Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment

Early in my medical training, I was carrying cancer cells in a petri dish from one laboratory to another—a walk of no more than five minutes down the hall. When I arrived, the graduate student waiting for the cells was quite agitated, urging me to move faster because the cells had died during that short walk, preventing him from doing his lab work.

As I hurried back to retrieve another batch of malignant cells, I found myself struck by the disconnect between their fearsome reputation and their astonishing vulnerability. How could cancer cells that could not survive a simple walk down a hallway wreak such havoc in the human body? How could something so fragile ultimately claim the lives of my uncle, grandfather, and grandmother before I turned sixteen? Read more here: https://blockmd.com/what-every-cancer-patient-needs-to-know-about-the-biochemical-terrain/

A cancer diagnosis is both frightening and life-altering. As Dr. Block writes in Life Over Cancer, “‘you have cancer’ are three of the most dreaded words one can hear.” For many, the fear of chemotherapy is profound—often rivaling or even exceeding concern about the disease itself. This has led some to question whether chemotherapy remains a justified and necessary treatment. Click here to read what the science is telling us and what Dr. Block has to say: https://blockmd.com/can-we-still-justify-the-use-of-chemotherapy/