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Archive for September, 2009
Risk of Aggressive Prostate Cancer linked to Common Sexual Infection
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
A new study from the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital reported on the September 9, 2009 Journal of the National Cancer Institute website reported a strong association between Trichomonas vaginalis, a common sexually transmitted infection, and the risk of advanced and lethal prostate cancer in men.
An important risk factor for prostate cancer is inflammation but the source has been unclear. Trichomonas vaginalis can infect the prostate and may be the source of inflammation.
A previous study found an association between Trichomonas Vaginalis infection and prostate cancer but was too small to determine if there was a link between the infection and advanced and lethal prostate disease. In the current stuidy researchers analyzed the blood samples from 673 men with prostate cancer and compared infection status based upon antibody levels with 673 control subjects who were not diagnosed with prostate cancer. The samples of blood were collected in 1982, on an average a decade before the cancer diagnoses.
Results showed that Trichomonas vaginalis infection was associated with over a two fold increase risk of prostate cancer that was at an advanced stage at diagnoses and a nearly three-fold increase in prostate cancer that would result in death. Further research is needed.
Dr Geronimo Rubio, Dr Adam Perlman, and Ms Carolyn Gross Interviewed on the Holistic Health Show
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Guests interviewed by Dr Carl O Helvie, host, Holistic Health Show on BBS Radio (www.bbsradio.com) Station 3 on Saturday were Dr Geronimo Rubio (left), Dr Adam Perlman (right), and Ms Caroline Gross.
Dr Rubio is Medical Director of the Rubio Cancer Center and his biography was presented earlier. More information is available at www.rubiocancercenter.com Dr Rubio discusses his use of immunotherapy and other alternative therapies in successfully treating various types of cancer.
Dr Perlman is Director of Integrative Medicine at St Barnabas Health Care System and Medical Director of the Carol and Morton Siegler Center for Integrative Medicine in Livingston, New Jersey. His biography was presented previously. He discusses the integrated approach to cancer treatment that is used at St Barnabas and that is a model of care combining traditional and altenative therapies.
Ms Carolyn Gross was diagnoses with stage 3 breast cancer in 2003 and was treated successfully by Dr Rubio with immunotherapy and alternative therapies. Her biography was presented earlier and she will talk about her treatments.
The interview follows and is also on iTunes. If you wish to have this mailed to you, please sign up on another page on this site.
Dr Adam Perlman, Medical Director of the Siegler Center at St Barnabas, and Ms Carolyn Gross who used Immunology for Recovery from Breast Cancer will also be Interviewed by Dr Carl O Helvie
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
My other guests on this Saturday’s show on BBS Radio (www.bbsradio.com) are Dr Adam Perlman, and Ms Caroline Gross. Both were previously on this cancer series.
Dr Perlman received his Medical Degree (M.D.) and a Masters of Public Health (MPH) from Boston University. He is currently Director of Integrative Medicine for the St Barnabas Health Care system and Medical Director for the Carol and Morton Siegler Center for Integrative Medicine in Livingston, New Jersey where he developed and oversees the Complementary and Alternative Programs. In 2002 he became the Executive Director of the Institute of Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey where he is an Assistant Professor. In 2004 he was named the Endowed Professor of Complementary and Alternative Medicine at this University and in 2000 he was recommended by his peer for the Excellence in Caring Award at St Barnabas. He will discuss his model of cancer care that includes a combination of traditional and alternative complementary cancer care.
He has numerous grants and publications including book chapters and 4 current funded grants. More information on his extensive activities can be found at: www.umdnj.edu/icam/about/perlman.htm
Ms Gross is a breast cancer survivor who was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in 2003 and is a speaker, facilitator, patient advocate, and author of 2 books titled Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos and Treatable and Beatable: Healing Cancer Without Surgery She was a patient of Dr Rubio during her breast cancer experience. More information is available at www.treatableandbeatable.com
Dr Geronimo Rubio, Medical Director of the Rubio Cancer Center, to be Interviewed by Dr Carl O Helvie
Sunday, September 20th, 2009
Dr Geronimo Rubio, Medical Director of the Rubio Cancer Center in La Mesa, Mexico will be interviewed on the Holistic Health Show on Saturday, September 26 at 10 p.m. EST on Station 3 of the BBS Radio Show (www.bbsradio.com)
Dr Rubio received his M.D. training at the University of Autonomous de Baja, California Medical School in Mexico. During his studies at the University, he did research in the Departments of Physiology, Biochemistry, and Parasitology and discovered that flowers brought into the hospital rooms were infecting patients with bacteria strains of Pseudomonad Aure Ginosa.
