Follicular Lymphoma (NHL) 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...
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...
Clinic Director: MD. CALDERON ALEJANDRA Dr. Alejandra Calderón, born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1967, has an extensive medical background specializing in internal medicine and hematology. She...
Dr. Donato Perez Garcia is a medical doctor recognized for his continuation and advancement of Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT). This therapy, originally developed by his grandfather, Dr....
Situated in Bad Mergentheim, Germany, the Hufeland Klinik is a well-established center for holistic cancer therapy. Founded in 1985, the clinic focuses on whole-body hyperthermia and other...
Bad Emstal, Germany Arcadia Praxisklinik in Germany operates under a unique treatment philosophy known as the "Arcadia way to health." This philosophy emphasizes not just medical treatment but...
Located in Greiz, Germany, Klinik im LEBEN (In LIFE) has been offering holistic medical services since its inception. It focuses on individualized, integrative approaches to cancer care and...
BioCare Hospital & Wellness Center is led by Dr. Rodrigo Rodriguez. The hospital has a team of 8 MD attending physicians. They offer treatment for a wide range of cancers. The center provides...
Tijuana, Mexico Stella Maris is a small clinic specializing in advanced-stage cancer treatments using a multimodal approach. The clinic employs varied chemotherapy regimens, including both...
The Immunotherapy Institute, led by Dr. Ariel Perez, offers treatments for a wide spectrum of cancers, including Carcinomas, Sarcomas, Lymphoma, Melanoma, and more. Dr. Perez is a...
Established in 1963, the Bio Medical Center was founded by Mildred Nelson, who served as the chief nurse for Harry Hoxsey. Ms. Nelson led the clinic until her passing in 1999. Currently, the...
Founded by Dr. Myron Wentz, the Sanoviv Medical Institute operates under the directorship of Ramsés Ortega, MD. Sanoviv Medical Institute views cancer as a significant degenerative disease and...
PolyMVA–A Friendly Skeptic’s ViewIn December 1998, I had the pleasure of receiving a visit from Merrill Garnett, DDS. Garnett is a former naval dentist who took up medical research in 1959 and...
Drug for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Elsewhere I wrote that an FDA advisory panel had recommended that the agency approve a new drug for Hodgkin lymphoma, brentuximab. In August 2011, the FDA gave...
FDA Panel Approves New Drug for Lymphoma A key panel of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has voted to recommend accelerated approval for the injectable drug brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris®)....
Transcript One of the most interesting and promising of all food supplements for cancer is fermented wheat germ extract. This also goes by other names Avemar, Ave, Aveultra and more recently...
There are few types of medicine that cause as many side effects as chemotherapy. The reason for this is because it goes back to the history of chemotherapy that it's targeted against fat, rapidly...
“That any sane nation would give a surgeon a financial interest in cutting off your leg, is enough to make one despair of humanity. But that is precisely what we have done. And the more appalling...
“Why We're Losing the War on Cancer” An article of extraordinary importance has appeared in Fortune magazine. It is titled "Why We're Losing the War on Cancer." The author, Clifton Leaf, is...
A Well-Known Figure In The World Of Complementary And Alternative Medicine Kenneth (Ken) Schueler, a well-known figure in the world of complementary and alternative medicine, passed away from...
A Prominent ResearcherRay Rosenthal, MD, a prominent researcher of CAM treatments, died on Wednesday, April 17, after being involved in a traffic accident in his home state of Hawaii. He...
Dean Emeritus, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, and founder of the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development I note with sadness the passing of Louis Lasagna, MD, Dean...
Protein-Bound Polysaccharide K (PSK) Protein-bound polysaccharide K (PSK) is derived from shiitake mushrooms, which belong to the genus Basidiomycetes. PSK is an approved medication in Japan,...
Cytotoxic Effects of PSK Protein-bound polysaccharide K (PSK) is derived from shiitake mushrooms. This belongs to the genus Basidiomycetes. PSK is an approved medication in Japan, among the...
The Longevity MushroomReishi (Ganoderma lucidum) is known as the “longevity mushroom” in Asia. It has been used medicinally for over 4,000 years. It is one of what has been called the five major...
A Mass of Mycelium Although often called a mushroom, Chaga (Inonotus obliquus) is an unusual parasite that grows on the bark of ‘wounded’ trees (with poorly healed branch stubs), mainly birch...
Concern Over Harmful Herb-Drug InteractionsMuch of the concern over harmful herb-drug interactions revolves around a class of enzymes (or proteins) in the so-called cytochrome P450 family. These...
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...
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...
The Most Effective Blockers of Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs) Our supplement charts consist of several different kinds of agents. Resveratrol, soy isoflavones, sulforaphane, curcumin, and EGCG/green...
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...
A Wide Variety of Clinics I recently returned from a three-week tour of European cancer hospitals. My 3,000-mile journey took me and my staff to holistic clinics in Germany, Switzerland and...
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...
A Regulated System The Phoenix Metropolitan Area, or the Valley of the Sun, has a population of over 4.4 million, making it the 12th largest metropolitan area in the U.S. Arizona also has some of...
A Visit to the IAT Clinic In March 2011, I visited the Immune Augmentative Therapy (IAT) Centre in Freeport, Bahamas. I first visited this clinic in 1980 and have been back periodically since...
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...
A Targeted Therapy Another type of targeted therapy is the “monoclonal antibody.” Normal antibodies are naturally produced by our B-type lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell). They are...