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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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Off-label Drugs and Cancer

August 3, 2014

Use of off-label Drugs in Cancer Treatment

off-labelIn the past, there was a belief that when you had gone for cancer diagnosis then the only options of treatment you had were only chemotherapy, radiation therapy and surgery. This belief seemingly has refused to leave the minds of very many people even after medical researchers and other oncologists have done lots of work to avail various alternatives to cancer treatments. The researchers are giving us better ways of treating cancer everyday and all we ought to do is find an integrative cancer doctor who can make the best out of the discovered cancer treatment alternatives. The reason to why so many alternatives to cancer treatment are sought everyday is not because there is no cancer cure, no cancer unlike HIV has known cures all the doctors and researcher are trying to do is to find us a better cancer treatment that is free from all the severe and life threatening side effects that cancer patients have to embrace while undergoing the conventional cancer treatments. Some of these alternatives also work better when used alongside conventional cancer treatments like chemotherapy and radiation therapy. They also increase the effectiveness of the chemotherapy treatment as they induce the cancer cells to consume poisoned food particles, an example of this is the Insulin potentiation therapy that has been used to effectively target the cancer cells, killing them without causing any severe hurt to the healthy body cells. Other alternative cancer treatments have also proved their effectiveness in fighting cancer and so it is time to shift this belief in conventional cancer treatments and accept the new inventions that can help cancer patients to get better treatments. There are very many alternatives to cancer treatments and that is one of the reasons why AwareMed exists; to let you know of all the available options that you can utilize in case you become a victim of this dreaded disease. Here is one of the alternatives.

Use of Off-label Drugs

The off label use of drugs is to use medicine for another reason other than the intended purpose for which it was approved by the United States FDA or any other regulatory body. It is the use of drug for the purpose that is not on the official label, hence “off-label”. There are very many drugs that are meant to treat other diseases but can work very well in cancer treatment. The utilization of these off-label drugs is not something unusual, though they are not as common as they ought to be. The regulatory bodies have not supported the use of drugs approved for treatment of a particular disease to be used in treatment of another disease and this may explain why the use of off-label drugs is not that common. Cancer is a disease that is caused by many factors and so is it treatment facilitated by many factors. There are conditions that cancer shares with other diseases and so the treatment that works in those other diseases will work rather perfectly in cancer treatment. The integrative doctors knows the relationship between cancer and other diseases and whether the off-label drugs can work better in suppressing the tumor growth and restore the health of the cancer patient. Experienced integrative cancer doctors like Dr. Dalal Akoury (MD) can help personalize the use of off-label drugs to help in healing the cancer patient better.

The off-label drugs can work in different ways to help in fighting the cancer. The avenues through which the off-label drugs work to treat cancer are numerous and are based on the common features that cancer shares with the said diseases. It is not strange to hear that diabetes drugs are used for cancer.

Diabetes Drugs for cancer

One of the great oncologist; Otto Warburg showed the dependence of cancer cells on glucose. In his experiments he proved that cancer cells depended solely on sugar sources of energy to survive and metastasize. Without sugar the cancer cell will be starved to death as they will not access the necessary nutrient supplies. Diabetes drugs are used to suppress the sugar level in the blood. These drugs work in favor of cancer treatment as they tend to reduce the amount of energy that is available for the cancer cells to survive on. An integrated oncologist may decide to use a diabetic drug to suppress the sugar level in a cancer patient and hasten the death of cancer cells out of starvation. As the cancer cell will be dying the healthy body cells will be using other sources of energy like fats to survive.

Apart from diabetes drugs, there are other medications that are useful in cancer treatment. Drugs used in enhancing immunity can be used to stimulate the white blood cells to fight cancer cells. Antibiotics that are not mentioned as cancer drugs may help in fighting cancer by inhibiting the enzymes that the cancer cells are dependent on.

Noscapine has also been found to be very effective in fighting cancer as it helps in cancer by preventing the division of cancer cells.

off-labelSome of the drugs used as anti-HIV can also be used in cancer treatment. Examples are ritonavir, nelfinavir and saquinavir. A test that was done by Dr. Phillip Dennis found that these drugs have an effect on the growth of cancer as they were found to kill cancer cells through apoptosis, necrosis and autophagy.

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.

Use of off-label Drugs in Cancer Treatment

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Avemar and Cancer

August 3, 2014

Natural Hormone Manipulation, IPT and Avemar in Cancer Treatment

AvemarLike I have always said cancer is a very dangerous disease but a very interesting research. The researchers are always coming up with something new. Cancer patients are waking up every day to find new alternative to cancer treatment. Here are some alternative cancer treatments that can be used to treat breast cancer patients as well as other types of cancer that has victimized the human population.

