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Your Health Checkup: Getting a Taste of Your Own Medicine

Why don’t patients take the medications that are prescribed to them? The reasons are many.

Being a physician has been a joyful but demanding endeavor, perhaps more challenging now than ever before. Patients armed with the latest information gleaned from social media sources often confront doctors with misinformation they’ve just read about. Doctors are stressed keeping up with medical advances that increase exponentially, doubling the amount of new knowledge every 2-3 months. The business of medicine requires many hours of paperwork, stealing time from direct patient interactions. Artificial Intelligence (AI) may help with that burden but creates its own challenges. Continue reading

Signs and Symptoms That Thyroid Cancer Is Metastasizing

The particular type of thyroid tumour has been downgraded from cancer to stop unnecessary treatment for patients

Thyroid cancer can become metastatic when cancer cells originating in the thyroid gland spread to other parts of the body through the bloodstream or lymphatic system (tissue, vessels, and organs carrying white blood cells back to the bloodstream). Only 3% of cases are metastatic at the time of diagnosis.

Once thyroid cancer metastasizes, it can affect various organs and tissues. Early detection of thyroid cancer is important to start treatment and improve outcomes. Thyroidectomy(removal of the thyroid gland) and other treatments may be performed to prevent metastasis and potentially cure thyroid cancer.

Most thyroid cancer cases (64%) are diagnosed while the cancer is localized in the thyroid, and 30% when it has spread only to regional lymph nodes but not to distant sites.

This article will review the most common sites of metastasis, the symptoms associated with metastatic disease, the types of thyroid cancer, and their progression. Continue reading

Long-Term Use of Popular Heartburn Drugs Increases Risk of Stomach Cancer

Use for one year and three years was associated with a 1.5- and 2.4-fold increase in the risk of stomach cancer, respectively.

Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), a popular class of heartburn drugs, are linked to stomach cancer, a recent review found.

The review indicates that prolonged use of PPIs – exceeding three months – “is significantly associated with an elevated risk of cancer,” while shorter-term usage “appears to pose a comparatively lower risk,” the authors wrote.

PPIs are potent drugs that lower stomach acidity. They work by binding irreversibly to proton pumps – proteins in the stomach that release protons, a component of stomach acid. This action prevents the secretion of protons. Continue reading

Aggressive Colorectal Cancer Tied to Oral Bacterium

Discoveries involving microbes in colon cancer could eventually drive screening methods and lead to microbial-based therapies targeting tumors.

A new study shows that a common oral bacterium linked to a virulent form of colorectal cancer could be driving tumor growth.

The discovery was made in a study published March 20 in Nature. Researchers from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center performed a variety of tests on human stool samples and mice to document the transfer of this bacterium, Fusobacterium nucleatum, which occurred in about half of the colorectal cancers in tumors removed from 200 patients.

Colorectal cancer causes the second-highest number of cancer deaths in U.S. adults, according to the American Cancer Society. In 2024, it’s expected to take the lives of more than 53,000 people. Continue reading

Kelley: Cancer Wisdom

~ Forewords ~
As I continue to pour over the archives of the papers of Dr. William Donald Kelley, I keep finding these little gems of wisdom – from HIStory. Enjoy and become enlightened. (J.B.)

kelley_clr_webAs I sit here today writing this message to you, looking back forty-one years ago where this part of the story began, I must admit having terminal pancreatic cancer has been a blessing to me and thousands who have crossed my path on their way to vibrant health.

Today I received a letter in the mail from Dr. Ray Lindquest dated January 3, 2003 which said in part. .. Continue reading

The Toxic Herbicide Industry — Guilty of Causing Cancer — Is Seeking LEGAL IMMUNITY Across the United States

The toxic herbicide industry, which continues to blast out carcinogens like glyphosate and atrazine, is seeking legal immunity across the United States. In a last-ditch effort to ward off multi-billion-dollar legal challenges, companies like Bayer and Syngenta are approaching legislators across the country and pushing them to pass legislation that would give their companies legal immunity against the lawsuits. In other words, these multinational corporations seek to harm people with impunity and operate above the law. If these bills pass, these corporations will NOT be held accountable for the damages imposed by their products. Continue reading

Stress Creates a 4-Fold Increase in Spread of Cancer

New research reveals stress hormones trigger white blood cells to create pathways for cancer metastasis.

A breakthrough discovery links stress hormones with a fourfold surge in the spread of cancer, shedding light on why patients under severe stress often have lower survival rates.

“There’s probably very few situations that are as stressful as being diagnosed with cancer and undergoing cancer treatment,” Mikala Egeblad, cancer researcher and senior author of the study, told The Epoch Times.

Understanding the stress–cancer link may open up new ways to protect patients from the adverse effects of stress as part of cancer care. Continue reading

Chemo Overdose‘ – Silent Crisis Killing Hundreds of Americans Each Year and Hospitalizes Up to One in 50

                    …while the rest could KILL You!

