Rethinking Cancer: Inside Thomas Seyfried’s Lab
A few weeks ago, my dad, my son and I had the opportunity to visit Professor Thomas Seyfried and his research team at Boston College. Three generation road trip, Jacob, Ralph and Ben Moss. We’ve...
Surgery
The Power of Plants, Faith and Forgiveness: How Chris Beat Cancer
Chris Wark, founder of Chris Beat Cancer, is a long-term cancer survivor and author. In this episode, he sits down with Ben Moss and Ralph W. Moss, PhD to share the story that launched his work....
The Cancer Industry
By Ralph W. Moss, PhD513 pages | Publication date: 1991 The Cancer Industry is a thought-provoking and detailed examination of the cancer treatment establishment. This influential work...
Skin Cancer: Squamous Cell Treatment Guide
This diagnosis-specific guide explains current evidence on standard treatments, including benefits, risks, side effects and key questions to ask your doctors. It is based on independent research...
Cervical Cancer Treatment Guide
This diagnosis-specific guide explains current evidence on standard treatments, including benefits, risks, side effects and key questions to ask your doctors. It is based on independent research...
Stomach Cancer (Gastric) Treatment Guide
This diagnosis-specific guide explains current evidence on standard treatments, including benefits, risks, side effects and key questions to ask your doctors. It is based on independent research...
Skin Cancer: Basal Cell Carcinoma Treatment Guide
This diagnosis-specific guide explains current evidence on standard treatments, including benefits, risks, side effects and key questions to ask your doctors. It is based on independent research...
Ovarian, Fallopian Tube & Primary Peritoneal Cancer Treatment Guide
This diagnosis-specific guide explains current evidence on standard treatments, including benefits, risks, side effects and key questions to ask your doctors. It is based on independent research...
Neuroblastoma Treatment Guide
This diagnosis-specific guide explains current evidence on standard treatments, including benefits, risks, side effects and key questions to ask your doctors. It is based on independent research...
Kidney Cancer (RCC) Treatment Guide
This diagnosis-specific guide explains current evidence on standard treatments, including benefits, risks, side effects and key questions to ask your doctors. It is based on independent research...
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor Treatment Guide
This diagnosis-specific guide explains current evidence on standard treatments, including benefits, risks, side effects and key questions to ask your doctors. It is based on independent research...
Endometrial Cancer Treatment Guide
This diagnosis-specific guide explains current evidence on standard treatments, including benefits, risks, side effects and key questions to ask your doctors. It is based on independent research...
Colorectal Cancer Treatment Guide
This diagnosis-specific guide explains current evidence on standard treatments, including benefits, risks, side effects and key questions to ask your doctors. It is based on independent research...
Cancer of the Brain & Nervous System Treatment Guide
This diagnosis-specific guide explains current evidence on standard treatments, including benefits, risks, side effects and key questions to ask your doctors. It is based on independent research...
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...
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...
My Cancer Journey – Prostate Cancer Recurrence Update – pt. 1
In this first installment of My Cancer Journey – Recurrence Update, Ralph W. Moss, PhD shares a deeply personal account of his experience with prostate cancer—ten years after his initial...
Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment
The Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment, led by Dr. Keith Block and Penny Block, PhD, specializes in integrative cancer care. Established over 40 years ago, the center combines...
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...
Photodynamic Therapy (PDT)
New Light on an Old ProblemPhotodynamic therapy (PDT) is much more effective for lung cancer than was previously thought, Thomas Jefferson University researchers said last week. The Philadelphia...
When is a Quack not a Quack?
Imposters Still Exist The eighteenth-century savant, Dr. Samuel Johnson, defined a quack as “a boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand, a vain boastful pretender…who proclaims his...
FDA and FBI Raid Oklahoma Laetrile Clinic
The Camelot ClinicOn Tuesday, April 23, 2013, agents of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Oklahoma Medical Board raided an alternative...
Test May Help Patients Avoid Unnecessary Chemotherapy
Adjuvant Chemotherapy After SurgeryThe use of adjuvant chemotherapy after surgery for breast cancer is often presented as one of oncology’s great success stories. The early use of chemotherapy...
Dendritic Cell and Tetanus Vaccines for Brain Cancer
Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) of the Brain Scientists at Duke University have come up with an ingenious treatment for one of the deadliest of all cancers, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) of the...
Prostate and PSA Testing
The ControversyIn October 2011 a national controversy broke out over the question of whether to screen healthy men for prostate cancer (PC) using the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test. An...
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...
Brain Cancer – NovoCure
Advances in Treatment The death from brain tumors of Bernadine Healy, MD (1944-2011), former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was a tragic reminder of the power and...
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...
The Lancet Debate
Questioning Radiation In late March 2002, Lancet published my letter criticizing an article advocating the use of radiation as a treatment for rectal cancer. (Moss RW. Preoperative and...
FBI and FDA Raid a Laetrile-Using Clinic
The Camelot Clinic On April 23, 2013, agents of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Oklahoma Medical Board raided an “alternative cancer...
CAM Makes Progress Around the Country
Nonconventional Treatments Some time ago, professional opponents of CAM tried to use California as a beachhead from which to launch a nationwide assault on nonconventional cancer treatments....
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...
William R Fair Jr. MD Obituary
William R. Fair, Jr., MD - A Pivotal Figure In January 2002, William R. Fair, Jr., MD, died at the age of 66. For 13 years, Bill Fair was chief of urology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer...
BEC5 (Curaderm®) Devil’s Apple
Unlicensed, Unapproved, and Unproven Curaderm® BEC5 is a cream containing two active ingredients: solasodine glycosides, derived from eggplants, and a less known plant from Australia, the Devil’s...
Joseph Issels, MD, A Pioneer
Issels Program Josef Issels, MD was a pioneer of cancer chemotherapy and immunotherapy in postwar Europe. He graduated from the University of Würzburg in 1932. After serving as a medic on the...
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,...