Recent Blog Articles
The Age of the Empowered Cancer Patient
Welcome to the age of the empowered cancer patient. Many tools, as well as access to high quality information and top physician scientists, are available for cancer patients willing and able to invest themselves in their own health journey.
3 Reasons to Get a Second Opinion at an NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center
Most newly diagnosed cancer patients, and those with relapsed disease, do not know when and why to get a second—or third—opinion before getting treated. Glenn Sabin explains the process.
Personalized Cancer Care, Tumors and You
Even as cancer treatment becomes more targeted, with less toxicity, fewer side effects, there remains a profound need to focus more on the host: the patient.
Dietary Supplements: Harmful or Essential? Cutting Through the Unrelenting Rhetoric
Though I am a staunch proponent of well-placed high quality nutritional supplementation, I’m greatly disturbed by the irresponsible material sourcing, shoddy manufacturing standards and unethical marketing and sales tactics of fringe cavalier manufacturers, influencers, patients and, yes, even medical practitioners.
My Thanksgiving Story and Wish for You
On Thanksgiving Day 1991, three months after my diagnoses of leukemia, I laid in a hospital bed at GW University Hospital in Washington, D.C. My spleen was removed the prior day.
Glenn Sabin Podcast Interview: Integrative Oncology and Being an n of 1
Recorded shortly after speaking at UCSD’s Integrative Oncology conference, this podcast interview captures my thoughts on integrative oncology, and journey with a terminal cancer diagnosis, better than any other to date.
Integrative Oncology Circa 1991
In 1991, when I first learned I had an incurable form of leukemia, integrative oncology wasn’t even a term. Integrative cancer care programs were nonexistent at major cancer centers. Put simply, there was nowhere for a newly diagnosed cancer patient like me to turn to learn about patient-centered, integrative approaches to disease management; at least […]
Can Integrative Oncology Extend Survivorship?
Integrative oncology therapies can often help ease side effects from chemo and radiation. But can integrative cancer care approaches also extend survivorship?
I am an n of 1. You are an n of 1.
Shortly after I was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1991, my personal n of 1 experiment began; its outcomes have been closely chronicled for a quarter century.
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.
