Recent Posts in Chemotherapy Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 27-Oct-2016 Metronomic Therapy Another Option for Cancer Treatment Tumors are a lot like parasites, and even a little bit like babies, in that they grow and develop in the human body, and are not rejected as foreign by the immune system. For some reason they are tolerated, and ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 27-Oct-2016 Metronomic Chemotherapy - Big Treatment in a Small Package An article just published in the journal Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology caught my eye. The title: Pharmacokinetics of metronomic chemotherapy: a neglected but crucial aspect. Georgia (not her real name) has recurrent breast cancer. She was ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 23-May-2016 Insulin Potentiation Chemotherapy in the News? This excellent article on cancer and sugar appeared in the New York Times Magazine recently. The author talks about the Warburg effect, and points out that cancer cells begin their lives damaged – they are unable to produce the energy they need ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 27-Jan-2016 A Little Teflon With Your Lipitor® and Your Chemo? The New York Times Magazine published an article about a corporate lawyer who took on DuPont Chemicals when he realized that perfluorochemical waste that they were dumping into a 66 acre landfill in Ohio was poisoning not only the cows who grazed ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 21-Dec-2015 Chemotherapy In The Real World Leads To Increased Rates of Hospitalization This is the conclusion reached in an article published in JAMA Oncology in September 2015. No mention is made of nutritional status or lifestyle habits in the article, only of rate of hospitalization. There are plenty of unanswered questions. Is ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 25-Jun-2013 What if there were a test for cancer that had therapeutic as well as predictive value? Did you ever wonder why some people do well (relatively speaking) with chemotherapy, and others do not respond at all? Why some tumors appear to respond, but then recur a few weeks, months or years later? Why treatment has to be by trial and error ... Continue Reading Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine 25-Jun-2013 Integrative Cancer Care Chemo, surgery, radiation - this is the mantra of current recommendations for cancer therapy. Treatment options on the website of the Mayo Clinic, “the most innovative, progressive care anywhere” are the following: bone marrow ... Continue Reading