Transferring this blog to the Curing Cancer Network (CCN) blog
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Curing cancer – Curative cancer treatment based on complexity theory
27 June 2022 Prior blog entries have been merged and updated to create a new blog entry, click here.
Curing cancer – Adult versus childhood cancer
29 April 2022 I have revised “Curing cancer – Adult versus childhood cancer’, see link This brief article compares cancer in adults to cancer in children and adolescents focusing on numbers of deaths, clinical (microscopic) types, survival…
Curing Cancer – reductionism versus complexity
12 April 2022 I have updated my article: Curing cancer – Reductionism versus complexity. It begins: In 1971, President Richard M. Nixon announced the beginning of the “war on cancer” in the United States. Fifty years later,…
Letter to President Biden, September 2021
Dear President Biden, This is a brief update on our Strategic plan to substantially reduce cancer deaths, recently revised at http://www.natpernick.com/StrategicPlanCuringCancer.html. It supports your goal of “ending cancer as we know it.” First, it is important to…
Video – Current version of Strategic Plan
12 September 2021 This 7 minute video summarizes the current version (September 2021) of our strategic plan to substantially reduce cancer deaths, see http://www.natpernick.com/StrategicPlanCuringCancer.html. Note: to see the notes summarizing the video, click on SHOW MORE below…
Pancreatic cancer update
8 September 2021 This essay summarizes current knowledge about pancreatic cancer and recent updates to our pancreatic cancer treatment targets (1). Pancreatic cancer is currently the #3 cause of US cancer deaths, after lung and colorectal cancer,…
Updates to Strategic Plan to Substantially Reduce Cancer Deaths
27 August 2021 This essay summarizes theAugust 2021 version of our Strategic plan to substantially reduce cancer deaths, click here. The current version is here. * First, it is important to have an ambitious plan that itemizes…
Letter to President Biden
10 August 2021 Dear President Biden, I am a pathologist who developed PathologyOutlines.com, a free online pathology textbook used regularly by pathologists worldwide. Consistent with your goal of ending cancer as we know it, I have developed…
Updates to Strategic Plan
6 August 2021 We have updated our Strategic Plan to substantially reduce cancer deaths, click here. The current version is here. There are three main changes. First, we propose that success in substantially reducing cancer deaths is…
Random Chronic Stress Is a Major Cause of Pancreatic Cancer
28 July 2021 Pancreatic cancer is a major cause of US cancer death. It has risk factors that are preventable, such as cigarette smoking, excess weight, type 2 diabetes, excessive alcohol use and diabetes (Pernick, How Pancreatic…
Letter to President Joe Biden, July 2021
I emailed this letter earlier this month – to date, there has been no response: Dear President Biden, Please identify who I should talk to concerning your goal of “ending cancer as we know it”. To be…
Video – Strategic plan to substantially reduce cancer deaths
19 July 2021 This 3 minute video outlines our strategic plan to substantially reduce cancer deaths. Video summary: We need a strategic plan to substantially reduce cancer deaths. • To focus our efforts, identify gaps in knowledge.…
Letter to Director, National Cancer Institute,
4 July 2021 Hi Dr. Sharpless, I read your April 2021 talk to the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), see http://www.natpernick.com/AACRSharplessApril2021.pdf, and am distributing it to my network. In my view, reducing the high number of…
New ideas about cancer
4 July 2021 This essay lists my new or “not generally accepted” ideas about cancer: How cancer arises 1. Complexity science is more important than reductionism. We cannot understand cancer through reductionist thinking, which states that life…
Combinations of therapy to substantially reduce cancer deaths
23 June 2021 Our strategic plan aims to reduce annual US cancer deaths from 600,000 projected in 2021 to 100,000 by 2030. The war on cancer, now 50 years old, needs a specific goal and time frame…
What will success look like in the war on cancer?
11 June 2021 What will success look like in the war on cancer? When we begin with the end in mind, it helps us focus on what we want to achieve, understand better how this success can…
The importance of systemic networks in cancer treatment
1 June 2021 Cancer is a systemic disease. This means it is important to treat not just the obvious tumor mass but also the systemic cellular networks that nurture the tumor. Surprisingly, most cancer treatment plans ignore…
What should our national cancer goals be?
