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Mesothelioma 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...

Limphocite Cellular Immunotherapy

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...

Hufeland Klinik

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...

BioCare Hospital & Wellness Center

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...

Hoxsey Bio Medical Center

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...

Do B Vitamins Interfere with Chemo?

Supplementation with Folic Acid (Vitamin B9) and Vitamin B12 Supplementation with folic acid (vitamin B9) and vitamin B12 midway through a major clinical trial lessened toxicity from the drug...

Positive Results with PectaSol-C

Modified Citrus Pectin This year also brought a major advance in understanding the effects of modified citrus pectin  (MCP) on cancer cells. Scientists at Columbia University published a paper...

B Vitamins and the Drug Pemetrexed

Departure for Conventional Oncology It has been found, in a pleural mesothelioma trial,  that supplementation with folic acid (vitamin B9) and vitamin B12 midway through a clinical trial lessened...

Benefits of Boysenberries

Raspberry, Blackberry, Dewberry, Loganberry The boysenberry is a cross between the European raspberry, European blackberry, American dewberry, and loganberry. It was first developed by Charles...

Boysenberry and Mesothelioma

Asbestos-induced MesotheliomaOne food that has a particular relationship to mesothelioma is the boysenberry (Rubus loganbaccus × baileyanus Britt). The boysenberry was definitely not present in...

Ascites and Abdominal Cavity Metastases

The peritoneum is a smooth and transparent membrane that lines the cavity of the abdomen and encloses the various abdominal and pelvic organs. Cancer can arise in this cavity, usually by...

Lung and Liver Metastases

Laser Ablation Since 1996, Alex Rolle, MD, Chief of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery in Coswig/Dresden, Germany has been performing aggressive laser ablations of lung metastases. He has removed an...

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...

Chemo for Life?

Long Term Treatments There is an emerging trend in oncology to keep patients on anticancer drugs for longer periods, even years at a stretch. This concept was given support from two studies...

Remarkable Results with Newcastle Virus

Newcastle Virus Deserves Attention One experimental cancer treatment that has not received the attention it deserves is the Newcastle Disease virus (NDV) vaccine. In the US, this treatment,...

Photodynamic Therapy – Mesothelioma

A Highly Focused TechniquePhotodynamic therapy is a technique whereby a photosensitizing (light-sensitive) agent is administered intravenously or intrapleural (the agent is typically Photofrin...

Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) and Where to Get it

A Bright Past and Future The use of light to treat diseases, including presumably external cancer, is very old. According to an article on the development of the field: “Phototherapy (light...

Photodynamic Therapy (PDT)

Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a form of cancer treatment that uses light to destroy cancer cells that have first been pre-sensitized with a drug called a...

Tetrathiomolybdate

Lowering Copper Levels in the BloodAmmonium Tetrathiomolybdate (T.M.) is a drug that inhibits the development of new blood vessels in cancer by lowering levels of the common mineral copper in the...

Hyperthermia Against Mesothelioma

Interest in CRS + HIPEC for MesotheliomaThere is considerable interest in using hyperthermia (or heat therapy) against mesothelioma, due to the increased adoption of cytoreductive surgery (CRS)...

Pemetrexed, Cisplatin, and the B Vitamins

An Unusual Prescription While not directly addressing the question of antioxidants, oncology’s experience with the drugs pemetrexed (Alimta®) and cisplatin (Platinol®) is instructive. The most...