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"Their immune systems had been so weakened by their chemotherapy that they were at severe risk for fatal infections. The cancer drugs had destroyed their disease-fighting white blood cells and caused a condition known as neutropenia. Many cancer patients beat back their disease with the cancer drugs only to die from infections. To try to help them, some doctors prescribed antifungal medicines like Diflucan with the hope they would stop microscopic bugs with names like Candida and Aspergillus from gaining a deadly hold on their weakened bodies. The goal of Dr. Peter C. Gotzsche and Dr." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Newman holds a contract with the National Cancer Institute to perform assays, determine any toxicity, and assess the pharmacokinetics (the absorption, distribution through the body, and elimination from the body) of substances with promise as cancer drugs. This is a necessary step for getting an investigational drug application approved, which, in turn, is a necessary part of mounting a Phase I clinical trial; a trial where a small number of human subjects are used in early testing of a new drug. The research of Dr." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"In animal studies, flaxseed increased the effectiveness of the breast cancer drug tamoxifen, but no clinical trials on the flaxseed interaction with tamoxifen, or other breast cancer drugs, have been conducted on breast cancer patients. German research, meanwhile, has linked plant lignan intake and a reduced risk of breast cancer. Studies there have found that premenopausal women eating a high level of lignans experienced a 64 percent reduction in breast cancer risk. Food sources of lignans besides ground flaxseed include whole grain cereals, berries, vegetables, and fruits in general." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Many cancer patients beat back their disease with the cancer drugs only to die from infections. To try to help them, some doctors prescribed antifungal medicines like Diflucan with the hope they would stop microscopic bugs with names like Candida and Aspergillus from gaining a deadly hold on their weakened bodies. The goal of Dr. Peter C. Gotzsche and Dr. Helle Krogh Johansen was to perform a meta-analysis, a study in which statistical methods are used to combine the results of independent but similar trials of a drug." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"These are types of prostate cancers that are resistant to hormonal intervention; thus, typically used prostate cancer drugs have little to no lasting effect. While initial responses to hormonal drug therapy for prostate cancer are often quite positive, for about 80 percent of patients, the cancer eventually becomes unresponsive to further therapy. Tragically, most of these men's cancers will progress to other tissues and organs, leading to a fatal relapse within a few years. Researchers at New York Medical College, including Hiroshi Tazaki, M.D., Ph.D." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "By enhancing the efficacy of such chemotherapeutic agents, this can help oncologists to establish the least toxic combination of cancer drugs to be used against diffi-cult-to-treat prostate cancers. Their work also showed Maitake D-fraction to be effective at deactivating an enzyme called glyoxalase I that is often overexpressed in cancerous prostate tissues. A major function of this enzyme is to detoxify those biochemical agents that might be deadly to prostate cancer cells. It may even be said that this enzyme is responsible for the drug-resistant nature of some types of prostate cancer." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "Many cancer drugs work by killing cells without discrimination—both cancer and normal cells. However, IPg has only moderate cell toxicity. Rather, IPg stops cancer cells from growing uncontrollably and normalizes them. According to the Journal of Nutrition, "The beneficial action of IP^ is not restricted to the prevention of tumor development but perhaps to treatment of existing cancers as well." A study by Huang and colleagues provides evidence for the mechanism of IPg." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"An odd odor can be a reaction to certain medications, including penicillin, some antidepressants, glaucoma drugs, and some cancer drugs. It can also be a strong hint that a person has been hitting the bottle too much. However, if someone's sweat smells like beer, it may not be from overindulging. Rather, it could signal a yeast infection. (See Vaginal Discharge, above.) Unpleasant or unusual body odors can also signal a number of other disorders. For example, if a person's sweat or urine smells sweet or like acetone, it might point to diabetes." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Drug industry experts say Abraxane's price reflects the fact that makers of cancer drugs can charge high prices for new medicines even if they are only marginally better than their older counterparts. Drug companies have sharply increased prices for new cancer drugs in the last decade. Since 1998, for example, Celgene, a biotechnology company based in Summit, N.J., has raised the price of Thalomid, a drug for a cancer called multiple myeloma, to more than $35,000 a year from $4,000." - Dr. David W. Tanton; Ph.D., A Drug-Free Approach To Healthcare, Revised Edition (Get the book.)

