Alternative Cancer Treatment

Observation Is Safe, Cost-Saving in Low-Risk Prostate Cancer, Study Suggests
Science Daily (press release)
Nevertheless, "it appears that active surveillance and watchful waiting are safe alternatives to initial treatment for prostate cancer based on these assumptions. But it's important to emphasize that these decisions are very much a matter of individual ...

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Feeling the love – for the moment
Proactive Investors USA & Canada
”The findings suggest an alternative way in which cancer treatments might work in the future if therapies can be targeted at the process of interaction between malignant and healthy cells to stop cancer cells from spreading and causing secondary tumors.

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US patient improves after cancer therapy in Kolkata
Times of India
KOLKATA: A cancer research centre in the city has been able to achieve a breakthrough in cancer treatment by using alternative therapy, namely Psorinum Therapy. Critical Cancer Management Research Centre and Clinic has been treating ovarian cancer ...

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Postmenopausal Hormone Receptor–Positive Advanced Breast Cancer
Cancer Network
Endocrine therapy is the most important component of the treatment paradigm for the majority of women with HR-positive advanced breast cancer. It is favored as initial therapy over alternative approaches such as chemotherapy, owing to its clinical ...
Bazedoxifene stops resistant breast cancer growth (Video)Examiner.com

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Bazedoxifene stops resistant breast cancer growth (Video)
Examiner.com
Remember my Info. Bazedoxifene, a drug approved in Europe to treat osteoporosis, has been found to stop the growth of breast cancer cells, even in cancers that have become resistant to current targeted therapies, according to a Duke University Medical ...

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Mark Harmon joins Stand Up To Cancer and the Cancer Research Institute
Examiner.com
Research for alternative therapies is essential and through Harmon's PSA, the organizations hope to increase awareness about the need to support more research on immune-based cancer treatments. What is immunotherapy? This type of cancer treatment ...

Stopping cancer's spread: New protein found to control deadly cancer metastasis
Fox News
Researchers have found a critical element that may explain why some cancers spread farther and faster than others, a discovery that could lead to one of the Holy Grails of cancer treatment: containing the disease. Scientists from the University of ...

Overseas care a healthy alternative for wealthy
China.org.cn
A 46-year-old man from Shanghai going by the pseudonym Wang, was diagnosed with lung cancer in June. He went to Massachusetts General Hospital in the United States for treatment. The treatment and chemotherapy worked, and Wang is now receiving ...

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Overseas care a healthy alternative for wealthy
People's Daily Online
Most patients are wealthy businessmen from Beijing and the provinces of Shanxi and Guangdong, and one customer asked if he should send his mother, who had cancer, to the US for treatment by private jet. According to Cai, rich people in China have easy ...

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Overseas care a healthy alternative for wealthy
ecns
A 46-year-old man from Shanghai going by the pseudonym Wang, was diagnosed with lung cancer in June. He went to Massachusetts General Hospital in the United States for treatment. The treatment and chemotherapy worked, and Wang is now receiving ...

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HEALTH LINE: Heated 'Chemo Bath' Alternative Treatment for Advanced ...
HealthCanal.com
CINCINNATI—For many people with abdominal cancer, the diagnosis comes late—when the disease has advanced and traditional surgery, radiation and chemotherapy treatments are less effective. Over the past two decades, surgical oncologists have ...

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ACS backing approval of governor's Tennessee Plan
Johnson City Press (subscription)
Bill Haslam's yet-to-be announced Tennessee Plan for health care reform, a proposed alternative to Medicaid expansion for which no details have been released. ... Making the case for improved access to health care for Tennessee's working poor, the ACS ...

The Gateway for Cancer Research Honors Cancer Researcher for Discoveries ...
PR Web (press release)
Since our founding in 1991, Gateway has supported more than 100 clinical trials and contributed millions of dollars to leading-edge research, including blending the best of conventional and complementary/alternative therapies. It's time to stop cancer.

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Recognized Cancer Bio-Entrepreneur Launches Beats of Laughter
Marketwire (press release)
"We want to better inform the public understanding about the role of Bio-entrepreneurs and the funding barriers they face in bringing new cancer treatments to market. There is a profound resource gap that extends from basic research ... Beats of ...

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Breast cancer treatments less disruptive
San Francisco Chronicle
Early in my practice, it became clear to me that breast cancer treatment was not just a health issue, but a family and work disruption issue for busy women. ... Treatment of the lumpectomy cavity seemed a feasible alternative to treating the entire breast.

Crowd-Funding Effort via Indiegogo to Help Friend Through Prostate Cancer
SBWire (press release)
Michael then did numerous hours of research and decided to adopt the Cellect/Budwig protoco, an alternative cancer treatment program. Michael has been using the Cellect/Budwig protocol for two and a half months with success, but his team needs your ...

Why We Should Be Spending More On Pricey Cancer Drugs
Forbes
They can rightly use their discretion to prescribe an older, cheaper medicine over a costlier alternative that hasn't decisively proven is superiority. But it's harder to argue that we're not getting real, overall progress for the price we're ...

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What Cancer Patients Need to Know
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
This brings light to the excellent work of Messenger, in which she methodically shares her research into both traditional and alternative treatment options available for cancer patients. While modern technology allows for targeted drug therapies and ...

Alternative therapy duo effective against metastatic cancer
allvoices
Abnormal cancer metabolism creates a glycolytic-dependency which can be exploited by lowering glucose availability to the tumor. The ketogenic diet (KD) is a low carbohydrate, high fat diet which decreases blood glucose and elevates blood ketones and ...

Screening reveals potential alternative drug therapies for neuroblastoma
Oncology Nurse Advisor
This new strategy screens for compounds that could inhibit tumor growth by causing cancer cells to differentiate, meaning to convert from immature cells to more specialized cell types. This screening approach has uncovered a promising new treatment ...