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...
Using Heat to Treat TumorsHyperthermia (heat therapy) is especially promising in the treatment of head and neck cancers. That is because surgery (a frequently recommended treatment) can be...
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...
Scientific StudiesRandomized Controlled TrialsThe modern scientific acceptance of hyperthermia rests on several outstanding randomized trials: one that was organized in Munich, Germany for the...
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...
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...
Killing Cancer Cells via Thermal Coagulative NecrosisRadiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a minimally invasive technique for removing, or “ablating,” tumors. RFA induces cell death by what is called...
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,...
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...
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...
Tumor Microenvironments The 360 “Halifax Project” authors, led by Keith I. Block, MD, of Skokie, Ill., added an 11th key characteristic to Hanahan and Weinberg’s classic ten,...
Thousands of Studies on CSCsA key characteristic of malignant disease is the central importance of cancer stem cells in a long list of cancer types. CSCs were first characterized at the molecular...
Antioxidants and Radiotherapy, Can They Get Along?Xerostomia is a difficult and disturbing side effect of radiation therapy for head and neck cancer. While the synthetic antioxidant amifostine...
CONCURRENT USE OF ANTIOXIDANTS AND RADIATION We will now consider antioxidants’ concurrent use with a major form of conventional treatment: radiation therapy. There have been two major clinical...
“The efficacy of chemotherapy against cancer is limited due to drug resistance, treatment selectivity, and severe adverse effects. But combinations with natural products may be used as an...
The Bairati Study of Antioxidants and Radiation (2005 and 2008)What interests us most about radiation and cancer are human clinical trials, which occupy the highest rank in the pyramid of...
Rhopalurus junceus Scorpion Venom Escozul is used for cancer in Cuba NOTE: This article is mainly of historical interest. Current up-to-date information about the status and availability of...
Low-dose Metronomic Chemotherapy Conventional chemotherapy (especially in the U.S.) is generally based on the principle of the maximum tolerated dose (MTD). This approach aims to administer high...
The Strange Story of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Odd as it may seem, the occurrence of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), the pregnancy hormone, figures prominently in a number of notorious...
In this episode, Rachael Moss speaks with Brandon LaGreca LAc, MAcOM about the importance of mindset when it comes to cancer. Brandon LaGreca is a licensed acupuncturist in Wisconsin who is...
In this episode of The Moss Report Podcast, Ralph W. Moss, PhD, interviews Gurdev Parmar, ND about his work introducing naturopathic integrative medicine to Canada, and the strides that he's made...
In this episode of The Moss Report Podcast, Dr. Moss speaks with Dr. Francisco Contreras and Daniel Kennedy about the Oasis of Hope clinic located in Tijuana. In this interview, they discuss the...
In this episode of The Moss Report Podcast, Doug and Rochelle Burnett of Des Moines, Iowa share their journey through a cancer diagnosis. Doug was diagnosed with Stage III cancer of the GE...
In this episode of The Moss Report Podcast, Dr. Ralph W. Moss speaks with Dr. Nasha Winters. Dr. Winters shares her experiences about her ovarian cancer, her life as a student, and then as a...
Dr. Moss and author Jane McLelland speak about topics in her book "How to Starve Cancer Without Starving Yourself". Learn Ralph’s Mushroom Soup RecipeCoffee and Cancer Transcript Welcome...
Keytruda immunotherapy for cancer is better than chemo in the treatment of Merkel cell cancer. So says a recent clinical trial of this immune treatment at Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore....
THE SURPRISING HISTORY OF CRYOTHERAPY Dr. James M. Arnott of Brighton, England Have you heard about the "new" treatment for cancer called cryotherapy? This is the use of extreme cold to destroy...
Treatment Beyond Medicine I speak to cancer patients almost every day. One of the things that we speak about is their treatment...and I don't only mean their medical treatment but the human...