"High on the list are the antituberculosis drug rifampin, the blood thinner warfarin, and some cancer drugs. These are many of the same medications that turn stools orange. (See Orange Stools, above.) WARNING SIGN Although you might think you're not getting dehydrated, by the time you're thirsty, you're already on your way. Dehydration can lead to seizures, brain damage, and even death. Dehydration is particularly dangerous in children and adults over 60." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Biotech is commanding an increasingly large share of the potential upside, and is pushing for equity stake investments and innovative options such as co-development,' said Karen Beynon and Jacob Plieth in a review of pharma's deals in 2004-45 Changing the parameters of business with pharma is no mean feat and such changes can be taken as some indication of the deep water it is in and why the cancer drugs are such a lifeline. According to Brown: Big pharma is locked into a box where it sees it has 20 years to develop a drug, register it, market it and get their money back." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"Targeted cancer drugs such as Gleevec (Novartis) and Iressa (AstraZeneca), which are portrayed as "magic bullets" because they are designed to hit single, biological targets, have been disappointing. Gleevec ended up influencing other genes. Bryan Roth, a biochemist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, says "magic shotguns" rather than "magic bullets" are what's needed." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"That also seems to be the case ** Paxil (paroxetine) Paroxetine eases hot flashes due to menopause or associated with breast cancer drugs such as tamoxifen. The effect on hot flashes is independent of its antidepressant activity. Women found a lower dose easier to tolerate. Side effects: Nausea, digestive problems, weakness, sleep disturbances, dizziness, nervousness, sexual difficulties, hypertension, weight gain Downside: Paxil can be hard to stop taking." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"Appropriate medical consultation is needed in cases related to the use of cancer drugs, pancreatic insufficiency, and special problems associated with gastric or intestinal surgery. Q Research has found that people who eat food products containing the fat substitute olestra may test false-positive for malabsorption disorder. If you consume foods containing olestra, you should inform your health care practitioner prior to any such testing. Q Certain drugs interfere with the absorption of nutrients." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.) "Some cancer drugs. • Some hormone preparations. • Some seizure medications. • Some thyroid treatment drugs. • Chronic (long-term) alcohol intake. • Cocaine. These teratogens that affect the development of the baby include drugs taken by men during the time of conception. Q Excessive intake of vitamin A has been linked with cleft palate, heart defects, and other congenital defects. Foods rich in vitamin A may also cause problems." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"We recommend having a thorough discussion of its likely benefits and risks * Neurontin (gabapentin) Gabapentin eases hot flashes due to menopause or associated with breast cancer drugs such as tamoxifen. The effect on hot flashes is not related to its anticonvulsant effects. Side effects: Drowsiness, dizziness, problems with balance, fatigue, swelling of the feet, nausea or vomiting, depression, reduction in white blood cells Downside: Neurontin should not be discontinued suddenly. You should ask your doctor for help in reducing the dose gradually over several weeks or months." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"This practically makes the sun an instant healer, far more effective than even the most aggressively hyped cancer drugs, such as Herceptin. The second study showed that the same amount of sunlight corresponded with a two-thirds lower risk of contracting colorectal cancer. For any doctor or friend who asks for proof for the "outrageous" claim that sunlight can prevent or cure cancer, you may want to refer him or her to the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (doi: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2006.12." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Healthcare services everywhere are struggling to buy the latest life-extending cancer drugs, for example, the costs of which (tens of thousands of dollars per patient a year) are generally seen as a test case as to how much markets can afford. Middle-income countries have faced mini-trade wars with the pharma industry's staunch supporter, the US government, as when South Korea protested that the $27,000 a year cost of Glivec for a rare skin cancer was too high. The pharmaceutical industry has been able to amass such colossal power in a single human lifespan." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) "Anastrozole could have been compared with later breast cancer drugs, such as Herceptin. This costs £20,000 ($36,000) a year and works spectacularly well in the one in five women that carry the particular genetic flaw it addresses. So well in fact there are calls for women who are known to have this flaw, as expressed in a protein known as HER2, to take it at much earlier stages, putting more strain on limited budgets.41 If the comparison had been with Herceptin, anastrozole would not have looked so good." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, much, if not most, of this new spending was not for pediatric trials of cancer drugs, but for pediatric trials of chronic disease medications. Many pediatric trials are run responsibly, but many are not. Consider the case of Propulsid, yet another pill for esophageal reflux, approved for adults in 1993. Having been heavily detailed about the effectiveness and safety of Propulsid by its manufacturer, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, physicians did what enterprising physicians do: they started trying it for off-label illnesses." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Business Week magazine says there are now 402 cancer drugs in development, compared to 126 a decade ago. The American public is going to have these drugs literally shoved down their throat. Reasons why chemotherapy doesn't work Drug resistance produced by enzymes in the liver (cytochrome p450 enzymes)." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Natural products have made an enormous impact on the discovery of compounds that kill cancer cells; in fact, possibly 60% of all cancer drugs that are used clinically are either natural products or owe their origin to a natural source. The most comprehensive study conducted on cytotoxic agents from nature has been carried out by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a US government agency, which has invested in the identification of a number of anticancer drugs." - Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson, Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy (Get the book.)

