"Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken..."—Keats
Hardly a week goes by that I am not approached by advocates of some new
cancer treatment. There are 102 methods in my book Cancer Therapy, and future
editions will hold more. One can go batty sorting out the claims.
This spring I decided I needed to go deeper into a few such methods.
Just then, a long-time friend suffered a relapse of her breast cancer. IAT
therapy, which for years had held her cancer at bay, was no longer working.
But when she added 714X, her breast tumor vanished. That made me sit up
and take notice.
In August I drove north to interview Mr. Gaston Naessens, the product's
developer. I have been back twice since then. The result is the first-ever
double issue of the Chronicles.
I always try to be a dispassionate observer of all proposed cancer treatments.
But I want to share with you my feelings about this story. I understand
the sentiments expressed by Dietmar Schildwaechter, MD, who described his
first encounter with Naessens. After a long career, by 1990 Schildwaechter
was weary of the medical wars and was on the verge of retiring.
"Meeting Naessens changed my life," he told me with great conviction
"and gave me a new interest in medicine."
I hope 714X and all of Naessens's ideas will soon be tested. If he is
wrong, then at least he is spectacularly wrong, and in fact his errors may
prove more fruitful than some other people's small truths. But if he is
right (and I believe he is), then he is a really great genius, and like
his countryman, Pasteur, one of the towering figures in the history of medicine.
I keep thinking about the placards demonstrators carried at his 1989 trial.
"Naessens," the demonstrators proclaimed, "C'est l'avenir."
Naessens is the future.
