Are We Ready to Rethink Cancer Care?

  • Are We Ready to Rethink Cancer Care?

    Posted by IMA-HelenT on November 4, 2025 at 11:59 am EST

    Did you watch this week’s webinar?

    IMA Senior Fellow Dr. Ryan Cole hosted independent filmmaker Justin Smith and IMA Co-Founder Dr. Paul Marik to discuss the ideas behind Smith’s new documentary Beyond Breakthrough.

    Smith’s journey began with questions: Why are cancer rates rising, especially in younger people? Why is there so little awareness of therapies outside the pharmaceutical system? Why are patients left with so few empowering tools after diagnosis?

    Smith uncovered forgotten science that exposes just how limited today’s cancer model really is. His film is required viewing for anyone interested in cancer, history, health.

    🗓️ The film will be available for free global screening for 24 hours on November 20 I have a link in the comments.

    Watch the webinar here: https://imahealth.org/beyond-breakthrough/

    Quick Question

    If you’ve tried (or are curious about) metabolic or repurposed-drug approaches, what’s the biggest obstacle, info, access, or doctor buy-in?

    IMA-HelenT replied 4 days, 4 hours ago 5 Members · 9 Replies
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  • Cindi Anderson

    Member
    November 4, 2025 at 4:17 pm EST

    I’m 3.5 years ago from getting TNBC from the vax.
    I spent a fortune (about $150k) for treatments insurance wouldn’t cover. Probably way overkill but it was impossible to know how much was enough. But I am lucky; how many people can afford that?
    I also am lucky that I have a concierge doctor who called around and connected me with a surgeon and oncologist who were open minded. When I presented the information I thought I had learned from the research, they agreed, and agreed that even though chemo is standard of care it made sense for me not to do it. Most of the people I met in the same situation were told they had to follow SOC or they would die, which was totally not supported by the research. And were told they would be fired as patients if they didn’t follow SOC. It is despicable.

    • Jeff Gerber

      Member
      November 5, 2025 at 9:53 am EST

      🙏 I love hearing success stories of people like yourself! ❤

    • IMA-HelenT

      Organizer
      November 5, 2025 at 10:07 am EST

      So sad that people are coerced at a time when they need open and honest conversations.

  • Ken Jackson

    Member
    November 5, 2025 at 9:38 am EST

    In response to your “quick question”, if I’m ever cursed with cancer, I will eagerly turn to fasting, “metabolic” and “repurposed-drug” approaches first. I would only seek the cancer industry’s help as a last resort. My fear is that all doctors in Maryland, and even my friends, will view such approaches with contempt.

    • IMA-HelenT

      Organizer
      November 5, 2025 at 10:00 am EST

      I have heard lots of people that chose this option say that they kept this decision from people that they knew would not support them. I know myself and my husband would be supportive of each other, and we have a few friends that would be very happy to help. Great to have all these free resources at our disposal.

    • Cindi Anderson

      Member
      November 5, 2025 at 2:00 pm EST

      Unfortunately your fears are correct. I lost many close friends because of my treatment choices. Many people that don’t want to do standard treatment get emotionally blackmailed by their spouses or other family. “You’re just giving up and leaving us.” “You have to fight with everything you have.” As if there aren’t other ways besides killing yourself with poisons designed to bring to close to the brink. It’s a lonely journey, but at least there are many online groups now with like-minded people. I was lucky that my husband also felt strongly that chemo would kill me. But he also knew the decision of what to do was completely mine and mine alone.

  • Cindi Anderson

    Member
    November 5, 2025 at 2:05 pm EST

    Here’s more:

    We really have to stop lying about the risk and benefit of treatments. Stop using relative risk over absolute risk. Even the doctors don’t understand the studies. So many people are told “Treatment X improves your chances by 50%”, and they think that’s a lot. They don’t understand the absolute risk is often minuscule, and that even at that, to arrive at an average value in a study, some people get better but others get worse.

    As an example, there are risk calculators put out by the major cancer centers for my cancer options (like Mayo). Despite being told by several oncologists that I would die without chemo and could be cured with it, the actual calculators based on my tumor characteristics showed the odds of living 10 years going from say 80% to 85%. I pointed hundreds of people to this calculator and most said they were doing it anyway because their doctor said it was a huge benefit and their only chance.

    You hear so often “I have to do everything I can” without any understanding that those things you are doing can make you worse or kill you. It’s more a belief that all I have to do is put up with the suffering, then I will increase my chance of survival. Which is totally not true with pharmaceuticals. It IS true with things that actually support your body and immune system, but that isn’t even part of the equation for most people with cancer. Mainstream medical is still in the mindset of eating ice cream to maintain your weight, because diet doesn’t matter.

    If cancer societies weren’t controlled by pharmaceuticals, they should be sorting through the studies and options and helping people understand risk/reward.

    Lastly, it is very difficult to find naturopathic oncologists. This is very unfortunate. Insurance doesn’t cover them and many are not very good anyway. We need to train huge numbers of them, or train the actual oncologists. In lieu of having good help, there are huge numbers of people who are self-managing based on information they find online. This is not great either.

    • IMA-GregT

      Member
      November 6, 2025 at 11:02 am EST

      @qofmiwok The RRR vs ARR abuse drove me absolutely nuts during the so-called pandemic time. 95% this, 98% that, never ever the ARR. Clever people, very qualified people, spouted and repeated the rubbish. And they would never have accepted anything but the ARR before. So many got sucked in, I’m actually getting tearful as I write this. Very unmanly, but it’s more rage than anything. The brainwashing and lack of ability to think for themselves. And the thing is the ARR came out so early, it was available to anyone and everyone, but it wasn’t what the new science marketed.

      Coincidentally, posted on this exact subject on X today, (and I never post, just repost) – about the stress placed on RRR over the actual real value of ARR. So much of the madness, fearmongering, hurt and pain was caused by this intentional substitution.

  • IMA-HelenT

    Organizer
    November 7, 2025 at 8:32 am EST

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