer care

Dr Nasha Winters is blazing a trail that’s bringing change to cancer care across the globe. In this first episode of Frontiers in Cancer Care she shares insights into her 30 plus years’ journey of discovery into cancer and cancer treatment, and how her personal story provided her with the passion to propel her on this incredible journey. The episode ends with an exploration of the potential of an existential challenge such as cancer to completely revolutionise an individual’s relationship to life.