From the DUTCH Test to CYP2D6 SNPs Many patients have been told by an integrative practitioner that their DUTCH Test indicates: Tamoxifen, Letrozole, Exemestane, or another aromatase inhibitor is giving them bad estrogen metabolites that will “drive their cancer” They don’t need to worry about…
POSTED DECEMBER 9, 2017 MARK HANCOCK MD MPH An intriguing case report has just been published of a 66 year old woman with metastatic melanoma who was treated with high dose mistletoe therapy.1 After two years she was in complete remission. Her cancer was confirmed with biopsy.…
Dr. Berkson, a brilliant physician working in New Mexico, recounts a harrowing story from his earlier career. A patient had accidentally eaten a death cap mushroom. These fungi are very bad and typically cause acute and severe liver failure. His patient was actively dying from…
POSTED OCTOBER 24, 2019 MARK HANCOCK MD MPH Introduction Collection of Clinical Mistletoe Studies Introduction This compilation is an attempt at an organized directory of all the published and available clinically relevant studies on mistletoe use for the treatment of cancer. I have not attempted to…
This recent study showed an association between childhood infection with mumps and a reduction by about 20% in future risk of contracting ovarian cancer. Mumps is an acute childhood viral infection that typically results in swollen salivary glands and occasionally can affect testes (potentially causing sterility)…