The Cancer and Blood Sugar Connection
A Disease of Civilization A while ago, when I wrote an article about cancer as a disease of civilization, I had many interesting responses. One reader wondered how cancer could be a disease of...
Dietary Treatments
The Moss Method™ – Guide to Food and Cancer
It's Contentious No area of research is as contentious as the relationship between food, drink or activity and the risk of cancer. Also, there are literally tens of thousands of articles in the...
The Moss Method™ – Guide to Anti-Cancer Supplements
Listed by Cancer Diagnosis There are presently over 1,400 herbs and food supplements in commerce, many of them in use against cancer. Well-meaning individuals (plus numerous self-declared...
Unhealthy Skepticism
The Danger of Excessive Skepticism An important editorial in the highly regarded Philadelphia Inquirer deals specifically with Therapeutic Touch. But it also pertains to alternative or "New Age"...
Manapol® and Ambrotose®
Hope or Hype?When a magazine ad or a disembodied voice on a TV commercial tells us that product X can eliminate wrinkles or help us lose weight while we sleep, we take these claims with a grain...
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...
Are There Herbs I Should Avoid?
While most scientific reports on the question of herbal medicines have been highly positive in nature, there is also a steady drumbeat of negativity on herbal remedies. For instance, we have...
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...
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...
Max Gerson and His Famous Diet – Book Review
Dr. Max by Giuliano DegoA REVIEW ARTICLE Dego, Giuliano. Dr. Max, Station Hill Press, ISBN 0-88268-201-6, 767 pages, $24.95.Dr. Max by Giuliano Dego has to be one of the most unusual books ever...
The Moss Method™ – Guide to Natural Health Products
We only recommend products we believe in. In general, natural medicines are as described on the label. But we also know that some foods, supplements, and natural medicine are subpar. Our Three...
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...
D-Mannose: A Sweet Option in the Treatment of Cancer
Warburg EffectA remarkable paper has been published in Nature. It has been known for a century that cancer cells are unusually dependent on the common sugar, glucose (the form that carbohydrates...
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...
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...
Vitamins and Chemotherapy
Few issues create more friction between mainstream oncologists and advocates of complementary medicine than the role of vitamins during chemotherapy. While many researchers consider their use...
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...
Cancer Treatment on a Tight Budget
Anticancer Strategies on a Tight Budget Are you looking for an Anti-Cancer Plan on a tight budget? I was once asked to devise a plan for a U.S. Army veteran who was living on a pension and could...
Antioxidants Safe and Effective for Breast Cancer Patients
Harvard StudyThere has been a flurry of attacks on the use of dietary supplements. There was even an op-ed in the New York Times entitled, “Don’t Take Your Vitamins.” I am particularly concerned...
CAM and Cancer in Germany
Unconventional and Orthodox I once published Complementary and Alternative (CAM) Cancer Treatments In Germany as an online book. I have long had an interest in cancer clinics in Germany that use...
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....
Expanding Medical Horizons- A Report to The NIH on Alternative Medicine
A Report to the National Institutes of Health on Alternative Medical Systems and Practices in the United States Pharmacological and Biological Treatments PANEL MEMBERS Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D. --...
The Moss Method™ – Guide to Cancer Stem Cells and Supplements That Fight Them
Why Fight Cancer Stem Cells? Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are the root cause of all that makes cancer dangerous. They are mainly responsible for cancer’s initiation as well as its ability to recur,...
Complementary Oncology
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Courtroom Medicine-Cancer: Alternative Therapies
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The Key to Cancer Prevention
A Disease of Civilization? The occurrence of cancer remained rare until fairly modern times. In 1960, the Harvard-trained anthropologist and polar explorer, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, presented...
FDA Approves Research of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Kanglaite The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a clinical trial of Kanglaite®, a drug derived from an herb used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TOM). The source of the drug is...
ENOX2, ONCOblot Testing, and Capsol-T
Tests and Testing [NOTE: This article describes a test and a testing company that unfortunately went out of business in 2016. Capsol-T is still available.] ONCOblot As fate would have it, the...
Do Antioxidants Interfere with Radiation Therapy For Cancer?
Excerpt Supplemental Antioxidants Although further studies are needed, the preponderance of evidence supports a provisional conclusion that dietary...
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...
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...
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...
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...