Cancer Diagnosis: Options and Hope
Many physicians and patients have made referrals to me throughout the years to treat their patients or friends who have been diagnosed with one form of cancer or another. If you review Section Three of this website, entitled “Testimonials”, you will read what some of these patients have had to say in their very own words.
From the outset, I want you to know that I believe in chemotherapy and radiation. I know that many of my colleagues do not share my position. No matter, I do believe in the expert use of these treatments. However, I am convinced by my clinical experience and the medical literature about the efficacy of non-pharmaceutical treatments. It is my experience and firm conviction that ignoring this mounting evidence is not in the best interest of anyone who has received this diagnosis.
Below, I want to refer you to some references that share important information you should know. The physicians and researchers I cite are very well-respected and well-known.
After reading through these references, I ask you to take a look at the link for “Epigenetics” found in this section. Please, at the very least, read the Amazon.Com reviews of the books I have cited. If you can find them at a bookstore and skim through them or, better yet, after skimming buy them if the information there appears as if it would help you gain a different perspective. I will refer to some of this cutting-edge literature during our consultations.
I invite you to consider how much more powerful you treatment plan will be if it incorporates that information and recommendations found in the references I have provided. There is so much more I can share with you, and I hope to have that opportunity.
References
EVIDENCE: THE USE OF SUPPLEMENTS, DIET, EXERCISE, MIND/BODY TECHNIQUES, AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICE IN THE TREATMENT OF CANCERS
Kenneth I. Block, Life Over Cancer.
Block KI, Koch AC, Mead MN, Tothy PK, Newman RA, Gyllenhaal C. Impact of antioxidant supplementation on chemotherapeutic efficacy: a systematic review of the evidence from randomized controlled trials. Cancer Treat Rev. 2007 Aug;33(5):407-18.
Block KI, Koch AC, Mead MN, Tothy PK, Newman RA, Gyllenhaal C. Impact of Antioxidant Supplementation on Chemotherapeutic Toxicity: A Systematic Review of the Evidence from Randomized Controlled Trials. Int J Cancer 2008. Accepted for publication.
A Speech to the 7th International Symposium for Biologically Closed Electric Circuits in Biomedicine (presents evidence in favor of antioxidant use during chemo and radiation while countering the criticism that has been published in some poorly designed studies). Get the gist of this. It is important.
David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD, Anticancer
Shen J, Zhang W, Wu J, Zhu Y. The synergistic reversal effect of multidrug resistance by quercetin and hyperthermia in doxorubicin-resistant human myelogenous leukemia cells.
Int J Hyperthermia. 2008 Mar;24(2):151-9.
Simone CB 2nd, Simone NL, Simone V, Simone CB. Antioxidants and other nutrients do not interfere with chemotherapy or radiation therapy and can increase kill and increase survival, Part 2. Altern Ther Health Med. 2007 Mar-Apr;13(2):40-7
Zhang XY, Bai DC, Wu YJ, Li WG, Liu NF. Proanthocyanidin from grape seeds enhances anti-tumor effect of doxorubicin both in vitro and in vivo. Pharmazie. 2005 Jul;60(7):533-8.