Moss Reports Blog
Ralph W. Moss, PhD has been writing on the topic of alternative and conventional cancer treatments, the latest developments in cancer research and the politics of cancer for over forty years. Our Moss Reports Blog strives to bring you the latest, and often hard-to-find, news on these topics.
IMMUNE THERAPY PUTS STAGE IV BREAST CANCER INTO REMISSION
Scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Maryland, have reported putting a woman with advanced, stage IV breast cancer into complete remission using an innovative form of immunotherapy.
A team of almost two dozen NCI scientists reported on the case of Judy Perkins, a 49-year-old engineer from Florida who had metastatic breast cancer. Like many patients, her tumor was estrogen receptor-positive and HER2-negative. According to their report in Nature Medicine, the treatment destroyed her cancer cells so effectively that she has been in remission for two years. The NCI doctors who cared for her have called her response “remarkable.”…
IMMUNE CHECKPOINT INHIBITORS: WILL THEY WORK FOR YOU?
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: One of the most important questions about ICI therapy is who will respond to this new type of treatment. A recent paper from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, has now established a "prognostic scoring system"...
TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER: A HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT FINDING
There has been a highly significant finding in triple negative breast cancer from a European integrative cancer clinic. The development of immune checkpoint blockade drugs, first approved in 2011, has been among the most important breakthrough in cancer treatment.
EGGS AND PROSTATE CANCER
If you have had prostate cancer (PC), or are at high risk of the disease, it would be prudent to stop eating eggs…
HYPERTHERMIA EXTENDS SURVIVAL – revised
Photo: Prof. Rolf Issels, MD, Munich, Germany Hyperthermia Extends Survival NOTE: This is a revised version of my blog/newsletter from earlier today. I have made several changes. First, the publishing journal is JAMA Oncology (not Lancet...
SIDE EFFECTS OF IMMUNE CHECKPOINT DRUGS
For the past three years, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has declared cancer immunotherapy to be the “breakthrough of the year.” An important part of this approach comes from a class of drugs known as immune checkpoint inhibitors.
LETTER IN SCIENCE TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
..one of the most promising breakthroughs in cancer therapy–the combination of immunotherapy with cancer-killing (oncolytic) viruses. This is the subject of intense research at Sloan-Kettering Institute, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and many other centers.
AMERICAN CANCER DOCS FAVOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA
All patients with cancer should have access, should they choose, to medical marijuana. It definitely seems to provide relief of nausea and other side effects of chemotherapy.
CANCER AND DANGERS OF ALCOHOL
Alcohol poses a danger in terms of causing or promoting cancer. Research suggests that even moderate use is dangerous. We suggest ..
FEVER IS GOOD!
FEVER IS GOOD! Fever is actually beneficial for those receiving immune therapy (such as IL-2) for cancer. In fact, it is an essential part of the treatment. Patients whose fever was left untreated lived almost twice as long as those who had their fevers reduced!...
THE POWER OF METABOLIC THERAPY
Thomas Seyfried, PhD, an outstanding biologist at Boston College, is senior author on an amazing case report of a complete remission in a patient with triple-negative breast cancer…
I’m Now an Honorary Member of ARTOI
I'm Now an Honorary Member of ARTOI International participants at the 2016 ARTOI meeting in Florence, Italy. (Author is third from left.) I am proud to report that I have been asked to be an honorary member of ARTOI, the "Association for Research and Treatment in...
SUCCESSFUL CAM MEETING IN FLORENCE
SUCCESSFUL CAM MEETING IN FLORENCE (Some of the speakers at the ARTOI meeting; the author is in the middle, between Bharat Aggarwal, PhD, Professor Emeritus, M.D. Anderson and Gary Deng, MD, of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.) This is a belated report on an...
HISTORY OF IMMUNE CHECKPOINT INHIBITION
The emergence of immune checkpoint inhibitor drugs (such as Yervoy®, Opdivo® and Keytruda®) is undoubtedly a very important development in cancer treatment…
Annie Appleseed Conference 2017
This has been one of the best patient-centered conferences on the topic of complementary and alternative (CAM) treatments for cancer…
Article about me from the Northern Mariana Islands!
Nice to be talked about in a newspaper (Saipan News) from the Northern Mariana Islands! No cure for cancer By Russ Mason | Posted on Oct 27 2016 Tag: FDA, New York City, people, Walker Labs http://www.saipantribune.com/index.php/no-cure-cancer/ Cancer is...
DOES INSULIN POTENTIATED THERAPY WORK?
DOES INSULIN POTENTIATED THERAPY WORK? “Insulin potentiation therapy” (IPT) is a very popular form of cancer treatment. Also called insulin-potentiated targeted low-dose (IPTLD) therapy, it is very attractive to patients, since it promises to attain the beneficial...
RIFE WITH IRONY
Raymond Royal Rife RIFE WITH IRONY In 2015, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an electrical device, called Optune (formerly NovoCure), along with the standard drug temozolomide (Temodar) for the primary treatment of a kind of brain cancer called...
THE STRANGE CASE OF GcMAF
THE STRANGE CASE OF GcMAF GcMAF is another "alternative" cancer treatment that has gotten a great deal of attention in the past few years. There is a very complete discussion of GcMAF at the Web site of the Anticancer Fund (formerly called Reliable Cancer Therapies)...
BX PROTOCOL
“Researched and studied for about eighteen years, BX Energy Catalyst has been found to resolve any type of cancer at any stage….
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