Gary Onik, a medical director at the Center for Recurrent Cancer in Florida and an adjunct professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, says in a USA Today column that “we need to pray” for one another when sick.
He wrote – “As a cancer practitioner for 30 years, I have encountered at least one terminal cancer patient who was healed by a worldwide prayer effort on his behalf. Rather than dismiss this miracle as inconsistent with my empiric and rationally based training, it made me consider how the new scientific knowledge of quantum physics and human consciousness might support the idea of prayer-facilitated healing…. I accepted the reality that prayer can have a significant impact on patient outcomes.”
In 2018, when Onik was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer that had spread to his lymph nodes and bones, he asked people to pray for him as he underwent a new immunotherapy regimen he had developed. Onik made his request for prayer in a video he created and shared on social media.
He said the prayers, coupled with the new regimen, worked.
He’s now been cancer free for three years.
Onik urges people to pray – not only for those who have cancer but also for the medical community that is searching for a cure.
He wrote, “In this time of great political and religious division, I am convinced we can come together and pray for something that transcends our differences: a cure for cancer.”