As summer quickly approaches, many people, especially those living in Las Vegas, begin to pay closer attention to the task of protecting their skin from the sun’s powerful and damaging rays – and rightly so. Skin cancer is so common that one in five North Americans will contract it within their lifetime. Fortunately, 97% of …
After eight years, a project that tried to reproduce the results of key cancer biology studies has finally concluded now. Their findings suggest that the diseases research has a replication problem. Cancer Experiments The group tried to replicate 193 experiments from 53 top cancer studies papers published from 2010 to 2012. However, only 25% of those …
I recently had a breast cancer patient tell me that her oncologist “strongly advised” her to avoid foods containing soy because they would cause her cancer to multiply. Dumbfounded that her physician was parroting information from over 20 years ago, I set about my task of reassuring the patient that there was no need to …
Cancer Survival RatesGenerally, the most useful measure of cancer survival is 5-year disease-free survival. Often a patient who lives 5 years without a sign of the original cancer is truly cured. However, some patients will experience a reoccurrence later in life. Individual survival is NOT predictable with much accuracy. No one on this Earth can …
Fenbendazole (FBZ), is a well-known anti-helminthic drug. It is commonly prescribed to treat a range of parasitical worm infections, including threadworm tapeworms, roundworms, and other nematode infections in humans and domestic animals. FBZ has anti-cancer properties that have been elucidated in a broad range of pre-clinical studies with a number of different cancer types. Pre-clinical studies of …
