Innovative Cancer Clinics – What to Know
Making a Decision Can Be Challenging It is very important to understand that the cancer clinics discussed in The Moss Report sometimes use methods that are not practiced by standard or academic...
Surgery
Leading Ablation Practitioners
Some of the Leading Ablation Practitioners Damian E. Dupuy, MD, FACR Brigham and Women’s Radiology / Cape Cod Health Care 27 Park Street Cape Cod Hospital Hyannis, MA 02601 Phone: (508) 862-5315...
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...
Adjuvant Radiation for Rectal Cancer?
Adjuvant Radiation for Rectal Cancer? In the same issue of the Lancet there is a meta-analysis of adjuvant radiation therapy for rectal cancer (Lancet 2001;358:1291-1304}. The authors (from the...
Radiation Advocated After Surgery for Ductal Carcinoma
In an article appearing in the Lancet (July 12, 2003), scientists report that radiation therapy after surgery can reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrences in women with ductal carcinoma in...
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...
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...
Brain Metastases
A Major Health Problem Brain metastases were once believed to be very rare. However, because of the increased use of sophisticated diagnostic techniques such as CT and MRI scans it is now...
HIPEC with Mitomycin and Oncothermia for Endometrial and Gynecologic Cancer
One treatment that has been used for stage IV endometrial cancer is heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy or HIPEC. According to French authors:“Seven patients are alive, four of them without...
T-Vec Imlygic
T-Vec (Imlygic) Imlygic (from Amgen), is an oncolytic herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) armed with the immune-boosting GM-CSF.In 2015, T-Vec (talimogene laherparepvec) a.k.a. Imlygic (from...
Ketorolac – Toradol®
A Remarkable Discovery There has been a remarkable discovery concerning the effect on cancer relapse of a common prescription drug, ketorolac (Toradol®). Michael W. Retsky, Ph.D. formerly of the...
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...
Intraperitoneal Heated Chemotherapy – HIPEC
Bringing the Heat to ChemoCarcinomatosis is the name given to the condition in advanced cancer where multiple metastases have seeded themselves widely in distant organs. When this occurs in...
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...
Hyperthermic Isolated Limb Perfusion (HILP)
A Blood BypassA “blood bypass,” carried out under general anesthesia, involves completely bypassing the affected limb’s blood supply. The main artery and vein supplying the limb are connected to...
Cryoablation: A Promising Alternative to Surgery
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...
Cryoablation for Breast Cancer
Freezing The Tumor Many breast cancer patients are looking for an alternative to surgery to remove their tumors. One possibility is cryoablation. “Cryo” has the advantage of a painless, bloodless...
Cryoablation – Cryosurgery Basics
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...
Cryoablation – Past and Present
Frozen in Time One of the oddest facts about the “new” treatment of cryoablation is that it is over 150 years old! A mid-nineteenth century surgeon, James Arnott (1797-1883), began using cold to...
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...
Fighting Cancer with COLD: The Mystery and History of CRYOTHERAPY
What is Cryotherapy for Cancer? Have you heard about the thermal, or focal, ablation of cancer? This is a form of treatment that eliminates the need for surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy....
Is this One Dollar Pill a Breast Cancer Breakthrough?
Can this pill save lives? A one dollar pill may prevent many early relapses and deaths from breast cancer. It also may work on some other common form of cancers. This is the suggestion of some...
The Surprising History of Cryotherapy
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...
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...
Is Radiation Therapy a Necessity for Breast Cancer?
Standard Treatment A standard treatment for early-stage breast cancer is to remove the tumor via lumpectomy and then follow that with radiation therapy and the drug, tamoxifen. But a report...
Surgery
Transcript The physical removal of a tumor is the basic medical approach to cancer. In fact, it's been so for about 5000 years. I once went up to the New York Academy of Medicine library and they...
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...
Study Suggests That Some Breast Cancers May Disappear
Spontaneous Regression Cancers, even advanced cancers, sometimes undergo what is called “spontaneous regression” i.e., they simply shrink or disappear without a trace. This is a phenomenon well...