Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Acta Radiologica oncology 1986;25:281-284.
17 Horsman MR, Chaplin DJ, Brown IM. Tumor radiosensitization by nicotinamide: A result of improved perfusion and oxygenation. Radiation Research 1989;118:139-50.
19 Horsman PE, Kristjansen MR, Mizuno M, Christensen KL, Chaplin DJ, Quistorff B, Overgaard J. Biochemical and physiological changes induced by nicotinamide in a C3H mouse mammary carcinoma and CDFi mice. Int J Radiation oncology, Biology, Physics 1992;22:451-54.
20 Chaplin DJ, Horsman MP, and Aoki DS. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Many hospitals turned to Response oncology, a company based in Memphis, Tennessee, that franchised bone marrow transplants. Hospitals hired Response oncology to teach teams of nurses and oncologists, in two-day sessions, how to administer high-dose chemo and perform a transplant. The company also advised hospitals on how to build new wings and then handled the insurance claims.
While hospital administrators wanted their share of the profits, oncologists wanted their share of the glory. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Berberine sulfate inhibits tumor-promoting activity of teleocidin in two stage carcinogenesis on mouse skin. oncology 43(2): 131-134. 1986.
Palmery M, Cometa MF, Leone MG. Further studies of the adrenolytic activity of the major alkaloids from Hydrastis canadensis L on isolated rabbit aorta. Phytother Res; 10(suppl 1):S47-S49. 1996.
Palmery M, Leone MG, Pimpinella G et al. Effects of Hydrastis canadensis L and the two major alkaloids berberine and hydrastine on rabbit aorta. Pharmacological Res; 27(suppl l):73-74. 1993.
Preininger V. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In fact, it was less of a "task force" and more of a self-serving oncology orgy fest that was clearly designed to sell one thing to black woman: Mammography.
Myth vs. Fact About Breast Cancer
Let's get to some facts about breast cancer. Forget all the hype and propaganda put out by the breast cancer industry and this astonishingly ignorant Chicago task force. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| More randomized, controlled clinical trials with specific tumor types are necessary to determine the place of mistletoe therapy in oncology. A concomitant rise in interleukin-1 and interleukin-6, tumor-necrosis factor-alpha, and gamma-interferon has also been reported (Staak et al, 1998; Meyer-Wegener, 1998; Weber et al, 1998; Joller, 1996; Stein & Berg, 1996; Hajto & Lanzrein, 1986; Hajto, 1986).
Cytotoxic Effects: Mistletoe (Viscum album) lectin 1 (ML-1) may cause cytotoxicity by inhibition of protein synthesis on a ribosomal level (Franz, 1986; Metzner et al, 1985; Stirpe et al, 1980). |
Bill Sardi
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 Seminars oncology 29: 43-49, 2002] The high pH theory is going out the window.
Furthermore, there appears to be an undesirable buildup of calcium inside tumor cells as well as in the blood circulation. As cell energy declines in tumor cells, the sodium/calcium pump, which normally maintains an alkaline balance of these minerals inside the cell, is weakened. Thus calcium begins to accumulate. [Novartis Found Symp 240: 169-81, 2001 ] Without sufficient energy, the calcium cannot be pumped out of the tumor cell.
Calcification is a common feature of tumor cells. |
| Journal Clinical oncology 21: 927-31, 2003]
Adriamycin
Adriamycin is an anti-cancer drug that can produce life-threatening side effects. Adriamycin (doxorubicin) is used to treat a wide variety of cancers of the blood, lymph system, bladder and breast. The heart tissue is vulnerable to toxicity from adriamycin, which can cause a profound decrease in blood pressure, a markedly increased heart rate, and a decrease in the volume of blood the heart pumps. This is often accompanied by fatigue and sometimes depression. This drug has also been shown to deplete cancer patients of vitamin C. |
| Annals oncology 8: 1031-39, 1997] Other cases of inexplicable remission from lung cancer among elderly subjects have been reported in the modern literature. [Lung Cancer 45: 263-66, 2004]
In 1996, cancer surgeons in Germany reported that seven patients who underwent partial removal of tissue for rectal cancer were completely free of the disease 10 years later even though they did not undergo radiation or chemotherapy following surgery. |
| Proceedings Annual Meet American Society Clinical oncology 11 :A75, 1992]
Widely overlooked is that fact that the risk for breast cancer dramatically increases as females cease menstruation and thus lose their ability to control iron build up via blood loss. About 80 % of the iron in the body is found in red blood cells. The increased stores of iron in postmenopausal females are linked to an increased mortality from cancer. [International J Epidemiology. |
| Clinical oncology 13: 200-01, 2001] Many cases of cancer that arise during pregnancy, when sex hormone levels are highest, resolve with birth or the termination of pregnancy. For example, a 28-year-old woman in the third trimester of her pregnancy was found to have acute myelocytic leukemia. The baby was delivered early by Cesarean section and her leukemia disappeared for a short time, only to reappear as her hormone levels rose again. |
| J Clinical oncology 20: 485-93, 2002]
One probable cause of diminished working memory may be that chemotherapy significantly reduces vitamin Bl 2 absorption. [Z Gastroenterology 27: 606-10 1989] Impaired Bl 2 absorption is so prevalent following chemotherapy one wonders why doctors don't routinely prescribe supplemental Bl 2 after treatment. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| Hospitals hired Response oncology to teach teams of nurses and oncologists, in two-day sessions, how to administer high-dose chemo and perform a transplant. The company also advised hospitals on how to build new wings and then handled the insurance claims.
