Dr. David L. Vesely, MD, PhD

Cancer Fighter & Researcher
James A. Haley VA Hospital, Tampa, Florida

In high school a young David Vesely was offered an opportunity to play major league baseball. His parents said, "No," insisting he develop a trade. Baseball's loss is the world's gain. While treating thousands of active duty soldiers and retired veterans at the James A. Haley Veteran Administration Hospital in Tampa Florida, he also heads a team of researchers searching for ways to treat congestive heart and renal failure, and the most dreaded of all diseases — cancers, all cancers.

In 2002, Dr. Vesely lost his wife of 30 years to breast cancer. His then high school age son encouraged his father to expand his research to include cancer.

Already recognized for breakthrough discovery of 3 of the 4 known peptide heart hormones, he reasoned:

Exercise causes muscle growth, but a normal heart, the hardest working muscle in the body, retains its size and shape. Vesely deduced that peptides were controlling the growth. Applying that thought to petrie dish cancers 97% of all cancers died with 24 hours. In mice, 80% of the deadliest human cancers die within the prescribed treatment period, while the remaining 20% of tumors shrink 90 - 97% — and are managed as a chronic disease.