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Internet as source of cancer Information

August 10, 2014


The Internet Is a Difficult Place for A Cancer Patient

InternetThe internet has become the first stop for anybody seeking any information on any subject and medical information is no exception. People will always want to know more about the disease that is troubling them. They want to know all the causes of the disease so that they can avoid its reoccurrence incase it is treated, they want to know the best place to get treatment for the disease and the best treatment of the disease. Cancer being a disease that has caused threat to human population is one of the diseases that are majorly researched on by patients on the internet. This is because cancer is a disease that has kept doctors and researchers doing research everyday and so most of the alternative cancer treatments are still being discovered as a result of these endless researches by these concerned bodies to come up with better treatment that will not only help the cancer patients evade the side effects that some conventional cancer treatment methods are known for but also avail a more cost effective  treatment that every cancer patient can afford yet still effective  in terms of fighting the disease.

The internet however helpful is not 100 percent beneficial to the cancer patients seeking information as it is used by all sorts of people ranging from medical doctors, medical researchers, interest groups and other health groups that will try to avail every helpful information to help the cancer patient to find the best cancer treatment. It is also used by people who are out to con people by providing misleading information that is geared towards extorting money from the cancer patients. Just to remind if you forgot, cancer is one of the most expensive diseases to treat and as cancer patients are saddened by this fact other people and groups are out to exploit the cancer patients who are ready to spend all their savings in pursuit of the best cancer treatment. The internet provides these individuals with a better ground to sell their products that are not approved by any institution such as FDA. It is rather difficult to set up a shop and sell drugs that are not approved but it is very easy to create a website and sponsor all sorts of writers who will avail contents that praise the potency of the drugs on sale to entice the cancer patient to purchase the products. Some of these sites have even sponsored testimonials of people who claim to have been treated by the same product you are needed to buy but in real sense they have never used the product but are just in the business of luring the desperate cancer patients to buy all these ineffective drugs or supplements.

Internet offers anonymity to scammers therefore making it difficult for them to be associated with the information that is on their websites. This anonymity is in itself a great form of protection as they will con you and you will not be able to trace who they are. It is therefore crucial for any cancer patient to verify the credibility of the site he is seeking information on before owning the information that is availed on that site and thereafter using it in his fight against cancer. This might cause very complex problems as the information is misleading and remember they are about drugs.

 

Commercial sites

Most of the sites that the patient will visit are commercial sites that try to promote the products of a given medical practitioner or hospital. This information may be biased as promotional information is always on the positive side of the products and the expertise of the people behind the site. This may lead to a cancer patient buying a cancer drug that is over rated but does nothing to heal the disease.

It is therefore good for a patient to know the people behind the site. Any site that promotes anonymity of the people who use it should be avoided for matters of security. Here are some of the tips you can use to know whether the site is owned by a credible person or is just one of the platforms on which the online scammers make their contact with the desperate cancer patients to con them.

Know the people behind the site

By knowing the person or institution behind the site you will be able to judge whether the site is credible or just a scam. A site that is created with clearly good intentions will always have the names of the people plus their qualifications and experience on that site. You can do a search on the names availed so that you can see if they are known beyond their site. Medical practitioners who run these websites are those with extensive experience in medicine and are known at least in their countries.

Is the site up to-date?

InternetThere are cancer doctors and cancer care centers that are committed to availing information to cancer patients to help them live longer or better yet get treated. These sites are always up to date. It is good to know if the information is up to date since researchers may have disputed all the core information available on the site. It is also good to check for availability of any available sources of information. Cancer research is done by qualified oncologists and their names and the publications of the findings should be mentioned in the contents so that you can check them for reference. Any information that is not verifiable may be misleading.

Dr. Dalal Akoury (MD) is an experienced integrative cancer doctor that has helped many cancer patients in their fight against the disease. She has worked hard not only in treating the disease but also in availing informational support to cancer patients at Awaremed which has become a place called home for many cancer patients. Call on her now and get help on cancer.

