BIOGRAPHY
The medical writer Ralph W. Moss, PhD, has written or edited twelve books and four film documentaries on questions relating to cancer research and treatment.
Dr. Moss is a graduate of New York University (BA, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1965) and Stanford University (MA, 1973, PhD, 1974, Classics). He is the former science writer and assistant director of public affairs at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York (1974-1977). Since leaving Sloan-Kettering in 1977, Moss has independently evaluated the claims of conventional and non-conventional cancer treatments all over the world.
He currently writes Moss Reports, detailed reports on the most common cancer diagnoses and provides informational and personalized consultations for cancer patients and their families. In 2019, he wrote The Ultimate Guide to Cancer: DIY Research, to help lay people research their own cancers. This 50-page report is available free of charge at the mossreports.com website.
GLOBAL APPROACH TO SCIENCE
Dr. Moss has made site visits to cancer clinics in Belgium, China, Germany, Mexico, Holland, Austria, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, the Czech Republic, Russia, Switzerland, Denmark, Italy, Bahamas, Honduras, Great Britain, and most states of the US and provinces of Canada. He continues to tour clinics around the US and the world looking for advanced cancer treatments for his phone consultees and for readers of his blog, magazine columns and Moss Reports.
BOOKS BY DR. MOSS
Many of Dr. Moss’ books are now out of print (OOP), and in some cases the information they contain may be somewhat out of date as scientific advances and additional research is done. See our Books section for downloadable eBooks by Ralph W. Moss, PhD.
ARTICLES AND DOCUMENTARIES
Dr. Moss is the author of:
- The first article on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for the Encyclopedia Britannica yearbook.
- The first article on CAM cancer treatments for a medico-legal textbook, Courtroom Medicine: Cancer.
- With Prof. Josef Beuth of the University of Cologne, he edited the first medical textbook in English on such treatments, Complementary Oncology.
- Moss is the long-time “War on Cancer” columnist for the Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients.
Articles and scientific communications in:
- The Lancet
- The Journal of the National Cancer Institute
- The Journal of Clinical Oncology
- The Journal of the American Medical Association
- New Scientist
- Immunobiology
- Pharmacological Research
- Anticancer Research
- Genetic Engineering News
- Research in Complementary Medicine
- The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
- Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics and Integrative Cancer Therapies, of which he is Corresponding Editor.
- His invited op-ed “Patents Over Patients” appeared in the New York Times.
Author of Documentary Films:
- The award-winning PBS documentary The Cancer War.
- A Special Gift: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
- Man’s Best Friends (Frontline)
- also Second Opinion (starring).
LECTURES AND AWARDS
Invited lecturer:
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (Grand Rounds, Surgery, 1999)
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- The Aspen Ideas Festival
- Howard University Medical School
- The University of Arizona Medical Center
- The Department of Energy
- American Cancer Society
- Penn State Hershey Medical Center
…and many other institutions.
He led the History of Science Seminar at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in Bethesda, MD on the life and work of his mentor, the Nobel laureate Albert Szent-Györgyi.
Lifetime Achievement Awards:
- American College for the Advancement of Medicine
- Cancer Control Society
- National Foundation for Alternative Medicine
- Wellness Forum
- Center for Advancement in Cancer Education
- Beatcancer.org
HONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Dr. Moss was a founding advisor to:
- The National Institutes of Health’s Office of Alternative Medicine (now the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NCCIH)
- The NIH Cancer Advisory Panel on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAP-CAM).
He has been a member of the Advisory Editorial Board of the PDQ System of the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
He is a board member of The Cancer Prevention Coalition.
He is an advisor to:
- Breast Cancer Action
- Life Extension Foundation
- RAND Corporation
- The Medline-listed journal, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine.
He has served as an ad hoc reviewer for:
- Blood
- Current Oncology
- Tumor Biology
- The Journal of Research in Medical Science
- International Journal of Cancer
- The Czech Academy of Sciences.
Moss has a particular interest in fostering international cooperation in integrative oncology.
In 1998, he was made an honorary member of the German Society of Oncology (DGO), the first American to be so honored.
He has toured German clinics on 17 separate occasions. In 2011 and 2012 he co-organized international days for the DGO in Baden-Baden and Munich.
He is also a board member of the Italian Association for Research in Integrative Oncological Therapy (ARTOI) and gave the Coombs Lecture at Foothills Hospital, Calgary and at the University of Calgary, Canada.
In 2008 he was honored with visiting professorships at the Shanxi Province Anticancer Research Institute, Chang’An Hospital in Xi’an, and Friendship Hospital in Guangzhou, China.
In 2013, he gave a keynote address at the International Clinical Hyperthermia Society (ICHS) meeting in Guangzhou, China.
He was honored with the Grand Award for Special Contribution to Natural Medicine by the ICHS and was appointed a standing director of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies (WFCMS).
He was also honored with a guest professorship at the Southern Medical University (Renkang Hospital) in Dongguan, China (2013-2016).
MEDIA APPEARANCES
Below are some of the many newspaper and magazine articles, radio, television and film appearances by, or about Dr. Moss.
FILM
Second Opinion: Laetrile at Sloan-Kettering
A film by Eric Merola
“Though a documentary, it’s dramatic enough to be reminiscent of ‘The Insider’, the whistleblowing thriller about Big Tobacco.” —Graham Fuller, New York Daily News – August 28, 2014
“Mr. Moss’s message is clear, shrewdly edited and peculiarly interesting.” —Anita Gates, New York Times – August 28, 2014
“An intriguing tale” —Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, September 4, 2014
TV / VIDEO
Interview by the President of Penn State, Graham Spanier
Cited as an expert by Channel 4 NBC in New York With Liz St. John in San Francisco
Dr. Moss on 60 Minutes
The Establishment vs. Dr. Burton. |
RADIO
NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES
PHOTOS OF RALPH W. MOSS, PhD.
Senator Patrick Moynahan, Marie Galbraith, Frank Wiwel and Ralph W. Moss, PhD
Dr. Moss with Senator Patrick Moynahan, Marie Galbraith and Frank Wiwel
Dr. Joe Jacobs and Ralph W. Moss, PhD
Dr. Moss with Dr. Joe Jacobs, Director of the Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM) at the National Institute of Health (NIH).
Wayne Jonas and Dr. Ralph W. Moss
Dr. Moss with Wayne Jonas, MD of the National Institute of Health (NIH)
Professor Szaz and Ralph W. Moss, PhD
With Professor Andras Szasz, PhD, founder of Oncothermia, Budapest