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 Wow! $360 for an 8oz bottle. That must be the most expensive nutritional supplement in the world. What is in it, gold? No, something even more expensive and rarer than gold, palladium and rhodium, two of the most expensive metals in the world.
We were introduced to Poly-MVA when a close friend was battling stage IV breast cancer at an alternative cancer clinic. Their program cost $18,000 for 3 weeks. When asked why so much money, they responded the supplements they use are very expensive. Poly-MVA was the most expensive supplement they used. After reading about other alternative cancer programs using Poly-MVA, we discovered they were using as much as 4 bottles a month. That would amount to $1440 per month. That’s expensive. If it cured cancer, that would be cheap compared to chemotherapy, radiation and the $189 billion we spend each year treating cancer. But, we all know nutritional supplements and natural foods do not cure cancer because our medical doctors would prescribe them if they did. Cancer is a serious, life-threatening disease. If you have cancer, you should immediately seek the care of a qualified physician. Conventional therapy such as chemotherapy, radiation and surgery should be your first step in treatment. Poly-MVA is a nutritional supplement to help support cancer patients undergoing cancer therapy such as chemotherapy and radiation. Many cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and radiation significantly deplete many macro and micronutrients. Poly-MVA contains nutrients that will replace those depleted and will help improve the patients’ quality of life. If you have cancer, please check with your oncologist before taking Poly-MVA or any other nutritional or herbal supplement. Poly-MVA is created through an innovative, patented proprietary process whereby palladium (a rare metal) is chemically bound to alpha lipoic acid, a powerful antioxidant involved in cellular energy. This process dramatically increases the body’s absorption of alpha lipoic acid at the cellular level and throughout the entire body. High dosages of Vitamin B1, B2 and B12 are added to this formula to help deal with the stresses associated with cancer. Amino acids (Formyl-methionine and Acetyl Cystiene), and trace amounts of Molybdinum, Rhodium, and Ruthenium are also part of this formula. |
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February 26, 20085/05 We have now received information from Amarc Enterprises who sell this product. See the section “Some information from Amarc Enterprises” for more.
11/04 The following note was sent by a Long Island-based breast cancer advocate: “Have you heard of the supplement Poly MVA? It drastically helped a woman that I know of get rid of a brain tumor. She had a stage 4 brain tumor with paralysis and after taking Poly MVA her paralysis was gone and an MRI showed that the tumor was gone”.
Ann’s NOTE: We are hoping the woman referred to above will write up her experiences for us.
Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D. Weekly CancerDecisions.com Newsletter #105 10/24/03
A FRIENDLY SKEPTIC LOOKS AT POLYMVA, PART TWO
Last week I reported on the emergence of PolyMVA as a popular “alternative” treatment for cancer. At a website devoted to the topic (www.polymvasurvivors.com) there are many anecdotes supposedly proving its benefits for cancer patients.
In discussing these cases, I am simply summarizing the anecdotes as given. I have not independently verified their accuracy.
Patient #1. A 75-year-old female with glioblastoma (an aggressive form of brain cancer) presented with history of debulking surgeries and two rounds of radiation.
As a last resort her cancer center neurologist placed her on massive, experimental doses of tamoxifen. She then entered an unspecified hospital in Baja California. At the time of admission, she required support on both arms to walk up the short ramp, her memory was impaired and her speech was slurred.
Convulsions were being kept under control with dilantin. On the third day after beginning treatment with PolyMVA, we are told, her memory improved and her slurred speech became clearer. “She walked out of the hospital unaided to continue therapy at home,” the website continues, and she lived a further six months.
Her death, we are told, “is attributable to the side effects of the tamoxifen which she continued to take” before and after PolyMVA.
This report strikes me as – let me be generous – uninterpretable. Many patients experience temporary improvements in well being when they begin new regimens. The improvement in memory and speech may or may not have been due to PolyMVA or to anything else she received at this unspecified Baja California clinic.
It is also highly unlikely that this woman’s death could be attributed to the side effects of tamoxifen. In the long-term, tamoxifen may cause serious side effects, such as a heightened risk of endometrial cancer, but there is no indication that this woman developed that condition, and in the absence of an autopsy report her death cannot be attributed so unequivocally to this standard drug.
It is much more likely that she died of her glioblastoma, despite taking various drugs, including PolyMVA.
