Private Archive of Jimmie L. Holman This letter is an introduction into the Kelley Enzyme Protocol for treating Malignancy provided by © 2003- 2003 Patricia A.D. Braun, M.D. Kin Kletso, near Lindale, Texas NUTRITIONAL & PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE & COMPREHENSIVE CANCER & CHRONIC ILLNESS CARE © 2003-5 WEBSITE MESSAGE: THE KELLEY PROTOCOL © 2003-5 YOU CAN CURE YOUR OWN CANCER WITH THE KELLEY PROTOCOL OF ENZYME-METABOLIC THERAPY 7 WHO IS KELLEY, AND WHY NAME A CANCER TREATMENT AFTER HIM ? SHORT VERSION William Donald Kelley, D.D.S., M.S., dentist, orthodontist, with additional degrees from Baylor University, University of Alabama, and the Univeristy of West Virginia in chemistry, education, and physiology, and a self-education in nutrition, became ill in 1963, and sought medical help for 4 years, until the day of his diagnosis by open-surgical observation in Midland, Texas. A biopsy was not necessary as pancreatic cancer had spread to the liver. It was, by then, 1967 and the orthodox cure rate for pancreatic cancer was 0.5%. His wife was told he had 2 months to live. He was told he had 6 months, and his surgeons asked him to hurry up and finish their children's dental work: so he conscientiously worked in his office only to finish the cases he had in progress. It was necessary to lie down and rest between patients. But rather than wait around to die, he began to research cancer treatment in the medical literature, and began to apply the available information to himself. Since he was so very sick, he could easily tell what made him worse, and what made him better. Today he recounts that the Holy Spirit led him to the answers. There is no doubt of that. Kelley began a rigorous, largely vegetarian diet, except for eggs and chewed raw liver. He took the new freeze-dried pancreatic enzymes every two hours by mouth, he used coffee enemas for detoxification of the liver, and took vitamins and minerals in varying combinations. He began to get better day by day . In three months, he was back in the office full time, taking new cases, and in 6 months, he felt rather well. As you would expect, his doctors called it spontaneous remission. But Kelley knew better. Midland was a small enough town that word got around, and many patients came to him for advise on cancer, and other chronic diseases, both for themselves and for relatives out of town. He quite naively dispensed advise, out of a sense of moral duty. He simply told them what he had done to get well, and those who did what he said got well too. He was intrigued by the staggering implications of this simple therapy. He wrote a 38 page booklet detailing his personal story and the theoretical explanation of why it worked in December of 1967. One Answer to Cancer became a National best seller in the alternative health world, which was in it's infancy. Dr. Kelley said "Among cancer victims this booklet spread like a wild forest fire. Many cancer victims never visited me, but nevertheless followed directions, recovered and went on their way." Soon, all those who came to him came not for his expertise in orthodontics1. To make a living, he had to began charging to counsel the patients, always careful to counsel only those whose doctors had referred them to him. Of course Dr. Kelley usually saw the patients when "hope was gone" and they were sent home to die: the toughest cases. But in this position, he had 1 He was one of the early orthodontists to work with arrangement of the jaw bones not with just the teeth in their sockets. TMJ and other syndromes were of interest to him. Private Archive of Jimmie L. Holman opportunity to fine-tune his program to cover different kinds of cancers, which responded differently, and to include different degenerative diseases, and found that, while each and every person was an individual and reacted in their own way to different food and different supplements, he could ask enough questions and interpret a few laboratory tests to place them in categories: and this was the concept of metabolic specificity, which he perfected. In fact Dr. Kelley fully developed four of holistic2 medicine's most advanced concepts: Nonspecific Metabolic Therapy7, the Science of Optimum Health7, Metabolic Ecology 7, and Metabolic Typing 7, which the Price-Pottenger Foundation declared to be "The most important nutritional discovery in the last 150 years." Basically, it explains how one determines if he will do well as a vegetarian or as a meat eater, and further more, to what degree he should have a mixed diet. Kelley computerized his programs on the first main-frame in Dallas, Texas3. The banks were still just considering going to computer! Over the next 18 years he saw over 100,000 patients, and fully 