Some doctors recommend comprehensive treatment strategies that address the cause of disease over the ‘silver bullet’ approach of targeting symptoms.

Columbia University Irving Medical Center researchers have discovered that smooth muscle cells (SMC) in arteries can behave like cancer cells, worsening atherosclerosis. Their study, published in Circulation, suggests that anticancer drugs could help prevent heart attacks and strokes caused by this condition.

Atherosclerosis, the buildup of fatty plaques in arteries, is a leading cause of cardiovascular disease. Despite treatments such as statins, the prevalence of atherosclerosis-related diseases continues to rise. Research published in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine states that atherosclerosis “has now surpassed communicable diseases to become the world’s most prevalent killer.”

“Atherosclerosis has been known as a chronic inflammatory disease for several decades,” Dr. Huize Pan, lead author and assistant professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University, told The Epoch Times. He explained that the new findings offer a fresh perspective by viewing the disease through a cancer lens, potentially identifying new drug targets for prevention and treatment. Continue reading →

Doctors are being warned that a lifesaving cancer therapy may cause new tumors to form in rare cases.

In a report in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers urged physicians to ‘be on the lookout’ for unusual symptoms in patients who receive Car-T therapy.

CAR-T therapies, or chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies, was first approved in November 2017 and is reserved for cancer patients who would otherwise die without it

Twenty-five people in the US out of around 30,000 have been diagnosed with secondary cancer after receiving the treatment for a separate cancer. Continue reading →

Four experts give their assessment on how advances in technology and science will transform oncology care over the coming decade and beyond.

The profound progress in cancer care since President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act of 1971 into law is evidenced by the soaring number of cancer survivors since the law went into effect. In the 1970s, there were 3 million cancer survivors;[1] today, there are more than 18 million, and that number is expected to climb to 26 million by 2040.[2]

In addition, advances in cancer treatment over the past 3 decades, along with smoking cessation and earlier detection for some cancers, have resulted in a steady drop in cancer mortality, preventing more than 4 million deaths in the United States since 1991.[3] However, despite this improvement, cancer remains an insidious disease that, in 2024, is expected to take the lives of over 611,000 individuals in the United States – and nearly 10 million globally.[4] Continue reading →

MGO, a glucose metabolite, can temporarily destroy the BRCA2 protein, reducing its levels in cells and inhibiting its tumor-preventing ability.

You may have heard that sugar feeds cancer cells, and evidence supports that. However, the missing link in this narrative has been a thorough understanding of just “how” sugar feeds cancer – until now. A recent study published in Cell in April uncovers a new mechanism linking uncontrolled blood sugar and poor diet with cancer risk. Continue reading →

Doctors are being warned that a lifesaving cancer therapy may cause new tumors to form in rare cases.

In a report in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers urged physicians to ‘be on the lookout’ for unusual symptoms in patients who receive CAR-T therapy.

Twenty-five people in the US out of around 30,000 have been diagnosed with secondary cancer after receiving the treatment for a separate cancer.  Continue reading →

A chemical in Agent Orange is a known carcinogen linked to several cancers, chronic conditions and birth defects.

A soldier participates in the Norwegian Foot March at Fort Ord National Monument, in Monterey County, California, Oct. 28, 2022. Mounting evidence shows that to kill pervasive poison oak and other weeds at Fort Ord — a former Army base, which closed in 1994 — the military sprayed and experimented with the powerful herbicide combination Agent Orange as far back as the 1950s. (WINIFRED BROWN/U.S. ARMY)

As a young GI at Fort Ord in Monterey County, California, Dean Osborn spent much of his time in the oceanside woodlands, training on soil and guzzling water from streams and aquifers now known to be contaminated with cancer-causing pollutants.

“They were marching the snot out of us,” he said, recalling his year and a half stationed on the base, from 1979 to 1980. He also remembers, not so fondly, the poison oak pervasive across the 28,000-acre installation that closed in 1994. He went on sick call at least three times because of the overwhelmingly itchy rash.

Mounting evidence shows that as far back as the 1950s, in an effort to kill the ubiquitous poison oak and other weeds at the Army base, the military experimented with and sprayed the powerful herbicide combination known colloquially as Agent Orange. Continue reading →

I sat there, frozen in time, full of fear, full of anxiety. Waiting for my time to “face the music,” but this wasn’t a dance party.

My fellow patients, complete strangers, were seated about me, and each of us kept a safe distance apart from each other – a carry-over from the pandemic, I guess. All of us waiting to get our news – a thumbs up or thumbs down… Continue reading →

Why shouldn’t Doctors lie when the entire cancer industry is one gigantic fabrication from start to finish?

It happens more often than you can imagine, but more doctors are finally getting caught in the act of misrepresenting their oath and fraudulently diagnosing healthy patients with cancer to turn a quick buck from kickbacks on chemotherapy poisons.

Is it any wonder that cancer societies worldwide put a far greater financial initiative on chemotherapy and radiation research than disease prevention techniques? Preventing disease doesn’t make money, but treating disease certainly does.

Take Dr. Farid Fata, a prominent cancer doctor in Michigan who admitted in court one year ago to intentionally and wrongfully diagnosing healthy people with cancer. Fata also admitted to giving them chemotherapy drugs for the purpose of making a profit.

Were his patients shocked? You bet they were. Who would ever suspect a Doctor of faking a diagnosis to collect money. It’s unconscionable. Yet it happens with cancer and almost every disease that medical doctors can generate income through kickbacks and commissions based on the volume of patients treated with specific pharmaceuticals. Like anything people are used as a comodity. Continue reading →

Results of a recent cross-sectional study suggest that surveillance colonoscopy may be riskier than it’s worth for adults aged 70 and older.

Can you be too old to get a colonoscopy?

Perhaps, according to results from a cross-sectional conducted at Kaiser Permanente Northern California in Oakland, California. The study was published on April 2 in JAMA Network Open.

The results indicated that colonoscopies rarely detect colorectal cancer in older adults – even if they have a history of benign tumors called adenoma. Continue reading →

Pancreatic cancer can present with symptoms often associated with other illnesses — following the trail of such signs early on could help with early diagnosis.

Pancreatic cancer is a highly fatal disease, its early signs often overlooked, resulting in many patients being diagnosed in the advanced stages. To raise public awareness, we have explored actual patient cases to help identify the early signs of pancreatic cancer. Continue reading →