Recent Research Articles
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.
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.
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.
