The Topic of Cancer When the Killing has to Stop

Everyone is conditioned to fear cancer, to regard its result as certainly fatal, and usually associated with great misery. Modern treatment is thought of as depending entirely on surgery, radiation, anti-neoplastic drugs and on nothing else. In The Topic of Cancer Dr Dick Richards criticizes these orthodox methods of treating cancer as being largely ineffective and causing an unnecessary degree of human suffering. He examines current attitudes towards the cancer cell itself, and the factors that give rise to the condition in the first place. More importantly, the book aims to inform doctors, patients and patients-to-be that an alternative method of treating cancer does exist-painless, natural, thorough and equally successful. This controversial approach, both to the treatment and management of cancer, has been labelled 'The Gentle Method', and Dr Richards explains how, and above all why, its immediate adoption is essential. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dr Dick Richards was born in Gwent in the south-east corner of Wales, and studied in the Welsh National School of Medicine. In 1954 he secured his qualifying degrees in Surgery and in Medicine before completing his internship also in Wales. He served as a Major in the R.A.M.C., holding his commission as a regular officer for five years. After that he returned to practice in the British National Health Service for the next fifteen years. During most of that time his particular interest was in the newly emerging study of Sexual Medicine. He became well known in the field and was appointed to the Consulting Panel of the British Journal of Sexual Medicine, a position he still holds. While writing and lecturing he began to meet other physicians who, like himself unsatisfied with orthodox medical progress, were looking again at ti}e possibilities of incorporating unorthodox disciplines. He became editor of the publication Alternative Medicine. His own interest focused on the application of both spheres of medicine to the so far unsatisfactory treatment of cancer. He has contributed to hundreds of publications and has appeared widely on lecture tours, radio and television in a number of countries. This book he regards as the culmination, so far, of both his medical and literary abilities. Dr Richards, who is now 50, has been married for twenty-six years. He lives in Sandwich, Kent, with his wife and two children.