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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

The Vitamin C Empire Strikes Back

Well that didn’t take long, did it? Three days ago, I described a study that I had noticed in the October 1 issue of Cancer Research that described an animal study that strongly suggested that vitamin C administered at sufficiently high doses may interfere with the action of multiple chemotherapeutic agents. You can read the […]

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Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine

Hypnosis and hot flashes: When will they ever learn?

For women undergoing menopause, hot flashes are a real problem. In my specialty, as I’ve pointed out before, women undergoing treatment for breast cancer are often forced into premature menopause by the treatments to which we subject them. It can be chemotherapy, although far more often it’s the estrogen-blocking drugs that we use to treat […]

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Vitamin C and cancer revisited

Sometimes I have to look for blog ideas, trolling through various alternative medicine sites, medical news sites, or science news feeds or my medical and science journals. Sometimes ideas fall on me seemingly out of the blue. This is one of the latter situations. This time around, as I do twice a month I was […]

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Surgery

Does genistein interfere with breast cancer therapy?

More than two-thirds of breast cancers make the estrogen receptor. What that means is that these tumors have the protein receptor that binds estrogen, which then activates the receptor and causes all the genes that are turned on or off by estrogen to be turned on and off. That’s how estrogen acts on normal breast […]

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Cancer Medicine Politics

John McCain a “dead man walking”? Not so fast, ptosis-boys!

It figures. I know, I like to start posts with “it figures,” and maybe I do it too often, but this time it really fits. For a moment I thought I was going to have a lot of egg on my face over this, but just for a moment. Yesterday, I wrote a rather extensive […]