How Big is Big? Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Big Survival Gain A front-page headline in Oncology Times reads, “Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Big Survival Gain Adding Irinotecan to 5-FU/Leucovorin” (December 2000). But the study itself tells...
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Effectiveness of Bevacizumab (Avastin®)
A Study ShowedHow effective is bevacizumab (Avastin®)? A study of advanced colorectal cancer showed that progression-free survival went from 6.2 months with chemo to 9.2 months when Avastin was...
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,...
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)...
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...
Gut Health, Microbiome & Cancer
Gut Health, Microbiome & Cancer - Can this garden of tiny plants in the gut help fight cancer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXGdgkca1YA There is almost a 1:1 correspondence between the...
Article about me from the Northern Mariana Islands!
Nice to be talked about in a newspaper (Saipan News) from the Northern Mariana Islands! No Cure for Cancer By Russ Mason Posted on Oct 27 2016 Tag: FDA, New York City, people, Walker Labs...
The Strange Case of GcMAF
Another Alternative Cancer Treatment GcMAF is another "alternative" cancer treatment that has gotten a great deal of attention in the past few years. There is a very complete discussion of GcMAF...
Israeli Supplement Targets Colon Cancer
Coltect A new food supplement from Israel targets colon and rectal cancer, as well as ulcerative colitis and other bowel diseases. The product, which has yet to hit the world market, is called...
Vitamin D and Cancer with William B. Grant, PhD
In this episode, Dr. Ralph Moss talks with William Grant, PhD, one of the leading experts on vitamin D and cancer. Grant is the founding director of Sunlight, Nutrition, and Health Research...
Goldman Sachs to Biotech: Don’t Cure Cancer
Cancer is a growth industry. And drug companies are not interested in curing cancer. It is more profitable to turn it into a chronic condition. They can then offer “chronic treatments.”...
Probiotics and Cancer: Boosting the Immune System
There is new evidence that probiotics and cancer are related. Microbes often found in yogurt can boost the immune system and help beat malignant diseases! At least this helps explain why some...
Garlic: The Cancer Cure…Of Mice and Men?
Laboratory Results An extract of raw garlic beats cancer in the laboratory. A senior researcher at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, has shown that injections of raw garlic extract (RGE)...
How to Make Ralph’s Superior Seed Crackers
Fighting Cancer and T2 Diabetes One Seed Cracker at a Time There are many links between a typical high carbohydrate diet and the high rates of T2 diabetes and cancer (especially in the U.S.A.)...
Coffee Prevents Cancer but 9 out of 10 are making it wrong. #nofilter
Coffee is a healthful habit that helps prevent some kinds of cancer. And Italian-style coffee in particular may prevent cancer of the prostate gland. As a rule, coffee gets a bad rap in medical...
Biological Dentistry and Amalgam Fillings
Biological Dentistry Biological dentistry is a subspecialty that examines the condition of the teeth in relation to the rest of the body. It seeks to identify known or unsuspected dental...
Graviola or Annona Muricata or Brazilian Paw-Paw
Is Graviola a Fad? Graviola (Annona Muricata) burst on the scene in 1999 and was soon incorporated into many cancer patients' regimens. A number of alternative practitioners then recommended it...
Is All Cancer Trophoblastic?
The Strange Story of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Odd as it may seem, the occurrence of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), the pregnancy hormone, figures prominently in a number of notorious...
Antioxidants and Vitamins in Cancer Treatment and Prevention pt 1
Antioxidants, Vitamins and Cancer There are many philosophical issues that divide the mainstream oncology community from those who practice complementary and/or alternative medicine (CAM), but...
The Halifax Project
A Three Year StudyIn 2015, Keith I. Block, MD, co-founder of the Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment, Skokie, Ill., and 179 other scientists, published a new conceptual model of cancer...
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...
Cancer Stem Cells and Angiogenesis
Thousands of Studies on CSCsA key characteristic of malignant disease is the central importance of cancer stem cells in a long list of cancer types. CSCs were first characterized at the molecular...
Understanding Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs)
The Battle in the Body Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are like the generals who oversee the battle. They stand high above the fray while directing their troops. They are a minuscule fraction of the...
Blocking Cancer Stem Cells Naturally
Phytochemicals that Block CSCsPhytochemicals (also called nutriceuticals) comprise several different kinds of agents. Resveratrol, soy isoflavones, sulforaphane, curcumin, and EGCG/green tea are...
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.”...
Should Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy Be Prescribed Antioxidants?
Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy and AntioxidantsIn September 2005, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians published a warning by Gabriella D’Andrea, MD, against the concurrent use of antioxidants with...
Hyperthermia Continues to Advance
Technical and Scientific Progress The forward march of hyperthermia is one of the most encouraging developments in integrative oncology. The 21st Century Oncology center in Fort Myers, Florida,...
Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA)
Killing Cancer Cells via Thermal Coagulative NecrosisRadiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a minimally invasive technique for removing, or “ablating,” tumors. RFA induces cell death by what is called...
Hyperthermia Success in Treating Rectal Cancer and Lung Cancer
The Research is Heating Up Hyperthermia (heat therapy) continues to rack up successes in treating various types of cancer. The latest report came at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s...
Intraperitoneal Heated Chemotherapy – HIPEC
Bringing the Heat to ChemoCarcinomatosis is the name given to the condition in advanced cancer where multiple metastases have seeded themselves widely in distant organs. When this occurs in...
Immune Checkpoint Drug History
The Long History of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors It does not diminish Jim Allison’s remarkable achievements to note that scientists have long known that tumors employ mechanisms to block the...
Low-Dose Chemotherapy and Cyclophosphamide
Combining Therapies “There was a traditional notion that combining immunotherapy and chemotherapy may not be desirable due to the possible immunosuppressive nature of cytotoxic chemotherapy....
Fundamentals of Immunotherapy
Fundamental Methods of Immunotherapy Action Active specific immunotherapy (ASI) involves immunizing the patient with tumor cells and/or cell extracts, either alone or in combination with an...
The Immune System and the Role of Immunotherapy
A Healthy Immune System is Primed One thing that almost all cancers have in common is that they are related to the immune system. A healthy immune system is primed to attack ”non-self” as opposed...
Irritation of Immune System Blamed for Cancer
How Does Cancer Get Started? Mainstream medicine believes that most cancer originates because of mysterious processes taking place in our genes. Environmental theories have fallen on hard...
Dendritic Cell (DC) Vaccines
Are DC Vaccines Established Medicine?Dendritic cells were actually discovered in the 19th century, but the name “dendritic cells” (DCs) was not attached to them until 1973 (by Ralph M. Steinman...