Dr. William D. Kelley: Developer of Alternative Cancer Treatments

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Following this magazine's interview with Dr. Harold W. Manner, we received innumerable letters and phone calls. Much of that correspondence was from readers who hadn't known of the healthcare possibilities offered by nutrition therapy until they read about the Manner program in our pages, but a surprisingly large number of folks called to let us know that there are other revolutionary researchers who are "curing" degenerative diseases such as cancer. And the greater part of these "tips" suggested that MOTHER look into the work being done at Dr. William Donald Kelley's Winthrop, Washington clinic.

The information that we received from our readers raised a few questions, too: How, for instance, did Dr. Kelley—an orthodontist by training—come to develop the concepts of metabolic subtyping and non-specific metabolic therapy . . . ideas which won him the International Association of Cancer Victims and Friends "Humanitarian Award " and recognition from such lofty "alternative" medical organizations as San Diego's Price-Pottenger Foundation?

In order to find the answers to these questions—and to learn more about Dr. Kelley's reputation for providing successful treatments for a number of "incurable" diseases—MOTHER contributor Cameron Stauth traveled to the former dentist's clinic high in Washington's Cascade Mountains.

The edited transcript that follows—which summarizes more than three days of discussion—presents a picture of a man who has made it his life's work to explore the frontiers of medicine . . . those unexplored areas where risks must be taken and, sometimes, breakthroughs are made.

PLOWBOY: Dr. Kelley, when I arrived in Winthrop I must have walked around the block three or four times . . . trying to spot a buildingimposing enough to be a research clinic. I couldn't believe that this little house was your office!

KELLEY: That's a pretty common reaction. People come here—from all over the world—and they expect us to be sitting at the end of the rainbow . . . in a huge complex of white-pillared buildings with half a dozen research centers scattered around the grounds.

Some of those folks are disappointed at first. I think, however, that many of our visitors learn more from this humble office than they do from whatever I may say. Such people look around, and they don't see a multimillion dollar establishment with posh waiting rooms, so they ask themselves, "Where is the healing going to come from?"

And the answer to that question—as my patients soon learn—is that health can only come from within their own bodies.

PLOWBOY: That's a radical concept . . . especially so in this age of high-technology medicine. How did you develop your unorthodox ideas about healing?