Gawler Foundation Media

Press release for immediate release

SURVIVING CANCER
public lecture & book launch
Featuring Professor Chris O’Brien & Dr Ian Gawler OAM

What do we learn from people who survive cancer against the odds?
Are they just lucky?
Or are they doing something that we need to learn & act on?
Eminent doctors like Oncologist Professor Chris O’Brien from RPA Sydney believe there is a new way of treating cancer that offers fresh hope to each of the 90,000 Australians who will be diagnosed with cancer this year.
The new book ‘Surviving Cancer’ puts a human face to this new approach.
These unique and uplifting stories are not only inspirational, they all come from people who have adopted an integrative approach to their cancer treatment through the life changing programs offered by The Gawler Foundation.
To launch the book, Dr Ian Gawler will combine with Prof. Chris O’Brien to present a public lecture on the integrative approach to treating cancer.
‘Surviving Cancer’ editor Paul Kraus, himself a long term survivor of mesothelioma will speak on the night, along with some of those who have told their story in this wonderful new book.
Prof. Chris O’Brien is an Oncologist and former Director of the Sydney Cancer Centre at the Royal Prince Alfred (RPA). He was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour in November 2006 and as a regular on the Nine Network’s hospital show ‘RPA’, the story of his own diagnosis was shown to millions across Australia.
Dr Ian Gawler is one of Australia’s best known long term cancer survivors. Diagnosed with a very difficult bone cancer, he had his leg amputated in 1975.
He then developed an innovative approach to treating cancer, drawing upon good nutrition, a positive state of mind, meditation and support.
This has become known and widely accepted as the ‘Integrative Approach’, a method which complements and enhances standard medical cancer care.
Dr Gawler is the Founder and Therapeutic Director of The Gawler Foundation, a charitable organisation dedicated to sharing these principles with everyone affected by cancer.
This is a rare opportunity to listen to those who have survived, along with highly regarded experts as they speak of their own experiences in dealing with cancer and the ‘Integrative Approach’.