Immunotherapy: The Battle Within
“Immunotherapy: The Battle Within” is a documentary film produced by Moss Reports and the Center for Integrative Oncology. The film is about the past, present and future of cancer immunotherapy,...
Cancer Stem Cells
Modified Citrus Pectin Fights Cancer Metastases
Modified citrus pectin fights cancer metastases. This makes it potentially one of the most important substances in the complementary arsenal against cancer. MCP is a chemically altered form of...
Probiotics and Cancer: Boosting the Immune System
There is new evidence that probiotics and cancer are related. Microbes often found in yogurt can boost the immune system and help beat malignant diseases! At least this helps explain why some...
Letter in Science Translational Medicine
LETTER IN SCIENCE TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE My colleague, Tibor Bakacs, MD, PhD, DSc, of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and I have just had an e-letter published in the journal Science...
American Cancer Docs Favor Medical Marijuana
Widespread Acceptance A few years ago I toured Israeli cancer hospitals and clinics. I was happily surprised to find a widespread acceptance of medical marijuana (MM), especially in the pediatric...
Successful CAM Meeting in Florence
(Some of the speakers at the ARTOI meeting; the author is in the middle, between Bharat Aggarwal, PhD, Professor Emeritus, M.D. Anderson and Gary Deng, MD, of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer...
The Strange Case of GcMAF
Another Alternative Cancer Treatment GcMAF is another "alternative" cancer treatment that has gotten a great deal of attention in the past few years. There is a very complete discussion of GcMAF...
Can Fasting Improve Chemotherapy Results?
Fasting is prescribed in the Bible and is considered a path to physical and spiritual purity. There are books, articles and Web sites that advocate fasting, some of them even for cancer patients....
Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs) – What You Need to Know
A Very Important Concept One theory of cancer that has great importance is the concept of the cancer stem cell (CSC). A consensus panel of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has...
The Moss Method™ – Guide to Cancer Stem Cells and Supplements That Fight Them
Why Fight Cancer Stem Cells? Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are the root cause of all that makes cancer dangerous. They are mainly responsible for cancer’s initiation as well as its ability to recur,...
Cancer Stem Cells Identified
Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs) May Be Responsible for Malignancy [Note: This article was originally a report on the first identification of cancer stem cells (CSCs) in a solid tumor. But breast cancer...
Blocking Cancer Stem Cells Naturally
Phytochemicals that Block CSCsPhytochemicals (also called nutriceuticals) comprise several different kinds of agents. Resveratrol, soy isoflavones, sulforaphane, curcumin, and EGCG/green tea are...
Cancer Stem Cells
Transcript Another huge topic that cancer patients should know about are cancer stem cells. Cancer stem cells are well known to the research community. There are 17,000 journal articles in the...
Cancer Stem Cells History
Cancer Stem Cells HistoryThe existence of cancer stem cells was suspected in the 19th century by the likes of Rudolph Virchow, Julius F. Cohnheim, and John Beard, D.Sc. These European biology...
Cancer Stem Cells: The Hidden Drivers of Tumor Growth
CSCs are one of the hottest topics in oncology, the subject of over 17,000 journal articles. On average, five new scientific papers on this issue appear every calendar day. In this review, I will...
Discovery of Cancer Stem Cells
Certain Cancers are of Embryonal Origin Out of the innumerable articles written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the National Cancer Act only a tiny minority mentioned one of the signal...
Understanding Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs)
The Battle in the Body Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are like the generals who oversee the battle. They stand high above the fray while directing their troops. They are a minuscule fraction of the...
Drugs to Counter Cancer Stem Cells
Anti Cancer Stem Cell Drugs in Development There are a number of start-up companies that are trying to develop drugs to target cancer stem cells. None of these has been conspicuously successful,...
Cancer Stem Cells and Angiogenesis
Thousands of Studies on CSCsA key characteristic of malignant disease is the central importance of cancer stem cells in a long list of cancer types. CSCs were first characterized at the molecular...
Breast Cancer Stem Cells Introduction
Very Dangerous CellsBreast cancer stem cells were first identified in an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in 2003. The first author was Mohammad Al-Hajj,...
Enzymes, Trophoblasts, and Cancer: The Afterlife of an Idea (1924-2008)
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Field Cancerization
Tumor Microenvironments The 360 “Halifax Project” authors, led by Keith I. Block, MD, of Skokie, Ill., added an 11th key characteristic to Hanahan and Weinberg’s classic ten,...
An Annotated Bibliography of Works by John Beard
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