The Untold, Real Story of Actor Steve McQueen’s Death from Cancer

 

Video Transcript: The Untold, Real Story of Actor Steve McQueen’s Death from Cancer

Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez: The Steve McQueen story has  never been properly told. That’s another big thing. There are all kinds  of biographies about Steve McQueen and they mention Dr. Kelley – the  “crazy guy.” I’ve talked to some of these authors. They never really  investigated it properly. I know the whole story. In fact, in this  office, about 25 feet from where we are sitting, I have Steve McQueen’s  complete medical records, even when he used assumed names. I got them  from [Dr. William Donald] Kelley. I know the whole story. I know it like  nobody else has because no one else has ever had his complete medical  file.

McQueen was kind of a reckless guy. Motorcycle racer,  smoker, drinker and lived a hard life as he is famous for. He started  getting sick in 1978-1979 and went to his fancy Los Angeles doctors and  they kind of blew it off. You live too hard… you’ve got to cut down the  smoking. No one took him seriously. Finally, he was so debilitated  he went to his doctors and says “You’ve got to do something.” Finally  the genius said, “Hey, let’s do a chest x-ray.” 

He had tumors in both lungs. They work him up and he had metastatic  mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is associated with asbestos exposure. Well,  he was a motorcycle fanatic and in those days the pipes of motorcycles  were lined with asbestos and he would work on his own motorcycles. He  was a great mechanic. He was exposed to a huge amount of asbestos and he  ended up with mesothelioma.

In those days, 35 years ago and  today, mesothelioma is completely incurable once it spreads. The only  hope is to get it early and do surgery. Well, his “brilliant” doctors  had completely missed the diagnosis for a year. So by the time it was  diagnosed, it was metastatic. 

Then the “geniuses” decided to give him immunotherapy. Well, I am  trained as a classical immunologist under Dr. Robert Good. There has  never been a study in the history of the world showing immunotherapy has  any effect on mesothelioma. Talk about quackery, but they gave it to  him. It didn’t work so then they decided to give him radiation. Maybe  they gave him the radiation first… I’d have to pull out my notes. There  has never been a study in the history of the world showing radiation  works with mesothelioma. Guess what? It didn’t work. So he ends up with  stage IV advancing cancer, weeks from death. He goes to see Dr. Kelley.

Kelley  made one fatal mistake in treating Steve McQueen. He took him on as a  patient. He was too advanced and he was a reckless guy. He was still  smoking, still drinking, but he pleaded and Kelley was a very  compassionate guy. He said, “I will treat you but you are too weak. You  can’t do this at home the way most of my patients do.” 

There was a hospital in Mexico at the time that was administering parts  of Kelley’s therapy. He says “Go down to that hospital in Mexico and  I’ll kind of direct them.” And he did. McQueen wasn’t 100 percent  compliant. He still had the Haagen Dazs ice cream smuggled in from his  friends and cigarettes, but he did enough of it so he started getting  better and then one of the doctors in Mexico gets the “brilliant” idea…  “Let’s open him up,” because they think that the tumor. (He had a tumor  in his abdomen as well as in his chest.) “Let’s take it out… we think  it’s a dead tumor.” 

They do the surgery and the next day he dies of a pulmonary embolism,  which is a blood clot in the lungs. He did not die of mesothelioma and,  in fact, the tumor was a dead tumor. Kelley used to have it in his  office in formaldehyde – a dead tumor that had shrunk down from a huge  tumor down to nothing. It was dead. He didn’t die the way the media  reports read, which I have. It’s like Kelley took a gun and  shot McQueen… his “crazy quack doctor.” The true story has never been  told. 

By Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez 

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