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Tag Archives for " Melanoma "
Cost-effectivness of Immunotherapy for Metastatic Melanoma-
Consider Evidence-based Integrative Therapies to Enhance the Efficacy of Melanoma Chemotherapy While Minimizing Toxicity Based on the Forbes article linked below, a chemotherapy called “Opdivo
Continue readingTreating Skin Cancer-Stage I is Much Different than Stage IV
Skin Cancer can be Aggressive, Complicated and Expensive to Treat. Learn About Integrative Therapies to Enhance The Efficacy of Conventional Chemotherapy Diagnoses of both melanoma and non-melanoma skin
Continue readingCould Probiotics Enhance the Efficacy of Immunotherapy for Melanoma?
These results suggest that we could alter gut microbiota using probiotics, prebiotics etc. in order to improve response to anti-cancer immunotherapy for melanoma Immunotherapy for melanoma has shown real
Continue readingMelanoma Therapy- Kills or Inhibits Melanoma Growth by 69% “Without Harming Healthy Cells”
In the study, the compound caused human melanoma cells to die and inhibited tumor growth by about 69 percent in a mouse model… Normally, I never blog about therapies that “show promise”
Continue readingSurvival in Melanoma? Anti-Angiogenisis
I have a friend who was diagnosed with melanoma in 2012. Sam, not his real name, underwent standard-of-care therapy for melanoma. At the conclusion of the conventional (FDA approved) melanoma therapy Sam
Continue readingDCA (Dichloroacetate)- Melanoma-
A case of a 32-year-old male is presented in which DCA therapy, with no concurrent conventional therapy, resulted in regression and stabilization of recurrent metastatic melanoma (mel.) for over 4 years’
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