Dr. Nick Gonzalez – Dateline Response to KNOCKOUT Alternative Cancer Treatment

http://www.suzannesomers.com/Blog/post/Dr-Nick-Gonzalez-e28093-Dateline-Response-to-KNOCKOUT-Alternative-Cancer-Treatment.aspx

Here are some quotes from the link -

" Ms. Schmitz asked for case summaries and records of ten patients with appropriately diagnosed advanced cancer who did well under my care, with proof of response.  I wrote up 15 case studies including several diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and gave her the requested records, though not one word of this effort, or these patients, made its way into the show." 

"Though Ms. Schmitz spoke with at least seven patients at length, including a patient with stage IV colon cancer now with me eight years, and a woman with stage IV breast cancer, now with me five years, the show featured only two in any detail, a new patient just beginning the program, and Sarah Ann Cooper, the woman with pancreatic cancer.  Though two others did appear on camera, they seemed to provide only background, as there was no discussion of their medical history. 

I thought that even Ms. Cooper’s segment had been edited so precisely to make her story less memorable.  For example, I believe it would have been useful to mention that the pathology department at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota confirmed her diagnosis of the most aggressive form of pancreatic cancer.  Ms. Cooper underwent no standard therapy, not even surgery, only our treatment.  She is now ten years out from diagnosis (not nine as the show states), and is in excellent health. I also would have thought the show would have at least mentioned how extraordinary such survival is for a disease that usually kills within six months. But the producers and writers left that up to the audience to figure out. 

Dr. Snyderman refers to Ms. Cooper “whose stage IV cancer he says (referring to me) has shrunk and stabilized” as if this were my opinion only.  First of all, though Ms. Cooper’s long-term survival for such a deadly disease is itself proof of treatment effect, in fact multiple conventional CT scans over the years have shown a gradual shrinkage of her pancreatic tumor, and more recently, stabilization.  It’s the radiologist reading the scans who says this, not I, and NBC had all these records.  While Dateline allocates considerable space to the “hair test,” there were no experts discussing the extraordinary nature of Ms. Cooper’s ten-year survival from her diagnosis of aggressive pancreatic adenocarcinom" (Emphasis Added))