DCA or dichloroacetate, was recently shown to dramatically reduce cancer
tumors in mice and in cultured human cells in a petrie dish. This substance
attacks a fundamental difference cancer cells exhibit with their metabolism
and has already been used to treat people with certain ...

Such is the clamour for governments around the world to adopt mass
immunisation programmes for adolescent girls against cervical cancer that a
mass rally took place in Paris last week.  It included leading doctors from
all over Europe who shared a platform with celebrities.

Does anyone know a patient who has received 5-FU chemo but has the DPD
Enzyme deficiency?
A deficiency for the dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) enzyme leaves
some patients at risk from developing severe toxicity due to the

I already know the answer to this, at least I think I do, and that would be
a NO. But, there's a problem here. My husband's father had cancer, and then
his mother got it. She told my husband that she thinks she caught it from
her husband as she cared for him. (Both are deceased, ...

Hi Giuditta.
I have been reading all your posts, and I'm so sorry for the situation
you are in. I know how unbearable it is to watch the one you love
suffering, knowing there is nothing you can do to ease their pain. My

As from Monday next,2 April 2007,
smoking in public places in Wales
will be banned.
Bill Thomas

It has been some time since I reported on my friend's metastasized
kidney cancer and her trial on Sutent.  Right now she has three weeks
left on the trial.  It has been four periods of 4 weeks on the drug
and then 2 week rest, then on again.  She seems to be doing much

Many thanks to Annie for figuring out how to do this & then for doing it!  
And to J for giving us the idea.
http://www.livingwithcml.blogspot.com
Look down the left side of the page, scroll down & you will see 2 links

Background:
About two years ago, my wife was diagnosed w/ anal canal "squamus
cloacogenic carcinoma".  She had standard treatment (chemoradiation),
and then a clean biopsy, PET, and CT.  Last December, they found it had

[Quote]    Charles B. Simone, M.D. is an Internist (Cleveland Clinic
1975-77), Medical Oncologist (National Cancer Institute 1977-82), Tumor
Immunologist (NCI 1977-82), and Radiation Oncologist (University of
Pennsylvania 1982-85). He wrote Cancer and Nutrition (1981, third ...

Why A Sick Body Needs So Much Vitamin C
Megadoses: Why?  It won't even hurt to check
it out, and if it helps, you are that much further ahead.
There are those on these groups who want to

Seems my chemo may no longer be working. While there is no proof that it
actually works with melanoma, I've been on it since May and it's only in
the last couple of weeks that the tumours in my lungs have actually
started to grow again, after many months of (slowly) shrinking. No ...

As I watched my brother die of stomach cancer, I noted that he was
being given heavy does of morphine to keep the pain down. Eventually,
a level of the drug was reached where he was no longer responding to
pain OR ANYTHING. Then recently someone told me, I don't know how much

[ this is offered as just a personal anecdotal story, and in the spirit of
sharing. whether you should exercise or not is, imho, something you should
talk about with your doctor/team and is obviously "framed" by the type of
cancer you have, its seriousness, and your symptoms, and ...

How are you doing?
Thinking of you.
J