Patient #2. This account is again reproduced from the www.polymvasurvivors.com website: “Glioblastoma patients usually have a dramatic, early response similar to Mr. D. age 66,” we are told.
“His tumor inactivated his right leg and foot and caused generalized convulsions which were poorly controlled by tegretol, or dilantin. I received a phone call from Mr. D. four days after he began LAPd [i.e. PolyMVA]. He said his paralysis was gone and he could walk outside and water the lawn and ride his stationary bicycle. Eight days after beginning he called again to report that his convulsions were now localized and almost gone.”
End of anecdote. Who is the person reporting this? We aren’t told. And what happened to Mr. D? We don’t have any report beyond the first eight days of treatment.
Patient #3. “Pain from metastatic breast cancer, to the spine and right hip in CF age 56 required a right hip replacement which gave relief from hip pain, but did not effect [sic] the spine.
She started LAPd and within 2 weeks her ‘back pain stopped’ and she returned to her legal research employment. Most breast cancer patients report at least temporary improvement.”
Again, no report beyond a scant two weeks. The woman’s pain may have returned with a vengeance on day 15, for all we know. No information was supplied on what ultimately happened to this patient.
Patients #4 and #5. “Two cases of cancer of esophagus: Both required MS [morphine sulfate, ed.] for pain relief, both were cachectic [wasting away, ed.].
Both were terminal when they started LAPd. Mr. G. age 62 was in a Mexican hospital when he was scheduled to begin the LAPd. LS age 45 took the LAPd for home use. Mr. G died within 6 weeks, but an investigation uncovered the fact hat he was never given the LAPd.
He was given Laetril [sic] alone. LS reported increased strength and weight gain and is still living (2 years from starting LAPd).”
Obviously, patient #4 should not be included in any best case series, since he didn’t receive the drug in question. Patient #5, L.S., is much more interesting, however. Two years survival with stage IV (cachectic) esophageal cancer is very unusual.
But we need to know much more about this case before we can express an opinion, let alone draw conclusions about the role of PolyMVA.
Patient #6. An Alaskan woman who was diagnosed in April 1995 with multiple myleoma. She sent the webmaster a letter in March 1997 saying that after taking PolyMVA her blood tests and examinations showed “no measurable signs of multiple myeloma” and her doctors said she was in total remission.
In 2002, she reported that she was beginning her seventh year in remission. “I have no signs of any cancer and feel very well,” she reputedly wrote. “I am very grateful and hope to carry on this way for many years to come.”
If confirmed, this could be a significant case, since protracted remissions in multiple myeloma are rare. However, readers should be aware that there is a form of the disease called “smoldering myeloma,” in which remissions do occur and survival can be lengthy.
We would need to verify the diagnosis and particularly to rule out the possibility that patient #6 had this form of the disease before drawing any conclusions about the contribution of PolyMVA.
There is also a fairly extensive section of self-described “testimonials” at this site. These are of variable quality. Patients and their loved ones get to tell their own stories, which may be salutary for them. But these anecdotes are sometimes confused and lacking in relevant details.
Here is one representative quote from the daughter of a patient: “I lived abroad for many years in a country awash in superstition. I am superstitious, in a universal and spiritual sense and will not venture to put into words, what has transpired.
Nor will I make mention of my father’s name. Let it suffice to say that…Poly MVA was God’s way of intervening.”
Hard to draw firm conclusions from that!
What is conspicuously lacking overall is any genuine scientific support for this treatment. In a recent email Dr Garnett informed me that he intends to initiate clinical trials with PolyMVA in India sometime next year. I look forward to seeing the results when they are published.
However, there are already over 14 million journal citations, dating back to the 1950s, listed in PubMed, the National Library of Medicine’s encyclopedic medical database. Over 1.5 million of these articles are specifically on the topic of cancer.
As a point of reference there are over 4,000 articles on the mineral palladium in biomedicine.
How many of these articles are on PolyMVA? Zero. Polydox? Zero. LAPd? Zero. I can find no record of it at all in the medical literature.
Dr. Garnett has been researching cancer for 40 years and has focused on PolyMVA for the last dozen or so. He is the author of half a dozen or so scientific papers (see references below).
Yet I could find no scientific articles by Dr. Garnett or anyone else on the clinical effects of PolyMVA. The scientific cupboard is bare.
