Closer inspection of the diagnostic tools currently available to our physicians, left me with the disturbing sense that they are neither precise nor always accurate. I wish it always worked, but it doesn't. Hearing that in spite of this evaluation Dr. Love remains optimistic about the future, I welcomed an opportunity to interview her. Dr. Love has agreed to continue the research of Dr. Otto Sartorius, founder of the Santa Barbara Breast Cancer Institute and my former surgeon. I was curious how his research fit into her perspective.
All cancer is genetic.
It's all screwed-up genes. Some people inherit BRC1 or BRC2 genes from their mother or father. We've used the bacterial infection model for cancer. While bacterial infection is a foreign invader, cancer is not. Dr. Love prefers the mental health model where efforts are made to rebuild the cells or change the environment in a way that will restore normal cell behavior.