About a year ago, a naturopathic doctor gave me a test for cancer. She said the test revealed a malignant brain tumor in the making if I did not changes. She suggested omega 3 oil, vitamins, minerals, adrenal support. Seems like this is not enough for something so potentially serious. She practices in another state. [...]

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What’s another thing wrong with soda pop?
Soda pop either has sugar, or a “diet” sweetener, both of which cause you to gain weight. Additionally, both sugar and aspartame (or NutraSweet) cause inflammation in the body. 
Aspartame is actually wood alcohol with an aspartate and phenylalanine group (amino acid) hooked onto it.  The wood alcohol is [...]

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I would like to know natural herbs for cancer (bone) pain. I am looking for relief without side effects. Is it possible?
I am not aware of any herb or natural product with enough analgesic effect to take away bone pain of cancer.  Sometimes even the strongest medications in conventional medicine, like morphine, don’t help [...]

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One of our wily readers caught an error in yesterday’s post: kudos to you, Sam!  I had two comments ready for posting and we inadvertently posted one under the title of the other.  So, for any of you who were perplexed at the non-mention of CT scans in the article yesterday, read the correct version [...]

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Wall Street Journal
January 19, 2010

Catching Deadly Drug Mistakes

For years, there have been efforts toward reducing medication errors at all levels. Now, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices is joining the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and are launching a National Alert Network for Serious Medication Errors. This is an alert system which can send [...]

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Q:  What are some alternative measures to take for breast cancer? I was just diagnosed this past week. I have always clung to alternative medicine, so would like to look at all of my options. I may or may not choose surgery, but do not feel I would do the chemo. I believe there [...]

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Wall Street Journal

Living With a Lifesaving Drug’s Side Effects
A recent Wall Street Journal article touts the benefits of a new drug called Gleevec, which is effective against certain cancers, but carries with it significant side effects. The Journal mentions one person, Alice Sulkowski, taking the drug and states that she has had difficulty dealing with

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A recent article in Forbes Magazine describes the following miraculous events: Charles Burrows—inoperable liver cancer in the summer of 2005, was given 30-60 days to live. He quit his job, and in February 2006 developed shaking, chills and nausea, all infectious-type symptoms. Soon afterward he noticed

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Fox News

In a well-designed research study done in hospitals in the Netherlands, scientists found that the addition of a second targeted anti-cancer drug increased the colon cancer and made patients more miserable. Both drugs attacked the cancer in

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A recent study from the Ulleval University Hospital in Oslo, Norway, known as the SEAS study, showed an increased risk of cancer with the use of Vytorin (a combination drug with a statin, Zocor, and zetia, which blocks the absorption of cholesterol through the intestinal tract).

Since Zocor has not been associated with increased [...]

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