While hospital administrators wanted their share of the profits, oncologists wanted their share of the glory. Transplantation was a medical high-wire act, a daredevil procedure that brought a patient to the brink of death and then snatched her back at the last moment. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| Use of herbal products and dietary supplements by oncology patients - informed decisions? Highlights Oncol Pract; 15(4):94-106. 1998
Reinhard KH: Uncaria tomentosa (Willd.) DC: Cat's Claw, Una de Gato, or Saventaro. J Ahem Complement Med; 5(2):143-151. 1999
Rizzi R et al. Mutagenic and antimutagenic activities of Uncaria tomentosa and its extracts. J Ethnopharmacol; 38:63-77. 1993
Rodriguez H, Massey PJ, Rodriguez K et al. Inhibition of steroid hormone production by a nutrition supplement ' 'una de gato'' or "cat's claw." Biol Reprod; 58(1):208. 1998
Salazar EL & Jayme V. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Associate Professor of oncology, Gynecology, and Obstetrics at Johns Hopkins, "If you haven't been exercising, try low-level exercise, such as walking or swimming."
The benefits of exercise are not limited to helping treatment-related fatigue, but they are actively contributing to curing cancer. Several groundbreaking studies attest to that. This hardly comes at a surprise since cancer cells are typically oxygen-deprived, and exercise is a direct way to deliver extra oxygen to cells throughout the body and to improve the immune response. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| Inhibitory effect of taraxastane-type triterpenes on tumor promotion by 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate in two-stage carcinogenesis in mouse skin. oncology, 53:341-4, Jul-Aug 1996
Dionaea muscipula
See Venus Flytrap
Dioscorea villosa
See Wild Yam
Dipsacus silvestris
See Teazle
Dipteryx odorata
See Tonka Beans
Divi-Divi
Caesalpinia bonducella description
Medicinal Parts: The medicinal part of the plant is seed.
Flower and Fruit: The flowers are dorsiventrally zygomor-phous and arranged in dense clusters. |
| Licorice root extract shows antitumor activity. Oncology; 14(2): 164. 2000.
Arase Y, Iketla K, Murashima N et al. The long term efficacy of glycyrrhizin in chronic hepatitis C patients. Cancer; 79:1494-1500. 1997.
Armanini D, Bonanni G & Palermo M. Reduction of serum testosterone in men by licorice. N Engl J Med; 341 (15): 1158. 1999.
Baba M, Shigeta S, Antiviral activity of glycyrrhizin against varicella-zoster virus in vitro. In: Antiviral Res 7(2):99-107. 1987.
Barbara L; Belsasso E; Blasi A et al. Pirenzepine and carbenozolone in gastric ulcer. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| Oncology (Suppl 1):8-15.
Wagner H, Pflanzliche Immunstimulanzien. In: DAZ 131(4):117. 1991.
Wasielewski S, Krebserkrankungen: Streit um alternative Heilverfahren in der Onkologie. In: DAZ 135(24):2234-2235. 1995.
Woynarvski JM et al, (1980) Hoppe-Seylers Z Physiol Chem 361(10):1525 et 1535.
Further information in:
Frohne D, Pfander HJ, Giftpflanzen - Ein Handbuch fiir Apotheker, Toxikologen und Biologen, 4. Aufl., Wiss. Verlags-Ges. Stuttgart 1997.
Hansel R, Keller K, Rimpler H, Schneider G (Hrsg.), Hagers Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, 5. Aufl. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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| Int J Radiation oncology, Biology, Physics 1992;22:451-54.
20 Chaplin DJ, Horsman MP, and Aoki DS. Nicotinamide, fluosol DA and carbo-gen: A strategy to reoxygenate acutely and chronically hypoxic cells in vivo. British Journal of Cancer 1990;63:109-113.
21 Horsman MR, Chaplin DJ, Brown JM. Tumor radiosensitization by nicotinamide: A result of improved perfusion and oxygenation. Radiation Research 1989;118:139-50.
Chen G, Pan QC. Potentiation of the antitumor activity of cisplatin in mice by 3-aminobenzamide and nicotinamide. Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology i988;22:303-307. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| By the time he left the Dana-Farber in 1992, to head the division of oncology at UCSF, Henderson had already gained a reputation as a critic. Many of his colleagues scorned him, calling him a naysayer and snubbing him at medical meetings. High-dose chemo had become a medical juggernaut, and nobody wanted to hear that it might not work.
But Peters himself knew that Henderson was right. He knew he had to subject high-dose chemo to the ultimate test, a randomized, controlled clinical trial. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 We are not talking about bias in an area of research which would "do no harm" if results were not reported honestly. oncology is the study of cancer. A less than objective study of new drugs would result in the deaths of many people, and this research team determined that the published oncology research is far from objective.
