When life tries to beat us down, humanity for the most part will be resilient and fight back. This is also true when we get any disease including cancer. We will do whatever is in our power to beat it and survive. We will climb any tall mountain, leave no stone unturned and take any medication or herb that gives us the chance to live. The one thing we don't do is pause for a moment and think about what we are doing. Lets … [Read more...]
Treating Future Diseases With Immunotherapy
A new frontier has been opened in the war on cancer. We all know the toxic effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy on the body. Now imagine if we can use our healthy bodies to fight cancer for us. Our understanding of how the immune system works has led us to this point in medicine. We are on the cusp of new medical breakthroughs that can be tailor made to each individual when treating cancer. I will try to … [Read more...]
Is Chemotherapy Worth It?
Cancer by far is our worst enemy. Forget about guns because you can heal quickly from a gun wound. Cancer is one of those diseases that kills you from the inside. It lurks within your body undetected until one day you go to the doctor for a check-up and something came back abnormal. Once the prognosis is there, the next dreaded word is chemotherapy (#chemo). The word is out on chemo and how devastating it actually is. It … [Read more...]
Is Gardasil An Effective HPV Vaccine
There has been a lot of controversy over the HPV vaccine which is also known as Gardasil and designed by Merck. Although it has been approved by the FDA and recommended by the CDC, its adoption for the general population has been slow. Only Virginia, Rhode Island and Washington D.C. have laws requiring children to have the HPV vaccine to attend school. I am sure the slow adoption of the vaccine is the wait and see … [Read more...]
HIV Virus Kills Cancer
If anyone has not watched the HBO show VICE, I think you are missing out on some good news reporting. Not the kind of news reporting that tries to sway judgement on a position. VICE is the kind of reporting that presents the facts and lets you decide your own view or judgement. A recent episode caught my undivided attention as I watched a report on doctors using viruses to cure cancer. I was astonished and amazed at the … [Read more...]
Cancer Side Effects
Anyone who has survived cancer as a child has his whole life ahead of them. One would think that the worst is behind them. A new study has shown that over time, that is not the case. Adults who survived childhood cancer are facing a new health challenge: premature aging. As more survivors reach their 30s and 40s, researchers are noticing health problems more common to much older people, such as frailty and serious memory … [Read more...]
Proton Beam Therapy Controversy
At what cost is your health worth when it comes to prostate cancer? That is the fight going on between insurance companies and patients. Health insurers are pushing back against one of medicine's most expensive technologies amid growing evidence it may not be better for patients than cheaper options. At least three major insurers have recently decided to stop covering proton beam therapy for early stage prostate cancer or … [Read more...]