Episodes

Cancer Schmancer is name that one could easily associate with Fran Drescher; loved by millions for her television role as The Nanny, this humorous, elegant, beautiful, fun loving celebrity has a more serious side to her life and mission. What connects Fran Drescher and Grace Gawler? Both women have experienced great life adversities. Both women are using their lives to help others through the course of early cancer diagnosis. Guest Info – Fran Drescher: Fran Drescher is an American film and te...

Grace Gawler I first worked in the UK in 1993 at what was then the Bristol Cancer Help Centre. I was to return many times over the years ahead giving practitioner trainings and patient workshops. I was delighted to work with and present for the London Breast Cancer Haven and the Helen Rollason Foundation in Essex. I returned to the UK ten years later in 2003 following surgery in the Netherlands that is discussed in this podcast. I presented the Penny Brohn Memorial lecture where I met Prof Kar...

The Journey from Cancer Patient to Famous Colorectal Surgeon – Today my special guest is Dr Francis Seow-Choen from Singapore. As a little boy he became medically famous when diagnosed with Burkitts lymphoma; the first recorded case in Singapore. After diagnosis & an arduous 6 months that included surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatment; he survived! He was just 7 years old. Today, Dr Francis Seow-Choen is Dr Francis Seow-Choen is now an internationally recognised colorectal surgeon, curr...

Swiss Herbal Tonic-Strath Successfully Impacts Wellbeing Cancer Patients during Chemo and Radiation Therapy. There is a lot to know about supplements for cancer patients undergoing conventional treatments. More than 35 years ago I was introduced to Strath Tonic. I began prescribing it for radiotherapy patients. Radiotherapists wrote to me asking why my patients were doing so well. Strath is proven to be the tonic beyond tonics. The formula makes use of the ability of yeast cells to digest ext...

Promising Results From World-First Brain Cancer Trials Professor Rajiv Khanna a leading researcher at The QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia; a world progressive translational research institute focused on cancer, infectious diseases, mental health and a range of complex diseases. Professor Khanna has been researching immunotherapies & has had a major breakthrough in the treatment of the aggressive brain cancer Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM). Professor Khanna develope...

Navigating the Breast Cancer Maze a Patient’s story. Marnie interviewed by Cancer Navigator – Grace Gawler Reference: eBook: Women of Silence The Emotional Healing of Breast Cancer by Grace Gawler – Available in Hard copy or eBook Today Marnie tells her story of breast cancer; her life before her diagnosis, during her experience navigating the breast cancer medical maze and then after her treatment and re-adjustment phase. Marnie is married, 48 years of age and resides on the Gold Coast, Queen...

I’m talking with one of Australia’s most celebrated medical research scientists; Professor Ian Frazer AC, FRS, FAACEO, 2006 Australian of the Year & Director of Research – Translational Research Institute, Brisbane Australia. Prof Frazer has received numerous national and international awards for his work in developing the technology that has enabled vaccines to help prevent cervical cancer. To link a virus to cancer in the 1980’s was contentious, but Ian Frazer persevered, convinced this needed...

Grace Gawler interviews Martin Ashdown – Melb Oct 2014 Could timing of cancer treatments be the missing link in delivery of cancer therapies? Sounds too simple to be true? Two cancer researchers Martin Ashdown & Brendon Coventry are “immunological explorers” who not only unearthed a buried “treasure”; but they have also created a map for other innovative cancer “explorers” to follow. The “treasure” is a cancer drug used for more than 20 years that is now providing oncologists with new informati...

The Ian Gawler Story has influenced the treatment choices of 1000s of cancer patients – but is it true? Hear how modern diagnostics has shed a new light on a high profile myth that became written into cancer cure folklore. I’ll also discuss advances in many different types of cancers with regards to new targeted treatments. This introduction will bring understanding to the different fields of cancer medicine and why the one size fits all approach in both conventional and complementary medicine...

The Grace Gawler Institute’s Survivor-ship launched by Author Sandy Mackinnon… Nov 2015 After hearing Richard Fidler’s interview with Sandy (AJ) Mackinnon on Radio National last year, I just knew that he would be the perfect guest speaker for the Launch of our U-CAN-TRI Survivorship sailing canoe and I was right! He was! Entertaining and a real adventurer sandy portrays a value-add story about Survivorship – surviving through adventure. The more you read about Survivors from many walks of life...

Debby Franke Ogg’s story of unexpected remission from stage 4 nodular lymphoma was the basis for the 1988 feature film a Leap of Faith, also called A Question of Faith starring Anne Archer and Sam Neill. Following a miscarriage, aged 40; Debby was told that she had nodular lymphoma; a poor prognosis & no cure. She chose not have conventional treatments of the day as she was told there was little hope of success. Although she had no hope with her treatment; she encourages patients to accept viabl...

Learn about the amazing breakthrough in chronic pain with one of nature’s oldest remedies Rosehip. Not just any Rosehip – but one prepared with the greatest of scientific care – Rose Hip Vital. Only once before in 40 years of practice have I endorsed a natural product for my patients (STRATH tonic from Switzerland) Justin Diamond member of the founding family at Rose Hip Vital Australia Rosehip Vital meets the same criteria massive benefits and no contraindications or side effects. As a Qualif...

