Chlorella and Other “Superfoods”
High Concentrations of Phytonutrients “Superfoods” are health products that contain exceptionally high concentrations of phytonutrients (plant chemicals). These are concentrated when green plants...
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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...
Natural Agents for Bone Sarcoma
Five Agents for HealingMistletoe (Subcutaneous or Intravenous Injections)There was a case series of six patients, all of whom had a remission of tumor symptoms after mistletoe injections. In...
Artemisia Annua – Artemisinin and Artesunate
Sweet Wormwood/Sweet Annie “This safe and cheap drug class that saves lives at risk from malaria can also have important potential in oncology.” Prof. Sanjeev Krishna, St. George’s University of...
AngioStop – Sea Cucumber Extract
A Thorny Sea Creature for Cancer Dietary supplement “Sea cucumbers and their extracts have gained immense popularity and interest among researchers and nutritionists due to their nutritive value,...
Seacure®
Carp Fish One unique dietary research project concerns using an extract of the carp fish (Cyprinus carpio) to reduce chemotherapy’s side effects. Drs. Y. Kimura and H. Okuda of Ehime University,...
Garlic
Antibiotic and Immune-Modulating Properties Garlic (Allium sativum) is a plant whose edible bulbs contain flavonoids and sulfur-containing compounds: diallyl sulfate, alliin, ajoene, and,...
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...
Northern California CAM Cancer Clinics
CAM in CA The CAM situation in northern California is favorable. In other words, the chances of finding a CAM practitioner to provide intelligent help with cancer are good in this region....
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...
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...
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...
Flaws and Fallacies in Radiation Therapy
Complexity of Trial Design It is rarely shown that radiation actually extends life (i.e., median overall survival) through straightforward comparisons that are preplanned within randomized...
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...
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...
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...
Nanoknife or Irreversible Electroporation
A New Form of Electrical AblationNanoKnife seems to be significantly less destructive of normal tissue than any other method. The “NanoKnife” (despite the name) is not an instrument made of...
Galvanotherapy for Head and Neck Cancer
Galvanotherapy for Head and Neck CancerWe once had the pleasure of hearing Prof. Li Jinghong of the Department of Electro-chemical Therapy, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, speak at a...
Melanoma and Exercise
The Shape of Things to Come While mainstream oncology focuses on new pharmaceutical treatments for melanoma, there is evidence that just maintaining the patient’s underlying health can also have...
PET-CT Scans and Cancer
Measuring the Uptake of GlucosePositron emission tomography (PET) scans, using a tracer drug called FDG, detect the presence, and measure the virulence of cancerous growths. Since about 90% of...
New Success for Hyperthermia vs Childhood Tumors
A Published Result In July, The Lancet Oncology published an article on the beneficial effects of hyperthermia (heat therapy) in the treatment of children with germ cell tumors. Deep-tissue...
Hyperthermia for Sarcoma
Using Heat to Treat Hyperthermia is another term for medical heat therapy. It is a very promising aspect of contemporary sarcoma treatment, although insufficiently recognized in the...
Hyperthermia Success in Treating Rectal Cancer and Lung Cancer
The Research is Heating Up Hyperthermia (heat therapy) continues to rack up successes in treating various types of cancer. The latest report came at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s...
Progress in Hyperthermia – Pancreatic Cancer
Encouraging Research One of the great hopes of the CAM movement is hyperthermia, which is the use of therapeutic heating to treat cancer. A recent study adds “fuel to the fire” as it were in...
A Big Boost for Hyperthermia
The JNCI Publishes a Positive Trial The January 20, 2010, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) contained a highly positive, three-page news article on the use of...
Hyperthermic Isolated Limb Perfusion (HILP)
A Blood BypassA “blood bypass,” carried out under general anesthesia, involves completely bypassing the affected limb’s blood supply. The main artery and vein supplying the limb are connected to...
Hyperthermia Evidence
Scientific StudiesRandomized Controlled TrialsThe modern scientific acceptance of hyperthermia rests on several outstanding randomized trials: one that was organized in Munich, Germany for the...
Hyperthermia Moves to Fore as CAM Treatment of Cancer
Heat Therapy for Cancer Continues to Gain Support Hyperthermia refers to heating a particular region of the body or heating the whole body, in order to fight cancer. Hyperthermia works by (a)...
High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU)
Therapeutic Ultrasound Therapy The use of therapeutic ultrasound dates to the discoveries of Francis J. and William J. Fry at the University of Illinois Champlain in the 1950s. They showed that...
Hyperthermia – Heat Therapy – Risks and Contradictions
Important Considerations of HyperthermiaHyperthermia is among the best tested and most effective forms of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). It is a classic additive therapy. That...
The Story of Cryoablation for Cancer
Breaking the Ice The medical establishment, epitomized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is notoriously slow at adopting new methods, however effective they might be. For example,...
Cryoablation: A Promising Alternative to Surgery
A Chilling Discovery Cryoablation (sometimes called cryosurgery) is a technique to destroy diseased tissue by applying probes at extremely low temperatures. It is not “surgery” in the...
Cryoablation Practitioners
Cryoablation Practitioners The Society of Interventional Radiology maintains a useful website, sirweb.org. You can probably find a doctor who uses cryoablation through its “doctor finder.”...
Cryoablation – Cryosurgery Basics
Frozen OutCryosurgery (also called cryoablation) is a technique that destroys tumor tissue through the application of subzero temperatures. This is a promising and less toxic way of destroying...
Blocking Cancer Stem Cells Naturally
Phytochemicals that Block CSCsPhytochemicals (also called nutriceuticals) comprise several different kinds of agents. Resveratrol, soy isoflavones, sulforaphane, curcumin, and EGCG/green tea are...