The Internet Is a Difficult Place for A Cancer Patient

 

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Cancer Stem Cells

August 3, 2014

 

Cancer Stem Cells and How They Can Be Handled By Integrative Cancer Centers

 Cancer treatment needs to be effective enough to save the cancer patients from the nightmare of having to go through repeated chemotherapy as that causes not only unbearable pain but also causes lots of financial crisis as repeated chemotherapy is not always cheap. There are very many alternatives to cancer treatment today, thanks to our compassionate cancer doctors and researchers who are not pleased to see how we are losing our loved ones everyday to this monster. All the alternative cancer treatments work well in curbing the spread of the tumors in the patient’s body and trying to kill all the cancer cells so as to restore good health to the cancer patient.

There is a problem however with most of cancer treatment alternatives. This is because most of the cancer treatment alternatives target the circulating tumor cells (CTCs). I don’t mean to say that targeting circulating tumors cells in cancer treatment is wrong; my concern is that very few cancer treatment alternatives target the cancer stem cells. It is important to know what role the cancer stem cells play in cancer cell growth formation so as to understand why it is so important to address them in any cancer treatment.

Cancer Stem Cells

Cancer stem cells are defined as those cells within a tumor that can self-renew and drive tumorigenesis. They are very critical in the formation of new tumors that will continue to grow even when after the parent tumors are killed.

Most, if not all cancers, are propagated by cancer stem cells. The bulk of a tumor consists of cancer cells that are not reproducing, or self-propagating. These unproducing cancer cells are what chemotherapy targets. And if what research findings points out are to be believed, chemotherapy does not kill the cancer stem cells but induces resistance in the cancer stem cells making it even hard for them to be killed by the chemotherapy drugs.

The cancer stem cells need to be killed if the cancer patient is to get an effective cancer treatment as they are the ones responsible for growth of cancer cells. The tumor may be targeted and attacked by the chemotherapy drugs or any other form of cancer treatment but if the cancer stem cells are not killed in the process the growth will re-occur as the cancer stem cells are still alive and are able to facilitate the growth and division of cancer cell.

The research on the roles of cancer stem cells on the tumor growth is an important are of study as cancer stem cells have been found to play the most important role in cancer. This is the fuel that forms the cancer cells. Targeting the circulating tumor cells is like trying to remove a weed by cutting its stem, the weed will obviously do; farmers know this better than we do . Targeting the cancer stem cells on the other hand is like uprooting the weed from its roots. It will not grow again lest another seed is planted. So if you kill the cancer stem cells that plays a major role in division and formation of new cancer cells will make it hard for the disease to recur. Cancer research focuses on stem cells present in malignant tumors. Most Researchers believe that most current cancer treatments mostly fail because they don’t destroy the cancer stem cells.

The conventional cancer treatment methods like chemotherapy, radiation therapy and surgery are not effective in cancer treatment since they do not target the cancer stem cells which are like the root of the weed. Therefore it is advisable to have a cancer patient treated at an integrative cancer treatment centre so that other alternative cancer treatments can be explored in a bid to uproot the disease by killing the cancer stem cells.

It is also very important for cancer to be treated under the supervision of a qualified integrative cancer doctor. The best thing about having your cancer patient treated at an integrative cancer centre is that these centers are well equipped and the doctors are all round doctors who can combine both the conventional cancer treatment methods and the naturopathic cancer treatments to ensure that the disease is fought successfully. AwareMed is an example of an integrative cancer centre that has seen many cancer patients get the best treatment that not only targeted to kill the cancer cell but to ensure a whole person healing. Dr. Dalal Akoury has supervised many cancer patients in their cancer treatments and helped them get healing.  He is one of the few doctors who have embraced the idea of targeting cancer stem cells in cancer treatment to avoid possibility of the disease recurring.

At AwareMed for example the doctors implement the use of natural healing power of diet to target the cancer stem cell by altering their DNA composition making them unable to divide and give rise to new cancer cells. These can also be used alongside chemotherapy to avoid the recurrence of cancer after chemotherapy. Integrative cancer treatment is the best trough which the cancer stem cells can be done away with hence making treatment more effective.

Dr. Dalal Akoury is an experienced integrative cancer doctor who has seen very many cancer patients journey to victory in their fight against cancer. She is available for consultations. Just call her now and begin your journey to victory against cancer.

