Diagnosis and Treatment
Protein produced by soft-tissue sarcomas makes immune cells ‘go bad’
Investigators from Cedars-Sinai Cancer have discovered that cancerous tumors called soft-tissue sarcomas produce a protein that switches immune cells from tumor-attacking to tumor-promoting. The study, published today in the peer-reviewed ...
After Treatment Comes a New Battle, and Cancer Patients Aren’t Prepared
This essay, by Emerson Riter, age 15, from The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., is one of the Top 11 winners of The Learning Network’s Ninth Annual Student Editorial Contest, for which we ...
“Trojan Horse” Nanoparticles Kill Cancer Cells Without Drugs
Scientists have created a “Trojan horse” that sneaks anticancer nanoparticles into cancer cells and causes them to self-destruct without any drugs. The research is still in its early days, but ...
VIDEO: Cannabis: The Exit Drug
Cancer Schmancer Medical Advisor Dr. Uma V.A. Dhanabalan, MPH, FAAFP, knocks down the bias against the use of medical cannabis and explains its many uses in her own practice. Watch ...
Magic Mushroom’s Active Compound Could Relieve Depression For Up To One Year, New Study Finds
A new review study by Johns Hopkins University researchers is shedding light on the long-term effects of psilocybin in the treatment of major depression. In a new study, 58% of ...
A Brief History of Psychedelic Research With Albert Garcia-Romeu
Want to learn more? Click here for tickets to Fran Drescher's Health Summit 2022 For decades, the word psychedelic was most acutely tied to images of the “swinging” ‘60s, peace ...
MDMA Reopens Child-like “Critical Periods” in the Brains of Mice to Promote Mental Healing
Click here for tickets to Fran Drescher's Master Class Health Summit 2022 Psychedelics have been used for thousands of years in both cultural and medicinal settings. Over the past few ...
Chemo Creates Leaky Blood Vessels Helping Cancer Cells To Spread
A new study adds to the evidence that chemotherapy enhances cancer’s spread beyond the primary tumor, showing how one chemo drug allows breast cancer cells to squeeze through and attach ...
Perlmutter Cancer Center Researcher Advances Therapies for Difficult-to-Treat Brain Tumors
A neuro-oncologist at the Brain and Spine Tumor Center at NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, Sylvia C. Kurz, MD, PhD, treats people who have brain tumors and cancer, as well as people who have immunotherapy-related ...
Alternatives to Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy
More and more of you are looking for alternatives to radiotherapy and chemotherapy. This is a very legitimate question: given the growing number of cancers across the world, more ...
Evidence Grows for Acupuncture Treatment in Cancer Survivors
Among cancer survivors with chronic musculoskeletal pain, both electroacupuncture and auricular acupuncture—also called battlefield acupuncture—effectively reduced pain and improved quality of life, according to a study presented at the virtual ...
The Healing Benefits of Complementary Medicine
People with breast cancer often have physical symptoms to deal with on a daily basis, such as pain, anxiety, nausea, vomiting, and fatigue. Some of these come from the disease itself. ...