Cancer

  • A smartphone playing the Intelligent Medicine podcast sits atop a wooden surface, along with wired earbuds, a cup of coffee, a leather-covered journal and a green apple.

    Top Ten Intelligent Medicine podcast episodes of 2024

    By Dr. Ronald Hoffman

    ‘Tis the season! As the pace of work and school slows and the freneticism of shopping and parties abates, people are hopping into cars, buses, planes, and trains to reach holiday destinations. Or else, they collapse and simply enjoy cocooning…read more

    Categories: Cancer

  • 3D illustration of gloved hand in lab coat holding a vial of blood, with a background of cancer cells

    Cancer tests—hits and misses

    By Dr. Ronald Hoffman

    These days, you can walk into a doctor’s office and request tests that will highlight your risk for a heart attack or stroke six ways to Sunday. You can look beyond cholesterol to characterize your LDL particle size, get read-outs…read more

    Categories: Cancer

  • Doctor with a lightbulb head on a blue textured background

    “Breakthrough” treatments that we don’t really need (part two)

    By Dr. Ronald Hoffman

    In my article two weeks ago, I shared some recent “breakthrough” treatments that give me pause. These headline-making treatments promise relief from one malady or another, often at high expense or with an array of harrowing side effects. Some have shown…read more

    Categories: Cancer

  • Young adult woman in hospital gown sitting on a hospital bed. She holds her face and cries after receiving some devastating health news.

    New disease trends highlight medicine’s biggest failures

    By Dr. Ronald Hoffman

    It seems that nearly every day, we learn of yet another medical “breakthrough”; hi-tech and often pricey cures are commonplace. More of us take medications and undergo life-saving procedures. Yet a series of recent articles in the Wall Street Journal (sorry—paywalled for…read more

    Categories: Cancer

  • Doctor holding mRNA vaccine.

    The new dawn of mRNA technology

    By Rob Verkerk, B.Sc., M.Sc., D.I.C., Ph.D., F.A.C.N.

    As I continue my travels, I am lending this space once again to my friends at the Alliance for Natural Health for an important message about the future of vaccine technology. I’ve been a board member at ANH for the last 20…read more

    Categories: Cancer

  • Is cancer really just a fungal infection?

    Is cancer really just a fungal infection?

    By Dr. Ronald Hoffman

    Recently, a popular website, Gizmodo, regaled readers with the headline: “Our Cancers Are Filled With Fungi”, with the tagline “New research shows that many cancers play host to their own unique microbiomes of fungi, which may affect our chances of surviving them.”…read more

    Categories: Cancer

  • Diet and colon cancer: It’s complicated!

    Diet and colon cancer: It’s complicated!

    By Dr. Ronald Hoffman

    March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. There’s a special emphasis on prevention because the incidence of GI cancers, traditionally thought of as an affliction of the aged, is soaring among younger people, as was dramatically highlighted by the untimely death in…read more

    Categories: Cancer

  • December dispatches: Over-eating and cancer; the AMA goes woke; Einstein vs. Fauci

    By Dr. Ronald Hoffman

    “Disordered eating” and gastrointestinal cancers: If it’s not obvious to you by now that what you eat impacts your risk for cancer, you haven’t been paying attention to the latest research. There’s a link to obesity for most cancers, and consequent…read more

    Categories: Cancer

  • Alternative perspectives on breast cancer

    Alternative perspectives on breast cancer

    By Dr. Ronald Hoffman

    Lifestyle matters! Around one in nine women in the U.S. will develop breast cancer during her lifetime. A recent study found that roughly 30 percent of breast cancers could be prevented with simple lifestyle modifications: Avoiding obesity, alcohol intake, smoking and hormonal therapies….read more

    Categories: Cancer

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