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Chris Etheridge & Patricia Peat
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Dr Christopher Etheridge trained at Imperial College
London, and later at the Department of Biochemistry
and Molecular Genetics at St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington.
He has now left orthodox medicine to follow a career
in herbal medicine, and has just completed his master's
degree in phytotherapy.
Patricia Peat spent many years at the sharp end
of oncology, as a nurse. After observing the benefits
of the complementary approaches used by her patients,
and the difficulties they had in obtaining reliable
information, she formed Cancer
Options, later joined by Chris. Together, they
have spent years researching the CAM options available
to people with cancer, both in the UK and around the
world. They now advise people on putting together
integrative programmes, ensuring that they are both
appropriate and safe.
“From our own experience, we fully appreciate the
opportunities for immune support and healing offered
to people who open themselves up to the wider holistic
elements of CAM therapies. It is vitally important
that people receive reliable advice, and are directed
to professional practitioners, avoiding unscrupulous
ones. The stance of the medical profession - telling
people to avoid CAM therapies because they do not
understand them - is no longer acceptable. Anyone
dealing with cancer has the right to access as wide
a range of treatments as possible to give them the
greatest chance of beating it.
“We are constantly inspired by the many clients
we see beating the odds, and surviving long term with
good quality of life, long after their oncologists
have predicted.
“John Davidson's Self-Help Cancer is a very welcome
source of information, which will play a valuable
part in the growing movement of integrative cancer
therapy. People are demanding change, and this will
come about through the work of individuals like John,
who can see the sense in not relying on the mechanistic
approach of orthodox medicine, which so often has
not lived up to expectations.”
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