(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best books about cancer

I'm currently reading The Emperor of Maladies which is about the history of cancer. It's actually fascinating and not nearly as morbid as one might think.

If I win, I'd love a book off my book list or kindle list :)

You ALL still have Zoidberg!

Is she still in-patient? Physician rotation is usual for that.

I experienced similar delays in the first hospital I dealt with. My advice - find a better hospital. Moffit's a good choice afaik and from what I've heard.

Look at the best 1 or 2 cancer hospitals in your metro area that take her insurance. Moffit is supposed to be very good so that's probably a good choice.

US News publishes a listing of them of hospitals by area, I posted links to Miami and Tampa.

http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area

http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/miami-fort-lauderdale-fl/cancer

http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/tampa-st-petersburg-fl

Having been misdiagnosed, and having it nearly kill me, I speak from experience. Insist on having care from the same doctor (for outpatient care, in patient is rotation, of course). I go to a teaching hospital and see the same doctor every appt. Doctors are not supposed to have fellows doing unsupervised care so they can go home early, they're supposed to mentor them. That was another bad sign in the first hospital.

You do not want a BMT unless you NEED it, I say this from personal experience it's hellish, and I was lucky enough to get autologous, thank God, not an allogenic transplant, which is much worse - where you have to worry about Graft Vs. Host. I was in the hospital for a month, I'm on a low-microbial diet until further notice (e.g. no outside food, no food that's not sealed), and I can't leave the house without the mask until the 90 day point. I can't be in crowds or take public transport or be around children (vaccines). I'm also sterile.

Additionally the big thing I'd recommend is that she pursue fertility preservation (freezing her eggs) now on the off chance she has to get a BMT, since it leaves you sterile.

http://www.amazon.com/Having-Children-After-Cancer-Treatment/dp/158761054X
http://www.fertilehope.org/financial-assistance/women_app_rev2012_FINAL.pdf

Anticancer is a good book about this topic. It was a fairly interesting read as well.

> HPV Vaccine Used as Population Control?

If I were to make such a controversial statement, I think I would have found someone with a bit more legitimacy to interview: "Dr." Leonard Coldwell is not a certified medical professional, and he has no advanced degree from an actual educational institution. Then again, it's hard to attend lectures with one's head located so far up one's anal canal.

But I suppose having found the only answer to cancer (That's the actual name of a book of his; I don't know if the rhyme was intentional, but I sure hope it was) earns him some boasting rights. He also does depression.

I especially enjoyed his talk on how microwave ovens will kill you, from the related videos on YouTube.

You're being too optimistic. Breast self exam and mammogram awareness are somewhat separate and distinct from the pink ribbon circlejerks. See books like this

Please explain how "novel and paradox effects" screams scam? LDN IS CERTAINLY A VERY REAL DRUG!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0786437154/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1500827631&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=low+dose+naltrexone&dpPl=1&dpID=41cMVHUhFSL&ref=plSrch


https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1603586644/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=FC2FWHNMGRRX9C831ZNK&dpPl=1&dpID=61HFj0x9XNL


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz52KK5IhOc


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FDCn0JWv6Io


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rll1A3aFhjc


Www.lowdosenaltrexone.org


http://suzycohen.com/articles/the-medicine-your-doctor-never-told-you-about-but-should-have/

https://www.amazon.com/One-Renegade-Cell-Science-Masters/dp/0465072763

> How cancers begin and spread, by the scientist responsible for the major recent research breakthroughs

> Cancer research has reached a major turning point. The amount of information gathered in the past twenty years about the origins of the disease is without equal in the history of biomedical research. In this book one of America's most eminent scientists explains to the general reader the step-by-step process by which cancers arise, and more importantly, how they spread.