26 May 2021 What are reasonable goals regarding cancer in the United States? First, let’s discuss what is not reasonable. Conquering cancer does not mean attaining “a world without cancer” (American Cancer Society Mission Statement, accessed 12May21).…
Let’s cure cancer together
Revised 28 April 2021 It’s time to implement a strategic plan to cure cancer. The era of modern cancer treatment began in 1948, when Dr. Sidney Farber, a Boston pathologist, published a landmark study reporting that chemotherapy…
Curing Cancer blog – part 9 – How cancer kills
Revised 11Apr21 This blog discusses curing cancer based on the principles of complexity theory. Follow this blog at https://natpernickshealthblog.wordpress.com and join our Curing Cancer Network to receive weekly status updates by clicking here (note: this project is…
Curing Cancer – How you can help
Last revised 16 June 2021 Our strategic plan is to reduce US cancer deaths from the current 600,000 per year to 100,000 per year by 2030. It has been 50 years since the war on cancer was…
Curing Cancer – The American Code Against Cancer
15 April 2021 Click here for the most recent version. The American Code Against Cancer focuses on actions that individuals can take to help prevent cancer. Successful cancer prevention also requires supportive governmental policies and actions. Following these…
How pancreatic cancer arises, based on complexity theory
26 February 2021 This is the third paper in a series discussing the top 20 causes of US cancer death and how they arise based on complexity theory (see How Lung Cancer Arises-Pernick 2021 (PDF), How Colon…
Curing Cancer – Part 8 – Strategic plan for curing cancer (as of February 2021)
16 February 2021 This series is about curing cancer based on the principles of complexity theory. Follow my blog at https://natpernickshealthblog.wordpress.com. This is the initial version of my strategic plan. The current version is here. It has…
New grant offering – 15Feb21
I am accepting applications for a single, nonrenewable grant of up to $10,000 for a research study of possible intermediate states for glioblastoma detectable by molecular methods. Click here (PDF download) for details.
Curing Cancer – Dustin Diamond dies of lung cancer
10 February 2021 TV actor Dustin Diamond, age 44, died of widely disseminated (stage 4) small cell lung cancer only one month after diagnosis (NBC News). This essay discusses, in a relatively nontechnical manner, important aspects of…
Curing Cancer – Part 7 – Random chronic stress / bad luck as a major cause of cancer
31 January 2021, revised 16 June 2021 This is my seventh essay about curing cancer based on the principles of complexity theory. This essay discusses random chronic stress / bad luck, a major cause of pancreatic cancer…
Curing Cancer – Part 6 – Key systemic network issues
24 January 2021, revised 19 June 2022, click here. This is my sixth essay about curing cancer based on the principles of complexity theory. This essay proposes strategies for curative therapy regarding key systemic networks other than…
Curing Cancer – Part 5 – Key network issues that affect the primary tumor
17 January 2021, revised 19 June 2022, click here. This is my fifth essay about curing cancer based on the principles of complexity theory (follow my blog at https://natpernickshealthblog.wordpress.com). This essay discusses key network issues for curative…
Curing Cancer – Part 4 – Principles of curative treatment
10 January 2021, revised 19 June 2022, click here. This is my fourth essay about curing cancer based on complexity theory – follow my blog at https://natpernickshealthblog.wordpress.com. In part 3, I summarized my recommendations on curative treatment…
Curing Cancer – Part 3 – Curative cancer treatment based on complexity theory
29 December 2020, revised 19 June 2022, click here. This is my third essay about curing cancer using the principles of complexity theory. It outlines my recommendations for curative treatment for advanced adult cancers with a poor…
Curing Cancer, Part 2 – Adult versus childhood cancer
This is my second essay about curing cancer. See also Curing cancer, Part 1 – Reductionism vs. Complexity. Click here for an update in April, 2022. The top 10 causes of US cancer death for all ages are…
Curing Cancer, Part 1 – Reductionism versus Complexity
Click here for an update in April, 2022. In 1971, President Richard M. Nixon announced the beginning of the US “war on cancer” (see President Nixon’s 1971 State of the Union at 15:03). Despite massive government expenditures…
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