Cancer Stem Cells and How They Can Be Handled By Integrative Cancer Centers

 

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Personalized Cancer Treatment

July 29, 2014

 

An Integrative Personalized Cancer Treatment

Cancer is a multi-faceted disease that needs to be treated in a multi-dimensional approach. The times are gone when all cancer patients went for conventional cancer treatment methods like chemotherapy just to be treated with one drug. This is not a good approach and will not help any cancer patient. This is because cancer is fuelled by different agents. We all have different gene composition and our bodies react to drugs differently. The new era of cancer treatments involves personalized treatment; where an individual’s condition, genetic composition, the patient’s preference as well as the doctors experience count in the type of treatment the patient receives. Personalized treatments are working much better than the orthodox cancer treatment methods. This is because before a drug is administered to a patient, it is tested and its ability to treat the disease is analyzed in the labs before introducing it into the body of the patient. Tests such as chemosensitivity test, Biofocus tests and the greet test have been used to test and verify drugs and treatment options that can work best with the patient.

Integrative cancer treatment approach is a better approach than tying a cancer patient to one way treatment methods that may not yield any fruit. In fact that would be an insult to the researchers who have worked all the years just to bring us different alternative cancer treatments in a bid to make cancer treatment less stressful and to reduce the severity of the side effects that conventional cancer treatment methods like chemotherapy and radiation therapy are associated with. Integrated cancer treatment approach also heals the patient wholly and does not just aim at killing the cancerous cells.

Integrative cancer treatment can also be personalized for better effects on the patient. The integrative oncologist has got experience in handling cancer patients needless to repeat he combines the conventional cancer treatment with other alternative cancer treatments to get the best cure for a cancer patient. He understands that patients react to treatments differently and will do the necessary tests that will aid him in giving the right treatment to the patient. Being at liberty to combine best treatments both conventional and naturopathic, the doctor will craft a treatment that best suits the situation. He has numerous options to choose from here are some of the options.

The dietary approach

There are very many diet plans that are considered to work well in certain situations and with given type of cancers. After the doctor has done some tastes and has known what deficiencies needs to be addressed, he will decide on the best diet to recommend to the patient so as to help in treating the patient. Here is an example of diet treatment approach.

The Gerson’s therapy- This is a natural approach to treatment of cancer. The therapy is based on organic diet that is mainly composed of vegetables and vegetable juices. The diet helps the body to recover by activating the body’s natural healing abilities. Gerson’s program also features coffee enemas plus other natural supplements that are geared towards helping the body to heal itself. It also helps in boosting immune system and is helpful in fighting cancer. The Gerson’s therapy does not only treat the symptoms of the disease but removes all the toxic substances entirely from the body. It cures directly from the cell level and that means that it uproots the disease causing agents from their roots destroying them completely.

The doctor will assess the viability of the Gerson’s therapy in treating the patient before implementing it. In some cases the dietary approach may be used alongside chemotherapy to enhance drug uptake by the cancer cells and to reduce the side effects.

Advanced diagnostic approach

Advanced diagnostic involves a thorough and reliable diagnosis. Through these tests the doctor will be able to personalize the treatment. The advanced diagnostic will use the following tests to verify which treatment option best suits the condition. A review of health history, Physical examination, Laboratory tests, Genetic tests and bone scans. The tests will help the doctor to locate the tumors and also to know the stage of the disease therefore will help him in deciding on the best treatment combinations to treat the patient. This method also allows the doctor to monitor how the drugs are working on the tumor as well as the response of the cells to the treatment, at this point the doctor will decide whether to continue with the routine or try some treatment option. The possibility of any severe side effect is also considered.

        Target cancer therapies

The integrative doctor may decide to use drugs that are designed to interfere with specific molecules necessary for tumor growth and metastasis. The aim of target therapies is to fight cancer more strategically with few side effects. Again before the doctor decides to use the target therapies he must do a lab test to verify that it can work well for the patient.

The target therapy is aimed at killing the cancer cells without harming the healthy body cells. It can also be used alongside chemotherapy. Your doctor will decide which the best for your condition is.

With personalized cancer treatment the patients and doctors are relieved on repeat treatment especially haphazard chemotherapy that may not yield any benefits. Through personalized treatment the cure for the cancer is known before the chemotherapy drugs are injected into the patient making this treatment more preferable. Dr. Dalal Akoury runs a website that equips people with relevant information about cancer. Check on her website regularly to benefit from her wealth of health knowledge.