> Robert Weinberg explains how normal genes control the conventional growth of the cell, how, in their mutated form, they enable cancers to arise, and why these genes have such life-and-death power over us. Drawing from information that simply was not available until recently, One Renegade Cell explains this insidious disease as no other book as ever been able to do.

book:
Should I Be Tested for Cancer?: Maybe Not and Here’s Why, by H. Gilbert Welch (Amazon)

https://www.amazon.com/Truth-about-Cancer-Treatment-Prevention/dp/1401952232/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499986657&sr=8-1&keywords=the+truth+about+cancer

Tem uma certa dose de problemas nesses representantes farmaceuticos. Aqui fala um pouco sobre isso, mas lá nos EUA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQZ2UeOTO3I

Aqui também fala um tanto do que a industria farmaceutica as vezes faz de errado para lucrar:

https://www.amazon.com/Overdosed-America-Promise-American-Medicine/dp/0061344761/ref=pd_sim_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0061344761&pd_rd_r=YMY8NM2TFDNZBRHWZ3XE&pd_rd_w=jmobc&pd_rd_wg=435MA&psc=1&refRID=YMY8NM2TFDNZBRHWZ3XE

https://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Drug-Companies-Deceive/dp/0375760946/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1526408466&sr=8-1&keywords=marcia+angell

https://www.amazon.com/800-Million-Pill-Truth-behind/dp/0520246705/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526408769&sr=1-1&keywords=800+dollar+pill

https://www.amazon.com/Powerful-Medicines-Benefits-Risks-Prescription/dp/1400030781/ref=pd_sim_14_5?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1400030781&pd_rd_r=84A2S32TVNRNT2A42VC8&pd_rd_w=PshrM&pd_rd_wg=m21Id&psc=1&refRID=84A2S32TVNRNT2A42VC8

E esse assunto é como o Mac_and_book falou, se você procurar se informar, tem um tanto de teoria da conspiração, e também tem um tanto verdade.

Chemo: Secrets to Thriving: From someone who's been there.

Also, this!: http://www.amazon.com/Questions-Answers-About-Human-Papilloma/dp/0763781622/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_2

Johns Hopkins Patients' Guide to Cervical Cancer

https://www.amazon.ca/Specter-Joan-Lowery-Nixon/dp/0613142675

Chapter 6 of this book would go much farther explaining the rising health problems in America far more than shotgun blast (with no rational basis) GMO food. AND, this book uses actual science by actual scientists ;)

edit: i wish this book were required reading in High School health class.

One of the Cochrane doctors (no conflicts of interest) wrote a whole book about it

ETA: Mammography Screening: Truth, Lies and Controversy 1st Edition
by Peter Gotzsche

Diesel and Gasoline Engine Exhausts and Some Nitroarenes (IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of the Carcinogenic Risks to Humans)

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

p53: The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code by Sue Armstrong


The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

Interesting. In my shaving book section on acne, I quote Anticancer: A New Way of Life, by David Servan-Schreiber:

>When [Loren Cordain, PhD] was told that certain population groups whose way of life is very different from ours had no experience of acne (which is caused by an inflammation of the epidermis, among other mechanisms), he wanted to find out how this could occur… Cordain accompanied a team of dermatologists to examine the skin of 1,200 adolescents cut off from the rest of the world in the Kitavan Islands of New Guinea, and 130 Ache Indians living in isolation in Paraguay. In these two groups they found no trace whatsoever of acne. In their article in Archives of Dermatology, the researchers attributed their amazing discovery to the adolescents’ nutrition. The diets of these contemporary sheltered groups resemble those of our distant ancestors: no refined sugar or white flour, thus no peaks of insulin or IGF in the blood.
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>In Australia, researchers convinced Western adolescents to try a diet restricting sugar and white flour for three months. In a few weeks, their insulin and IGF levels diminished. So did their acne.

Note a key finding: "in a few weeks..." I suspect most people would not try it for that long on their own: a week, max, and if no big change, back to business as usual---the same reason people can't lose that last 10 pounds.

Also see the NY Times article "Is Sugar Toxic?" and this video by the University of California on the effects of sugar.