"These patients didn't wait for tomorrow's cancer drugs. Maybe the nutrients these patients took had nothing to do with these remissions. Maybe they just had tumors that were slow growing. But so many were diagnosed with Stage IV cancer and then suddenly regained a grip on life. There is something amiss here. Why weren't doctors making these suggestions? Why were these patients suddenly beating their cancer and living normal lives? There has to be something wrong with cancer care. Without a medical degree, I was offering suggestions that were bringing about prolonged survival." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"When companies fund economic analyses of their own cancer drugs, the results are eight times more likely to be favorable.30 Compared to drug research, the potential for industry manipulation in GM crop studies is considerably higher. • Drug studies generally follow standardized procedures dictated by regulators. The Ag biotech industry largely uses its own testing parameters. • Drug studies are published in peer-reviewed journals, while most GM studies submitted to regulators are not published and are kept secret from the public." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"Other parts of the same firm, such as AstraZeneca, are renowned for the development of drugs like tamoxifen, one of the most widely prescribed cancer drugs in the world today. The best wars, to take an ironic line from President McKinley's secretary of state, are short, splendid little affairs, all pageantry and little fighting. The protracted war on cancer has been none of the above. How did we get to this point? Nearly forty years and more than $69 billion of taxpayer monies since the war on cancer was officially launched in the United States, many forms of the disease remain devastating." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Heikki Joensuu, a physician at Helsinki University Central Hospital, and his colleagues randomly assigned more than 1,000 women who had breast cancer to receive three cycles of either docetaxel or vinorelbine, followed by three cycles of other cancer drugs. They wanted to determine which regimen was best for recurrence-free survival. "There were 42% fewer breast cancer recurrences during the first three years of follow-up among women treated with docetaxel as compared to those who received vinorelbine," says Joensuu." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"But the tiny orange pill quickly became known as much for its cost as its status as one of the world's first rationally designed cancer drugs. Aimed at such a small market - the company says just 75,000 people are eligible for treatment worldwide - the price, at $27,000 a year, was the first real venture into the new pricing stratosphere that was being opened up. Immediately, the company found itself at loggerheads with governments around the world, particularly those in middle-income countries, such as South Korea and Brazil." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"About half of ad prescription drugs are carcinogenic (Moore 1998) and most cancer drugs themselves are carcinogenic, such as the infamous Tamoxifen (Epstein 1999); in fact, Zeneca, the company that makes it and other cancer drugs used world-wide, qualifies ad by itself as a first rate carcinogen: Zeneca is one of the world's largest producers of pesticides. Totady shocking is the fact that cancer experts themselves avoid their own treatments at ad costs." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.)

"It is also a fact that fourteen out of fifteen new cancer drugs have been abandoned during clinical trials. "What is Joe Public supposed to make of it all?" asks Mel Greaves. And even he, Professor of Cell Biology at the Institute of Cancer Research, London, does not offer an answer but, in his own words, "a flavour of the challenge ahead" (Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy, p. 248). Such is the complexity of cancer. 2 Let me turn to our second world. A doctor and a patient. Two people in a room. You and your consultant." - Michael Gearin-Tosh, Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny (Get the book.)

"Drug companies have sharply increased prices for new cancer drugs in the last decade. Since 1998, for example, Celgene, a biotechnology company based in Summit, N.J., has raised the price of Thalomid, a drug for a cancer called multiple myeloma, to more than $35,000 a year from $4,000. Since 2000, when Bristol-Myers Squibb's patent on Taxol expired, the drug has been available both as nonbranded generic paclitaxel and as branded Taxol, at a cost of about $150 a dose for the generic and $1,000 for the branded version, which is now sold mostly outside the United States." - Dr. David W. Tanton; Ph.D., A Drug-Free Approach To Healthcare, Revised Edition (Get the book.)

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