Re: Cancer and Dr William Kelley
Dr. Kelly died at about age 73 in 2005, not from cancer. His story of
his cure for his own pancreatic cancer is dramatic.
The problems with his methodology are that it is difficult to follow.
Yet when one's life is at stake, it's better than the alternative.
A small study of 22 patients (of which 17 had died) is reviewed here: http://www.road-to-health.com/am/publish/article_121.shtml
Group III
Patients who
followed the Metabolic program completely
Median survival
time 9.0 years
Mean survival time
8.2 years
Conclusions
As described, one
extremely ill patient died the day after consulting Dr. Kelley. Otherwise, based
on the evaluation of the medical records, the patients in one group were not
significantly sicker than those in any other group when first seen by Dr.
Kelley.
Dr. Kelley has
repeatedly told all cancer patients they should follow the full program for at
least several years to regain good health. Nevertheless, the mean survival time
for those who followed the Metabolic program only partially, and usually
briefly, is 4.8 times greater than the survival time of patients who never began
the Metabolic Program.
Finally, the data
allows an estimation of Dr. Kelley’s success rate with pancreatic cancer. In
this calculation, only those patients who followed the full Metabolic program
are considered. This is appropriate: in any controlled clinical trial of a
chemotherapeutic drug, subjects who deviate from the protocol must be
discounted, even if they do well.
So, Dr, Kelley’s success rate, in this particular series of
patients - considering only those who used the full program - is 100%.
If that were a study of allopathic medicine, many alternative practitioners
would say that he was a failure because of both the number of deaths and the
median survival time. However, you have to stick with the program!