Breast cancer breakthrough from the UK

[unixronin]

Reports out of the UK say that microneedle cryotherapy not only destroys breast tumors in minutes, but prevents relapses.  The technique is minimally invasive, and the article (brief though it is) implies that no follow-up chemotherapy or radiotherapy is required.  It's mentioned that they're experimenting with it for prostate cancer; I suspect it may prove to have general applicability to a wide range of compact/dense cancers.

Comments

[montieth.livejournal.com]

That's so cool!

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Positively frigid, one might say. ;)

[lebo-superman.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... and this post leads me to another book that I recently acquired a copy of, though the AMA has made damn sure it's harder than hell to even know it exists (let alone find a copy).

Censured for Curing Cancer: The American Experience of Dr. Max Gerson, MD by S.J. Haught

Haught was a journalist who started out to write an article on what he thought was a quack who was claiming to cure cancer. Instead he wrote a book about someone who actually did cure several types of cancer, as well as a number of other severe illnesses, entirely with nutritional therapies he originally developed to cure his own migraine headaches. The book was originally written in 1962, and has been reprinted a few times.

Instead of applauding his achievement and trumpeting it far and wide, the JAMA refused to publish his articles on his treatments, the AMA made misleading statements about him (designed to make the recipient THINK he was a quack without ever actually saying it), and the Medical Society of New York County suspended his membership over an appearance on a talk radio show that he did.