In this NBC Nightly News video, watch UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher Dr. Dennis Slamon discuss a new study that reports that treating women with a combination of chemotherapy and the molecularly targeted drug Herceptin can significantly increase survival in patients with a specific genetic mutation that results in very aggressive disease. Video Rating: [...]
www.encognitive.com 1. Iscador is an extract of a mistletoe plant that grows on trees in many parts of the world. Interesting fact about mistletoe — it does not grow on healthy trees. And removal of the mistletoe from the tree results in the tree’s death. 2. Almost a century ago Austrian philosopher Rudolph Steiner, the [...]
(Breast Cancer Treatment Alternative ) Effective & Low Side Effects- Survivor Interview #1 vci.org http A very strong woman who refused the conventional treatments of surgery, followed by high dose radiation, and chemotherapy. She knew there were alternatives to cure breast cancer. She did not want her body to be touched by invasive standard breast [...]
Adjuvant Therapy Adjuvant therapy: Extra treatment to keep cancer from returning Understand your options before you decide whether adjuvant therapy is for you. Balance the side effects with the benefits of treatment when making your decision. You’ve already had surgery to remove your tumor. But how can you be sure that some cancer cells [...]
Recent preliminary reports from several large trials show that the rigorous and costly regimen of high-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell rescue for metastatic breast cancer probably offers no survival advantage over standard chemotherapy (Peters et al., 2000). Given the lack of a clear, definitive answer to the question, a number of different chemotherapeutic regimens [...]
How many of you are dealing with cancer or know someone who is or someone that died because of this frightening illness? I bet, almost every one of you answered “YES” to that question. Now, have any of the people you’ve known with cancer die while they were still receiving their treatment? Here is the [...]
Has Western Medicine Found The Cure For Cancer? Many billions of dollars have been poured into the cancer industry over several decades and the sad fact is that there is not any increase in survival rates for cancer sufferers. There is big talk in the cancer industry about survival rates for chemotherapy patients being a [...]
The tendency of human cells is to develop, and the increase in the number of cells must take place continuously. This process inspires in the cells production and inactive cells are thus replaced. A particular process controls the human cells production and the cells are equally processed throughout the body. In few cases, the cell [...]
Tailoring Breast Cancer Treatment, from Harvard Women’s Health Watch Boston, MA (Vocus) October 7, 2009 Breast cancer, once thought to be a single disease, is turning out to be a collection of somewhat different disorders. That knowledge is tempering the approach to [...]