Experts have sounded the alarm about hundreds of cancer patients dying preventable deaths due to a lethal side effect of chemotherapy treatment.

The complication, which affects one in 50 patients, destroys healthy cells in the body, eventually leading to multiple organ failure and, in the worst cases, death.

It effects those given some of the most common types of chemotherapy who lack specific enzymes required to metabolize the drug. Continue reading

Scientists Uncover Mechanism Viruses Use to Cause Cancer

Findings from a new study have wide ranging implications as viruses are responsible for between 10 to 20 percent of cancers globally

Illustration of a cancer cell. (Science Photo Library/Canva Pro)

Viral infections are thought to be a central cause of between 10 to 20 percent of cancers worldwide, representing a significant portion of the global cancer burden.

A recent discovery may further our understanding of how viruses cause cancer. Continue reading

Doctor Intentionally Diagnosed Healthy People With Cancer to Make Money

Lessons to be learned – BEWARE!

Everyone knows someone who has experienced the terrible disease that is cancer. It’s an unfortunate reality, but it’s one wherein we must live. What can make cancer so much worse is the aggressive, life-altering treatments that often follow, like radiation and chemotherapy.

While some cancer treatments are becoming more advanced, less aggressive, and not as invasive, we put an immense amount of faith in doctors to guide us in the right direction. So, what happens when individuals considered top, world-renowned doctors break that trust and weaken that faith?

That is exactly what happens to hundreds of patients when one doctor’s lies came unhinged and uncovered for the world to see in 2013.

An oncologist in Michigan by the name of Dr. Farid Fata operated numerous upscale clinics in Detroit-area suburbs. In 2013, however, he was accused of and arrested for giving cancer treatment drugs to patients who did not need them, some of whom did not even have cancer. Continue reading

After Decades of Fighting Big Pharma Drug Cartels ~ Dr. Burzynski Begins to Reform Cancer Treatments in the U.S.

The United States government has a history of targeting any American doctor, researcher or product developer who professes that there are cures for cancer. Some of the most brilliant researchers and doctors have been forced to flee the United States in order to treat cancer patients using an individualized, holistic approach. Others have stood their ground and fought back against the Big Pharma drug cartels.

For several decades, Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski has been persecuted for advancing cancer treatments. He has stared down the Big Pharma drug cartels and fought for more advanced cancer treatment methods for his patients. His medical research has been kept from the public view for decades; however, cured patients, court cases and independent journalists have brought more public awareness to his treatment protocols. Continue reading

What’s Causing Colon Cancer Epidemic in Young People?s Scientists Launch $25m Global Probe to Find the Answer

Scientists are launching an urgent probe into the surging rates of colon cancer among young people.

A team of Government-funded researchers at top universities in the US and UK will receive up to $25million over five years to investigate what’s behind the rise.

Their studies will involve analyzing stool and cells from patients diagnosed with the cancer as well as the link between diets and formation of tumors.

The mystery surge is thought to be linked to obesity, sedentary lifestyles and junk food consumption, but other more novel theories have suggested fungal infections or antibiotics could be to blame.

Colon cancer cases have risen by 50 percent among adults under 50 years old in the US since 1999 — which is considered ‘early-onset’ cancer or when cancer occurs between the ages of 18 and 49 years.

Studies suggest globally cases have risen 80 percent in the age group in three decades, to 3.26million cases a year in 2019 from 1.82million in 1990.

Countries recording the biggest spikes include Ecuador and Korea, where cases in the age group are rising by an estimated five percent every year according to a review.

In the US, the disease is set to become the biggest cancer killer among under 50s by the year 2030 researchers suggest. Continue reading

85-Mile Stretch in Louisiana Known as ‘Cancer Alley‘ Sees Rates of Disease and Birth Defects Up to SEVEN TIMES the National Average in Its 1.5million Population

Along an 85-mile stretch of road in Louisiana, residents have seven times the cancer risk than the national average, have been diagnosed with chronic health conditions and babies are born underweight at three times the national average.

This road between Baton Rouge and New Orleans – on the banks of the Mississippi River – has been dubbed ‘Cancer Alley’ and the people with houses along it blame the high rates of illnesses on the place they live.

The area is home to approximately 200 fossil fuel and petrochemical operations – the largest concentration of these facilities in the western hemisphere. Continue reading

Nearly Half of Healthcare Workers Don’t Trust Their Leaders

Many employees don’t feel supported. Adrienne Boissy of Qualtrics discusses ways organizations can connect with their workers and retain valuable people.

With many clinicians and healthcare workers leaving the industry, leaders need to pay attention, Adrienne Boissy says.

Adrienne Boissy, the chief medical officer of Qualtrics, says many leaders are intensely worried about the number of nurses, doctors and other workers who have left since the beginning of the pandemic or are pondering a career change. Many hospitals and health systems say they continue to deal with staffing shortages. Continue reading