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HPV-positive Oropharyngeal Cancer- AHCC
HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer now dominates the head and neck oncology landscape, and its escalating incidence is impacting on diagnostic, preventive and therapeutic practices Human papillomavirus
Continue readingChemo For Breast Cancer? You Better Take these Antioxidants
Breast Cancer Patients, Consider My Mantra “If I Knew Then What I Know Now” Integrative Therapy to Enhance Chemo While Reducing Toxicity For breast cancer patients the more chemo and radiation
Continue readingOnions Kill Breast Cancer Cells
“We found onions are excellent at killing cancer cells…The researchers have also recently determined onions are effective at killing breast cancer cells…” I’m not saying that
Continue readingCure for Lung Cancer May Be Fish Oil
High doses of omega-3 fatty acids found in oily fish or fish oil or plant sources may help fight lung cancer, according to a case report published by researchers at the University of Nevada in the journal
Continue readingVitamin D, Pulmonary Inflammation and Lung Cancer
People can get the nutrient from their food, vitamin pills or being out in the sunshine. Researchers found that the lung cancer patients with high intake who had surgery during the summer were more than
Continue readingIntra. Vit C Enhances Chemo-Ovarian Cancer
“intravenous, but not oral, ascorbate produces millimolar concentrations both in blood and in tissues, killing ovarian cancer (OC) cells without harming normal tissues” Vitamin C therapy is
Continue readingChemotherapy-induced Heart Failure- Cardiology Bias
Chemotherapy-induced heart failure (CIHF) is a serious side effect caused by cardiotoxic chemotherapy taken by the cancer patient. The article linked and excerpted below makes it sound as though this side
Continue readingDoxorubicin Side Effects
Doxorubicin side effects illustrate how chemotherapy is a double-edged sword. Dox kills cancer wonderfully but can wreak havoc on the cancer patient. If your oncologist has prescribed dox. by itself or
Continue readingDoxorubicin is Cardio-toxic!
There is no other way to say it. The chemotherapy doxorubicin is cardio-toxic. Meaning, if you are a cancer patient undergoing DOX, you will damage your heart. The damage may show up immediately or not
Continue readingMyeloma Diet in Three Easy Steps
The truth is, a multiple myeloma diet is straightforward. Conventional oncology is often not prepared to counsel multiple myeloma (MM) survivors about long-term MM survivor issues. Nutrition is just not
Continue readingAvoid DCIS Radiation?
Why would you want to avoid DCIS radiation? If you’ve been diagnosed with Ductal Carcinoma In-Situ (DCIS) you probably want to do everything possible to prevent a diagnosis of full breast cancer. For
Continue readingHawthorn Extract for Chronic Heart Failure
These results suggest that there is a significant benefit in symptom control and physiologic outcomes from hawthorn extract as an adjunctive treatment for chronic heart failure. I supplement with hawthorn
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