Medicinal Mushrooms
Transcript The topic of medicinal mushrooms is an enormous one. There are literally hundreds of different mushrooms, thousands of different mushrooms in the world, and I think only about 10% of...
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Effectiveness, Safety & Cost
Transcript When considering treatment, especially at a hospital, you really have to look very seriously into the questions of the effectiveness of the treatment. The safety of the hospital and...
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....
Repurposed Drugs
Transcript There's a category of treatments for cancer that the average person knows nothing about. It's called repurposed drugs. And what that means is that there are, of course, thousands of...
Hyperthermia
Transcript The word hyperthermia means high heat and not to be confused with hypothermia, which is low, you know, low temperature. And the problem with the word hyperthermia is that there's also...
Antioxidants
A lot of cancer patients take supplements and a lot of the supplements that they take are antioxidants. So the question arises, do these antioxidants in particular supplements in general, do they...
Metabolic Therapy
Transcript The ancient Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu in his book The Art of War, said to know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight 1000 battles without fear of failure. I would like to...
Immunotherapy
Transcript Immunotherapy is the so-called fourth modality in cancer treatment after surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. And this is the most controversial or has been the most controversial of...
Ralph Moss’ Personal Story, Pt. 1
Personal Story Ralph Moss - Transcript Hi, my name is Ralph Moss. I'm a professional science writer. Basically, I've been writing about cancer almost exclusively for nearly 50 years, and I want...
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...
Causes of Cancer
Transcript There's a lot of confusion over what causes cancer, and a lot of people have sort of dogmatic attitudes towards this that aren't really warranted by the evidence. The most confusing...
Detection, Testing & Diagnostics
Transcript How do you detect cancer? This is a question that comes up in many different contexts, and I realize that at first this might seem a bit academic and dry, but just stay with me and...
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...
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...
Chemo Side Effects
There are few types of medicine that cause as many side effects as chemotherapy. The reason for this is because it goes back to the history of chemotherapy that it's targeted against fat, rapidly...
Chemotherapy
Transcript So what is chemotherapy? Chemotherapy is the use of chemicals or drugs to kill cancer cells or to stop them from dividing, and it's basically poison. You know, in the old days when...
Immune System
Transcript Another huge topic in cancer is the state of the immune system. And I believe that this theory, the immune surveillance theory that was put forward by Mack Macfarlane in the 1950s is...
Vitamin C
Transcript Vitamins and minerals are an essential part of health. But for a lot of people, they're just not very sexy because it seems as if we're always looking for the new new thing, you know,...
Curcumin & Turmeric
Transcript The words turmeric and curcumin come up very frequently in discussions about cancer, and they are certainly indispensable items. Turmeric is a rhizome or a root of a plant, and it's...
Statistics
Transcript I want to talk about some of the key statistics regarding cancer, but also to caution you to not to take these as what inevitably happens to people because everybody is different....
Chemo Resources & Side Effect Remedies
Transcript When you're doing research into chemotherapy, you definitely want to know what the side effects are of the different drugs, and there's actually a very, very good website that can get...
Research & Resources
Transcript So when would you need to do your own research? Well, our records show that about 80% of people who use the Internet at some time or other search for health related topics. And why...
Fermented Wheat Germ
Transcript One of the most interesting and promising of all food supplements for cancer is fermented wheat germ extract. This also goes by other names Avemar, Ave, Aveultra and more recently...
Homeopathy
Transcript So one area that all cancer patients should be familiar with is homeopathy. I know, of course, that this is going to raise hackles with some people because, you know, we claim to be...
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...
Mistletoe
Transcript In the 1990s, I started to visit Germany and German complementary medicine clinics for cancer just about every year, and I think I added up a total of 18 separate trips to Germany...
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...
Palliative Care
Transcript So one of the most difficult situations in cancer is the person who is in an extreme situation and possibly confined to their bed, can't exercise, can't get out or maybe can't eat...
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...