Avemar and cancer treatment

This is a naturally fermented wheat germ extract that researchers have worked on for a long time trying to verify if it is effective in cancer treatment as earlier sources revealed. Researchers have proved that Avemar is an effective cancer treatment that unlike other alternative cancer treatments does not treat a single type of cancer but works effectively in treatment of all types of cancer. It can therefore be used effectively in fighting breast cancer, cervical cancer as well as other cancers that have victimized our women for centuries.

Avemar also helps the immune system in identifying and killing the cancer cells. It strengthens the natural killer cells to spot and destroy the cancer cells as well as any other foreign body that may enhance the growth of the cancerous cells and cause more harm to the cancer patient. The cancer cell unfortunately may escape the natural killer cell by masking themselves in a special membrane that the natural killer cells cannot identify as foreign, Avemar helps in this situation as it inhibits the release of this special membrane thereby making it possible for the natural killer cells to spot the cancer cells and kill them.

Avemar is very safe for cancer treatment as it is free from all the adverse side effects that most conventional treatments are always associated with. It is very effective in reducing the hurt that is normally caused by conventional cancer treatment methods like chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Researchers have revealed that Avemar when used after chemotherapy or radiation therapy restores the ability of the bone marrow to produce more red blood cells which is essential to any cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy or radiation therapy. This was verified at 1st Congress of the Hungarian Society of Clinical Oncology. Budapest, Hungary, 2000.

A clinical test done in Budapest to test the effectiveness of Avemar in cancer treatment, the clinical tests involved 22 who had different types of cancers. 11 children out of the 22 were given Avemar before and during their chemotherapy, while the other half were not given Avemar in the course of the chemotherapy. In the first group, there were a total of 121 cycles of chemotherapy and 30 episodes of febrile neutropenia (24.8 percent). While in the second group there were a total of 106 cycles of chemotherapy and 46 episodes of febrile neutropenia (43.3 percent). The ability of the Avemar to reduce incidence of febrile neutropenia in cancer patient is enough to verify how effective cancer treatment alternative it is.

Avemar has also been used in the past alongside conventional cancer treatments and in all the cases the patients had fewer side effects. It helped to reduce the severity of the side effects of the chemotherapy drugs. It also improved the recovery of the patients greatly.

Insulin potentiation Therapy

Insulin potentiation therapy is a clever way to kill the cancer cells easier and also to keep the healthy cells safe from the chemotherapy drug. The Insulin potentiation therapy involves the use of insulin and chemotherapy drugs. The basis of effectiveness of the Insulin Potentiation therapy is that, cancerous cells are more responsive to glucose than the healthy cells. So, to kill the cancer cells without affecting the healthy cells becomes rather easier. The chemotherapy drugs are introduced into the patient’s body within glucose globules. As normal the cancer cells will be the first to reach for the poisoned glucose hence they will die leaving the rest of the healthy cells safe from the effects of the poisonous chemotherapy drugs. It can be used in treatment of breast cancer as well as other cancers as all cancer cells react to insulin in the same way.

The use of Insulin potentiation therapy in cancer treatment is more effective that the haphazard chemotherapy that ends up hurting the healthy cells.IPT targets the cancer cell cleverly while avoiding the healthy cells.

It works on the basis that the cancer cells are more responsive to glucose than the healthy cells. It involves introducing glucose that are poisoned with the chemotherapy drugs so, as the cancer drugs reach for them they end up consuming the chemotherapy drugs hence they die without affecting the healthy body cells.

Natural hormone manipulation

There are hormones that can attach to breast cancer cells and promote the ability of the cancer cells metastasize. Natural Hormone manipulation aims at blocking or removing the hormones. Some hormones like estrogen and progesterone can promote the growth of most breast cancer cells. Natural hormone manipulation is given to block the body’s naturally occurring estrogen so as to stop cancer cell growth.

AvemarNatural hormone manipulation that is used in breast cancer treatment should not be confused with hormone replacement therapy that normally used by postmenopausal women. The hormone replacement therapy in postmenopausal women adds more hormones to the body and is not done as a cancer treatment.

Dr. Dalal Akoury (MD) has been committed to availing information on cancer treatment. She is an experienced integrative oncologist who can help you get better cancer treatment. Check this website frequently for updates. You can also call her for consultations.