And even this study, which sought to determine how pharmaceutical money was influencing the conclusions found in the medical journals, had the following note concerning the study's funding. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| Preliminary study of the effect of selected Chinese natural drugs on human ovarian cancer cells. oncology Reports; 2:571-575. 1995
Buxus sempervirens
See Boxwood
Cabbage
Brassica oleracea description
Medicinal Parts: The medicinal parts of the plant are the fresh cabbage head and juice derived from the fresh leaves.
Flower and Fruit: The inflorescences have long-pedicled flowers. The flowers are large and have 4 erect, narrowly elliptoid sepals 6 to 12 mm long. The 4 petals are about twice as long as the calyx and are sulphur yellow. |
Devra Davis
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 My colleague Dwight Heron, Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs at the University of Pittsbugh Medical Center Cancer Centers and Chairman at the Department of Radiation oncology at Shadyside, spends his days diagnosing and treating cancer pataients with the help of modern computerized diagnostic scanning systems. I asked him what he thought about the current enthusiasm for CT and PET scans of healthy people.
Heron says, "It's a big problem. Radiologists appreciate that we could be creating more cancer in young people by what happens in emergency rooms all over the country today. |
Mark Sircus
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 The cancer industry is among the most aggressive areas in the medical arena and the FDA will swoop in with automatic weapons into doctors' offices if they step out of line with acknowledged oncology protocols. Medical fascism is perhaps at its worst in the cancer area with oncologists insisting that poisoning patients with chemicals and radiation is the only and best way to go.
Minerals, not drugs, and certainly not radiation or chemicals, are essential for life and health and provide the keys for the prevention and cure of cancer. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Perillyl alcohol: applications in oncology. Altern Med Rev. 1998 Dec; 3(6):448^57.
Sultana S, Ahmed S, Jahangir T, Sharma S. Inhibitory effect of celery seeds extract on chemically induced hepatocarcinogenesis: modulation of cell proliferation, metabolism and altered hepatic foci development. Cancer Lett. 2005 Apr 18;221 (1): 11-20. Tsi D, Das NP, Tan BK. Effects of aqueous celery (Apium graveolens) extract on lipid parameters of rats fed a high fat diet. Planta Med. 1995 Feb;61(l):18—21. Tsi D, Tan BK. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 American Society of Clinical oncology www.asco.org
American Society of Plastic Surgeons www.plasticsurgery.org
American Stroke Association www.strokeassociation.org
American Thoracic Society www.thoracic.org
American Thyroid Association www.thyroid.org
American Urological Association www.auanet.org
Arthritis Foundation www.arthritis.org
Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America www.ccfa.org
Cushing's Support and Research Foundation www.csrf.net
Endocrine Society www.endo-society.org
Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research www.stopsarcoidosis.org
HeartHealthyWomen www.hearthealthywomen. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 In contrast, studies reported in both the International Society for Preventive Oncology's Cancer Detection and Prevention Journal (1999) and the International Union Against Cancer's International Cancer Journal (2005) found that women who used synthetic progestins plus estrogen had a significantly higher risk of breast cancer, whereas women using bio-identical progesterone plus synthetic estrogens had a lower risk of breast cancer than women using estrogen alone. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Aloe decreases surgical recovery time, according to a report in the Journal of Derm otologic Surgery and oncology. Eighteen acne patients underwent facial dermabrasion surgery, in which lesions are scraped away. Dressings were applied to their faces, with half of each person's face receiving the standard dressing coated with surgical gel, and the other half with aloe added to this dressing. The half of the face treated with aloe healed approximately seventy-two hours faster than the other side. Dermatologist James Fulton, M.D. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Annals of oncology 12, no. 11 (2001): 1533-38.
Augustin, L. S., S. Gallus, C. Bosetti, F. Levi, E. Negri, S. Franceschi, L. Dal Maso, D. J. Jenkins, C. W. Kendall, and C. La Vecchia. "Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load in Endometrial Cancer." International Journal of Cancer 105, no. 3 (2003): 404-7.
Beresford, S. A., et al. "Low-Fat Dietary Pattern and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: The Women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Dietary Modification Trial." Journal of the American Medical Association. 295, no. 6 (2006): 643-54.
Bernstein, Richard. |
Anne Harrington
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 As the popular discourse about the emotional trauma of receiving a diagnosis of cancer became increasingly frank, the culture of care within oncology itself also began to change. A 1961 survey of physicians in a particular region of the United States found that more than 90 percent of them usually did not reveal a cancer diagnosis to the patient. A 1979 survey of physicians working in the same geographical region found, in contrast, that 97 percent of physicians now did so. |
Devra Davis
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| Oncology nurse Connie Kinney begins to recite the listed side effects of the drugs Mom is to get. "Complications include dizziness, bleeding, and death," she says.
Mom cuts her off. "So do you have these medications here? Now?" She doesn't blink.
"Yeah," Connie says, "we could start you today. But maybe you want to take some time to get things together?"
My mother is feisty, like a boxer about to enter the ring against an opponent twice her size. "No thanks. Let's just get on with it."
My mother definitely did just that. |
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