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Can Chemotherapy Kill You?

Ten Scientific StudiesHere, we will consider ten scientific studies that show that chemotherapy quickly kills a certain percentage of patients who receive it. In most studies that number is in...

The Case of Xalkori (crizotinib)

Conflicts of InterestAlmost every study of a new cancer drug is riddled with conflicts of interest. Let us focus on one of these drugs, crizotinib (Xalkori®). But we could conduct the same sort...

Garlic In the Fight Against Cancer

Raw Garlic Extract (RGE)Zheng Cui, MD, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Tumor Biology at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, published a paper showing that a raw extract of garlic wiped out...

Biases in Clinical Trials

Assessing the Effects of a New DrugThere are various ways in which the sponsors of a clinical trial can exaggerate the effects of a new drug on progression-free survival (PFS). This can be done...

Lymphoma and Adcetris®

 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...

MDS, Leukemia and Vidaza®

Vidaza® and Myelodysplastic Syndrome and LeukemiaOne of the most interesting drugs for treating myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) [also called myelodysplasia syndrome] and leukemia is called...

Lung Cancer and Xalkori

Companion Diagnostics In August 2011, the FDA approved Pfizer’s new anticancer pill, crizotinib (Xalkori®). The approval was unusual in several respects. Approval was for a very specific...

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FDA Panel Approves New Drug for Lymphoma

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®)....

Exosomes

Unmasking the Tumor…

Can a Pen-Sized Device Clean the Blood? There is a common idea that cancer arises simply because of the weakness of the patient’s immune system. Supposedly, our white blood cells (WBCs) patrol...

Disclaimer

Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D. Is Not a Medical Doctor Ralph W. Moss earned a doctor of philosophy degree from Stanford University (1974) and has been a medical journalist in the cancer field since that...

Molecular and Genomic Testing

A Most Essential Topic Molecular and genomic testing is among the most essential topics in oncology. The fundamental question is, Can scientists analyze tissue at the molecular level to yield...

Traffic Light Guide To CAM Treatments

Here's our personal "traffic light" list of complementary and alternative cancer treatments based on their relative effectiveness (or danger). Just like science, it's constantly evolving based on...

Ralph Moss’ Personal Story, Pt. 1

Personal Story Ralph Moss - Transcript Hi, my name is Ralph Moss. I'm a professional science writer. Basically, I've been writing about cancer almost exclusively for nearly 50 years, and I want...

Chemo Side Effects

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...

Chemotherapy

Transcript So what is chemotherapy? Chemotherapy is the use of chemicals or drugs to kill cancer cells or to stop them from dividing, and it's basically poison. You know, in the old days when...

Detection, Testing & Diagnostics

Transcript How do you detect cancer? This is a question that comes up in many different contexts, and I realize that at first this might seem a bit academic and dry, but just stay with me and...

Radiation

Transcript What is radiation therapy, is it harmful, is it dangerous? Is it painful? Well, all of those questions arise, and I'm not going to go into any great detail to describe the physics of...

Surgery

Transcript The physical removal of a tumor is the basic medical approach to cancer. In fact, it's been so for about 5000 years. I once went up to the New York Academy of Medicine library and they...

Fermented Wheat Germ

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...