Dr. Francisco Contreras serves as director, president and chairman of the Oasis of Hope Hospital. A distinguished oncologist and surgeon, Contreras is renowned for combining conventional and alternative medical treatments with emotional and spiritual support to provide patients with the most positive treatment experience possible, a treatment that increases the one-year survival rate up to three times the U.S. average. He treats cancer as a metabolic disease vs. a genetic disease. Dr. Contreras has authored fifteen books concerning integrative therapy including 50 Critical Cancer Answers, The Hope of Living Cancer Free, The Coming Cancer Cure, Beating Cancer and Dismantling Cancer. For more information, please visit his website www.oasisofhope.com