I am familiar with all the obstacles that exist for publishing innovative medical work. Indeed, a dozen years ago it was very difficult to get a serious hearing anywhere for innovative cancer treatments. But today that situation has dramatically changed. The US government now spends almost $100 million per year researching alternative medicine. Both the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health have offices whose charge is specifically to examine such treatments.
There are half a dozen peer-reviewed journals that are eager to publish findings on non-conventional approaches.
Publication in peer-reviewed journals is the accepted meeting ground of science: most genuine scientists try extremely hard to put their research in front of their peers. The conspicuous absence of peer-reviewed research on PolyMVA is therefore inexplicable. If there are really 300 physicians currently using PolyMVA routinely in cancer treatment, as some of the drug’s proponents suggest, why has none of them published data on the clinical benefits of the treatment?
How could a board-certified physician conclude that the “war on cancer” has been successfully concluded through PolyMVA and yet not explain the basis of that earthshaking conclusion in a reputable medical journal?
Even though anecdotal evidence cannot take the place of thorough clinical trials, such evidence is not entirely without value as a tentative indicator of merit.
It might, for example, be worthwhile for PolyMVA proponents to carefully sift through the many anecdotes to put together a serious presentation to the Cancer Advisory Panel on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAP-CAM) of the National Institutes of Health.
That panel was set up, with great effort, precisely to review claims of benefit from alternative treatments. If there were still sufficient interest after the presentation, this could lay the groundwork for a proper clinical trial.
Without even the most basic scientific groundwork, however, the evidence for PolyMVA’s effectiveness remains flimsy at best.
I would also question that easy assumption that PolyMVA is a “food supplement” and is therefore essentially non-toxic. I am unaware of any reputable source that considers palladium a necessary nutrient.
Palladium is widely used as a component of dental amalgam, and has therefore come under scrutiny for its toxic potential. A scientific paper from the Medical College of Georgia School of Dentistry concluded that “there have been recent controversies… over possible adverse biological effects of using palladium in dental alloys.”
According to the paper, “in an ionic form and at sufficiently high concentrations, palladium has toxic and allergic effects on biological systems…The carcinogenic potential of the palladium ion is still unclear, although there is some evidence that it is capable of acting as a mutagen” (Wataha 1996).
A more recent German review concludes: “A major source of health concern is the sensitization risk of Pd [palladium, ed.] as very low doses are sufficient to cause allergic reactions in susceptible individuals. Persons with known nickel allergy may be especially susceptible….Pd salts … may cause primary skin and eye irritations” (Kielhorn 2002).
Finally, the cost of PolyMVA is considerable: $330 for an 8 ounce bottle, according to the www.polymva.com website. This can add up.
The recommended dose for adult human patients with active cancer is 8 teaspoons per day. At 6 teaspoons to the fluid ounce, the daily dose is 1.3 ounces. A bottle will therefore last 6.15 days.
If one took this agent for a year one would need about 60 bottles, which would cost $19,800. Readers with cancer would be well advised to save their money and to look for more credible alternatives.
–Ralph W. Moss, PhD
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References:
American Medicine and Research Center web site: http://www.polymva.com
Sinatra S. Here’s why some doctors don’t get sick. In: International Council for Health Freedom, Vol. VII, issue 3-4, Winter 2003/Spring 2004.
Garnett M and Krishnan CV. Pulsed electrospinning of biopolymers. In Press: May 2002.
Garnett M and Remo JL. 200th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, No. 1132, September 2001.
Garnett M and Remo JL, DNA reductase: A synthetic enzyme with opportunistic clinical activity against radiation sickness., International Symposium on Applications of Enzymes in Chemical and Biological Defense, Orlando, May 2001, p. 41.
Garnett M and Remo JL. Soluble sensors of telephonic signals. Microfabricated Systems and Mems V, Proceedings Vol. 2000-19, The Electrochemical Society, p. 185, October, 2000.
Garnett M. Palladium complexes and methods for using same in the treatment of tumors, U.S. Patent no. 5,679,697, October 21, 1997.
Garnett M. Palladium complexes and methods for using same in the treatment of psoriasis, U.S. Patent no. 5,776,973, July 7, 1998.
Garnett M. Thaw indicator device, U.S. Patent no. 4,051,804, October 4, 1997.