Natural Hormonal, IPT and Avemar in Cancer Treatment

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Noscapine And Cancer

July 31, 2014

 

Research Shows That Noscapine Is Good In Fighting Cancer

noscapineCancer researchers have done lots of work in a bid to find how this dangerous disease can be tamed or better yet done away with completely. There are many discoveries that had been made in the past and each of these discoveries is based on given philosophies. These findings have seen us have many alternatives to cancer treatments. However cancer research is a very active field that is not about to go quiet any soon. Doctors and researchers are still in pursuit of a better way to treat cancer more effectively with fewer side effects. The conventional cancer treatment methods, the naturopathic cancer treatments as well as other available alternative cancer treatments have been used in the past either solely or integrative and the effects on cancer patients treatment analyzed. However as known types of cancer as well as personal bodily reactions make these treatments have unique outcome in particular patients. In some instances they have worked well but in some they have not and this is a reason enough to keep the cancer doctors working around the clock to come up with better treatment methods.

The spread of cancer is dependent on other processes in the body. Before these processes are accomplished then cancer cells can not spread to other body parts. Recently we learnt that metastatic cancer cannot take place without angiogenesis. So doctors can use that loophole to stop metastasis. If angiogenesis is stopped then the spread of cancer is curbed. Another research has also found out that mitosis plays a major role in cancer cell survival and spreading. It is therefore necessary that various ways of inhibiting mitosis be employed to help in cancer treatment.

Noscapine is a medicinal compound found in plants of the poppy family which unlike morphine is not a pain killer nor is it addictive. This compound has been used in the past as a cough suppressant in different over-the-counter medications. Recent research has however discovered that this compound is not only good for use as a cough suppressant but can also be used in cancer treatment

Noscapine inhibits mitosis

Mitosis is a process by which body cells duplicates themselves forming genetically identical cells from the parent cell. Mitosis in the case of cancer cells will lead to multiplication of cancer cells making it hard for the spread of the disease to be curbed. Mitosis occurs through spindle formation. During spindle formation, spindles pull chromosomes to the opposite sides of the cell in preparation for the cell division. Without spindle formation the survival of the daughter cells is not possible as they are separated without getting the appropriate genetic composition from the parent cell. Noscapine inhibits spindle formation therefore making it hard for the newly divided cancer cells to survive hence it affects mitosis which in turn helps in fighting cancer.

However this compound does not only help in cancer treatment by inhibiting spindle formation. Research has shown that this compound can work on varied ways to fight cancer. It has very powerful anticancer ability. This compound is said to contain strong cell killing properties that enables it to kill cancer cells before they duplicate and spread to other body parts.

Noscapine is also very effective as an anti-angiogenesis. Angiogenesis is the formation of new blood vessels. Cancer cannot spread without angiogenesis as it is through angiogenesis that that the tumors get fed. Supplies like nutrients pass through these new blood vessels to reach the tumors and so if angiogenesis cannot happen then the growth and spread of the tumors will be inhibited and the tumor cells will be starved. It does this by inhibiting HIF-1 alpha which supports the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). Vascular endothelial is known to stimulate the growth of new blood vessels.

Noscapine is also beneficial as it inhibits another powerful cancer growth factor known as the bradikinin. Scientists have opined that any drug that can inhibit bradikinin can be very essential in cancer treatment just as chemotherapy. In fact majority of research findings point out those agents that inhibit bradikinin are better at reducing cancer cell growth than chemotherapy.

Because of its strong anticancer abilities, very many doctors have begun using Noscapine in cancer treatment. Especially in treating the following types of cancer; breast, prostate, lung, ovarian, brain, and lymphomas. Though it has been used as an effective cough suppressant, Noscapine can be a very powerful drug in fighting cancer if recent research findings are to be believed.

Another research done in 2010 Current Drug Targets showed that Noscapine was not only effective in inhibiting the growth of cancer cells but also made them more vulnerable to chemotherapy drugs. In fact that may benefit cancer patients on chemotherapy.

The above research is not the only one that endorsed the effectiveness of Noscapine in cancer treatment. Information that supports Noscapine as an effective anti-cancer agent was found in the medical research finding. The study said that Noscapine was the most effective anticancer after it was discovered that it causes cancer cell apoptosis. The experiment used Mg-63 tumor cells which are a common type of tumor of the bones.

nascopineDoctors are using Noscapine in cancer treatment and one of the doctors who have come out openly to be using the noscapine is from San Diego. He is known as Dr. Israel Barken. However he has been using it to treat his prostate cancer patients alone. He availed information on his website that proved that Noscapine reduced prostate cancer in mice greatly.

Dr. Dalal Akoury is an experienced integrative cancer doctor who has made it her duty to help you stay cancer free by availing valuable information about cancer on this website. You can contact her for consultations.

Research shows that Noscapine is good in fighting cancer

 

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