Cancer remains one of the most complex diseases to understand as its origins often can’t be traced to a single cause. However, many risk factors that contribute to cancer development are within your control.
New York-based oncologist Dr. Waqqas Tai often posts advice on his TikTok account, where he boasts more than 14,500 followers. Now, he has shared five of his personal strategies to prevent the big C. Continue reading
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
After Jackie Trapp was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer, in 2015, she thought her biggest health shock was behind her. Then came the bills for Revlimid, a powerful cancer drug that her doctor said was her best hope for controlling the disease. The first month’s supply cost $11,148; the second, $12,040 – and her insurer denied coverage. “I’d need to take the drug every month, for years,” says Trapp, 59, a former high school teacher and realtor from Muskego, Wis. “My husband and I had done well in our careers, we’d been frugal and we’d saved, but there was no way paying $120,000 a year or more was sustainable.”
Figuring out how to pay for the drug that’s keeping her alive has become an all-consuming project. Trapp fought her insurer’s denial and won, and has switched health plans twice to ensure continued coverage. To afford her annual co-pays for Revlimid – $15,000 to $21,000 a year recently, before a new law capping out-of-pocket costs for people on Medicare took effect in 2024 – she’s tapped into assistance programs from drug makers and grants from health care foundations. She has also drawn down savings, taken out two mortgages, sold her car, some furniture, and her husband’s classic truck, and lives as cheaply as possible, growing her own vegetables and DIY-ing everything from lawn care to hair cuts. Continue reading
Natural medicine is gaining traction as a viable form of treatment for many ailments. People are excited that there are often low-cost alternative treatments and are encouraged by the fact that so many remedies can be made or used at home.
With its strengths of focusing on prevention and seeking the root of health problems, natural medicine speaks to those of us trying to take health seriously and avoid the more invasive procedures of conventional medicine, especially for minor problems.
However, the bottom line is that we cannot entirely avoid conventional medicine. In fact, we need it! Continue reading
Three new cancer types have been added to the Department of Veterans Affairs list of presumed service-connected disabilities due to military environmental exposure under the PACT Act. Photo credit CIPhotos/Getty Images
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has included three new cancer types in its list of presumed service-connected disabilities due to military environmental exposure under the PACT Act.
Through a sub-regulatory policy letter published to the Federal Register, male breast cancer, urethral cancer and cancer of the paraurethral glands have been included in the list of presumptive diseases. Continue reading
Medicare Advantage Plans To Be Squeezed Next Year, Reduce Benefits
Medicare Advantage plans are popular. They’re estimated to have enrolled more than half of Medicare beneficiaries for the first time in 2024.
But changes are underway. Those enrolled in Advantage plans or considering them need to pay careful attention when evaluating plans in this fall’s open enrollment season. There could be significant modifications to existing Advantage plans.
Medicare continues to consume a higher percentage of federal government spending each year and government policymakers continue to revise the program to reduce spending on Medicare, especially Medicare Advantage plans… (Continue to full article)
60 Arizona Providers and Patients Put State on Notice That They’ll Sue Over Medicaid Fraud
A group of Arizona behavioral health providers and clients say they’ve put the state on notice of an intent to file multiple lawsuits over the recent Medicaid fraud scandal.
Leaders of the effort say they filed 60 notices of claim — precursors to lawsuits — Friday with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office.
The notices of claim, which name the state of Arizona as a defendant, collectively add up to $2.3 billion, said group organizer André Miller, a Mesa pastor and second vice president of the NAACP’s Arizona Conference.
Among defendants in the notices of claim are Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, the Arizona Department of Health Services, and the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, which is Arizona’s Medicaid program and often known as AHCCCS (pronounced access)… (Continue to full article)
Risk Assessment Report Suggests Fewer Americans Need to Take Statins
The American Heart Assocation developed updated guidelines with a new equation to calculate risks of cardiovascular disease in today’s population.
Around 40 percent of the people currently advised to take statins would not be if they were assessed using a new criteria, according to a study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.
In 2023, the American Heart Association developed a risk assessment to evaluate a person’s risk of heart disease. The assessment, PREVENT, significantly reduces the number of people who must take statins to prevent heart disease.
“We don’t want people to think they were treated incorrectly in the past. They were treated with the best data we had when the PCE (a cardiovascular risk calculator) was introduced back in 2013… (Continue to full article)
Deceptive, Deflective, and Imperious Dr. Fauci on Capitol Hill
The United States House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, formerly the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, is a bipartisan United States House of Representatives select subcommittee that was created to provide congressional oversight of the Trump administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and was carried forward in an investigative role on the government pandemic response.
On June 3, 2024, former NIAID Director and presidential advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci was on Capitol Hill to answer questions from the committee. Democratic members poured praise on Fauci for “being a hero” and “saving millions of lives” while questions from Republican congressmen were pointed and accusatory.
Fauci is a Bullshi**ah – CLICK on the Link for a video report… (Continue to full article)
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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
Fruits and vegetables should make up a large portion of the food you eat every day, per recommendations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, but the vast majority of us fail to meet this goal. In fact, according to 2019 data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only about 12% U.S. adults ate the advised 1 and a half to 2 cups of fruit daily.
Many of the 2019 survey respondents said they didn’t eat that much fruit because they think it’s too expensive or didn’t have access to it. After all, most of us know that eating fruit can boost your health. For example, the fiber in most fruits strengthens your gut, and they have micronutrients, such as antioxidants, which can reduce your risk of future diseases, like cancer, cardiovascular disease and even depression. Continue reading
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
The following is edited from a column that I wrote over 20 years ago, and although much has changed in those years – much has remained the same. Although I had re-posted the original column in July of 2023 – it is the early part of said column that has now come back to haunt me – due in part to a number of columns relating to Agent Orange that I have recently published. Can ya’ dig it? I can’t, but my fight will not cease.
Oh – and in case you are wondering about the title of this column? It was taken from a book about Dr. Tom Dooley that was written by James Monahan. Tom Dooley??? – Well just who in the hell was he? Thomas A. Dooley M.D. was an American physician who worked in Southeast Asia at the outset of American involvement in the Vietnam War. I became aware of the Dr., his work AND his books in 1961 – the year that he died at the age of 34. As time went on – it would appear that we had a few things in common. ~ Editor
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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
We are witnessing an explosion of cancer in the United States that is absolutely unprecedented. As you will see below, it is being projected that the number of new cases of cancer in the U.S. will hit a brand-new record high this year, and cancer rates are rising particularly rapidly among our young people.
There have been so many prominent individuals in the news that have been diagnosed with cancer recently, and so many people who I personally know have also been diagnosed with cancer recently. I am sure that most of you also personally know people who have been affected by this disease. Of course, cancer has been one of the leading causes of death for a very long time, but we have never witnessed anything quite like this.
According to the American Cancer Society, this year the number of newly diagnosed cases of cancer will surpass the 2 million mark for the for the first time ever… Continue reading