Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds

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Again, Dr. Kelly Turner explores the real-life application of the Radical Remission principles and the people who have chosen to take this journey. Even when they hesitated and let their frontal cortex make the decision, their body still knew. As soon as they moved their mouse over the correct curtain, the sweat glands knew. Not only that, their bodies knew the right answer two to three seconds before the computer even randomly generated which curtain it was going to put it behind! It’s craziness that your body basically knows the future. The problem with anecdotal theories is that there is no way of telling if a specific action, change in lifestyle, or treatment was the sole cause of remission or improvement, or if the improvement may have been due to other variables. Certainly no one would argue that the nine primary explanations given by Turner’s respondents are not positive lifestyle changes. (I speak as a vegetarian who practices yoga, meditation, and spirituality.) But these explanations do not add up to healing cures. This is due to the nature of respondent explanations. When seeking reasons for why something happens people will reach for the explanations they have at hand. Usually these explanations come from their cultures. Occasionally the person may have done some study or research to come up with an explanation. Very rare is the case of a specialist in the field who is familiar with the current research and discourse. But in general we take the explanations with which we are familiar. If everyone in my society believes the earth is flat I will probably echo that view too. We can call these explanations folk theories. 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.

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It became the focus of her PhD thesis at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Turner's research involved a year-long trip to 10 countries to interview 50 holistic healers and scores of cancer survivors about healing techniques. Since that time, she has analyzed more than 1000 cases of spontaneous remission and written a book: Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds. Dr. Turner prefers the term "radical remission" because typically there is nothing spontaneous about these unusual cures. Most patients were actively doing something to facilitate healing.If you read only one book on healing this year, Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds would be a great choice. In this New York Times bestselling book, author Kelly Turner, PhD, summarizes her interviews with one hundred cancer survivors and analysis of over one thousand cases of people who experienced a “radical remission” from “incurable” illnesses.

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Kelly Turner, Ph.D., is a researcher, author, and lecturer in the field of integrative oncology and the founder of the Radical Remission Project. Her specialized research focus is the Radical Remission of cancer, which is a remission that occurs either in the absence of Western medicine, or after Western medicine has failed to achieve remission. If you chose not to be around people carrying bad energy and purposefully surround yourself with the highest vibration frequencies possible.Dr. Turner, a researcher and psychotherapist who specializes in integrative oncology, studied spontaneous healing, which she calls “radical remission” — when cancer goes away despite medical expectations, such as in cases of advanced or aggressive cancers. She found that 75 healing factors appeared in these cases, but nine were common among all of the cases she studied. She calls them, “The Nine Key Factors That Can Make a Real Difference.” This book was mentioned by a friend who was diagnosed with glioblastoma brain cancer. Facing a bleak prognosis, she refused to resign herself to fate and has committed herself to defying the odds. This is not the type of book I usually read, however, when faced with the possibility of imminent death, I can understand the desire to grasp at all possible sources of hope, and I was intrigued. 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]. If your interests lie in learning more about medical intuitive's with clairvoyant abilities who can read your energy fields and guide your healing journey.

