OutSmart Cancer® Blog

Let’s be honest we are getting a small amount of insurance reform and no health care reform. For the first time in decades, there may be some controls on the abuses of the insurance companies against patients...

Author Credit: NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF The battle over health care focuses on access to insurance, or tempests like the one that erupted over new mammogram guidelines. But what about broader public health challenges? What if breast...

Anticancer, A New Way of Life This is a book about alternative cancer care and health by David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., a medical doctor who was diagnosed with brain cancer and beat the odds. When faced...

Green tea can lead to effective fat loss while preserving muscle, turning you into a lean fat burning machine. Green tea catechin ECGC keeps levels of the fat burning hormone norepinephrine high so you  lose...

Dr. William Li, M.D. asks Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?  Here is an amazing talk that describes how the process of angiogenesis, by which cancer cells make new networks of blood vessels can be...

Cancer patients undergoing surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and hormonal therapy, cancer patients in recovery as well as cancer survivors all deal with quality of life issues. Integrative Oncology and Alternative Cancer Care focus on the needs...

Herbal Medicine, Healing & Cancer: A Comprehensive Program for Prevention and Treatment by Donald Yance, C.N., M.H. Donald Yance, a Master Medical Herbalist and Clinical Nutritionist is one of the most knowledgeable and experienced experts...

In June 2010 CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians published research exploring the relationship between Diabetes and Cancer Risk. Type 2 Diabetes (non-insulin dependent diabetes) and Cancer share many risk factors. The researchers asked the...

The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary Many years ago I studied with a remarkable woman named Angeles Arrien.  She teaches a path called The Four Fold Way which...

It is well known that smoking cigarettes  leads to an increase in lung cancer and oral cancers.  Recent research has now shown that nicotineitself is linked specifically to breast cancer. In a recent study published...

A Recipe for Life by the Doctor’s Dietitian by Susan Dopart, M.S., R.D. Eating a healthy diet is one of the cornerstones of alternative cancer care. A Recipe for Life  is a book on healthy eating...

The age of personalized medicine is here. If you have a map of your genes you will have a greater understanding of your risks for illness and disease. Today we can now test for genetic...