Milk, Dairy and Cancer
Heavy Whipping Cream, Fatty Cheeses, Fresh Ricotta … The first thing that some people do when they learn they have cancer is to swear off all milk and dairy products. Prof. Colin Campbell’s...
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Spirulina Against Cancer
Blue-Green Microalgae Spirulina is a blue-green microalgae that grows abundantly in either fresh or sea water. It is sold as a concentrated food supplement widely available in natural food...
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in Houston, Texas
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...
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...
Choosing a Hospital
A Most Important Decision We cannot emphasize enough how important it is to choose wisely in this regard. Dealing with a cancer diagnosis is one of life’s most challenging moments. Oftentimes,...
Does Traveling for Treatment Increase Survival?
Impact of Travel There was a surprising study in a recent Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital studied the impact that traveling for treatment...
Acupuncture and Xerostomia (Dry Mouth)
Acupuncture Can Relieve Pain and Discomfort There is evidence that acupuncture provides relief of pain and xerostomia (dry mouth) after irradiation. A study from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer...
Acupuncture for Cancer
Acupuncture is Used to Ameliorate the Side Effects of Radiation and Chemotherapy Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese method of influencing bodily health by sticking very thin needles into...
Xerostomia (Dry Mouth)
A randomized trial from Memorial Sloan-Kettering (MSKCC) “Significant reductions in pain, dysfunction and xerostomia [dry mouth, ed.] were observed in patients receiving [weekly]...
Five Studies of Radiation and Antioxidants
A PubMed search of the terms “cancer + radiotherapy + antioxidants” turns up 3,300+ results. However, we can narrow that down to randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in the years since 2012, the...
Innovative Radiation Therapy
Ionizing Radiation Ionizing radiation, such as radium and X-rays, has been part of cancer treatment since the days of the Nobel laureate Marie Curie (1867-1934). These techniques now...
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...
Radiation May Cause Pelvic and Hip Fractures
Radiation to the Pelvis One University of Toronto study showed that radiation to the pelvis led to a substantial increase in hip fractures in older women. A few years later the same risk was seen...
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...
Metronomic Chemo Offers Hope in Esophageal Cancer
Metronomic chemotherapy is being used in the U.S. with some preliminary success in difficult-to-treat cancers. Nick Chen, MD, Ph.D., an oncologist who serves as medical director of the Seattle...
Radiovirotherapy a New Form of Cancer Treatment
Mayo Clinic scientists have devised an ingenious new way of attacking cancer cellsThey first administer a modified form of the common measles virus to invade and destroy cancer cells. The virus...
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...
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...
Photodynamic Therapy for Head and Neck (HNSCC) Cancer
Using Sensitizers and Light to Kill Cancer Cells The use of photodynamic therapy (PDT) in head and neck cancer is a constantly developing field. With the advent of more selective photosensitizing...
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...
Metformin for Cancer
Repurposed to Target Cancer Stem Cells Metformin is the most widely prescribed oral drug for type 2 diabetes (T2D) in the world. It is included on the World Health Organization’s list of...
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...
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...
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...
Yervoy and Zelboraf for Melanoma
Introduction of two new drugsThe year 2011 was noteworthy for the introduction of two new drugs to treat the dangerous form of skin malignancy, melanoma. In March, the FDA approved ipilumumab...
Immune Surveillance Theory
Tracking Down the Tumor There is a common idea that cancer arises simply because of the weakness of the patient's immune system. Supposedly, our white blood cells patrol the highways and byways...
Irritation of Immune System Blamed for Cancer
How Does Cancer Get Started? Mainstream medicine believes that most cancer originates because of mysterious processes taking place in our genes. Environmental theories have fallen on hard...
The Immune System and the Role of Immunotherapy
A Healthy Immune System is Primed One thing that almost all cancers have in common is that they are related to the immune system. A healthy immune system is primed to attack ”non-self” as opposed...
Whole Body Hyperthermia: Fighting Cancer With Heat
Fever as Medicine Whole body hyperthermia (WBH) is a technique for heating the entire body in an effort to kill both primary and metastatic cancer cells. While there are hundreds of articles on...
Basics of Hyperthermia
What is Hyperthermia Treatment for Cancer?Clinical hyperthermia is the application of heat to the treatment of disease, in this case, cancer. The forms of electromagnetic energy that have been...
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...
Types of Hyperthermia Equipment
The Machinery Makes a DifferenceThe effectiveness of hyperthermia depends on the machines that are available in the marketplace. Four leading manufacturers of hyperthermia equipment are Pyrexar...