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Robin Daly
 “Yes
to Life is committed to changing the way cancer
is treated in the UK. Orthodox methods are based on
an outdated model of cancer and the time has long passed
for a serious assessment of the progress made by many
pioneering doctors who have single-mindedly pursued
an unorthodox approach, against the odds. The results
from treatment with chemotherapy and radiation alone,
in all but a very few types of cancer, are pitiful,
especially when set against the multi-billion pound
research budget assigned to the task. We cannot afford
to allow the direction of cancer treatment to continue
to be charted by the interests of profit-making pharmaceuticals
- we have to place the highest priority on finding what
works best, not on what has the most potential for profit.
“Hence, we are very supportive of the work of Self-Help
Cancer which offers an excellent service in providing
reliable information to patients and carers, and which
is also doing much good work in the background, eroding
prejudices towards unorthodox therapies within the NHS.
“As founder and director of the charity Yes to Life,
I have been working extensively with John Davidson and
Self-Help Cancer, as our organisations share much common
ground and our aims are in the same direction, though
often in parallel. Both John and I share personal experience
in the field of cancer, John through his own cancer,
and I through my daughter's. This has led us to feel
compelled to act, as there is such a desperate need
in Britain to increase awareness of the huge range of
possibilities for cancer treatment outside of orthodox
channels, and to encourage cancer sufferers to develop
an autonomous and informed relationship to cancer treatment.”
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