He later carried out research in the fields of virus and fungal infections of the lungs and diarrhea complications of the Ensenada Indian Tribe.
For the past 25 years Dr Rubio has researched and developed a process of RNA transference in lymphocytes, polypeptide formula for cancer cells and developed the formula for the blocking factors in tumor cells. He is presently the Medical Director of the Rubio Cancer Center where his special Immune Vaccines are combined with Rife Technology and Herbal Medicine.
More information may be obtained at www.rubiocancercenter.com and you can email him at rubiomd@rubiocancercenter.com or call him at 866-519-9960.
Melatonin-a potential Anti Cancer Hormone
Friday, September 18th, 2009
On Saturday, Dr Arlene Donar talked about melatonin as an anti-cancer hormone. Several studies suggest a connection between melatonin and cancer. Researchers at Harvard evaluated almost 150 women with invasive breast cancer and just over 290 without cancer as part of the Nurse Health Study. They measured the melatonin urine levels from morning samples and found that the women with the highest melatonin levels had the lowest risk of cancer.
In another study researchers used melatonin supplements with rats having advanced and untreated breast cancer . Given daily this significantly increased survival in the rats. They concluded that the results suggest that melatonin is beneficial in the survival with advanced breast cancer.
In a third study Mills et al at the McMasters University in Hamilton, Canada did a systematic review of randomized control trials and meta-analysis of melatonin in the treatment of cancer. They included 10 randomized controlled studies published between 1992 and 2003 that included 643 patients. and found that melatonin reduced the risk of death at 1 year and further, the effects were consistent across melatonin dose and type of cancer. No severe side effects were reported. They concluded that the substantial reduction in risk of death, low adverse events reported, and low cost related to this treatment suggests great potential for melatonin in the treatment of cancer.
These are a few of the studies published to date. Most researchers recognize the importance of further studies.
Mind Spirit Body Approach to Cancer Treatment Increases Cancer Survival Rates
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
In his discussion last Saturday of cancer treatment at the Oasis of Hope, Dr Francisco Contreras talked about the Integrative Regulatory Therapy at his hospital that integrates physical-mental-and spiritual aspects of health into the treatment plans and interventions for cancer patients. He also discussed how their success rate for various types of cancer survival were 2 to 15 times more successful than in other hospitals and attributes this success to the holistic focus.
There is ample research to substantiate the value of a holistic approach to health and illness recovery. Hundreds of studies have been completed on meditation and results show improvement in physical health such as reduced blood pressure, decreased need for medical care, decreased chronic pain, depression and anxiety, and increased mobility and activity among others. Another area researched is the influence of positive attitudes on physical health. In one study by Kamen-Siegel he found that optimism influenced the immune system in a positive way using a sample of 300 elderly people and Ranard found similar results in another study and concluded that hopeful people have a more robust immune system. Likewise, Friedman and ValdenBos found that enthusiastic people tended to be more resilient, self-healing people and that enthusiasm is correlated with recovery from illness. In another study Shekelle found that hostility had a negative effect on health.
Benson found that when under stress individuals experience increases in blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing rates that strain the body and lower its immunity. On the other hand he also found that repeating a prayer, word, sound, phrase or movement such as in prayer, meditation, tai chi or yoga had a healthy effect.
Matthews and Clark say that in 75% of 325 studies reviewed the finding indicate that involvement in religious activities benefits health and well being.
These are just a few of the many studies that have looked at the effect of mental and spiritual activities on physical health and recovery from illness but support the results found by Dr Contreras in the recovery of cancer patients in his hospital.
