Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: Will They Work For You?
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: One of the most important questions about ICI therapy is who will respond to this new type of treatment. A recent paper from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson...
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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.)...
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...
Do Food Supplements Conflict with Cancers of the Immune System?
Supplements and the Immune System Do antioxidants and other immune-boosting supplements promote the growth of cancer cells that are themselves derived from the immune system—particularly...
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...
Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG)
Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG)Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have commented: “Bacillus Calmette-Guérin is one of the most successful immunotherapies in cancer...
Tumor Lysis Syndrome
Dead Cell DebrisReactions to rituximab therapyTumor lysis syndrome (TLS) is another, more serious reaction that has been reported following rituximab therapy. In a sense tumor lysis syndrome is a...
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...
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...
Are Metastases Partly Macrophages?
Wandering Cancer Cells If metastases are, at least, in part due to the activity of macrophages, then these cells already possess most or all of the key characteristics of wandering cancer cells....
Why Immune Surveillance is an Important Factor
What is Immunotherapy? Immunotherapy is a kind of treatment that uses the body’s own immune system to attack cancer. There are many different kinds of immunotherapy. This includes: The insertion...
Warburg, Aerobic Glycolysis
Warburg Revival Cancer cells differ fundamentally from normal cells One of the most remarkable developments of recent years has been the resurgence of interest in the cancer theories of Otto...
The Warburg Effect
Genius Discovery One of our guiding principles is derived from painstaking research from a century ago. The discovery of cancer’s abnormal metabolism was the work of one of the greatest geniuses...
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...
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...
The Origin of Targeted Therapies
Aren’t all cancer drugs targeted to kill malignant cells? Nowadays, much cancer research is devoted to a search for “targeted therapies.” But, in the context of cancer, what does the word...
Will Personalized Oncology Materialize?
Specific Targeted Solutions There is a buzzword in cancer: “personalized oncology.” This phrase originated decades ago, in relation to nanotechnology research. But John Niederhuber, MD, then...
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...
Cancer Genome Sequencing
Abnormalities Are Characteristic of Cancer Cancer genome sequencing means the analysis of all the genes in a cancer cell. Scientists first isolate tissues from the primary tumor, from metastatic...
New England CAM Cancer Clinics
Medical Powerhouses New England CAM-cancer clinics are virtually synonymous with Boston-area clinics. The city of Boston, with its population of 600,000+, lies at the heart of the...
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...
Ketogenic Diet
The Effects of Ketones on Cancer The NCI defines metabolism as: “The chemical changes that take place in a cell or an organism. These changes make energy and the materials cells and organisms...
Some Promising Non-Conventional Treatments
Avemar, Cimetidine, Maitake, Melatonin, Pau d'arco, and Sun Soup What are some of the best treatments that can be used by naturopathic doctors for the treatment of cancer? There are dozens, but...
Asparagus and Cancer
An Urban Myth? I was recently told by one of my phone consultees that he was taking a purée of asparagus as a treatment for his prostate cancer. For 35 years, I have been hearing about the...
Diabetes and Cancer
Type 2 and Pre-Diabetes and Metabolism As stated, t2 diabetes and prediabetes now afflict 47.5% of the adult American population. Similarly, in Asia, and elsewhere, the problem is getting out of...
Plants to Include in Your Anticancer Garden
Cancer Fighting Plants Numerous plants contain ingredients that fight against the occurrence and recurrence of cancer. Soy, grapes, broccoli, the list goes on. There is general agreement that...
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...
Dandelion
A Common Weed Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) is the most famous of all diuretics. The French name, pis-en-lit (i.e., urinate in bed), tells it all. Although regarded as a garden invasive, it is...
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...
The Cannabis Controversy
A Dearth of Research Why not just enthusiastically endorse anecdotal reports on the benefits of cannabis (marijuana) as a treatment for cancer? This is a sure path to popularity on the Internet....
What is EGCG and Should I Take It?
Natural Agents That Target BCR-ABL There are natural agents that target BCR-ABL and the other metabolic pathways of CML cells. One can think of these as natural tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs),...
Feverfew and Cancer Stem Cells
Chrysanthemum Many readers know the feverfew plant (Tanacetum parthenium), a member of the Chrysanthemum family, sometimes called bachelor's buttons. This is a cheerful-looking perennial, with...
Spirulina
Blue-Green Algae (Spirulina platensis)Spirulina is a concentrated food supplement derived from blue-green algae (Spirulina platensis) that grows abundantly in water. It is defined as a “water...
Natural Agents for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Sodium Salicylates Sodium salicylate is a sodium salt of salicylic acid. Historically, it has been prepared from methyl salicylate (which is found in wintergreen plants or the bark of sweet birch...