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PET CT better image than CAT or MRI or CXR for cancer
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: I am always surprised and disappointed when an oncologist recommends a CT scan or MRI for assessing cancer since a PET CT gives more important information. The…
Blood tests instead of biopsy for cancer?
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: this is the future of oncology. It can’t come too soon! New ‘Biopsy in a Blood Test’ to Detect Cancer ScienceDaily (Feb. 2, 2012) — Scientists…
Ask your oncologist for chemosensitivity testing
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: We at the Weeks Clinic have offered genetic screening and chemosensitivity testing based on oncogene analysis for years. Why guess which chemo drug might be most…
Sober reflection upon Chemotherapy… source? The Economist!
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Are we winning the war on cancer? Few would argue that we are. Buyer beware applies in the world of cancer care as it does on…
Share this with your oncologist. It is a matter of life or death.
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Simply stated, antioxidants defend your cells better than they do the pathological or cancerous cells. They help you survive when taking chemotherapy or radiation and don’t help…
Reinventing the wheel
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Here (finally!) is some research accomplished in 2009 which supports the clinical practice of IPT which was called quackery in 1940. It demonstrates that the IGF-1 receptor…
The Science behind IPT
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Back in the summer of 2002, a very skeptical Dr. Brad Weeks traveled to Chicago to the office of Dr. Steven Ayre and had his world rocked! …
Want something that improves chemo effectiveness by 10,000 fold?
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: why not use a simple process which primes the cancer cells to be 10,000 times more vulnerable to chemo? Seriously! This protocol is 50+ years old and…
Got cancer? take anti-oxidants.
Antioxidant supplements for prevention of gastrointestinal cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Bjelakovic G, Nikolova D, Simonetti RG & Gluud C The Lancet 364;1219-1227,2004 Problems: 1) underdosing 2) already had…
CCC IPTLD at a glance
Insulin Potentation Therapy – Treatment at a Glance By Dr. Steven Ayre Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT) manipulates the mechanisms of malignancy to therapeutic advantage by employing insulin as a biologic…
