Basics of Hyperthermia
What is Hyperthermia Treatment for Cancer?Clinical hyperthermia is the application of heat to the treatment of disease, in this case, cancer. The forms of electromagnetic energy that have been...
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Hyperthermia Evidence
Scientific StudiesRandomized Controlled TrialsThe modern scientific acceptance of hyperthermia rests on several outstanding randomized trials: one that was organized in Munich, Germany for the...
Hyperthermia Moves to Fore as CAM Treatment of Cancer
Heat Therapy for Cancer Continues to Gain Support Hyperthermia refers to heating a particular region of the body or heating the whole body, in order to fight cancer. Hyperthermia works by (a)...
The Story of Cryoablation for Cancer
Breaking the Ice The medical establishment, epitomized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is notoriously slow at adopting new methods, however effective they might be. For example,...
Cryoablation: A Promising Alternative to Surgery
A Chilling Discovery Cryoablation (sometimes called cryosurgery) is a technique to destroy diseased tissue by applying probes at extremely low temperatures. It is not “surgery” in the...
Cryoablation Practitioners
Cryoablation Practitioners The Society of Interventional Radiology maintains a useful website, sirweb.org. You can probably find a doctor who uses cryoablation through its “doctor finder.”...
Cryoablation – Cryosurgery Basics
Frozen OutCryosurgery (also called cryoablation) is a technique that destroys tumor tissue through the application of subzero temperatures. This is a promising and less toxic way of destroying...
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,...
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...
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,...
Keytruda Immunotherapy for Cancer – Better than Chemo
Keytruda immunotherapy for cancer is better than chemo in the treatment of Merkel cell cancer. So says a recent clinical trial of this immune treatment at Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore....
Immune Therapy Puts Stage IV Breast Cancer into Remission
IMMUNE THERAPY PUTS STAGE IV BREAST CANCER INTO REMISSION Scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Maryland, have reported putting a woman with advanced, stage IV breast...
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: Will They Work For You?
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: One of the most important questions about ICI therapy is who will respond to this new type of treatment. A recent paper from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson...
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...
History of Immune Checkpoint Inhibition
HISTORY OF IMMUNE CHECKPOINT INHIBITION Photo: Dr. Lloyd J. Old and Helen Coley Nauts (c. 1980) In February of 2017, for the second year in a row, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)...