The Healing Platform: Build Your Own Cure! - Softcover

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Annie Brandt came to be the President Emeritus of Best Answer for Cancer Foundation (BAFC) and the International Organization of Integrative Cancer Physicians (IOICP) from the ground-up: as a survivor of advanced-stage metastatic breast cancer. After being diagnosed in July 2001 with breast cancer and metastases to the lymph, brain, and lungs, Ms. Brandt was told to "get your affairs in order" and was given three to five months to live. She decided to take a journey on the road less traveled and refused the standard of care: no surgery, no high-dose chemotherapy, or radiation. Instead, she created her own healing platform of holistic modalities that addressed the "dis-eases" in her body, mind, and spirit, and topped it off with targeted cancer therapies. In 2002, she found Insulin Potentiation Targeted Low Dose therapy (IPTLD or IPT), a simple and elegant targeted cancer therapy: a true Trojan Horse. Eight months later, after adding this targeted cancer therapy to her existing healing platform, her body was cancer-clear. Ms. Brandt believed other patients should have the option of experiencing thriving while surviving, so she founded Best Answer for Cancer Foundation (BAFC) in 2006. BAFC is a hybrid 501(c)3 nonprofit, comprised of a physicians group (the IOICP) and a general public/patient group. Ms. Brandt has planned and implemented the International Integrative Oncology conferences since 2006. She has created, organized, and brought to fruition the 2013 ACAM Pre-Conference Integrative Oncology Workshop. At that workshop, she presented the IOICP Definition of Integrative Oncology and Shifting the Cancer Paradigm. Prior to the health care industry, Ms. Brandt worked as a Market Research Specialist for Anheuser-Busch Industrial Products Division and as a Systems Engineer for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), rising through the ranks to Corporate Information Networking Consultant for the Fortune 100. She became an entrepreneur in the field of Indoor air/water quality consulting, and has owned her own firm in that specialty since 1994. From 1997 to 2004, Ms. Brandt was also co-owner of a "green" design/build company, which was featured in Professional Builder Magazine and won the 2001 Environmental Awareness Award from the City of Austin, Texas for the innovative green complex known as The Villas at Mia Tia Circle. Ms. Brandt brings this same entrepreneurial, innovative, and pioneering spirit to the field of Integrative Oncology. She has motivated her physicians group, the IOICP, and Best Answer for Cancer Foundation itself, to shift the cancer paradigm from a disease-centered approach to a patient-centered approach, from a one-size-fits-all model to true individualized care for cancer and chronic disease. Ms. Brandt's book, The Healing Platform, helps cancer patients discover their own "best answer for cancer." She has co-authored two books: The Kinder, Gentler Cancer Treatment and Celebrating 365 Days of Gratitude. She is also featured in the book Cool Careers for Girls as Environmentalists.