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Exceptional Patients and Radical Cancer Remissions
Properly documenting remarkable stories of healing cancer in the medical literature is more important than ever. This post shares options for how to do so.
Cancer: Healing Versus Curing
Many think of cancer healing as the recovery process from invasive interventions such as surgery, radiation or chemotherapy. It’s a common mindset of ‘I’ll endure the conventional treatment then heal from it’. While that’s certainly a true form of physical healing, there are numerous ways in which healing takes place.
Open Letter to Joe Biden: We Need a Cancer ‘Prevention’ Moonshot
Dear Vice President Biden:
Your Cancer Moonshot initiative is commendable, with its core goals to make more therapies available to more patients, while supporting improvements to prevent cancer, and detect it earlier. The core elements of the Cancer Moonshot from a research and drug discovery standpoint are sound, but the overarching framework lacks a critical keystone. Let me explain.
Spontaneous Remission is a Misnomer
While certainly true that the human mind and body possess an innate healing capacity, the phenomenon can only be fully unleashed by activating specific powerful triggers. True healing is a complex biological process, not magic.
An Integrative Oncology Patient’s Thoughts on ‘Cancer: Emperor of All Maladies’
The documentary does an incredible job capturing the history of cancer, with a laser focus on tumors and evolving treatments. Sadly, Cancer all but leaves the ‘host’, the patient, out of the story. No discussion on prevention.