Garnett M. Electrogenetic effect of a synthetic oxygen carrier. Journal of Cell Biology, v.43,42a, November 1969.
Garnett M. A laboratory model for heterochromatin. Journal of Cell Biology, v.35,44a, November 1967.
Kielhorn J, Melber C, Keller D, Mangelsdorf I. Palladium–a review of exposure and effects to human health. Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2002 Oct;205(6):417-32.
Dr. Taylor’s license revocation: http://www2.dca.ca.gov/pls/wllpub/WLLQRYNA$LCEV2.QueryView?P_LICENSE_NUMBER=28172&P_LTE_ID=782
Wataha JC and Hanks CT. Biological effects of palladium and risk of using palladium in dental casting alloys. J Oral Rehabil. 1996 May;23(5):309-20.
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February 25, 2008http://abcnews.go.com/Health/OnCallPlusTreatment/story?id=3643072&page=1
Question: Should I get a second opinion concerning my breast cancer from another doctor, and if so, when?
Answer: Second opinions are very valuable. And probably, the most important second opinion you can get is a pathologist’s second opinion. You need to take your microscopic slides and show those to another pathologist who is a breast pathologist or who looks at a great deal of breast pathology. Because you could see ten surgeons, and if all they have is the pathology report, they are all reacting to a single report. What if that report is wrong? And we have certainly seen one pathologist change the reading from another pathologist. So I think the most important second opinion might be the pathology report. Following that, you need to get second opinions from treating physicians; for example, surgeons and sometimes, medical oncologists
Question:Do I have time to get a second opinion about my treatment?
Answer: It’s important that, in considering the treatment of breast cancer, a woman recognize that breast cancers have begun six to ten years before we can detect them. They are not among the very rapidly growing tumors in the body. Consequently, there is plenty of time for consideration, for seeking additional opinions, and for reflection — before therapy begins. It’s much more important to perform the right therapy than it is to begin treatment in a hurry. In this way, a woman can be confident that when she makes a decision, she made it on the basis of the best possible information.
Question: Are there any dietary restrictions related to my treatment(s) for breast cancer?
Answer: There are no restrictions. There can be some challenges to side effects and often it may be difficult to get your needs. So versus restrictions, there may be some foods that you want to concentrate in adding. Make sure–you may have a little higher demand for calories and a little higher demand for protein for recovery and for repair and keeping your immune system, so that you’re less likely to get an infection.
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Any restrictions might be not with food itself, but perhaps with supplements. And there is some concern with taking mega-doses, or large doses, of some of the antioxidants, especially with one of the chemo treatments that has a proposed mechanism of having an oxidative process. So you would not want to take an antioxidant, or a large amount of an antioxidant, such as a high amount of vitamin C or a high amount of vitamin E. It may be that you’re not able to take in an amount — supplementation may be required — so it would need to be looked at individually. But I would have my intake looked at and analyzed before I started taking large doses during treatment, either chemo treatment or radiation treatment.
Question: Should I take any vitamins or herbs, or follow a special diet during my treatments for breast cancer?
Answer: Well, the special diet that you would want to follow would certainly include a balanced intake where you’re getting the nutrients that you need, because the treatment is certainly a stress on your body — whether it’s chemotherapy treatment, whether it’s surgery, whether it’s radiation, or a combination of all of those. These put a special requirement on your body. You may need an extra amount of protein, which will provide calories that you need in excess. You may need an extra amount of calories. If you’re picking nutrient-dense foods, then you would also be getting the extra nutrients that you would need to combat the effects of the treatment and to be able to get through the treatment, recover quickly, be able to take the doses that are required on a particular regimen. So trying to get what you need, which in itself can be a challenge, because there may be some side effects to the treatment.
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Sometimes supplements are indicated, especially if you’re not able to take in what you need–and that can be analyzed by a dietician, for example, to look at your intake, select the supplements that would be appropriate. You’d want to be careful of not self-diagnosing or medicating. Particularly, there is some controversy right now taking antioxidants, especially with some of the chemo treatments that they use for breast cancer that have a proposed mechanism of having an oxidative process. Well, if you have a treatment to kill the cancer cells that uses an oxidative process, then you don’t want to be taking large amounts of antioxidants.
