Cancer

10 Ways to Minimize Side Effects from Chemotherapy and Surgery

By Brandon LaGreca / September 1, 2019 / Comments Off on 10 Ways to Minimize Side Effects from Chemotherapy and Surgery

I got my first up-close and personal taste of this during a very difficult conversation shortly after my 3-year-old son, Kicker, was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. While chatting with another cancer dad, he shared his experiences with his young son and how I needed to prepare for…

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How to Paint Without Increasing Cancer Risk

By Brandon LaGreca / August 12, 2019 / Comments Off on How to Paint Without Increasing Cancer Risk

Every wall of our new home needed a fresh coat of paint. A dozen gallons of paint later, we moved in without any evidence of off-gassing toxic, cancer-causing chemicals. This is of the utmost importance for our family given my cancer history (with lymphoma, think significant environmental toxicant exposure), and also because my wife is chemically-sensitive and reacts to airborne pollutants.

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The Cancer Continuum: Finding Your Own Way

By Brandon LaGreca / July 25, 2019 / Comments Off on The Cancer Continuum: Finding Your Own Way

Take a moment and expand on what constitutes a cancer-promoting or anti-cancer lifestyle; think beyond that black-and-white dichotomy.

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Air Pollution PSA

By Brandon LaGreca / June 7, 2019 / Comments Off on Air Pollution PSA

Just a quick but VERY important reminder of how important clean air is to health, especially those treating, in remission from, or acting to prevent cancer (hint: that should be all of us).

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Wishing You Could Skip That Mammogram? Take a Look at Thermography

By Brandon LaGreca / May 16, 2019 / Comments Off on Wishing You Could Skip That Mammogram? Take a Look at Thermography

One thing that gets my goat is the attribution of mammography as preventative medicine, as if getting a yearly mammogram could prevent breast cancer. A mammogram is a tool of prevention not detection.

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Censorship on Amazon?

By Brandon LaGreca / April 12, 2019 / Comments Off on Censorship on Amazon?

A curious thing happened following the recent publication of my book, “Cancer and EMF Radiation.” I hit an unforeseen snag that hampered my ability to spread the message that non-native electromagnetic fields are a significant human carcinogen.

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Healing a Lifetime

By Brandon LaGreca / January 20, 2019 / Comments Off on Healing a Lifetime

All healing is an exercise in change. If you want different results, you have to be willing to do something different. Looking over the breadth of a lifetime of destructive choices, sometimes there is much that needs to be done differently.

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My Anticancer Smoothie Recipe

By Brandon LaGreca / December 12, 2018 / Comments Off on My Anticancer Smoothie Recipe

I’ve recently lectured about my experience living with a small bowel obstruction. During that talk I shared my smoothie recipe, formulated for its ease of digestion and nutrient density. Although no longer suffering from episodes of small bowel obstruction, I have maintained my ritual of blending a breakfast smoothie for its anticancer benefits.

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Accumulating Cancer: Little Compromises and Big Implications

By Brandon LaGreca / November 20, 2018 / Comments Off on Accumulating Cancer: Little Compromises and Big Implications

What if cancer, like so many chronic diseases, is an accumulation of little compromises? 

Sometimes cancer has a big, blatant cause—like radiation exposure. Other times the cause is unclear and its inception insidious. Without an obvious etiology, conventional oncology tends to default to badly behaving genes as the cause of malignancy.

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Cut the Hope Rope: Choose Freedom Over Fear After a Cancer Diagnosis

By Brandon LaGreca / October 24, 2018 / Comments Off on Cut the Hope Rope: Choose Freedom Over Fear After a Cancer Diagnosis

“I got complacent. Don’t ever let that happen to you.”

These were the words of advice offered to me by a patient when reflecting on his second encounter with cancer. The first was a lymphoma diagnosis 10 years prior, and recent scans showed a reappearance of malignancy along the spine.

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