How it Began
Rachel Best and Annie Brandt did not know each other in 2004, but they had something big in common. They both had cancer and they both decided that they were not going to use conventional treatment, due to their mutual desire to maintain a high quality-of-life while killing the cancer. Rachel had a recurrence of ovarian cancer and Annie had advanced-stage metastatic breast cancer. According to the conventional doctors, neither one of them had a good prognosis.
Even though they were located a half country apart – Rachel in San Diego, CA, and Annie in Austin, TX – they followed the same path. Both of them employed integrative techniques, and both chose Insulin Potentiation Targeted Low Dose (IPTLD) as their targeted cancer therapy. The two women met, and began to collaborate on the creation of a foundation. In October 2004, Rachel filed the documents with the National Heritage Foundation to create the project called The Elka Best Foundation, named after her mother, who died of breast cancer in 1980.
In March of 2006, Rachel died from an infection she caught in the hospital as the result of a routine operation. Annie took over as Executive Director and set about founding a formal 501(c)3 nonprofit organization called Best Answer for Cancer Foundation (BACF).
In 2011, BACF was accepted into the Integrative Medicine Consortium (IMC). It’s vision is to make integrative medicine the standard of care.
Board of Directors
Annie Brandt – Executive Director, Austin, TX, USA
James Forsythe, MD – Reno, NV USA
Beverly Kotsanis – Grapevine, TX, USA
Richard Linchitz, MD – Long Island, NY USA
Connie Tamez – Orange County, CA USA
Medical Advisory Board
Les Breitman, MD – Oceanside, CA USA
Martin Dayton, MD – Sunny Isles, FL, USA
Sean Devlin, DO, HMD – Reno, NV USA
J. Donki, MD – Dhobi Ghat, Rajajinaga, India
Gus Kotsanis MD – Grapevine, TX, USA
Richard R. Linchitz, MD – Long Island, NY, USA
Thomas Lodi MD, MD(H) – Mesa, AZ, USA
Eugene Pretorius MD – South Africa
Robert Rowen, MD – Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Frank Shallenberger, MD, HMD – Carson City, NV, USA
Brad Weeks, MD – Whidbey Island (Seattle), WA, USA
Juergen Winkler, MD – Oceanside, CA, USA
General Advisory Board
Mary Budinger, Phoenix, AZ – Principal in Business Results, LLC specializing in marketing for complementary and alternative medicine
Julia Chiappetta, Connecticut – Business Development, Meeting Management
DC Cordova, San Diego, CA – CEO. Excellerated Business Schools®/Money & You® Program
Dan Craddock, Austin, TX – Partner, Craddock Massey, LLP
Beverly Gandy, Austin, TX – Marketing Consultant, Real Estate Management
Maria Gil, Miami, FL – Longevity Coach
Jennie Gonzalez, San Diego, CA – Partner, Child ID Program
Rosalind Joseph, Washington, D.C. – Owner, The Financial Boutique; CFO at MKC
Carol Layton, Tampa, FL – Owner, C&S Productions
Tom Lowe, Michigan – Physicians UBI Awareness Center
Kathleen Malone, Phoenix, AZ – President & CEO at Sundance on Success
William Maxfield, MD, MD, Lauderdale by the Sea, FL – Hyperbaric Medicine consultant to monoplace hyperbaric oxygen chambers, at Ocean Medical
Joy Porter, Philadelphia, PA – author, coach
Carol Roujansky, San Diego, CA – Reiki Master, health coach
Dennis Schoen, Santa Barbara, CA – Owner, Researched Nutritionals
Caroline Sutherland, Bellingham, WA – Medical Intuitive, author, motivational speaker
Marge Woodard, San Diego, CA – Executive Director Special Projects, Kotsanis Institute
Leonard Rosenbaum, Washington, D.C. – holistic health coach
Alice Batt, PhD Austin, TX – Coordinator, Undergraduate Writing Center, Department of Rhetoric & Writing, The University of Texas at Austin
Financial Information
Best Answer For Cancer IRS Determination Letter
2010 Best Answer For Cancer Foundation 990 Form
2009 Best Answer For Cancer Foundation 990 Form
2009 Annual Report
2008 Best Answer For Cancer Foundation 990 Form