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Local woman finds an ‘Oasis of Hope’ during cancer fight
February 25, 2008Local woman finds an ‘Oasis of Hope’ during cancer fight
Published 2/24/08 in The Times-Herald
BY MEGAN ALMON
megan@newnan.com
Mike and SueAnne Bassett sat in shock in her surgeon’s office.
His words washed over them, a barrage of the worst kind of medical information, a flood sweeping away their foundation of security.
“Radical cancer hysterectomy … removed nine lymph nodes … one cancerous … outside the margin … metastasized… stage four …”
Her fears were confirmed — she had stage four cervical cancer. The outlook was grim.
“He told me if I left and did nothing, I’d have a 20 percent chance of survival. With combined chemo and radiation, a 50 percent chance,” she said.
Through the fear that was pressing her to put her life in this kind doctor’s hands, a dim beacon shone — like a lighthouse in a terrible storm.
“I had in my mind I wasn’t sure if that’s what I needed to do,” she said.
Mike spoke up, his question a reflection of her thoughts.
“What’s your position on alternative medicine?”
*****
SueAnne and Mike met in Corpus Christi, Texas. She’d moved there after college to work in “Brother” Lester Roloff’s Rebekah Home for Girls, a safe haven for young women.
When Mike visited Roloff’s homes in hopes of meeting Roloff, SueAnne escorted him. The pair spent a couple of hours together, but felt enough of a connection to continue keeping in touch through letters and phone calls. SueAnne visited Mike’s family in Georgia for Christmas later that year. By the end of the two-week stay, the two were engaged. Two months later, they were married by Roloff himself, with 500 guests in tow hoping to hear the noted evangelical speaker.
During her time in the self-sufficient Corpus Christi home, SueAnne and others had grown their own food. The strict, organic diet was a means of cleansing and nourishment for boarders whose previous addictions had caused their health to decline.
SueAnne said she and Mike tried to stick to healthy eating early in their marriage, but fell out of practice over the years. Little did she know the knowledge she had gained would be very important later.
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In August 2004, SueAnne accepted a position at Keller Williams Realty Professionals in Peachtree City.
The mother of four had always been religious about receiving yearly checkups, including regular Pap tests. Both her parents had dealt with some form of cancer, so she was no stranger to prevention.
In September, her annual appointment still two months away, she began experiencing some symptoms that gave her cause for concern. She called her gynecologist in hopes of bumping her appointment up. Thankfully, the receptionist penciled her in within a few days.
Much to SueAnne’s surprise, her Pap test registered “clear.”
Uncertainty had her questioning the results.
“You’re overanalyzing,” her doctor said.
SueAnne remained persistent until the doctor agreed to biopsy her cervix.
“I took Mike with me the day before Thanksgiving,” she said.
The doctor entered the room red-faced.
Every test came back cancer, she was told.
SueAnne explained that a normal Pap test involves a sweep of the cervix that, many times, does not encompass its entire perimeter. In her case, the doctor had missed “10-to-two on the clock,” which was where the cancer was located. SueAnne’s advice — “Don’t just trust a Pap — trust your instincts.”
In the coming weeks, SueAnne knew she faced a major surgery followed by cancer treatments. She couldn’t have been more surprised when her new employer stepped in to lend a hand, voluntarily covering her salary week-by-week as she prepared for the long journey ahead. Her coworkers planned a fundraiser in her honor, collecting more than $38,000.
“They prayed for me,” she said.
One coworker’s words have stuck in her mind to this day — “Everything that God allows to come into the life of one of his children is motivated by God’s overwhelming love for us.”
It was a pivotal moment for SueAnne, a reminder of the faith she’d allowed fear to overshadow.
*****
After her surgery and the doctor’s news, SueAnne and Mike asked for a few days to think things through before making a decision about treatment.
“We prayed together as a family,” she said. “Mike felt strongly we needed to be careful, so we began to research.”
A church member suggested the Bassetts look into Oasis of Hope Hospital, a facility in Tijuana, Mexico, that offers a Christ-centered, integrative approach to cancer therapy.
Oasis of Hope was founded in 1963 by Dr. Ernesto Contreras.
“He’d seen patients with chemotherapy go downhill rather than improve,” SueAnne said. “His goal was to improve patients’ survival without jeopardizing their quality of life.”