Although I have long been aware of increased likelihood of vascular events for cancer patients, surprisingly, it is rarely discussed. Over the years I have witnessed abnormally high mortality rates from cancer patients travelling overseas for treatments. Many times their fate was not due to their cancer, but DVT, pulmonary embolisms or other vascular events. Events that could have been avoided had they been aware of preventable measures they could take. To explore this issue I wanted to find som...

Dr Bruce Whelan, a Gold Coast specialist GP, has been in Practice for 45 years. His specialties are pain management, addiction & cancer medicine. Dr Whelan says Only the wounded physician can help to heal. Defining the difference between healing and curing is important in understanding the complexities of recovery from illness. Dr Whelan frames this within his own life story when in October 2002 he became personally involved in the aftermath of the Bali bombing that killed 202 people. He describ...

Cancer Fraudsters Weekend Australian Magazine, Walkley Award journalist, Richard Guilliatt – exposes the dangers for cancer patients following non medically trained bloggers & deluded cancer entrepreneurs in the Cancer Cure and Wellness Industry. Richard finds that the business of Wellness via social media, has captured unwary Australians into believing and experimenting with false cancer cures. In 2012 Richard Guilliatt took an interest in the story of the late Jess Ainscough Wellness Warrior...

https://www.blubrry.com/navigatingthecancermaze/ Part 1.After winning the fight, Jeffrey Deslandes authored a book (left) “From Cancer Good Things Grow,” about his remarkable recovery from cancer. Diagnosed with Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Stage IV with bone marrow infiltration in 1999, with treatments, he subsequently relapsed 4 times. After his last relapse in 2006, Jeffrey started looking for emerging therapies. He learned of an experimental treatment involving a personalised vaccine protocol. ...

Part 2. In my first interview with Jeffrey in 2014, we focussed on the recent release of his book, “From Cancer Good Things Grow”, whose title describes quite a different take on the experience of cancer. Diagnosed with non-Hodgkins Lymphoma Stage IV with bone marrow infiltration in 1999; with treatments he subsequently relapsed 4 times. After his last relapse in 2006, although under pressure from friends to take the alternative medicine path; instead, a self-motivated Jeffrey started looking ...

Episode Description In this informative episode I focus on the evolution of conventional oncology in my interview with Pioneer Medical Oncologist and Haematologist Prof. Ray Lowenthal AO. His research focuses on leukaemia, lymphoma, bone marrow transplantation and clinical trials of new cancer treatments. An author of over 100 scientific papers; as a pioneer oncologist, Prof Lowenthal undertook postgraduate training 1968-75 in the UK including nearly 3 years at the Medical Research Council’s Leu...

Dr Barrie Cassileth is founder of the Integrative Medicine Service at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, (MSKCC) where she remains the chief, and holds the Laurance S. Rockefeller Chair in Integrative Medicine. Dr Cassileth has been involved with the psychosocial aspects of cancer care for more than 25 years and also founded the Society for Integrative Oncology, which publishes a medical journal. She has just released a new book, The Complete Guide to Complementary Therapies in Cancer C...

Prostate Cancer is now the most common male cancer in the western world with 120,000 Australian men living with a diagnosis while in the US, it is thought that 238,590 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed in 2013. For each man who has prostate cancer, there will be people close who care about them, and love them who are also deeply affected. Enter Professor Suzanne Chambers, a health psychologist , practitioner and researcher in psychological support for cancer patients for over 20 yea...

Dr Lim Jit Fong has been my surgeon on two occasions. He gave me my life back after surgery failed in Australia in 2009. He successfully operated on me again in 2014. (Grace Gawler) He has a strong interest in minimally invasive colorectal surgery & is adept at laparoscopic (keyhole) colorectal surgery including single incision (single keyhole) colorectal surgery. He is also one of the few surgeons in Singapore accredited to do Robotic Colorectal Surgery. Dr.Lim?s other skill is the management ...

Dr Nevil Chimon researches and develops radio tracers for medical imaging. The science, processes & advances of imaging techniques, & the radio-pharmaceuticals that magically make our inner parts visible to doctors for more accurate diagnosis; is the topic for today’s Navigating the Cancer Maze. Dr Nevil Chimon shares his passion and invaluable information for cancer patients about the different types of cancer & the best medical imaging to assist diagnosis. This is information that you need to ...

My guest is Prof Dr. Jerome Galon, Research Director at INSERM (National Institute of Health and Medical Research) & leader of the INSERM Integrative Cancer Immunology laboratory, at the Cordeliers Research Centre. His current interests & major contributions concern basic & translational research in cancer immunology, using systems biology. His laboratory has made some ground-breaking findings demonstrating that the adaptive immune response within a tumor was a better predictor of survival than ...

Dr Julie Crews is an Ethicist who lives in Perth, Western Australia. We often hear about Medical Ethics, but the topic we are discussing today is the role of Cancer Patient Ethics; a topic critical to cancer patient’s survival yet little discussed in cancer circles. As an ethicist, integrity and honest values are really important to Dr Julie. She writes, ‘When people are diagnosed with a life threatening illness they are extremely vulnerable. Its unfortunate but there are many people claiming qu...