Stop Feeding Your Cancer

Dr. John Kelly was downright skeptical when he was challenged to review Dr. Campbell’s work.  As a general practitioner he had seen his fair share of cancer through the years.

After reading through the comprehensive results of The China Study and Dr. Campbell’s subsequent follow-up, he found himself unable to ignore the importance of the science and the urgency of the message…

“Cancer has visited my own family and, like so many others, I have personally dealt with the stress it brings to lives, and with the frequently helpless confusion.  Patients’ first reactions on hearing their diagnoses are consistent.  Alarm and distress are compounded by ignorance.  The headlines about cancer are well known and circulated in the popular press; it is virulent, it is indiscriminately fatal and treatments are complex and often brutal.”

Dr. Kelly chose to devise his own straw poll study in his clinical practice.  Compelled by the scientific findings in Campbells China Study, he put forth the question… “What would be the fate of my cancer patients if they followed Campbell’s study and rigorously adopted the animal-protein-free-diet he advocated?”

He stresses that as a medical practitioner he was committed to the well-being of all his patients and was not discouraging them from continuing conventional cancer treatments.  His field test involved adding in the whole food plant-based diet alongside whatever treatments the patient was already indergoing.

The trial that Dr. Kelly proposed was not a conventional, full-scale clinical trial.  "As with any doctor on the frontline of health care, I had seen too much suffering and too many lives cut short by cancer to be blasé about the disease.  My reasoning was that any study that proposed widespread remedial value demanded the most rigorous and transparent field-testing.”

So Dr. Kelly proceeded with his own study, with his patients’ help.  He made a pact with himself to avoid psychological prompting and to resist coaching individuals' response to recovery.  His job, as he saw it, was merely to introduce the facts, urge the diet and to observe and record.  The field-test spanned eight years.

What transpired was nothing short of remarkable…

One of the case studies in Dr. Kelly's book, Stop Feeding Your Cancer, was about a patient named Ronan.

Ronan was in his mid-sixties when he developed colon cancer.  He had a portion of the cancerous colon removed and made a rapid recovery.  His surgeon felt that he was doing well, but suggested a follow-up with his general practitioner, Dr. Kelly.

Dr. Kelly followed Ronan's progress and was the one who called for scans 7 months later when Ronan came to him with jaundice.  The scans showed multiple secondary lesions or cancer deposits on his liver.  

Ronan's cancer had come back and had metastisized.

Dr Kelly brought up the subject of The China Study and talked with Ronan about the possible association between animal protein and cancer growth.  Ronan agreed to read the book, but did not see the significance in it and went back to the surgeon who removed the section of liver where the cancer was located.

Ronan did agree to cut down a little on cheese, in a nod to the strict plant-based, no dairy diet that was recommended, and Dr. Kelly, true to his word, did not prompt or coach Ronan to comply.

Several months later scans discovered new cancer deposits in the soft tissue of the pelvis.  The cancer had come back.  

This time Ronan was treated with radiation, more surgery and finally another course of chemotherapy.

At some point in the grueling treatment, Ronan hit a turning point.  He came to Dr. Kelly and with the conviction of a man with one last chance, Ronan decided to surrender to the animal-protein-free diet.  

According to Dr. Kelly, "Almost immediately after adopting the diet, Ronan began to feel considerably better, and after three weeks he became quite enthusiastic about his new regime."  

At the time of writing his book, Dr. Keely shared that Ronan was more than 18 months out of treatment and appeared fit, well and optimistic, maintaining a full and active life on the diet.

I will be sharing more of Dr. Kelly's case studies in the next weeks, but  after a decade of work with hundreds of cancer patients in his clinic, Dr. Kelly has become convinced beyond any reasonable doubt of the link between consumption of animal protein and cancer growth.

The question still ponders, was it the simultaneous course of chemo and radiation or the whole-food-plant-based diet that gave Ronan a second chance?

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