Overview

This web page discusses gliomas (brain cancer), which may have a different mechanism and treatment from other forms of cancer. Please see Cancer Overview for general information that is common to all forms of cancer.

Note that there are a number of different kinds of brain cancer; see the discussions below for links to Dr. Weyrich's pages on specific kinds of brain cancer.

Please see conventional, complementary, and alternative medical treatments for important background information regarding the different types of medical treatments discussed on this page. Naturopathic, Complementary, and Alternative treatments that may be considered include:

Treatment

Naturopathic, Complementary, and Alternative Treatments

Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN)

[LDN_Cancer] reports that the late Dr. Bernard Bihari treated approximately 450 patients with some form of cancer, with a 60% success rate, almost all of who had failed to respond to standard treatments. In particular, Dr. Bihari reported apparent success treating:

LDN is not a panacea, although it may buy a patient a significant amount of "quality time".

Dr. Weyrich has been trained to use Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN). However, Dr. Weyrich has not treated any cases of brain cancer with LDN.

Please see What is Low Dose Naltrexone? for more information.

Nutritional Medicine

A number of special diets have been proposed to benefit cancer patients, including:

Ketogenic Diet

See for example see: [Feyter2016  🕮 ] [Lussier2016  🕮 ] [Seyfried2012a  🕮 ] [Seyfried2015  🕮 ] [Winter2017  🕮 ] [Woolf2015]

For general information on the ketogenic diet, please see: Ketogenic Diet

For general information on using the ketogenic diet to treat cancer, please see: Cancer Overview

References