Herceptin – or Deception?
Pivotal Results? Two studies published in October 2005 in the New England Journal of Medicine have sparked a triumphant reaction from both the media and the medical profession. The studies...
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Avastin for Breast Cancer
A Top Selling Cancer DrugIn 2008, the FDA approved Avastin (bevacizumab) as a treatment for advanced breast cancer. This approval was based on a small trial called E2100, which showed a...
Is low-dose chemotherapy effective and can I get it?
Does Low-Dose Chemotherapy Work? Is it as effective as the conventional high doses? Is it safer, with fewer side effects? Or is it based on a misguided notion, lacking in proof of effectiveness,...
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...
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)...
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...
Graviola for Cancer?
Graviola–A Friendly Skeptic’s View An herbal treatment called Graviola burst onto the Internet in early 1999 and is now incorporated into many patients’ regimens. An increasing number of...
Is Radiation Therapy a Necessity for Breast Cancer?
Standard Treatment A standard treatment for early-stage breast cancer is to remove the tumor via lumpectomy and then follow that with radiation therapy and the drug, tamoxifen. But a report...
My Journey with Breast Cancer with Huwayda (Hoda) Alfaqih
In this episode of The Moss Report Podcast, Rachael Moss speaks with breast cancer thriver, Hoda Alfaqih. She shares her story of the life that led to her diagnosis, and how she has changed and...
Natural Compounds for a Suppression-Centric Anticancer Strategy
Myfanwy J. Webb, Ph.D is a Conjoint Fellow in the School of Medicine and Public Health College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. After being diagnosed...
Rache Simmons on Cryoablation for Breast Cancer
Rache Simmons, MD, is a distinguished surgeon at Weill-Cornell Medical School. She is a graduate of Duke University and Duke University Medical School. In this episode, Simmons discusses her...
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...
The Budwig Diet and Cancer— Separating Flax from Fiction
The Budwig Diet is one of the most popular home remedies for cancer. Its most famous ingredient is a mixture of flaxseed oil and cottage cheese. It is thus sometimes also called the Oil Protein...
Flor-Essence® and Breast Cancer
Burdock - Essiac - Arctigenin Burdock (Arctium lappa) was originally imported from Japan but now grows worldwide. It is a biennial plant found abundantly in the northern U.S. and Europe, where it...
Do Antioxidants Harm Cancer Patients? A Reply to Prof. Watson
Left to Right, James D. Watson, PhD, Ralph W. Moss, PhDA Letter to James Watson In January 2013, James D. Watson, Ph.D., co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix, published a paper in which he called...
Does Resveratrol Promote Growth of Estrogen-Dependent Tumors?
Resveratrol, A Complex TopicMany patients would like to take various foods, diets, supplements, etc. alongside their conventional treatments in order to improve the outcome and decrease possible...
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,...
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.”...
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,...
Hyperthermia and Breast Cancer Research
Hyperthermia and Breast CancerQuotes from the research: “Tumors treated with radiotherapy alone or radiotherapy plus one heat treatment started to regrow, whereas those treated with radiotherapy...
Sleep and the Cancer Patient
Hypnotic Prescriptions For cancer patients, sleep can become difficult. A study in the British Medical Journal reported that prescription hypnotic aids (a.k.a. sleeping pills) are associated with...
Molecular and Genomic Testing
An Essential Topic in Oncology Molecular or genomic testing is among the essential topics in oncology. The fundamental question is whether or not one can analyze live, frozen, or preserved tissue...
Keeping Active Helps Prevent Breast and Pancreatic Cancer
Postmenopausal women who remain active have a lower risk of breast cancer An important lifestyle habit that helps prevent cancer is exercise. Scientists at the Alberta Cancer Board in Canada...
Physical Activity and Breast Cancer
A Powerful Protective AssociationThe following paper “rocked the research community involved in cancer survivorship” (to quote a Duke University professor). The subjects were 2,987 breast cancer...
Exercise Combats Fatigue and Fights Recurrence
Cancer and Exercise A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) showed that “among older, long-term survivors of colorectal, breast, and prostate cancer, a diet and exercise...
Galectin-3 and Cancer
Role of Galectin-3 and Modified Citrus PectinGalectin-3 is a proteinGalectin-3 is a protein whose production is encoded by one particular gene (called LGALS3). It is one of 14 lectins that have...
Repurposed Drugs for Cancer Stem Cells
A Very Promising Area of Study There are various repurposed drugs that target cancer stem cells (CSCs). These include metformin, doxycycline, mebendazole, thioridazine, disulfiram, statins,...
Tetrathiomolybdate
Lowering Copper Levels in the BloodAmmonium Tetrathiomolybdate (T.M.) is a drug that inhibits the development of new blood vessels in cancer by lowering levels of the common mineral copper in the...
SPDT4LIFE Clinic in China
“SPDT4LIFE” Clinic in ChinaXiaohuai Wang, MD, of Guangzhou, China, made his first presentation on the clinical effects of SPDT treatment at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Society of...
Sonophotodynamic Therapy
Sono Photodynamic Therapy After meeting Xiaohuai Wang, MD, of Guangzhou, at an ASCO annual meeting in Chicago, we visited him and toured hospital facilities in Guangzhou, Xi’an, Shanghai, and...
Do Cell Phones and Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields RFEMF Cause Cancer?
What does Science Say? Do devices such as cell or mobile phones, which emit radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF), cause cancer? According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), this is...
Chronobiology
Greater Benefit and Lower Risk The New York Times has discovered chronobiology, including chronomodulated chemotherapy. The science writer Olivia Judson, Ph.D., in the course of a column on...
Bone Metastases
Treatments Cancer of many kinds can spread to the bones from elsewhere in the body. In fact, bone metastases are by far the most common cause of cancer within the bones of the skeleton. Generally...
The EMT Transition
The So-Called Epithelial-To-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT).One standard explanation of metastasis is the epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT). Mesenchymal cells are undifferentiated loose...
Metastatic Cancer- Poole and Watson
A Tale of Two Papers Poole and Watson I would like to contrast the mainstream media's reception of the papers of E.M. Poole and her colleagues with the opposing views on antioxidants of Nobel...
Does Screening Mammography Work?
Annual Mammograms The American Cancer Society (ACS) urges women 40 and older to have annual mammograms. "Mammography is especially valuable as an early detection tool because it can identify...