Cancer Immunotherapy – An Introduction
The Most Exciting Development in Oncology Signatures of Mutational Processes In Human Cancer “There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate...
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Exploiting Autoimmunity Unleashed by Low-Dose Immune Checkpoint Blockade to Treat Advanced Cancer
NOTE: This is a rather technical article of which we were second author. We thought some readers would be interested in the debate over how exactly immune checkpoint inhibitor drugs work....
Cancer As a Metabolic Disease- a Book Review
Warburg Rules! A Review of Thomas Seyfried’s Cancer As a Metabolic Disease Once in a long while, a book comes along that revolutionizes our understanding of the cancer problem. Such a book is...
3BP and the Metabolic Approach to Cancer
A Visit with Peter Pedersen and Young Hee Ko I traveled to Baltimore to interview Peter L. Pedersen, Ph.D., and Young Hee Ko, Ph.D., concerning the metabolic approach to cancer and their...
Metatrol (FWGE)
Fermented Wheat Germ Extract (FWGE) The idea for Metatrol (FWGE) as a cancer treatment originated in the 1970s with our friend and mentor, the Nobel laureate Albert Szent-Györgyi, MD, Ph.D., at...
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...
Brain Cancer and Exercise
Exercise can help prolong life A study of brain cancer survival argues for the benefits of exercise. Admittedly, it can be difficult for such patients to exercise, but it can help prolong...
Galectin-3 and Cancer
Role of Galectin-3 and Modified Citrus PectinGalectin-3 is a proteinGalectin-3 is a protein whose production is encoded by one particular gene (called LGALS3). It is one of 14 lectins that have...
Cimetidine (Tagamet®)
Cimetidine (Tagamet®)Cimetidine (Tagamet®) is a powerful antacid, which is used to treat indigestion and/or stomach ulcers. It was originally a prescription drug but eventually became generic and...
Where are Oncolytic Viruses Available?
RIGVIR was approved in Latvia (2004) but that approval was apparently withdrawn.. Nevertheless, RIGVIR is still available in a number of places, including the Hope4Cancer clinic in Mexico and...
RIGVIR Viral Therapy
Riga Virus Therapy Available in Latvia A form of viral therapy that is available to today’s patients is Rigvir®, short for “Riga virus.” (Riga is the capital of Latvia, where this treatment was...
Viral Therapy – Oncolytic Viruses and NDV
Viruses on a Find and Destroy Mission One of the promising but underappreciated cancer treatments is the use of viruses to kill cancer cells. This is also called viral therapy or virotherapy. It...
Treatment of Liver Metastases
Primary Signs The liver is the central headquarters for the maintenance and cleansing of the blood. It is provided with an extremely rich blood supply. In essence, the liver can be conceived of...
Bone Metastases
Treatments Cancer of many kinds can spread to the bones from elsewhere in the body. In fact, bone metastases are by far the most common cause of cancer within the bones of the skeleton. Generally...
Metastatic Cancer- Poole and Watson
A Tale of Two Papers Poole and Watson I would like to contrast the mainstream media's reception of the papers of E.M. Poole and her colleagues with the opposing views on antioxidants of Nobel...
Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT)
Large Dose Radiation Intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) involves using a large dose of radiation delivered in surgery. Most radiation treatments have to travel through normal tissue to reach...
The Abscopal Effect and Immune Resistance
The Abscopal Effect and Immune Resistance It is sometimes asserted, as a matter of dogma, that a local treatment cannot have any systemic effects. However, sometimes damaging or removing a tumor...
Anti-PD1 Therapy Steals Show At ASCO
The major excitement at ASCO 2013 was about "anti-PD1 therapy." PD-1 stands for "programmed death 1 receptor." Think of this as a kind of blockage in the immune system, which prevents the rest...
Anti Angiogenesis Drugs
Oldest Targeted Drugs Anti-angiogenic drugs are the oldest category of targeted drugs. They are aimed at a tumor’s ability to either generate new blood vessels or recruit already existing vessels...
Selumetinib: The Selling of a Targeted Cancer Drug
Targeting Brain Cancer In June of 2013, I undertook a pilgrimage to the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). I was happy to have an abstract included in the...
Immune Augmentative Therapy, Bahamas
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...
Greater Phoenix Area CAM Cancer Clinics
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...
Greater Houston, Texas Clinics
Everything’s Bigger in Texas We focus our investigations in Texas on the Greater Houston area. Houston is America’s fourth largest city, and its metropolitan area encompasses 5.6 million people....
Germany: A Mecca for Cancer Patients
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...
An Historical Account of Mexican Cancer Clinics
Coretta Scott King Brings Attention The death on January 31, 2006, of Coretta Scott King, widow of the slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., saddened the world. She was certainly one...
Introduction to Cancer Stem Cells and the “Big Five”
Cancer Stem Cells Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs) are defined as cells with the capacity for both self-renewal (i.e., making an exact copy of themselves) and differentiation (i.e. turning into different...
The Gerson Dietary Program
One of the Oldest Alternative Cancer Treatment Programs in the World The Gerson dietary program is one of the oldest alternative cancer treatment programs in the world. It offers patients a...
The Gerson Diet
“Gersonism”: A Worldwide Movement A program with an abiding appeal is the so-called Gerson diet. Max Gerson, M.D., (1881-1959) was a German physician of Jewish origin who fled the Nazis in the...
Is There a Cancer Diet?
An Introduction to Diet and Cancer “Indulge your passion for science…but let your science be human [and] have a direct reference to action and society. Be a philosopher; but amidst all your...
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...
Kidney Cancer and Alcohol
What about alcohol? In the past few years, there has been a significantly increased incidence of kidney (renal cell) cancer. A number of factors have been identified that increase the risk of...
Coffee, Caffeine and Cancer
Beneficial Health Effects It used to be thought that coffee was unhealthy, and might even contribute to pancreatic, gastric, or kidney cancer. Nowadays, the pendulum has swung the other way, and...
Probiotics and Chemotherapy
Probiotics and Microbiome Diversity A randomized trial compared chemotherapy (the drug epirubicin) alone to chemotherapy plus a single probiotic, Lactobacillus casei. The three-year...
Modified Citrus Pectin
Fractionated PolysaccharideModified Citrus Pectin (MCP) is what is called a “fractionated polysaccharide” derived from soluble fiber in the peel of citrus fruit. Kenneth J. Pienta, MD, a...
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...
Astragalus for the Immune System
Getting to the Root of the ProblemAstragalus (Astragalus propinquus, A. membranaceus a.k.a. milk vetch) is one of the most effective, innocuous, and inexpensive ways of enhancing the immune...