My retirement speech

[Guest guest]

Thanks for your help so far - you may be interested in my retirement speech

which I will be giving tomorrow

Love and Healing

Ian

DRAFT

Hi

It is a real pleasure to be here today, some 30 months after being given a

prognosis of only 3 months of quality time.

I wish just to say a few words on the following

Cancer - and how come this fit-looking chap with terminal skin cancer and a

healthy tan is still around

Maybe you reckon that with no smoking, low alcohol, lots of fresh fruits and

vegetables, moderation in sunshine and all other things - YOU personally will

beat that prediction. So why did I get skin cancer when I was always moderate

with sunshine? Of the billions of cell replications each of us have each year

some go wrong and we get unlucky. But anecdotally I repeatedly hear of people's

immune systems overcoming cancers, sometimes terminal cancers. I also hear of

studies such as one announced recently relating to the effects of the immune

system on cancer occurrence - apparently night-time lighting increases the

chances of breast cancer by nearly a third

- because the lack of prolonged darkness suppresses melatonin release during

sleep and this in turn suppresses an immune system boost.

I have taken the chemotherapy and the immunology and against overpowering odds

and I am around today. I believe that this is largely as a result of taking care

of my immune system - a strategy of no smoking, low alcohol, lots of fresh

fruits and vegetables, moderation in sunshine and all other things. But, I am

lucky, extra-ordinarily lucky to be here. I see the way forward in cancer

immunisation and a holistic approach to supporting the

body's battle against the horrible disease.. And when I hear, as I did this last

week, of little aged 5 dying from cancer, I know that becoming a friend

of, and contributing to cancer research can give us hugely more joy than

physical presents. I am therefore encouraging you to become a friend of the

Cancer Vaccine Institute http://www.cancervaccine.org.uk/

Thankyou for coming today and for your wishes. I wish you well.

Ian