Prostate and PSA Testing
The ControversyIn October 2011 a national controversy broke out over the question of whether to screen healthy men for prostate cancer (PC) using the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test. An...
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PSA Use Sharply Questioned
A Pillar is Tottering A pillar of the cancer establishment is tottering. The widely used Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) blood test, designed to detect prostate cancer while it is still in its...
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...
Action Alert: SPES and PC SPES
Herbal Company Recalls Two ProductsFebruary 12, 2002–BotanicLab, an herbal product company based in Brea, Calif., recalled two of its leading products, SPES and PC SPES, after the California...
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...
My Cancer Journey – Prostate Cancer Recurrence Update – pt. 1
In this first installment of My Cancer Journey – Recurrence Update, Ralph W. Moss, PhD shares a deeply personal account of his experience with prostate cancer—ten years after his initial...
My Cancer Journey – Prostate Cancer Recurrence Update – pt. 2
In Part 2 of My Cancer Journey, Dr. Ralph W. Moss discusses why he chose to undergo radiation therapy following a recurrence of prostate cancer—and the critical role of a device called SpaceOAR....
My Cancer Journey – Prostate Cancer Recurrence Update – pt. 3
In this third installment of My Cancer Journey, Dr. Ralph W. Moss shares his thoughts on beginning radiation therapy for prostate cancer. Speaking candidly about the emotional and scientific...
My Cancer Journey – Prostate Cancer Recurrence Update – pt. 4
In this fourth episode of My Cancer Journey, Dr. Ralph Moss shares his experience after two weeks of radiation therapy for recurrent prostate cancer. While the treatment itself feels almost...
My Cancer Journey – Prostate Cancer Recurrence Update – pt. 5
In this fifth installment of My Cancer Journey, Dr. Ralph Moss reflects on reaching the halfway point of his radiation treatment for recurrent prostate cancer. Although the radiation sessions...
How to Starve Cancer with Jane McLelland
Dr. Moss and author Jane McLelland speak about topics in her book "How to Starve Cancer Without Starving Yourself". Learn Ralph’s Mushroom Soup RecipeCoffee and Cancer Transcript Welcome...
Modified Citrus Pectin Advances
Modified Citrus Pectin Advances There was a major advance in understanding the effects of modified citrus pectin (MCP) on cancer cells. Scientists at Columbia University published a paper showing...
Patrick Quillin, PhD, RD, CNS on Diet and Nutrition
Patrick Quillin, PhD, RD, CNS, is a well-known expert in the area of nutrition and cancer. He has 40 years experience as a clinical nutritionist, of which 10 years were spent as the Vice...
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...
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...
Modified Citrus Pectin Fights Cancer Metastases
Modified citrus pectin fights cancer metastases. This makes it potentially one of the most important substances in the complementary arsenal against cancer. MCP is a chemically altered form of...
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...
Fighting Cancer with COLD: The Mystery and History of CRYOTHERAPY
What is Cryotherapy for Cancer? Have you heard about the thermal, or focal, ablation of cancer? This is a form of treatment that eliminates the need for surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy....
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...
Beljanski Remedies – Some Positive Research
Pao pereira used in Beljanski’s productsBeljanski RemediesSeveral new medications were invented by Prof. Mirko Beljanski (1923-1998), a Serbian-French molecular biologist who received his...
Antioxidant Beta-Carotene Found ‘Innocent’ in Clinical Trial
Antioxidants Did Not Interfere with Radiotherapy A historic study on the use of the antioxidant beta-carotene during radiation therapy for prostate cancer (PC) appeared in a major international...
Antioxidants and Radiation
CONCURRENT USE OF ANTIOXIDANTS AND RADIATION We will now consider antioxidants’ concurrent use with a major form of conventional treatment: radiation therapy. There have been two major clinical...
Cancer Stem Cells History
Cancer Stem Cells HistoryThe existence of cancer stem cells was suspected in the 19th century by the likes of Rudolph Virchow, Julius F. Cohnheim, and John Beard, D.Sc. These European biology...
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...
Drugs to Counter Cancer Stem Cells
Anti Cancer Stem Cell Drugs in Development There are a number of start-up companies that are trying to develop drugs to target cancer stem cells. None of these has been conspicuously successful,...
Cryoablation – Cryosurgery Basics
Frozen OutCryosurgery (also called cryoablation) is a technique that destroys tumor tissue through the application of subzero temperatures. This is a promising and less toxic way of destroying...
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,...
Of Enzymes, Worms and Cancer
Out in the Garden That unloved little girl of the children's rhyme, who sat in the garden eating worms, may have been onto something. There is a new health product on the market called...
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,...
Hyperthermia Moves to Fore as CAM Treatment of Cancer
Heat Therapy for Cancer Continues to Gain Support Hyperthermia refers to heating a particular region of the body or heating the whole body, in order to fight cancer. Hyperthermia works by (a)...