More breast cancer patients can safely forgo chemotherapy: Study – an article from Science Daily. This is a groundbreaking article, as it safely increases the population who do not need to undergo chemotherapy, even by conventional guidelines. To reiterate what I have said in the past, conventional chemotherapy dosing probably adds the most benefit in […]

Combination therapy doubles survival in metastatic lung cancer – an article from Science Daily. The purpose of this article is to clarify the efficacy, or lack thereof, of checkpoint inhibitors by themselves, for cancer patients. Across the board, approximately 20% of the treated population will have a positive response to these immunotherapy drugs. We are […]

Role of magnesium supplementation in the treatment of depression: A randomized clinical trial – an article from Plos One. Although this journal article does not specifically address magnesium’s role in cancer, I would be remiss if I did not include this article in the May issue. According to the World Health Organization, 350 million people […]

“Circulating Tumor Cells Predictive of Adjuvant Radiotherapy Benefit in Early Breast Cancer” – an article from Cancer Therapy Advisor can be accessed here. This article validates what I have been proposing for quite some time; we should be checking for circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in early stage cancer. In the US, we have a test called […]

“Wound-Healing in Mice Triggers Growth of Dormant Tumors” – an article from TheScientist can be accessed here. Comments from Dr. Rosenberg on the article: This is yet another article that suggests that operating on cancer spreads cancer. But this article is not referring to the seeding effect (dislodging cohesive cancer cells via biopsy or surgery, […]

“Could Diet Adjustment Prevent Aggressive Prostate Cancer?” – an article from Cancer Therapy Advisor can be accessed here. Comments from Dr. Rosenberg on the article: Please do not use the ketogenic diet for all cancers! Prostate cancer has a different metabolic phenotype than the classic glycolytic cancers, where the “Warburg effect” applies.  Prostate cancer tends […]

 A small, daily dose of Viagra may reduce colorectal cancer risk – an article by ScienceDaily can be accessed here. Comments from Dr. Rosenberg on the Article: Over the last decade, researchers have elucidated the roles that impairment of cGMP signaling pathway by PDE5 activity inhibition plays in the regulation of tumor development, and progression. […]

“When Cancer Can’t Be Cured, Low-Dose Chemo Aims To Keep It In Check,” an article from CommonHealth, can be accessed here. This article is interesting because it notes that an oncologist at Tufts Medical Center uses low dose metronomic chemotherapy. In addition, an oncologist at Mass. General Hospital believes it may potentiate the effectiveness of […]

Flaxseed Lignans and Cancer- an article from Cancer Therapy Advisor can be accessed here: Comments from Dr. Rosenberg on the Article: Flaxseed has shown to inhibit proliferation of many different types of cancer in in-vitro and animal studies. The mechanisms of action are numerous, to include decreased expression of estrogen receptors, TNF-alpha, MMP-1, VEGF, and […]

Here is another publication on the use of low dose chemotherapy, but instead of being delivered in a metronomic fashion, one of the chemotherapy drugs was delivered in a continuous fashion. You can read the article on the National Institutes of Health website, by clicking the title below. Low-Dose Continuous 5-Fluorouracil Combined with Leucovorin, nab-Paclitaxel, Oxaliplatin, […]