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Ten years ago, that was a question that Kelly Turner wanted an answer to, and she set out to answer it. By now, you have likely heard about the results of her research and the phenomena known as Radical Remission that is sweeping the country and world. Kelly Turner: I’m just relaying a phenomenon. I’m not necessarily advocating it. I have to say that because I want this research to continue and I think the minute I start to tell people prematurely, “Do these things. These things work.” That’s when I lose my credibility as a researcher. You will never be in remission, you are a chronic patient, you will never be cured — that's what the doctors keep telling me," she said. "But every scan done after November 2008 has been negative." When I was researching my book Mind Over Medicine, I stumbled across the Spontaneous Remission Project put together by the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which collected over 3500 case studies published in the medical literature about people who experienced spontaneous remissions from seemingly “incurable diseases.” Most of the case studies revolved around people with Stage 4 cancers who either declined conventional treatment or were given treatment deemed by doctors to be inadequate for cure. But the Spontaneous Remission Project also includes case studies of people who had remissions from heart failure, autoimmune diseases, high a gunshot wound to the head, and HIV. These individuals, sometimes called exceptional patients, have begun to attract the attention of researchers who are interested in what, if anything, they are doing to heal themselves of incurable diseases or to improve their chances of being cured.Kelly Turner: Exactly. My husband is a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, and so I hear about chi from him. Then I’ve got the prana from my yoga training, and then we hear about the electromagnetic biofield from Western medicine and I’m like, “Oh, we’re all actually talking about the same thing.” When you literally can’t explain anything at all and don’t even have any guesses about it, the only approach that really makes sense is the anthropological approach, which is to just gain their trust and ask them what they think is going on. Kelly Turner: This particular woman that I’m referencing, when we started talking about that voice that said, “You’ve got to leave your job. Your job is killing you,” she said to me, “I wish would have listened to it from the beginning, because it was right. It was right that what I needed to do to turn my immune system around was leave that job. That was one of the things I needed to do, and in fact, it was the first thing I needed to do,” and so she did it. She listened eventually. It just took her two years. Radical Remission offers practical tips for how to make such changes, whether you’re dealing with cancer or trying to prevent it. Let me say again that nobody is suggesting that cancer patients shouldn’t get conventional medical treatment. But let’s not stop there. Let’s do everything we can to optimize the chance for cure by combining conventional treatment with the kinds of mind-body approaches I share in Mind Over Medicine and Dr. Turner shares in Radical Remission. With this kind of Whole Health approach, we can rest easy, knowing that we’ve done everything possible to optimize health outcomes.

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Another problem with Turner’s data is its limited size. Although she conducted over a hundred interviews, she is dealing with only a small number of respondents (she doesn’t state the exact number) who have experienced radical remission. In contrast, the number of cancer sufferers is vast—the National Cancer Institute states that 1.8 million new diagnoses were made in the US, and 600,000 died from cancer in a single year, 2020, a rate equal to 442.4 people per 100,000. In addition in 2020 there were 16.9 million cumulative cancer survivors living in the US. And worldwide there will be 29.5 million new cancer cases per year by 2040. On a societal level cancer’s scale is impossible to ignore yet its scale makes it difficult to comprehend. In this light a few hundred or even a thousand radical remission exceptions are not very meaningful.Kelly Turner defines radical remission as any cancer remission that is statistically unexpected (p. 6). While such cases are rare, they nevertheless deserve to be studied more. In particular Turner contends we should research the explanations given by patients who have experienced radical remission. Her PhD research, and her 2014 book, do just that. She studied more than a thousand written cases and performed over a hundred interviews. Turner takes pains to clarify she is not against conventional treatment for cancer. And she admits the reason for remission are not yet understood. They had not been previously tabulated or published. In this work she offers the nine most prominent explanations given by her respondents. She calls these nine factors hypotheses that offer clues. At a time when psycho-oncology has come to the forefront of conventional oncology care, and when evidence-based integrative therapies are appearing in leading medical journals, Dr. Turner’s work could not come at a more opportune time. Dr. Turner’s unique and exemplary skill set: being a psychotherapist who then trained in social science research, and is a yoga teacher, has made her an ideal candidate for formulating, conducting and presenting this very timely research for the scientific community, as well as for creating an easily digestible format for the general public. Kelly Turner: That’s what we’re working on. We’re working on looking for investors. We have certain cast in mind, Hollywood “A” list cast, but you can’t really go to them until you have the money raised. We’re getting all of our pitch stuff ready and our budgets ready to go out to investors. In her PhD, she interviewed healers and survivors about their experiences with radical remission: cancer recoveries that beat the odds through natural methods, whether combined with conventional medical treatment or not. By the time she wrote the book she was drawing on over a thousand case studies.