In my own life I found this concept of holism to be true and demonstrated when I had lung cancer and was given 6 months to live—-33 years ago. I believe the holistic approach accounted for my recovery and continued good health.
Dr Francisco Contreras, Medical Director of Oasis of Hope, and Dr Arlene Donar, New York City Naturopathic Physician interviewed on Holistic Health Show
Sunday, September 13th, 2009
On Saturday, Dr Carl O Helvie interviewed Dr Francisco Contreras and Dr Arlene Donar on the Holistic Health Show on BBS Radio.
Dr Contreras, M.D. is Director, President and Chairman of the Oasis of Hope and oversees cancer treatment for 400 patients annually. Since the hospital opened over 100,000 patients have been treated. He discusses the holistic complementary treatments offered and the demonstrated higher success rates in his hospital over those experienced in other hospitals. He is the author of 12 books and a free copy of his latest is available by going to his website. More information is available at: www.oasisofhope.com
Dr Arlene Donar is a Naturopathic Physician practicing on 5th Avenue in New York City. Her interesting background was highlighted earlier on this site and can be reviewed at: www.drdonar.com Dr Donar discusses herbs and supplements that can be used to reduce the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation, and also to prevent and increase the probability of recovery from cancer.
The interview with these interesting physicians is posted below. I hope you will enjoy it.
DR Arlene Donar is my Second Guest on the Holistic Health Show this week.
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Dr Arlene Donar is the second guest of Dr Carl O Helvie on the Holistic Health Show this week. Dr Donar graduated summa cum laude with a doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine from the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine which is one of the four accredited university programs in North America. She is board certified and licensed as a Naturopathic Physician in Connecticut. Part of her Naturopathic preparation was at the Lukas Klinik and Ita Wegman Klinik in Switzerland where she worked with patients having cancer and other acute and chronic conditions. Dr Donar completed an externship at the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center in New York working with allopathic physicians who specialized in HIV/AID’s health care.
She also holds a masters degree in Speech and Language Pathology and has worked as both a private consultant and adjunct professor at Pace University in Manhattan, New York.
Dr Donar is the former Medical Director of the supplement manufacturers, Heartguardian, located in Princeton, New Jersey. In this role she oversaw a new program called “Cholesterol/Watchers” where she developed and supervised programs that included supplements, diet, exercise and lifestyle management directly related to cardiovascular health.
Currently she is in private practice working with clients with chronic health conditions and lectures locally on prevention and treatment of diseases using biological medicine and clinical nutrition. She has written articles for magazines and been a guest on Tribeca Radio. She is a member of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians, New York Association of Naturopathic Physicians, and the Oncological Association of Naturopathic Physicians. More information is available at www.drdonar.com
Dr Francisco Contreras, Director, Oasis of Hope, to be Interviewed by Dr Carl O Helvie
Monday, September 7th, 2009
Dr Francisco Contreras, Director, President and Chairman of the Oasis of Hope Hospital will be my first guest on the Holistic Health Show on Saturday. Dr Contreras graduated with honors from the prestigous School of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and continued his studies at the University of Vienna, Austria where he specialized in surgical oncology and again graduated with honors. He is recognized as a cancer expert who combines conventional and alternative treatments with emotional and spiritual support. In his position he oversees the treatment of 400 cancer patients annually.
He received personal instructions from his father, Dr Ernesto Contreras who was an alternative medicine pioneer. The Oasis of Hope was founded in 1963 and since then the hospital has provided integrative cancer treatment for over 100,000 patients. Dr Contreras will talk about
the outstanding success in recovery of their cancer patients that has gained a high regard for the care provided. One of the latest most notorized patients was Daniel Hauser the teen from Minnesota with cancer whose mother ran away and took him to the Oasis of Hope with the police following her.
Dr Contreras lectures frequently at Universities and Conferences throughout the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, Europe and Asia. He has authored 12 books on cancer including The Hope of Living Cancer Free, The Coming Cancer Cure, Fighting Cancer 20 Different Ways, Dismantling Cancer, and the recently published Hope, Medicine and Healing. More information is available at www.oasisofhope.com
