Breast Cancer TNBC and IBC Treatment Guide
This diagnosis-specific guide explains current evidence on standard treatments, including benefits, risks, side effects and key questions to ask your doctors. It is based on independent research...
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Curcumin & Chemotherapy: Encouraging Clinical Results
Two randomized trials suggest that a long-debated natural compound may enhance chemotherapy response. Curcumin may be the most studied natural compound in modern cancer research, and one of the...
Dr. Eliaz Responds to Questions about BreastDefend
Dr. Eliaz Responds to Questions about BreastDefend- by Ralph W. Moss, PhD. A paper on a new dietary supplement for breast cancer has appeared this week in the online version of Integrative Cancer...
Sound Waves Can Kill Cancer
Sound Waves Can Kill Cancer I once wrote that only Dr. X. Wang of Guangzhou had published his results using this method. This was incorrect. Dr. Julian Kenyon has also published his results in a...
Overcoming Side Effects of Tamoxifen
A study in 2010 found that traditional acupuncture can help relieve the adverse side effects of the commonly used drug, tamoxifen. Fifty participants with early breast cancer completed eight...
Triple Negative Breast Cancer: A Highly Significant Finding
Ralf Kleef, MD, Vienna, Austria TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER: A HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT FINDING In mid-September 2018, the medical journal Integrative Cancer Therapies (SAGE), published a...
Is this One Dollar Pill a Breast Cancer Breakthrough?
Can this pill save lives? A one dollar pill may prevent many early relapses and deaths from breast cancer. It also may work on some other common form of cancers. This is the suggestion of some...
Indomethacin (Indocin) NSAID Repurposed for its Anticancer Potential
An “NSAID” repurposed for its anticancer potential Indomethacin (Indocin®) is an “NSAID,” or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug. It is most commonly used to reduce pain and inflammation, such...
Low-Dose Metronomic Chemotherapy
Low-dose Metronomic Chemotherapy Conventional chemotherapy (especially in the U.S.) is generally based on the principle of the maximum tolerated dose (MTD). This approach aims to administer high...
Harvard Study, Antioxidants Safe for Breast Cancer Patients?
Good News about Antioxidants A study from Harvard University has confirmed that the use of vitamin or antioxidant supplements after a diagnosis of breast cancer (BC) does not increase the risk of...
Cryoablation for Breast Cancer
Freezing The Tumor Many breast cancer patients are looking for an alternative to surgery to remove their tumors. One possibility is cryoablation. “Cryo” has the advantage of a painless, bloodless...
Ketorolac – Toradol®
A Remarkable Discovery There has been a remarkable discovery concerning the effect on cancer relapse of a common prescription drug, ketorolac (Toradol®). Michael W. Retsky, Ph.D. formerly of the...
A Surprising Survey about Chemo for Breast Cancer
Is Chemo Beneficial?In the Summer of 2001, there was an odd study of women with breast cancer who were receiving chemotherapy. They were asked whether they would still take chemotherapy even if...
Bazell Report on Anthracycline-Based Chemotherapy
An Outspoken CriticI read with interest a recent news report by Robert Bazell, NBC’s chief science and health correspondent. Bear in mind that Bazell has written a book on the development of the...
Can Chemotherapy Destroy Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs)?
A Crucial QuestionA CTC is a ‘Circulating Tumor Cell’. There is a crucial question of whether chemotherapy can destroy CTCs. Breast cancerIn a big study of women with breast cancer, CTCs were...
Radiation Advocated After Surgery for Ductal Carcinoma
In an article appearing in the Lancet (July 12, 2003), scientists report that radiation therapy after surgery can reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrences in women with ductal carcinoma in...
Acupuncture for AI Joint Pain
No Systemic Side EffectsAromatase inhibitors (AI) are well known for causing joint pain. There was a randomized trial of over 200 women on the use of acupuncture to counteract that sort of pain....
Combination Therapy for Breast Cancer
Everolimus (Afinitor) and Exemestane Scientists continue to refine the chemotherapy treatment for postmenopausal women whose advanced breast cancer has stopped responding to standard hormonal...
Seacure®
Carp Fish One unique dietary research project concerns using an extract of the carp fish (Cyprinus carpio) to reduce chemotherapy’s side effects. Drs. Y. Kimura and H. Okuda of Ehime University,...
Boswellia (Frankincense)
Lipoxygenase (LOX)Frankincense is a sap tapped from the Boswellia tree by slashing the bark and allowing the resins to flow and harden. This odd-sounding substance has been used in folk medicine...
Ashwagandha – Withania Somnifera
Ayurveda Traditional Indian medicine, called Ayurveda, is a treasure trove of concepts and treatments for cancer, as well as other diseases. Like traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda requires a...
Cannabis and CBD Oil
Attitudes Are Changing Perhaps the most famous herb in the world is Cannabis (Cannabis sativa or Cannabis indica). As of this writing, Cannabis is legal in about half the U.S. states and is in...
AHCC Interactions – Drug-Herb Conflicts
AHCC and Doxorubicin (Adriamycin®) and Ondansetron (Zofran®)We cannot review every possible interaction. But let us take as an example one item on our list. AHCC stands for Active Hexose...
History of Breast Cancer Treatment
An Ancient Disease From the time of the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt until the late nineteenth century, the standard treatment of breast cancer – if it was treated at all – was painful, brutal, and...
National Cancer Institute Press Release Distorts Results on Raloxifene
Evista vs Tamoxifen Tamoxifen (sold in the US as Nolvadex®) is a useful drug. It can reduce the chance of developing breast cancer in women who are at high risk of that disease and can...
Breast Cancer and the Hype Over Herceptin
Big Buzz I have nothing against miracles, but whenever there’s a big buzz about a new drug, it’s a fair bet it’ll be down to the usual suspects: vested interests, early research, and uncritical...
Breast Cancer Incidence and Hormone Replacement Therapy
What Caused a Sudden Decline in Breast Cancer Cases? You may remember the news, announced in mid-December, 2007, that breast cancer incidence in the U.S. had plummeted by seven percent, or...
Radiation
Transcript What is radiation therapy, is it harmful, is it dangerous? Is it painful? Well, all of those questions arise, and I'm not going to go into any great detail to describe the physics of...
The PREDICT® Nomogram
Gray Zone An invasive ductal carcinoma that does not have any obvious signs of aggressiveness creates a difficult “gray zone” of confusion. The big question is whether or not a patient needs...
Do PARP Inhibitors Work?
Poly ADP Ribose Polymerase The acronym PARP stands for “poly ADP ribose polymerase.” For the past few years, a great many hopes have been riding on the alleged effectiveness of this...
What does Perjeta Add to Herceptin for Breast Cancer?
What does Perjeta Add to Herceptin for Breast Cancer? If you use the Predict nomogram from the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS), created by Cambridge University scientists, you get a...
Stunning Avastin Reversal
A Revocation In a stunning rebuke to a former director of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), an advisory panel has recommended removing the approval of the drug Avastin® (bevacizumab) for...
Femara Takes the Cancer World by Storm
Hailed as a Breakthrough for Breast Cancer It is being hailed as the biggest breakthrough in the treatment of breast cancer in years. An anti-estrogen drug called Femara (letrozole) has been...
Triple-Negative Breast Cancer and Genetic Mutations
Falling Down the Rabbit Hole! Scientists studying triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC or ER-PR-HER2-) at Vanderbilt University made a disturbing discovery. Even after receiving chemotherapy...