This eBook in Portugese Preface Every human being has cancer cells in their body. Most people don’t even know they have cancer cells because their immune system safely and easily kills their cancer cells as they form. In fact, as … Continued
Chapter 12 – Special Situations Chapter 10 – Supplemental “Stage IV” Treatments Chapter Index Chapter 11: The Cachexia Cycle Note: This article on cachexia also applies to these two situations: A very fast-spreading cancer or The cancer has spread throughout … Continued
How To Prevent Your Cancer From Coming Back Many times cancer patients have been cured of their cancer, meaning put into “remission,” only to have their cancer return later, which is called “regression.” We have seen people who went to … Continued
Chapter 2 – Key Issues Chapter Index Chapter 1: Introduction to Treating Advanced Cancers What Causes Cancer Every adult has some cancer cells in their body and they routinely develop new cancer cells. This is usually no big deal because … Continued
What is Cachexia First, let’s understand a little bit about a cancer cell: The 1931 Nobel laureate in medicine, German Otto Warburg, Ph.D., first discovered that cancer cells have a fundamentally different energy metabolism compared to healthy cells. The crux … Continued
Return to Chapter Index Next Chapter The Approval of Chemotherapy Drugs You might think that a study proving increased life expectancy (versus no treatment at all) would be required for a chemotherapy drug to be approved by the FDA. Such … Continued