A Basic Lifestyle Guide after Breast Cancer Treatment By Colin E. Champ, M.D. Breast cancer continues to be the most common non-skin cancer in women, with one in eight experiencing a diagnosis at some point in their life. Risk…
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An unfortunate phenomenon has made its way through our society over the past several decades, fueled in a large part by my colleagues in the medical world, big business’s thirst for profits, and big agriculture’s ploy to dump their excess…
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Author’s Note: Some of this article contains excerpted passages from within my new book, which should be released in the near future. Some of the topics were kept brief as they will be explored more deeply in the book. Meat,…
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Back in the 80’s, I spent my days at school, playing in the yard and woods, fighting with my brother over baseball cards, and watching Thundercats and GI Joe. While doing the latter, every once in a while, the famous…
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Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage” -The Smashing Pumpkins, 1995 I read a recent study from my office – a windowless room in the basement of a hospital in Pittsburgh. In…
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Flies were swarming throughout the shop as temperatures raced into the upper nineties. Forty-pound wheels of cheese sat behind the glass and under the counter, extracting whatever cool air they could from the refrigerated enclosure. We ordered a half pound…
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A cancer diagnosis can be emotionally crippling, and the treatment that follows can be even more crippling, both physically and emotionally. Along these lines, cancer patients are often told to hold off on activity during and after treatment so they…
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Growing up in Pittsburgh, I am no stranger to steel. In a city strewn with steel bridges and steel mills, we are no strangers to rust (especially with the Steelers in the past several years). Driving across the Roberto Clemente…
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Thanksgiving is that time of the year where we pause to be thankful – thankful for our friends, thankful for our family and, hopefully, thankful for our health. But it is also the beginning of a time of the year…
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In the last article, we discussed some of the major ways in which cruciferous vegetables and garlic can work as anticancer vegetables to stress our system to fight cancer. Much like the drill sergeant in Full Metal Jacket, chemicals in…
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