Hi Everyone.

If you have or know anyone taking chemotherapy, ask the oncologist if anything is being done to address the nuclear factor kappa B (NF kB) aspect of the cancer’s growing resistance to the chemotherapy. NF kB is also implicated in tumor growth through causing inflammation in the tissue surrounding the tumor. Cox-2 inhibitors have also been found to have a limiting effect on the inflammation related to cancer growth.

Selenium and aged garlic extract both act as antioxidants, but perhaps MORE importantly, they are involved in stage 2 detoxification of carcinogenic substances in the body. Meaning that once a carcinogenic substance enters the body it has to be transformed into a substance that can be excreted in the urine to get rid of it. This happens in 2 stages. Stage 1 often makes the carcinogen even more reactive before stage 2 where it is neutralized into a substance(s) that can safely travel the bloodstream and be excreted. This paragraph is moreso for people who don’t have cancer already as a preventative mechanism.

One of the biggest areas of research is the use of naturopathic compounds alongside chemotherapy and radiotherapy agents to increase their effectiveness. Below is a link that includes references to studies done internationally on the combination of therapies.
http://www.denvernaturopathic.com/news/glioblastoma.html#_edn8

Next up is a link to the Oasis of Hope Hospital’s website. This shows the fundamental aspects of the therapies used here. It is quite amazing the amount of information freely shared by the doctors. They have weekly Q&A sessions with all the patients with the Head of Research and the doctor that supervises the other doctors. They answer detailed medical questions about their therapies, about individual patients when the patient asks about his/herself, detailed explanations of each element of their system among other things.
http://oasisofhope.com/cancerhospital/clinical-services/irt.html

To close this out, I want to point out one element of a discussion had with Dr. Contreras, President of the Hospital, and all of the patients.
Dr. Contreras wanted to make a point about what is considered success in the battle with cancer and the importance of the Oasis of Hope’s philosophy of treating the patient, not treating the cancer.  Oasis of Hope Hospital currently has patients that have had cancer for over 20 years. Meaning that they have achieved a state of stabilization with the cancer within their body where the cancer is not spreading and isn’t causing any organ systems to malfunction or fail. The patients live full lives unhindered by the cancer outside of certain lifestyle changes required to achieve this effect. This is unheard of. In the US, the goal rests solely on being able to destroy the cancer. There is nothing in the conventional repertoire that is designed to or can achieve such a state.

The Hospital has found that often times efforts to kill the cancer often kill the patient as well. There are 2 philosophy statements that guide treatment here:
1. Do the body no harm.
2. Treat the patient as yourself.
This means that quality of life during and after treatment are integral parts of the treatment program. If the quality of life for the remainder of the patient’s life is severely diminished or the patient dies as a result of the cancer treatments, then the treatment has not been successful. In conventional cancer treatments this is a common result. Oftentimes, the cancer treatments themselves shorten the patients life more than the cancer alone would have. Thus, stabilization is the primary goal in the cancer treatments here. With this as the goal, most often the cancer is eliminated as well. If it is not eliminated, that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. How many cancer patients would love to hear from their doctors that they have 20 years to beat the cancer that they have. Imagine how much has changed in the treatement of cancer over the last 20 years, conventional or alternative. How much more can change in the next 20 years? We don’t know, but if you have cancer wouldn’t you love to find out?

Ankhner/Khalfani