Anyone have a success story with Dr. Gary Onik?

[Jgk914]

Hello,

Have any of you had success being treated by Dr. Gary Onik metastatic stage 4 prostate cancer with immuno and cryotherapy? Would greatly appreciate any success stories on getting into remission or being cured by his treatments.

Also, if you had a bad experience or got worse from his treatment please let me know.

Thank you very much.

[j-o-h-n]

Many post about Dr. Gary Onik here on H.U. The latest I can find in the History file I have is dated 03/23/2022.

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Sunday 10/29/2023 11:18 PM DST

[Jgk914 in reply to j-o-h-n]

There is nothing recent and no one posting about success which is odd. You’d think people would be screaming from the rooftops if they were cured by his treatments. He also is not published. I need to only know about people who were cured/went into remission or got worse after treatment with him. None of the posts or comments seem to have what I am looking for which is why I posted. Thank you.

[RoseDoc]

I spoke to him a few years ago. His methods/treatments seemed somewhat controversial at that time. I did ask why he had not published his results in a peer reviewed journal and he really couldn't give me a satisfactory answer. Be curious to know experiences of others.

[Jgk914 in reply to RoseDoc]

Yes very curious to that as well. You’d think he’d be published if it actually works and his success patients would be very vocal about it. It’s silence.

[Boonster]

I went to Dr. Onik in 2016 after I was diagnosed as having a Gleason 10 adenocarcinoma of the prostate with signet ring cell features. By the time I talked to him, I had spent three months consulting with doctors and exploring different treatments.

In the end, I decided to roll the dice and go for Onik's unconventional approach: a combination of immunotherapy, focal cryotherapy, and IRE. (Back then, he included a promise to patients that if his approach did not work, he would provide further treatment without cost.)

His treatment worked and it didn't work. By that I mean this: Over the course of three treatments from August 2016 to December 2020, he reduced my tumor load from Gleason 10 to Gleason 7. After each treatment, my PSA would go down significantly but eventually bounce back. The scans would show a reduction in the most dangerous tumors, starting with Gleason 10 tumors, then the 9's, and then the 8's.

But he didn't get them all, and the increase in PSA would start once again. So I moved on, having given Dr. Onik three chances with his treatment. His treatment didn't succeed completely, but it came remarkably close.

The treatments I chose next were more conventional, treatments that have improved over the years since 2016. I received SBRT in 2021 followed immediately by Orgovyx. I plan to remain on it for 2 1/2 years, enabling me to participate in a clinical study focused on the impact of a plant-based diet on men who undergoing ADT treatment. On Orgovyx, my PSA quickly became undetectable, where it has remained so for two years.

Summing up, Dr. Onik did not cure me or induce a permanent remission, but perhaps he achieved something close to it. We will see what the scans show once I finish the clincial study.

Good luck to you. I have no regrets giving the Onik approach a try. He is, I believe, on to something. But would I do it again? It's too soon to say.

-- Boon

[Steel67]

I believe addicted2cycling has worked with Dr O, I have talked to Dr O as well. He seems competent and I understand the theory behind his treatment, still undecided on my next steps

[Jgk914 in reply to Steel67]

Thank you, I spoke with addicted2cycling. Dr O hasn’t ever published. Typically doctors will publish their results and trials on peer review. It’s odd how he hasn’t published. Also, why aren’t the 30-40% success rate people that he claims openly sharing it?

[j-o-h-n]

I guess he got zero "latest" hits on the onik meter........Oink Oink.....

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Monday 10/30/2023 1:55 PM DST

[Cancer2x]

Dr Onik was known for reviving Brachytherapy for PCa in the 1990s, by putting radioactive ‘seeds’ into little ‘sleeves’ and inserting them into the prostate. Apparently he has moved on from that, although Brachytherapy is now widely used in other ways. Lost track of him for a long time. No idea how his treatment views are today.