ABOUT THE PROJECT

LOGLINE
The newest hope for cancer is one of the oldest. Buried for a century, the metabolic theory of cancer is overturning entrenched dogma and reshaping the future of cancer treatment.

SYNOPSIS
For over 50 years humanity has marshaled every resource in the war against cancer with little to show for it. The eye-watering amounts spent on research and drug development have failed to generate meaningful treatments or improve patient survival.

What if our most foundational assumption about cancer is wrong?

The idea that cancer is a genetic disease captured minds and research funding with the discovery of DNA in the 1950s. Yet the theory that genes are the root cause has never been proven. In fact, research is mounting against it, despite establishment attempts to force increasingly contradictory data to fit this profitable theory.

The genetic mutation theory of cancer is ensnaring our best minds and diverting research dollars, while simultaneously failing to produce meaningful results. The once heralded treatments targeting genetic mutations extend life by only months or weeks—at astronomical patient cost.

But there is light on the horizon shining from an unexpected source…the past.

A century ago, a brilliant, Nobel prize-winning scientist staked his reputation on a new understanding of cancer's origins: a dysfunction in the cancer cell's ability to create energy. His discovery, known as the Warburg Effect, is the foundation for the metabolic theory of cancer and a new generation of effective cancer therapies — all of which can be used in conjunction with conventional therapy to dramatically improve outcomes. Despite the overwhelming published evidence for their safety and efficacy, these low cost therapies are struggling for exposure without the profit potential to justify extensive human trials and marketing costs.

This is the story of the revolutionary scientists and practitioners committed to following scientific evidence rather than institutional dogma to find effective cancer treatments. In the process, they are starting to redefine not just cancer treatment, but our very definition of cancer and what causes it.

PROJECT TYPE Documentary Feature

DIRECTOR Maggie Jones
PRODUCER Brad Jones
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Maggie Jones, Brad Jones
EDITOR Brad Jones

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