An Integrative Personalized Cancer Treatment

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Funding Cancer Treatment

July 28, 2014

How to Fund Your Cancer Treatment without a Loan
cancerCancer is not only a dangerous disease but it is also one of the most expensive diseases to treat. Cancer patients in most cases have to rely on insurance that in most cases do not support alternative cancer treatments; even the most effective alternative cancer treatments are not supported by these insurance covers. These insurance covers are often approved by state officials who in most cases are corrupt to the use of this money in other treatments that will not benefit them. Needless to mention some of the insurance covers that cancer patients have do not settle the entire treatment cost but just settles a percentage of the entire cost leaving the cancer  patient with another burden of looking for other financial sources to complete the treatment.

The financial crisis is something cancer patients are familiar with, patients face financial problems at different times in the course of the treatment. Some will need to look for the funds even before beginning the treatment, some will be broke in the middle of the training while some will lack money to take them through the remission period. Conventional cancer treatment methods are even the most expensive and an assumption that the United States has enough resources that can enable the citizens to treat cancer without financial problem is a lie. Americans just like any other cancer patient in the third world country feels the pinch when it comes to cancer treatment.

Financial crisis has caused many cancer patients to lose their lives as they were not able to complete the treatment. This is a problem that is still with us as the medical insurance is not helping the cancer patients in paying for the treatment and so the patients are forced to seek loans to help them pay for their treatment and this causes stress which is not good for cancer. This stress may affect the treatment.

However there is a financial product which can help the cancer patients to afford their treatment without taking a loan. In fact it allows the patient to access alternative cancer treatment that the insurance policy could not cover. This financial product was put in place to those people who were terminally ill not only from cancer but also other seriously expensive diseases to treat. Initially, this financial product was designed to help these people to enjoy there last days with a peace of mind. It was to allow them to quit their full time jobs and concentrate on other facets of their lives like having good time for the family, travelling and doing all other things that they could not afford to do before they die. However, this product can now be used by cancer patients to help them settle treatment bills.

Presents a better option to cancer patients.

In this option the patient’s whole life policy or term life policy or Group policy or FEGLI policy or Universal life policy and other types of life insurance policies that can be converted into whole life are sold to corporations with the highest bid. The corporations may buy the policy at a percentage of the whole life value at that time.

This allows the patient to obtain a given percentage of his whole life insurance policy in cash. He can then use this money to seek other alternative cancer treatments that are more effective than the conventional cancer treatments that the insurance could have paid for. Most people use this money for home treatment as they get quality time with their loved ones.

The patient will not have to sell all of his life insurance policies, he will only sell those policies that will give him enough money to spend on travel and treatment expenses. This money can help those patients who may have tried the conventional cancer treatments but did not succeed. It will help them settle bills for alternative cancer treatments. This money also give them a peace of mind, reduces their stress levels which is good for cancer recovery.

How to get the money

For the patient to benefit from this money, firstly his family will look for a broker who will be able to link them with the companies that buy the insurance policy. After the broker is contacted, he will look for the companies that can buy the insurance policy at the best price. He will let the family know of which company is ready to buy the policy at the highest price. The family will analyze the offer of the company, they are free to accept or decline the offer.

This money is very helpful as it allows the patient to heal faster. Most people do not always die from the effects of the disease but rather from the stress that is induced by the fact that they lack enough money to cater for their treatment.

CancerAfter the family has obtained this money, the best thing to do is to seek an integrative cancer doctor who will be able to handle the patient well by incorporating all the treatment methods that can work better for the patient. This money is a valid alternative source of fund for cancer treatment especially for patients who could not afford it otherwise.

You need to learn on ways to prevent the disease. You need reliable information to help you do this. Contact Dr. Dalal Akoury (MD) for more information on health matters and be empowered to take good care of your life. Check her website for more information

How to Fund Your Cancer Treatment without a Loan

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DMSO and Cancer Treatment

July 22, 2014

DMSO As an Alternative Cancer Treatment

DMSOCancer is a disease that is synonymous to pain. The pain that the cancer patients suffer while going through treatment can never be underestimated. Conventional chemotherapy may be effective in treating the disease but it has far more severe side effects that make patients to seek for other alternative cancer treatments. Doctors on the other hand have been trying to get better ways through which cancer can be treated more effectively without hurting the healthy cells as common with the conventional chemotherapy. Very many developments have been Made even in the chemotherapy treatment to make it more effective and less painful. Other alternative have also been discovered yet others are still coming up. One of the alternatives to cancer treatment is the use of DMSO which has become popular over a time.