It hasn't "become some kind of horror show". It was an option, not a particularly desirable one, but an option none-the-less. You need to read about the history of cancer surgery. Mastectomies especially.

http://www.amazon.com/Emperor-All-Maladies-Siddhartha-Mukherjee-ebook/dp/B003UYUP58

On the contrary, qualified doctors around the world have confirmed what the Singers have said, and you can read their peer-reviewed studies together with 7 other peer-reviewed studies and other studies including a comprehensive historical analysis from ancient time to the present day, which show that there is a connection between breast binding garments and breast cancer, in a new 560 page book called "The Tyranny of the Bra".

Tyranny of the Bra book

It is written by an English historian and scientist, Fred Harding, who also debunks the only official study financed by the International Cancer Institute, the Fred Hutch Study of 2014, which was written by a student studying for her PhD and not a qualified doctor and endorsed by the American Cancer Society.

cancer is nothing to worry about really... i know that sounds odd but we are looking at it all wrong.

my mom cured her breast cancer after reading this book.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Only-Answer-Cancer-Defeating-Disease/dp/0982442874

The main beneficiary of Susan G. Komen charitable activity is the Susan G. Komen foundation. They expend giant effort getting airlines to paint their airplanes pink and getting major league baseball to use pink bats, etc. That's mostly it. "Awareness" might be a worthy cause when the problem is obscure and underappreciated, but everyone is pretty aware of breast cancer. It's like making people aware of hurricanes.

Komen also suppresses or marginalizes case studies that don't end well because they subvert the Komen meta-narrative of strength and victory over cancer. So if you are a woman who gets a terminal prognosis Komen is brutal to you, basically denying you exist.

Here are two interesting books that explain this stuff in sad and terrible detail: Pink Ribbon Blues and Pink Ribbons, Inc..

Reading them will make you mad.

Yes, the FDA remembers that, and completely ignores the thousands of people dying who could be saved by treatments the FDA has not yet approved. For example, the immunotherapy which is being used very successfully for melanoma also looks very promising for lung cancer, but the FDA hasn't approved it for lung cancer. Why?
We understand the safety issues because we've been using it for melanoma for years.

Source: The Death of Cancer by the former head of the National Cancer Institute. He's not a fan of the FDA at all. We used to have scientists at the NCI making decisions about cancer treatments and trials; now we have risk-averse bureaucrats at the FDA. It's seriously slowing down progress, and harming patients.

>..could you give me some other examples of science that goes against "political correctness" or "modern fads"?

One example of impeccably accurate science that has gone against political correctness for over 60 years:

It is commonly referred to as The Warburg Effect, but many in the scientific and medical community have erroneously dubbed it: "The Warburg Hypothesis". Discovered by Otto Warburg, MD, PhD, in the early 1900s, and succinctly delineated in the article titled "On the Origin of Cancer Cells", which appeared in the February, 1956 issue of Science Magazine.

In that article, Dr. Warburg illustrates how all cancers of mammalian tissue, regardless of where they occur in the body, originate from a singular cause; a reduction in the cell's access to, or utilization of oxygen for the creation of ATP, with a compensatory shift of the cell's metabolism toward anaerobic fermentation of glucose (the degree of malignancy being determined by the ratio of aerobic respiration to anaerobic fermentation in the cell).

Warburg's findings were independently confirmed by Cameron and Goldblatt Published April 1, 1953


None have succeeded in disproving Warburg's research. Because of the long-favored theory that Cancer is caused by genetic mutation, either hereditary or induced, Warburg's work was marginalized from the start.

Dr. Weinberg reversed his original theory years ago after discovering that less than one DNA base in a million appeared to have been miscopied, concluding that not enough defect existed to cause cell mutation.

One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins : “Something was very wrong. The notion that a cancer developed through the successive activation of a series of oncogenes had lost its link to reality”.

Despite the retraction of the mutation theory as being causal to the development of cancer by Dr. Robert Weinberg (who theorized the oncogene mechanism), both science and medicine have too much invested in the theory to put it to pasture.

For example: (March 24, 2017) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cancer-random-genetic-dna-mutations-two-thirds-of-cases/

Also pinging /u/kimjongundressed