Francisco Contreras, M.D., a cancer specialist and surgeon, carries on his father’s legacy in a multi-storied, glass-and-marble hospital, three wings of which are devoted wholly to cancer patients.
SueAnne began her treatment the day she arrived at Oasis of Hope. Her daughter, Christa, went along for the initial three-week stay. A team of doctors had already studied SueAnne’s situation and, on day three of her stay, met with her to lay out a treatment plan.
The first thing she learned from them affirmed that the “beacon” holding her back from deciding on undergoing intense chemo the day of her diagnosis was a gift from God. A problem with her white blood cell count, which she later found out had gone unnoticed since birth, would have made immediate chemo following surgery a more-than-likely fatal decision.
Her doctors decided she would need to undergo radiation treatments but would receive a “systemic” other than chemotherapy. SueAnne began receiving treatments of “Leatrile,” a compound that contains a purified form of the chemical amygdalin, which is found in the pits of many fruits, raw nuts and plants. Because amygdalin is a plant compound that produces cyanide — which is believed to be the treatment’s active cancer-killing ingredient — it is not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In Mexico, laetrile/amygdalin is obtained predominantly from crushed apricot pits.
SueAnne said the Leatrile seeks out abnormal cells in the body, surrounds them and destroys them, avoiding the body’s “good cells.”
Her treatment is not limited to Leatrile alone, but a five-year plan that includes a strict organic diet — she’s allowed fruits and vegetables, organic chicken once per week, all the fish she wants, and water or fruit juices to drink — and a trayful of supplements. She gives herself Leatrile treatments — which normally take around 15 minutes — and takes the supplements six days per week, choosing Sunday as her “day of rest.”
Because Leatrile isn’t approved by the American Medical Association, SueAnne flies to Tijuana twice each year to collect an amount that’s legal to bring across U.S. borders.
*****
“I’ve never felt better in my life,” SueAnne said.
At 52, she looks it, her bubbly, “Type A” personality complementing an unfaltering positive outlook.
Two-and-a-half years after she sat in her surgeon’s office hearing the worst kind of news, she reveled in the same doctor’s excited and somewhat bewildered response — “NED. No evidence of disease.”
The most amazing aspect of her story is that her current condition is only one of the miracles she’s experienced. Through the kindness of individuals — hundreds of whom had only read of SueAnne’s plight through Samaritan Ministries Christian Health Care, the Bassetts’ insurance providers — the Bassetts have been able to pay all of their medical bills, numbering in the hundred-thousands of dollars.
“Every place I turned in the whole journey, God had somebody there,” SueAnne said.
She found her comfort in the words of the Bible, and, to this day, is blown away by the individuals God “placed in her path.”
“They’re my ‘stretcher-bearers,’” she said, referring to a New Testament story of friends so desperate to get their loved one to Jesus for physical healing they lowered him through the roof of a house on a stretcher.
SueAnne can’t say enough about the importance of accurate information when it comes to cancer.
Though she must remain diligent with her diet and treatment, SueAnne said the experience has brought about “clarity.”
“My ‘A-ha’ moment came when I realized — even had I never been diagnosed with cancer — I’m still not assured another day. My cancer diagnosis had no bearing over whether I lived or died.”
“I don’t know what the rest of the journey holds, but I do know who holds the journey,” she said, smiling.
Mike and SueAnne Bassett live in Newnan. Mike, a developer, pastors CrossPoint Community Church, and SueAnne works as Assistant to the Headmaster at LaGrange Academy.
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Clinical Trials on Endometrial Cancer
February 25, 2008Clinical Trials on Endometrial Cancer
- NCI: Endometrial Cancer Clinical Trials
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Endometrial Cancer Studies
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: Endometrial Cancer Clinical Trials
- OncoLink: Current Clinical Trials for Endometrial and Uterine Cancer at The University of Pennsylvania
- CenterWatch: Endometrial Cancer Studies
Message Boards, Chat and Discussions about Endometrial Cancer
February 25, 2008Message Boards, Chat and Discussions about Endometrial Cancer
- OncologyChannel: Endometrial Cancer Forum
- CancerCompass: Endometrial Cancer Discussions
- iVillage Total Health: Cervical & Gynecological Cancers Community
- HealthBoards: Uterine Cancer Message Board
- The Cancer Forums: Uterine and Endometrial Cancer Forum
- Daily Strength: Uterine Cancer Support Group