What is DMSO?

DMSO (Dimethyl Sulfoxide) is  purely a natural product from the timber industry. It had been in the timber industry for a long time before its medicinal abilities were discovered. The product has been used in the past in its crude form by doctors and athletes to address muscle problems and some injuries. It is said to be a good healing agent as it increases the blood supply to the areas that are injured. This product has been approved by FDA as a treatment for interstitial cystitis (bladder inflammation). It is very gentle but has very powerful healing properties. Several research have been done to reveal the ability of the Dimethyl Sulfoxide in treating cancer, however this is one of the effective cancer treatments that is not easily understood. The patients that have used it got healed but it’s hard to tell which properties it contains that is so powerful in killing cancer cell. Even after the many patients that have been healed by Dimethyl Sulfoxide treatment, FDA has only approved of it as an organ preservative and a cure for interstitial cystitis.

The history of DMSO as a pharmaceutical product can be traced back to the 1961. It is said that its medical abilities were discovered by Dr. Jacob who was the head of an organ transplant program at Oregon Health University. He tested the colorless liquid as an organ preservative and found that it could penetrate deep into the skin without causing any harm on the skin. His discovery led to his journey; researching on the medical properties of DMSO. After Dr. Jacob’s discovery DMSO became so known through the various media that spread its medicinal potential. This generated lots of interest in cancer doctors and researchers who began doing lots of research  on the ability of this product in treating cancer.

With many researches that were conducted and tests on cancer patients, DMSO was found to be effective in cancer treatment. With reference to the state of cancer patients that were put on the DMSO treatment, it was verified that DMSO is an effective cancer treatment as it done away with the most aggressive tumors that had even metastasized to the lymph nodes and other areas of the body. The use of DMSO in cancer treatment has been successful mostly in the fight against the lymphomas, glioblastoma, melanoma, prostate, and colon cancer. The use of DMSO is also common with other types of cancers where it has also been successful.

How does it help in cancer treatment?

DMSO was referred to us a medical wonder product or better yet as the aspirin of the 21st century by the  Encyclopedia of Medical Breakthroughs and Forbidden Treatments (published by Medical Research Associates LLC). This medicinal wonder product has a molecular bond with water that is 1.3 times stronger than water molecular bond with itself. It is faster in penetrating through the cell membranes, taking with it substances that would not have penetrated the cell membrane. It is effective in restoring damaged cells as it penetrates into the cells thereby hydrating them. DMSO penetrates into the cell changing its water structure and improves cell permeability which is good in flushing out toxins in a cell. Leaving the cells more nourished and free from the toxins that may cause cancer.

This wonderful product is rich in medicinal abilities that have been seen to cure cancer, however it is not understood how it achieves all this just like aspirin medicinal abilities were not understood until recently. DMSO is known as a carrier solvent. So when it penetrates the tumor cells it carries away the dextrose that the cancer cell relies on for energy leaving them to starve. It is also believed to kill the most metabolically active cells; cancer cells. This leads to the effective killing of cancer cells without harm to the body cells.

Those who have used the DMSO treatment opine that it can penetrate the proteins that surrounds the cancer cells forming a shell and so may help other medications such as the chemotherapy drugs in reaching the cells killing them. As it penetrates the cancer cells it carries away the nutrients that the cancer cells rely on reducing the energy levels in the cancer cells leaving them weak and benign.

DMSOIt is also known to stimulate the immune system  .It is also known to scavenge for hydroxyl radicals which are the most potent free radicals. This is one of the ways it helps in cancer treatment since the free radicals are known to fuel cancer cell growth and metastasis. Their ability to scavenge for free radicals has seen this treatment becoming popular for cancer patients while undergoing chemotherapy. Chemotherapy must generate free radicals to kill the cancer cell and it’s these free radicals that are responsible for those side effects as hair loss and nausea. Patients who use DMSO while on chemotherapy evade these side effects.

Dr. Dalal Akoury (MD) has profound knowledge on this topic and can offer you a good advice on how to easily adopt the program. Frequently check this website for most current updates on cancer treatment. Generally, this approach to cancer treatment is worth a try.

DMSO As an Alternative Cancer Treatment

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