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Skin Cancer Diagnosis- Melanoma vs. Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer
“Accurate clinical and histopathological analysis of pigmented skin lesions is difficult even for experts”…Really? Skin Cancer can be difficult to diagnose. As the illustration below
Continue readingLung Cancer and CT Scans-Are they worth it?
“There was 354 lung cancer deaths among those who received CT scans and 442 among those who got X-rays.” I will be honest. I read studies all the time that indicate that early screening for
Continue readingHigh-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) for Pancreatic Cancer
High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) ablation might be a potentially effective and safe therapeutic option for the patients with unresectable LAPC. High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound has come along
Continue readingChemo-induced Skin Rash in Pancreatic Cancer
“Skin rash developed shortly after starting treatment (for pancreatic cancer) seemed to be associated with better efficacy and might be used to assist clinical decision-making…” Treatment-related
Continue readingPancreatic Cancer- Comp, Int, Non-Conv.
Conventional Oncology has Little to Offer the Pancreatic Cancer Patient. Think Outside the Box and Consider Conventional Therapies combined with Evidence-based Integrative, and Complementary Therapies. I
Continue readingSevere Neutropenia a Plus in Pancreatic Cancer???
investigators concluded that there was an undeniable relationship between survival and the incidence of severe neutropenia in patients with pancreatic cancer treated with modified FOLFIRINOX Neutropenia (NEU) is
Continue readingLow-Dose Naltrexone- Pancreatic Cancer
“But until such protocols come to market, the ALA-N protocol should be studied and considered, given its lack of toxicity at levels reported. Several other patients are on this treatment protocol
Continue readingIntravenous Vitamin C, Curcumin as Integrative Pancreatic Cancer Therapies
“Patients who had a combination of intravenous vitamin C and chemotherapy did significantly better than the national average of patients just taking chemotherapy alone…” Conventional
Continue readingCancer Survivor? Side Effects will Kill You-
“A clear and unambiguous relation exists between therapeutic exposures and specific adverse events experienced by the survivors…” Why is the study linked below only studying surviving
Continue readingCurcumin Enhances Chemotherapy in Head-Neck Cancer-
When researchers added a curcumin-based compound to head and neck cancer cell lines, they were able to cut the dose of the chemotherapy drug cisplatin by four while still killing tumor cells equally as
Continue readingThyroid Cancer- Delay Treatment to Reduce Overtreatment
“These findings suggest that a substantial and growing part of the detected thyroid cancers are overdiagnosed and overtreated.” The argument for overdiagnosis and overtreatment of thyroid cancer
Continue readingSecond Primary Cancer- Esophageal Cancer Patients
Background: The objective of this study is to assess the risk of second primary cancers following a first primary esophageal cancer as well as the risk of esophageal cancer as a second primary, following
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