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Heart Disease Second Leading Cause of Death for Cancer Patients
“Heart disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in cancer patients. Candidates for aggressive radical surgeries or chemotherapies should be carefully selected in this aging cancer population” Heart
Continue readingEnhance BCG Intravesical Immunotherapy
“We found that curcumin potentiated BCG-induced apoptosis of human bladder cancer cells. BCG stimulated the release of tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) from peripheral
Continue readingTraditional Chinese Medicine for My Heart Failure
Beneficial effects of Shengmai in treating heart failure (HF) were also observed in other outcomes, including exercise test, ejection fraction and cardiac output. I was diagnosed with chemotherapy-induced
Continue readingEndometrial Cancer, Sugar, Curcumin, Green Tea
Eating a sugary diet may increase the risk of developing endometrial cancer by upwards of 33%:
Continue readingStage 2 Myeloma- CBD to Enhance VRD?
“Researchers also found that sequential use of an initial dose of chemotherapy first and then cannabinoids significantly improved overall results against the blood cancer (MM) cells.” Hi David-
Continue readingMultiple Myeloma Diagnosis- Sleep Apnea?
“It’s potentially a very potent driver of cancer aggression (sleep apnea),” she says. “It’s so simple. It had such a profound impact, but it’s potentially so treatable.” When we get a multiple
Continue readingC-B-D Enhances Velcade (BORT)
These results showed that Cannabidiol (C-B-D) by itself or in synergy with BORT strongly inhibited growth, arrested cell cycle progression and induced MM cells death… Is C-B-D useful for multiple
Continue readingMyeloma Therapy- Dichloroacetate (DCA)
“The findings of this study shed a new light with respect to some of the novel mechanisms underlying the antitumor action of Dichloroacetate (DCA) and thus may have immense clinical applications.” “It
Continue readingAntiangiogenesis- Angio sarcomas
studies have demonstrated that inhibition of angiogenic pathways or disruption of established vasculature can attenuate the growth of sarcomas Angio sarcomas are a rare and not-well studied cancer. As
Continue readingCurcumin Supresses Gastric Cancer, Enhances Chemotherapy
“Curcumin prominently inhibited gastric cancer cell proliferation and promoted cell apoptosis…Curcumin dramatically inhibited tumor growth, increased gastric pH…” In the age of
Continue readingPediatric Cancer- Non-Toxic Therapy Kills Kids Brain Cancer
Medulloblastoma is the most common brain tumor in pediatric cancer patients, and its prognosis is worse…” Curcumin induced apoptosis…in medulloblastoma cells… A cancer diagnosis
Continue readingSynergistic, Integrative Approach to Breast Cancer Chemotherapy
Research cites synergistic effects between non-toxic breast cancer (BC) therapies as well as synergy between non-toxic therapies to enhance conventional chemotherapies For advanced breast cancer chemotherapy
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