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The People's Pharmacy

Show 1029: How to Mobilize the Immune System to Fight Cancer

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5934 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Our immune systems are supposed to protect us from attack. Viruses, bacteria and fungi that try to invade can all trip alarm signals that awaken the body’s natural defenses. Cancer is not an invader, however. A tumor is made of our own cells, although they are growing out of control. Sparking the Immune System into Action […]

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0:00.0

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0:11.0

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0:19.8

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0:30.9

Is the old paradigm for cancer treatment about to change? How can the immune system be mobilized to fight cancer?

0:39.3

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.

0:49.8

For decades, cancer doctors have relied on surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation to counter this dreaded disease.

0:56.9

But 100 years ago, one cancer surgeon found a unique way to stimulate the immune system to attack tumors.

1:04.4

Researchers are now going back to the future with modern immunotherapy.

1:08.6

We'll talk with leading cancer researchers about the latest developments in the rebirth of

1:13.9

immunotherapy. We'll find out how oncologists are recruiting T-cells for cancer treatment.

1:20.1

Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, the latest developments in the war on cancer.

1:25.4

First, the news.

1:29.7

In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, long-lasting lower back pain responds surprisingly well

1:37.0

to both mindfulness-based stress reduction and cognitive behavioral therapy.

1:42.3

These mind-body approaches are not usually considered mainstream

1:45.6

treatments for chronic back pain, but a new study in JAMA suggests that they deserve far greater

1:51.9

respect than they usually get. In this trial, 342 adults with chronic back pain were randomly assigned

1:59.2

to get usual care, classes in mindfulness and meditation,

2:03.4

or cognitive behavioral therapy. Both the stress reduction approach and the behavioral therapy

2:09.2

produced significant improvement. Roughly 44% in both groups found that they were functioning better

2:15.8

and their back pain was less bothersome at the

2:18.2

end of six months. That compared to 26 percent of the people getting standard care. Given the recent

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