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Why Getting a Second Opinion for Cancer During a Pandemic Matters

A second opinion, and sometimes a third and fourth, for a cancer diagnosis can be critical. But how do you best go about this intelligently and safely during a pervasive COVID-19 outbreak… especially here in the U.S.?


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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.


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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.