Anyone Know of Dr. Gary Onik. AKA Dr. Hope

[Longterm101]

I'd be interested in hearing from anyone that might have seen his video on Prostate Cancer, etc.

Here is a link to his video

Your comments welcome

youtube.com/watch?v=Q3DyGgb...(Not working as expected?)

[Tall_Allen]

I'm aware of him. I urge all patients to get information from peer-reviewed journals and not self-promoting youtube videos. As far as I can tell, he hasn't published anything since 2009. If there were really any hope there, I'd hope he would publish the outcomes.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?te...

[AlanMeyer]

I've seen this video before and I have heard of Dr. Onik and understand that his reputation for cryosurgery is a good one. If I were determined to get cryosurgery I might consider him as the surgeon. However, with complete respect for religion and religious believers, I have to object to a video that starts with a story of a man whose cancer was cured solely as a result of prayer. If there is a providential God who listens to our prayers and answers them, I have to ask why he allowed us to get cancer in the first place, and why he would change his mind and cure us just because we asked him to. And why ..., well, the number of questions is very, very large and probably off topic here.

Interestingly, there have been clinical trials of the efficacy of prayer. See for example: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/165...

Although I believe that Dr. Onik is a highly intelligent and highly educated and experienced doctor, I would worry about the state of mind of a man who would make a video like this.

Alan

[LearnAll in reply to AlanMeyer]

A surgeon turned into a religious zealot ..? OR its mind over matter..don't know.

[Faith1111 in reply to AlanMeyer]

I would worry more about a doctor with no faith.

[kmack57]

I went to Dr Onik for salvage treatment after failed radiation. He performed Cryo and IRE, Unfortunately it didn't work for me.

[LeeLiam]

The following is a post I made on a GoogleGroups prostate forum in May 2016:

A good friend of mine was recently diagnosed with PC. He is asking me for help in deciding what to do. He asked me to go to a PC support group meeting with him last Thursday night. I wasn't too excited about it until I heard the speaker was Dr. David Bostwick. Many of you have heard of him and Bostwick Labratories. In fact, he is the one who did my second opinion on my Gleason and is recognized as one of the true expert pathologists for PC.

I'll try to explain the gist of the meeting using my layman terminology as I understood it. I may get some facts a little muddled but I"ll do my best.

Bostwick has been working with Dr. Gary Onik for some time. Some of the things Onik has done with PC treatment is amazing as is told in the earlier mentioned article:

paact.help/male-lumpectomy-... .

What Bostwick explained in the meeting is that in Onik's newest therapy, he is now performing cryosurgery on only a small portion of a PC tumor. (The tumor must be at least the size of a marble.) He doesn't even try to eliminate the tumor, just a portion. He then injects three drugs into the tumor site. I didn't get all the drug names. I know one was Yervoy and I think he mentioned GMCSL. Apparently the antigens released from the cryosurgery and the drugs have synergy that is very effective in getting the immune system to kill PC cells systemically. They have seen tumors in every part of the body disappear soon after this treatment.

The first patient treated had a Gleason 10 and PSA in the hundreds and was given three months to live . They were ready to put him in hospice. He was treated less than a year ago. Today his PSA is 0.8 and he's cancer free. His name is Joe Lee. He gave them permission to use his name. In fact, he has a testimonial on Onik website: garyonik.com/testimonials .

They wanted to see if this was repeatable. To date he has treated 15 patients. Fourteen have had positive responses. Only one had no response. Five are cancer free. A few needed a second treatment.

The procedure takes about 20 minutes. One patient was treated in the morning and was playing golf that afternoon. Most patients had no side effects. When they occurred, they were minimal. The worst seemed to be some itchy skin.

The procedure costs $35,000 and half of that is the cost of the three drugs. If a re-treatment is needed you only pay for the drug cost.

They feel this treatment will work on many, but not all, cancers. They are anxious to try this on pancreatic cancer.

[Kevinski65]

I looked into it but Onik turned me down. He said because I'm doing well on lupron and xtandi there was no need. I'm 8.5 years out.

[Currumpaw]

Hey Longterm101!

I have had a rather lengthy conversation a few years ago with someone that had Dr. Onik's cryo. I believe he had a Gleason 10! This man is something else. The day after diagnosis --well, I sent a message to him and asked if he would come on HU and relate his story. It is impressive. He was the first to tell me about Cefdinir as an alternative to the fluoroquinolones as a prophylactic drug preventing sepsis. It is his tory to tell and has quite a few turns.

I have delayed posting this reply as I have been waiting for an email from him which just arrived. He will contact me next week and hopefully his experience as one of Dr. Onik's patients will be helpful in some ways, to some of us.

Currumpaw

[Longterm101 in reply to Currumpaw]

Great thx. Keep us posted

[RealtorDude in reply to Currumpaw]

Do you have an update on the person that you talked to about Dr. Onik?

[j-o-h-n]

We all HOPE that Dr. Onik is really a Dr. Hope....

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Tuesday 11/12/2019 7:01 PM EST

[AlanLawrenson]

Interesting to note he used Yervoy as one of the three drugs he injected. See the Checkmate 650 trial (NCT02985957).

A different compound: Yeyonda

I attended a Sydney Conference two weeks back. Saw a preso by the Exec Chairman of Noxopharm (ASX ticker: NOX) about their compound Veyonda. Clinical trials started recently. I spoke to the originator of this compound directly. He told me he had cured his Stage 4 PCa (mCRPC) by injecting himself. Brave thing to do. (Prof Marshall of Perth WA Australia won a Nobel Prize for injecting himself with H. pylori compound to prove that stomach ulcers were caused by h.pylori in early 90's - He was a keynote speaker at a conference I organised before he won the NP).

Follow up of CT results are due this month.

[Kevinski65 in reply to AlanLawrenson]

Yervoy isn't that expensive?