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Chemotherapy and Lung Cancer

Study Shows Negative Results Adding chemotherapy to radiation therapy does not prolong survival in operable, non-small-cell lung cancer, according to a large, randomized study published in the...

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...

Sound, Light and Electricity Introduction

Energy MedicineIonizing forms of energy medicine consist of particles, X rays, or gamma rays in which atomic nuclei give up energy through the emission of ionizing particles. These treatments are...

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...

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...

Hyperthermia and Colorectal Cancer

Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC)Dutch scientists reported beneficial results using hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC), a heated form of chemotherapy that is...

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 Head and Neck Cancer

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...

Hyperthermia and Breast Cancer Research

Hyperthermia and Breast CancerQuotes from the research: “Tumors treated with radiotherapy alone or radiotherapy plus one heat treatment started to regrow, whereas those treated with radiotherapy...

Hyperthermia’s Slow March to Acceptance

Hyperthermia’s Slow March to Acceptance Hyperthermia –the therapeutic use of heat in treating cancer – continues to make slow but steady  progress in the U.S. The latest indication is the fact...

Antioxidants and Radiation

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...

Ralph W. Moss, PhD My Cancer Journey

My Cancer Journey

Ralph W. Moss PhD I had been writing about cancer for over 40 years when I myself was diagnosed with an aggressive form of the disease in the summer of 2015. That summer, my wife and I had...

Cancer and Coronavirus

Cancer and Coronavirus

COVID-19 Does NOT Cause Cancer To the best of our knowledge, coronavirus COVID-19 does not cause cancer. That said, the coronavirus, and any of the other influenza strains of viruses, do pose a...

Study shows Vitamin C Fights Cancer

Ascorbic Acid Scores Big in Iowa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWJSkjuOs5I In late 2018, the use of intravenous high-dose ascorbic acid (vitamin C) scored a big victory when Matthew S....

3 Tesla MRI for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

Big Advances in Prostate Cancer

Detection and Treatment There have been considerable advances in both the detection and treatment of prostate cancer. Typically, in the past, patients were screened for prostate cancer using the...

Radiation

Transcript What is radiation therapy, is it harmful, is it dangerous? Is it painful? Well, all of those questions arise, and I'm not going to go into any great detail to describe the physics of...

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...

Lancet PORT Study of Radiation for Lung Cancer

Meta-Analysis The Postoperative (Adjuvant) Radiation Therapy (PORT) Study, otherwise known as the Lancet Meta-Analysis, is the most complete summary to date on the use of postoperative RT in the...

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...

Does Screening Mammography Work?

Annual Mammograms The American Cancer Society (ACS) urges women 40 and older to have annual mammograms. "Mammography is especially valuable as an early detection tool  because it can identify...

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...

Big Blow to Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer

Adjuvant Treatment Radiation is widely used as an adjuvant treatment after surgery for breast cancer. It is primarily administered to prevent recurrences and is quite effective at doing so. But...

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...

The Potential Danger of Mammograms

Screening Mammography can be used either to diagnose a known condition or, more commonly, to screen a general population that has no signs or symptoms of disease. There is little argument that...