Her book, Radical Remission, The Nine Key Factors That Can Make a Real Difference, is a summary of the findings from her PhD work (and beyond). It outlines the nine key factors that all of the radical remission patients had in common. She defines “radical remission” as any cancer remission that is statistically unexpected. This can occur when; 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. Her writing offers a wonderfully clear, succinct combination of the results of her data analysis with useful cancer research - and lovely, touching, individual stories of miraculous cancer recovery told with loving care and wonder. So we sit -together with both the science and the magic that is our life on this earth. 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. People will say, “I wasn’t able to do anything for those two days. I couldn’t think straight.” Well, of course not, because your frontal cortex was shut down.

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Given such unknowns we cannot read Turner’s work as a program to fight cancer. The safe conclusion is that each patient should use what is available. This includes proven allopathic treatments as well as potentially helpful non-traditional treatments. This is the case with most of Turner’s respondents also, many of whom had tried modern medical treatments previously, or concurrently, along with the nine hypotheses. As Turner reminds us, she is not arguing against western medical treatment. 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]. Not all the stories were as off-beat as the one involving John of God, but many of them had alternative medicine elements. Ultimately, I felt conflicted by the personal stories included in each chapter. On the one hand, they were very inspiring and would certainly give hope to a cancer patient with a poor prognosis; on the other hand, all the alternative medicine therapies were beyond belief, if you ask me. Kelly Turner: Yes. I can answer the question from the standpoint of my research, which is I can tell you how radical remission survivors handle this challenge. I’m happy to do it that way. Radical remission survivors that I’ve studied, some of them were blessed with really understanding friends and family who supported them every, single step of the way. Others were not. I would say more than 50% were not, so more than 50% of the people I studied had to deal with this resistance that you’re talking about. So, it’s a real thing.There is much to appreciate and admire about Radical Remission, but some of its most remarkable elements are the stories of people who have been cured from Stage 4 cancers. There is no need to list the studies on social support, having a spiritual connection, or having a strong reason for living. Again, few would argue that these areas are unimportant. But they are not sufficient explanations for cancer, nor can they be seen as validated treatments. How can we make sense of these explanations?

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Marianne Cirone: Really? You do hear anecdotes about business people, like Conrad Hilton, who had this intuition about building a hotel or whatever. Kelly Turner: That’s where it feels like I was the right person for the job, because I didn’t have a medical degree and medical training, but I was a counselor who was used to asking questions and listening. I asked them, “Tell me everything you think might have contributed to your healing.”

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. 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. Did she rule out that the remission was due to the conventional treatment as opposed to one of the nine key factors? Supplements are another area in which there is some experimental support for certain findings relating to cancer. Turner admits there is no definitive proof organic food is better for health.* Some studies do show that ECGC (Epigallocatechin gallate) in green tea kills cancer cells.* Mushroom supplements like turkey tail may increase the amount of natural killer cells in the blood.* There is some support for high doses of C,* turmeric,* and daily probiotics.* Multivitamin intake may reduce cancer risk slightly.* Marianne Cirone: I’m working with someone who is writing a memoir. I’m helping her edit it, and she had a terminal lymphoma diagnosis and then a breast cancer diagnosis, and she’s totally fine now, 15 years later.

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Which is to say, “How can we get stage four cancer patients on chemo to make it through to chemo? Oh, let’s have them do these nine things in addition [to the chemo].” So, really any survivor story at this point is helpful.Marianne Cirone: How did your research start to recognize what has been happening for a long time, but has been under the radar of evidence-based medicine? But shouldn’t we consider making these kinds of changes anyway? Why wait until we get cancer? Why not be proactive now?