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Dementia Patients Prescribed Dangerous Drugs
“About 13 per cent were diagnosed with dementia and, of those, 67 per cent were found to be prescribed potentially inappropriate medications.” Full transparency. When the article linked below
Continue readingManaging Prostatectomy Side Effects
Reduce your risks of Collateral Damage from Prostatectomy Through Combined Conventional and Non-Conventional Therapies Let me be direct. The collateral damage or long-term side effects for the vast majority
Continue readingChemotherapy-induced Cardiomyopathy
The past five echocardiograms indicate that I am healing my chemotherapy-induced Cardiomyopathy. I am doing this with evidence-based, non-toxic, non-conventional therapies such as nutrition, supplementation,
Continue readingMind-Body Therapies and Sense of Purpose
University School Alumni Man of the Year Dinner Speech- May 17, 2018- “Mind-Body Therapies, Cancer and a Sense of Purpose In this speech, I explain how I gain a sense of purpose after my cancer diagnosis
Continue readingYoung Myeloma Patient? Tandem Stem Cell Transplant?
HSCT patients who have survived for at least 5 years post-transplantation are at a fourfold to ninefold increased risk of late mortality for as long as 30 years from HSCT, producing an estimated 30% lower
Continue readingTreating Multiple Myeloma-Induced Acute Kidney Damage (AKI)-
Both MYRE studies (of MM-induced AKI) remind us that more aggressive therapy is not synonymous with medical benefit. Acute Kidney Injury is both a symptom as well as side effect of Multiple Myeloma patients
Continue readingHealing Chemotherapy-Induced Senescence aka Aging-
“Senescence (/sɪˈnɛsəns/) or biological aging is the gradual deterioration of functional characteristics in living organisms. The word senescence can refer to either cellular senescence or to
Continue readingMultiple Myeloma Chemotherapy- Evidence-Based, Non-Conventional
The National Cancer Institute is working cooperatively with research centers across the U.S. to evaluate its clinical activity in hematologic malignancies… such as multiple myeloma I was diagnosed
Continue readingMelphalan Flufenamide- Risk of Death!?
How much damage (death) must a chemotherapy do to patients before oncology stops prescribing the drug??? Is death from chemotherapy part of the “risk/reward” thinking of conventional oncology
Continue readingAuto Stem Cell Transplant Second Thoughts
Hi David- I am supposed to be starting my autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) tomorrow. I am having outpatient chemo and being admitted the next day to the hospital for two weeks. I am a bit
Continue readingA Long-Term Myeloma Survivor: I Wish I Knew Then What I Know Now
I went under the knife and woke up eight hours later. My pathologist, Dr. Makely gently explained that I had multiple myeloma (MM). A week later my oncologist Dr. Berger told me I had a single plasmacytoma
Continue readingHealing My Chemo brain- Myeloma
Chemo brain is highly prevalent; these problems can be detected in up to 30% of patients prior to chemotherapy; up to 75% of patients report some form of Chemo brain during treatment… My diagnosis
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