33,000 of them were cancer victims. Kelley was so successful that he developed a rather large organization, the International Health Institute blossoming with doctors and assistants, called metabolic technicians. He held frequent seminars and taught many doctors, dentists, chiropractors, osteopaths, doctors of nutrition, nutritionists, and other professionals so that they were capably guiding in the "cure" for anyone willing to follow the protocol - including the rich and famous - notably the actor, Steve McQueen, whose treatment was ultimately the undoing of Kelley. According to his daughter, Dr. Kelley was reluctant to treat McQueen, and relieved when McQueen decided the protocol was too difficult. However, the actor came a second time, ready for the program, as he was getting much worse, and by then thoroughly disillusioned with the establishment’s treatment of cancer. The McQueen saga garnered so much attention, it brought the Kelley program into the awareness of the entire nation. McQueen had not wanted his fans to know how sick he was, but once he was better, he wanted the nation to know what made him better. He told Kelley on the phone "Doc, I'm going to blow the lid off this whole cancer racket!" There are many versions of the ultimate death of McQueen. Those of us who know Dr. Kelley personally, believe his version.4 The booklet and success brought national attention and the McQueen saga brought the opportunity to malign the book, the success, and the man. Dr. Kelley was systematically, roasted, and trashed then persecuted in every conceivable way by the Medical powers, the state dental boards, the local and national newspapers and pulp magazines, the IRS, FBI, local city police, county sheriffs,5 and the attorney general of Texas State, and ultimately the Supreme Court of the United States. Kelley was prosecuted for printing the booklet! He was "practicing medicine without a license." The claim was that he was practicing medicine on anyone who read the book though they never even saw him! The decision of the Supreme Court (with one dissent) 6 was that Kelley was a menace to society. He was forbidden to have any of his booklets or similar books in his presence. During this time, the New York Cancer Establishment Institute, Sloan Kettering, sent a mere second year medical student to scrutinize Dr. Kelley's records, hoping to prove him a quack. Not only that, but a liar. The student, Nicolas Gonzales, stayed for five years, insinuating himself into Dr. Kelly's life during this period of utmost distress. Kelley must have seen an opportunity in this student to present his curing protocol to the scientific world, to share it with the medical community, making it available to so many more cancer victims, and to ultimately clear his name 2 Holistic means: looking at or treating the entire person, entire body, entire physiology, not an isolated disease manifestation; from the word whole. 3 Actually it was Grapevine Texas, about 5 miles from the Dallas City Limits, just north of the DFW airport; convenient to the airport. 4 See < McQueen Saga > 5 Patients were harassed by their local police once they got back home. 6 Justice William O. Douglas, 1971 Private Archive of Jimmie L. Holman and get a nod of respect, if not gratitude. I can find no other reason to entertain this student's meddling - treating him like a son. Dr. Kelley seems at a loss to give me any other more sensible explanation! Though it took five years, Nicky Gonzales learned the methods of Kelley, personally observing and investigating the then current cases, and verifying the documentation of past patient cases, and many hundreds of undeniable cancer "cures". To finish up his assigned work, fifty representative cases of many types of cancer were summarized for Sloan Kettering, in a 500 page manuscript. He also was instructed to include in the study a series of only pancreatic cancer, as it carried a well recognized death sentence. Nicky never managed to get his glowing- with-praise manuscript published, but did manage to set up shop on Park Avenue and quietly continue the methods he had so generously been taught by Dr. Kelley. Sloan Kettering somehow neglected to publish the manuscript.7 Dr. Gonzales, though hostile to Kelley in their initial meetings, was genuinely shocked at the success of the therapy, and through the five years spent studying Kelley and the therapy, he wrote several sincere letters.8 In the unpublished manuscript, he was truly shocked that the medical establishment was so hostile to Kelley. It seems he was naive and unprepared for such unscientific, inhuman, viscous and destructive attitudes and actions on the part of the medical cancer doctors, who were expected to care about saving lives.