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Action Alert: SPES and PC SPES

Herbal Company Recalls Two ProductsFebruary 12, 2002–BotanicLab, an herbal product company based in Brea, Calif., recalled two of its leading products, SPES and PC SPES, after the California...

Essiac: 4-Cents-A-Day Remedy?

The Secret Is Out It is sometimes claimed that alternative treatments are a cruel rip-off that further impoverishes desperate cancer patients. But what about Essiac®, a supposed Native American...

Galavit™ – Cancer Fighting Potential?

Galavit™ A Friendly Skeptics View I first came across Galavit® in November 2000, while on a tour of German complementary and alternative (CAM) cancer clinics. There had been an enthusiastic...

Using 714X for Prevention

One Person's StoryThe following is an interview with a person who took part in a research protocol at Naessens's laboratory. This person has asked for anonymity because of the pall that the FDA...

Alternative Medicine in Canada

A Visit to Toronto We recently returned from speaking at the Whole Life Expo '97 at the Toronto Metro Convention Center, an event organized each year by Julia Woodford. The Expo was very well...

Virginia Livingston, 84

A Major LossIn a major loss to the cancer world, Virginia C. Livingston, MD, died on June 30, 1990. The 84-year-old physician was on a European tour with her daughter, Julie Ann Wagner, when she...

Am I a Soft-Core Quackbuster?

An Interesting Letter I received a very interesting email from a reader, who wrote: “It seems like you are skeptical of most alternative treatments due to the lack of publishing in scientific...

Green Tea: Poor Person’s Avastin?

Correlation of EGCG It is nice to have good news to report. Take, for example, the role of EGCG, found in green tea, in fighting cancer. Below we highlight a laboratory study that correlates with...

How to Spot A Charlatan

Quacks of OldThe promotion of an alleged dietary supplement named coral calcium was amazing and worthy of a book-length expose. But medical charlatanism has a long history, particularly in the...

Is Laetrile Really Vitamin B17?

Crucial Facts "Laetrile's history has been complex, tortuous, kaleidoscopic. Begin­ning inauspiciously like hundreds of other small-time anticancer schemes, Laetrile soared to a notorious...

Keytruda: Toxic, Expensive and Not So Effective

Best Selling Cancer Drug in 2019 Keytruda® (pembrolizumab) is toxic, expensive, and not as effective as one would wish. But at $7.2 billion, it was the best-selling cancer drug in 2019. At the...

Imatinib (Gleevec) for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

Glee Over GleevecAfter the announcement of herceptin, work accelerated on many other targeted agents for cancers. In that same year, clinical trials began for a new drug for chronic myeloid...

Red Wine and Breast Cancer

Resveratrol, A Natural Compound Found in the Skin Of GrapesMost of my research involves long hours on the computer or in the medical library. So it was a pleasure to do fieldwork in New York’s...

Kombucha Benefits are Cloudy

A Fermented Drink I hadn’t thought about drinking kombucha tea until I saw a row of brightly colored glass bottles on a shelf in my local supermarket. For the uninitiated, kombucha is a fermented...

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...

Very Hot Tea May Cause Esophageal Cancer

A Healthful Habit? In general, drinking tea is a healthful habit. But there is one exception. If you drink tea very hot you are more likely to get cancer of the esophagus. The danger comes from...

Green Tea as an Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor

Value in Prevention and Treatment One of the most exciting developments in cancer in the past 30 years has been a treatment strategy known as immune checkpoint blockade. ICB relies on a...

The Laetrile Clinical Trial

What Was Actually Tested? To achieve a realistic evaluation of laetrile (a made-up name for a plant-derived chemical amygdalin), one needs to understand the nature of the testing that...

Coffee Cuts the Risk of Cancer

Big Battle Brewing Drinking coffee cut the risk of colorectal cancer recurring in half. In a big study, 953 patients with stage III cancer kept a detailed record of their food and drink intake....

The Laetrile Clinical Trial Revisited

What Was Actually Tested? In order to achieve a realistic evaluation of laetrile (a fanciful name for the chemical amygdalin), one needs to understand the nature of the testing that has been...

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...

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...

Melatonin

Transcript There's one particular supplement that really stands out in regard to cancer, and that's melatonin. Melatonin is very unusual in the world of supplements because it's an actual human...