KKTV Interview – We are Losing the War on Cancer
For years doctors have been waging a fierce public battle against cancer, as most of us know, and for years one man has been studying what may be a more significant battle, behind the scenes...
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The Yes to Life Show – Nov 2022
Please visit the Yes To Life website to listen to the program. 50 years and counting Show #385 - Date: 11 Nov 2022 Ralph Moss has an interesting talk with The Yes To Life show host, Robin Daly....
The Moss Method™ – Guide to Food and Cancer
It's Contentious No area of research is as contentious as the relationship between food, drink or activity and the risk of cancer. Also, there are literally tens of thousands of articles in the...
Cancer, Incorporated: The Inside Story of the Corruption, Greed & Lies of Big Pharma
By Ralph W. Moss, PhD238 pages | Publication date: 2020 Cancer, Incorporated is a critical exploration of the pharmaceutical industry’s role in the development and marketing of cancer drugs....
The Moss Method™ – Guide to Anti-Cancer Supplements
Listed by Cancer Diagnosis There are presently over 1,400 herbs and food supplements in commerce, many of them in use against cancer. Well-meaning individuals (plus numerous self-declared...
What Keeps Me Working?
Hope!! I am writing this at five in the morning. For years, this has been the hour I get to my office and begin my work. I am armed with my computers, phone, files, and several walls of books,...
Am I a Soft-Core Quackbuster?
An Interesting Letter I received a very interesting email from a reader, who wrote: “It seems like you are skeptical of most alternative treatments due to the lack of publishing in scientific...
About Ralph W. Moss, PhD
Ralph Moss is considered one of the foremost authorities in the world on complementary, integrative and alternative cancer treatments. Since 1974 he has written 12 books and three films about...
The Moss Method™ – Guide to Natural Health Products
We only recommend products we believe in. In general, natural medicines are as described on the label. But we also know that some foods, supplements, and natural medicine are subpar. Our Three...
Laetrile at Sloan-Kettering: Dr. Sugiura and Second Opinion
The Coverup of Laetrile (Amygdalin) at Sloan-Kettering Institute I began my job as a science writer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City, in June 1974. My boss, T....
Is Laetrile Really Vitamin B17?
Crucial Facts "Laetrile's history has been complex, tortuous, kaleidoscopic. Beginning inauspiciously like hundreds of other small-time anticancer schemes, Laetrile soared to a notorious...
Down Goes Dr. Baselga
Sandpiper Trial On Saturday, June 2, 2018, Dr. José Baselga, MD, Physician-in-chief of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center was enthused about the results of the SANDPIPER trial. He told the...
Keytruda: Toxic, Expensive and Not So Effective
Best Selling Cancer Drug in 2019 Keytruda® (pembrolizumab) is toxic, expensive, and not as effective as one would wish. But at $7.2 billion, it was the best-selling cancer drug in 2019. At the...
Imatinib (Gleevec) for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
Glee Over GleevecAfter the announcement of herceptin, work accelerated on many other targeted agents for cancers. In that same year, clinical trials began for a new drug for chronic myeloid...
D-Mannose: A Sweet Option in the Treatment of Cancer
Warburg EffectA remarkable paper has been published in Nature. It has been known for a century that cancer cells are unusually dependent on the common sugar, glucose (the form that carbohydrates...
FDA Reverses Approval of Avastin
Stunning Reversal In a stunning rebuke to the former director of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), an advisory panel has recommended removing the approval of the drug Avastin (bevacizumab)...
The Disturbing Case of José Baselga
Conflict of InterestThe best-publicized case of conflict of interest in cancer involved José Baselga, MD, Ph.D., the Physician-in-Chief, i.e., the top doctor of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer...
A Raid on a Natural Medicine Clinic in the Philippines
In August 2018, 50 armed agents of the Filipino Food and Drug Administration (FDA) raided a natural medicine clinic that was treating cancer in Victoria, Tarlac. The clinic had operated...
Selumetinib: The Selling of a Drug
Targeted Therapies I attended the 2013 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). Some of my journalistic colleagues there were excited about the latest findings...
The Amazing Case of Dr Wortman
Precision Medicine Let's start with Precision Medicine at its very best. This was the inspiring story of Dr. Lukas Wortman, MD, which helped catapult the topic into public consciousness. In 2012,...
Book Review: “We Want to Live” by Aajonus Vonderplanitz
A Raw Food Diet Michael Schachter, M.D., of Rockland County, New York, who treated many cancer patients, returned from the September 1997 meeting of The Cancer Control Society in Pasadena all...
Red Wine and Breast Cancer
Resveratrol, A Natural Compound Found in the Skin Of GrapesMost of my research involves long hours on the computer or in the medical library. So it was a pleasure to do fieldwork in New York’s...
Shadows Fall on Anti-Angiogenic Drugs
The Main Hope of Conventional OncologyFor the past dozen years, drugs that inhibit the growth of new blood vessels—a strategy called anti-angiogenesis—have been the main hope of conventional...
The Goal of a New Drug
Help Cure the Patient of CancerFirst, we must clarify the goal of any new cancer therapy. Most people would say that the goal is to help cure the patient of cancer. But a long time ago, Memorial...
FDA and FBI Raid Oklahoma Laetrile Clinic
The Camelot ClinicOn Tuesday, April 23, 2013, agents of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Oklahoma Medical Board raided an alternative...
Kombucha Benefits are Cloudy
A Fermented Drink I hadn’t thought about drinking kombucha tea until I saw a row of brightly colored glass bottles on a shelf in my local supermarket. For the uninitiated, kombucha is a fermented...
What Are Surrogate Endpoints?
Progression Free SurvivalThe NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms defines a surrogate endpoint in clinical trials as: “...an indicator or sign used in place of another to tell if a treatment works....
Is Chemotherapy Toxic?
Considering Toxicity Let us consider the question of toxicity, which we discussed in articles on specific trials of so-called “Precision Medicine’ for cancer. When targeted therapy was first...
The Strange Case of Xalkori
A Great Success Story?Let us look at a drug that is considered one of the great success stories of the precision medicine approach, Xalkori (crizotinib). The story of Xalkori illustrates some of...
The Case of Xalkori (crizotinib)
Conflicts of InterestAlmost every study of a new cancer drug is riddled with conflicts of interest. Let us focus on one of these drugs, crizotinib (Xalkori®). But we could conduct the same sort...
Vitamins and Chemotherapy
Few issues create more friction between mainstream oncologists and advocates of complementary medicine than the role of vitamins during chemotherapy. While many researchers consider their use...
The Pitfalls of Progression-Free Survival (PFS)
A Hypothetical LookLet us consider the pitfalls of using progression-free survival (PFS) as a “surrogate endpoint” by showing how someone could extend patients’ PFS, without actually helping them...
Green Tea as an Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor
Value in Prevention and Treatment One of the most exciting developments in cancer in the past 30 years has been a treatment strategy known as immune checkpoint blockade. ICB relies on a...
Letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
Burton's Immunoaugmentative TherapyMoss RW. Immunoaugmentative Therapy. JAMA. 1994;271(17):1319. doi:10.1001/jama.1994.03510410031021To the Editor. —I must comment on the last paragraph of...
Cancer Treatment on a Tight Budget
Anticancer Strategies on a Tight Budget Are you looking for an Anti-Cancer Plan on a tight budget? I was once asked to devise a plan for a U.S. Army veteran who was living on a pension and could...
Biases in Clinical Trials
Assessing the Effects of a New DrugThere are various ways in which the sponsors of a clinical trial can exaggerate the effects of a new drug on progression-free survival (PFS). This can be done...