A Bitter Kernel of Truth for MSKCC
Fifty Years Later, Sloan Kettering Admits There Was Science Behind Laetrile In 1977, I was fired by the famed Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City for “failing to carry...
Metastases
Ketogenic Diet and Breast Cancer
The modern world offers a wide array of drugs to treat cancer and other life-threatening diseases. While many of these therapies are effective, they often come with significant side effects,...
The Vindication of Vitamin C: Pancreatic Cancer Trial Confirms What Pauling Knew 50 Years Ago
For nearly half a century, high-dose vitamin C (IV-C) in cancer care has been dismissed by mainstream oncology as a dead end. For example, in the standard 1,880-page textbook Cancer: Principles...
James D. Watson – The DNA Pioneer Who Challenged the Genetic Theory of Cancer
James Dewey Watson, PhD, died on November 6, 2025 at the age of 97. His passing made headlines around the world. After all, Watson—co-discoverer with Francis Crick of the double-helix structure...
How to Research Cancer: Pro Tips on Good Science
When facing a cancer diagnosis—or supporting someone who is—it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by headlines, studies, and advice that all seem to contradict each other. How can you tell what’s...
S5 E7 – Modified Citrus Pectin – Peeling Back the Science on Surprising Trial Results!
In this episode of The Moss Report, Ben Moss speaks with Dr. Ralph Moss about a little-known natural compound that may have big implications: Modified Citrus Pectin (MCP). A recent clinical trial...
My Cancer Journey – Prostate Cancer Recurrence Update – pt. 3
In this third installment of My Cancer Journey, Dr. Ralph W. Moss shares his thoughts on beginning radiation therapy for prostate cancer. Speaking candidly about the emotional and scientific...
S4 E17 – Vitamin D & Cancer
The VITAL Information You Must Know https://youtu.be/avZ6rAx_Mzo In this pivotal episode, Dr. Moss and his son, Ben, shed light on new insights into Vitamin D's role in cancer prevention, based...
Hope4Cancer -Tony Jimenez
Vigorous Adoption of New Methods Hope4Cancer is an inpatient facility in the Playas section of Tijuana, across the street from the Pacific Ocean. When we last visited Antonio Jimenez, MD—“Dr....
Trophoblast From the Past
New Discoveries Breathe Life Into an Old Theory Discoveries by scientists worlds apart have unexpectedly breathed new life into an old view: the trophoblastic theory of cancer. The first...
Hydrazine Sulfate Trials and Tribulations
Where are your randomized controlled trials? … is the usual response to proponents of alternative cancer therapies. And, indeed, there are few rigorous clinical studies of most unconventional...
Laetrile at Sloan-Kettering: Dr. Sugiura and Second Opinion
The Coverup of Laetrile (Amygdalin) at Sloan-Kettering Institute I began my job as a science writer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City, in June 1974. My boss, T....
Shadows Fall on Anti-Angiogenic Drugs
The Main Hope of Conventional OncologyFor the past dozen years, drugs that inhibit the growth of new blood vessels—a strategy called anti-angiogenesis—have been the main hope of conventional...
The Case of Xalkori (crizotinib)
Conflicts of InterestAlmost every study of a new cancer drug is riddled with conflicts of interest. Let us focus on one of these drugs, crizotinib (Xalkori®). But we could conduct the same sort...
The Strange Case of Xalkori
A Great Success Story?Let us look at a drug that is considered one of the great success stories of the precision medicine approach, Xalkori (crizotinib). The story of Xalkori illustrates some of...
Avastin for Breast Cancer
A Top Selling Cancer DrugIn 2008, the FDA approved Avastin (bevacizumab) as a treatment for advanced breast cancer. This approval was based on a small trial called E2100, which showed a...
How Big is Big? Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Big Survival Gain A front-page headline in Oncology Times reads, “Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Big Survival Gain Adding Irinotecan to 5-FU/Leucovorin” (December 2000). But the study itself tells...
Key Characteristics Of Cancer Cells
[Hippocrates, c. 460-370 BCE, the so-called father of Western medicine. Illustration of a bust in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, illustration courtesy of Wikimedia Commons] Life is Short and Art...
Harvard Professors Question Surgery
Do Operations Speed the Growth of Tumors? The conventional approach to breast cancer consists of mammography, followed by biopsy, and surgery, with or without adjuvant radiation. This has been...
Femara Takes the Cancer World by Storm
Hailed as a Breakthrough for Breast Cancer It is being hailed as the biggest breakthrough in the treatment of breast cancer in years. An anti-estrogen drug called Femara (letrozole) has been...
Prof. Swanton Shakes Biologists
Revealing Report Science described a revealing report on the work of Charles Swanton, MD, of the Francis Crick Institute, of the U.K. showing that “tumors are a mosaic of different cells”...
Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs)
Detected and Recovered From the Blood Stream Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are cancer cells that can be detected and recovered from the bloodstream. They have detached from the primary tumor and...
Patient-Initiated Testing
Testing for Circulating Tumor Cells Naturally, some patients want to proactively arrange for their own testing. Many want to know if they can make useful suggestions to their medical caregivers....
Circulating Tumor Cell (CTC) Testing
CellSearch® from Quest Diagnostics Circulating Tumor Cell (CTC) testing means quantifying the number of CTCs that can yield information regarding a patient’s prognosis and survival. In addition,...
The Hidden Danger of Needle Biopsies
Cancer Diagnostics The needle biopsy has become an essential part of a cancer diagnosis. Tens of thousands of such biopsies are performed each year in the United States alone, and the procedure...
Research and Resources for Melanoma
Adjuvant Therapy for Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma In a phase III trial, certain advanced malignant melanoma (MM) patients were given nivolumab (Opdivo®). They had increased progression-free...
Ralph Moss’ Personal Story, Pt. 2
Einstein, Memorial Sloan Kettering, and Laetrile - Transcript I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and I grew up there, went to public school there and then high school. The high school I went to...
Cachexia
Transcript People often ask what can be done about cachexia or the wasting syndrome where people are. Patients are losing weight unintentionally, even though they're eating an adequate number of...
Cancer Stem Cells
Transcript Another huge topic that cancer patients should know about are cancer stem cells. Cancer stem cells are well known to the research community. There are 17,000 journal articles in the...
Stages & Grades
Transcript I want to explain about stages of cancer and grades of cancer, and you might want to know what stage and grade your cancer is in, but I also want to talk about why that's important....
S.K.I. Laetrile Report Incomplete and Inaccurate
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Second Opinion: Laetrile At Sloan-Kettering – Feature Film
https://vimeo.com/694455151 Second Opinion: Laetrile at Sloan-Kettering is a 2014 documentary directed by Eric Merola, featuring Dr. Ralph W. Moss, PhD, who recounts his experiences at Memorial...
American Cancer Society Myths
Dangerous Misconceptions The American public is ignorant about cancer—or so the American Cancer Society concludes from the results of a survey. The study in question was designed and carried out...
Losing the War on Cancer – Fortune Magazine
“Why We're Losing the War on Cancer” An article of extraordinary importance has appeared in Fortune magazine. It is titled "Why We're Losing the War on Cancer." The author, Clifton Leaf, is...
History of Breast Cancer Treatment
An Ancient Disease From the time of the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt until the late nineteenth century, the standard treatment of breast cancer – if it was treated at all – was painful, brutal, and...