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...
Breast Cancer TNBC and IBC
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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...
Big Shift on Mammography
On November 16, 2009, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) revised its previous position and came out against annual screening mammograms. The new recommendations included the following...
Big Blow to Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer
Adjuvant Treatment Radiation is widely used as an adjuvant treatment after surgery for breast cancer. It is primarily administered to prevent recurrences and is quite effective at doing so. But...
The Potential Danger of Mammograms
Screening Mammography can be used either to diagnose a known condition or, more commonly, to screen a general population that has no signs or symptoms of disease. There is little argument that...
Why Some Docs Give Too Frequent Radiation
Two Competing Forms of Radiation It is often claimed that decisions in oncology are made solely on the basis of the effectiveness of treatments. I cannot tell you how many times I have been...
Modified Fractionation Schemes
Hyperfractionation These are innovative schedules that adjust the time frame in which radiation is delivered to decrease the toxicity of treatment and increase the total amount of radiation...
The Abscopal Effect and Immune Resistance
The Abscopal Effect and Immune Resistance It is sometimes asserted, as a matter of dogma, that a local treatment cannot have any systemic effects. However, sometimes damaging or removing a tumor...
Anti Angiogenesis Drugs
Oldest Targeted Drugs Anti-angiogenic drugs are the oldest category of targeted drugs. They are aimed at a tumor’s ability to either generate new blood vessels or recruit already existing vessels...
Northern California CAM Cancer Clinics
CAM in CA The CAM situation in northern California is favorable. In other words, the chances of finding a CAM practitioner to provide intelligent help with cancer are good in this region....
Greater Chicago CAM Center Clinics
A Hub of Medicine Chicago is America’s third most populous city and the Greater Chicago area (population, 9.9 million) is the U.S.’s third largest urban area. This sprawling metropolis, which...
Greater Houston, Texas Clinics
Everything’s Bigger in Texas We focus our investigations in Texas on the Greater Houston area. Houston is America’s fourth largest city, and its metropolitan area encompasses 5.6 million people....
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in Houston, Texas
CAM in Houston Houston is America's fourth largest city, and its metropolitan area encompasses more than 5.7 million people. It is home to the largest medical complex on earth, the Texas Medical...
Hope4Cancer -Tony Jimenez
Vigorous Adoption of New Methods Hope4Cancer is an inpatient facility in the Playas section of Tijuana, across the street from the Pacific Ocean. When we last visited Antonio Jimenez, MD—“Dr....
Resveratrol
Resveratrol: A Natural Phytoalexin Found in Grapes Chemical Complexity Grapes are chemically complex but have been better studied than most other plants. There are hundreds of separate...
Curcumin – Turmeric
Studies Are Conclusive “Most data published on curcumin are very promising. In cancer research, the majority of data has been obtained in vitro [in test tubes]. Less frequently, researchers used...
Green Tea (EGCG)
One of the Big Five Green tea is one of the “Big Five” nutraceuticals that kill cancer stem cells (per Naujokat and McKee’s excellent paper on the topic). EGCG (the main solid ingredient in green...
Flax and Flaxseed Oil
Myth, Reality, and The Budwig Diet A comprehensive review by Bangladeshi scientists showed that flaxseeds (Linum. usitatissimum) contain many constituents, such as omega-3 fatty acids, lignans,...
Calorie Restriction and Related Topics
Autophagy and “Peak Fasting” The concept of autophagy supports the reason for prolonging the (standard) nightly fast. Toshinori Ohsumi, MD, received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology...
Milk, Dairy and Cancer
Heavy Whipping Cream, Fatty Cheeses, Fresh Ricotta … The first thing that some people do when they learn they have cancer is to swear off all milk and dairy products. Prof. Colin Campbell’s...
Soy and Cancer
A Compound (or isoflavone) Called Genistein “Genistein, the most prevalent phytoestrogen in soy, is a potent endocrine disruptor and tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) that causes apoptosis in many...
Breast Cancer and Fiber
Eat More Fiber Chinese scientists have taken a fresh look at dietary fiber and concluded that women who eat more fiber are less likely to develop breast cancer (BC). In a retrospective review of...
High Fructose Corn Syrup HFCS and Cancer
A Harmful Invasion HFCS is a manufactured form of fructose that has invaded an astonishing number of supermarket foods. Those foods that do not contain HFCS may contain chemically similar but...
Does Red Wine Prevent Breast Cancer?
3 to 6 Glasses of Wine Per Week At first sight, the data on the effect of wine on the risk of breast cancer (BC) appear contradictory. For example, in November 2011 there was a report in the New...
Broccoli and Cancer
Is Broccoli Suspect?Indole-3-carbinolOne drug-nutrient interaction of relevance to cancer patients is the use of indole-3-carbinol, derived from broccoli, with erlotinib (Tarceva®), a drug used...
Intermittent Fasting and Breast Cancer
Win-Win at Zero CostThe subjects of an important study on intermittent fasting were 2,413 women with breast cancer, aged 27 to 70 years, who participated in the Women’s Healthy Eating and Living...
Poultry and Cancer
What does the science show? Many vegetarian authors similarly claim that any form of meat, including chicken, duck, or other poultry, is harmful to those seeking to prevent the occurrence or...
Soy and Breast Cancer
Soy-Breast Cancer Controversy Here is a good summary of the soy-breast cancer controversy from the Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University: “The results of cell culture and animal...
Fish and Cancer
Fish Oil and Seafood a Plus Total vegetarians or vegans discourage the consumption of all animal flesh, including fish. Others, such as Keith I. Block, MD, advocates “pescetarianism,” and allows...
Soy and Breast Cancer
Soy Exhibits Anti-Estrogenic Properties Soy isoflavones consumption is associated overall with an 11% reduction in breast cancer incidence. However, the protective effect was primarily observed...
Pomegranate Extract and POMI-T
Pomegranate, Broccoli, Turmeric, and Green TeaScientists at the University at Albany, SUNY, showed that a pomegranate extract (PE) killed breast cancer stem cells. They concluded that pomegranate...
Flax and Breast Cancer
Flaxseed and Tamoxifen There is a similarity between flaxseed (or soy) and the drug tamoxifen, used in the treatment of premenopausal women with breast cancer. This is because: “Tamoxifen...
Grape Seed Extract
Waste to Want Grape seeds are a byproduct of the wine industry, a waste material turned into a valuable health supplement. This is because grape seeds contain proanthocyanidins, which are valued...
Cat’s Claw May Be Beneficial in Breast Cancer
Impact on the Immune System Recently, there was a small, randomized controlled trial (RCT) on the effects of cat’s claw (Uncaria tomentosa) on the immune system of women with stage II invasive...