Dr. Nagourney's Blog

In Cancer Medicine, the Most Dangerous People Are Often the "Experts"

Many people may be aware of the controversies surrounding micro-nutrition, diet and lifestyle, vitamin supplementation and other "holistic" approaches to health that have been denigrated and criticized by the scientific community for decades....

Expert Advice – Another Wrinkle

Few dictates of modern medicine could be considered more sacrosanct than the prohibition of excess salt intake in our daily...

Mammography – The Evolving Story of a Cancer Diagnostic Tool

The use of low-dose radiation to detect occult breast malignancies can be traced to work done at the MD Anderson Cancer Center...

Lowering Your Risk of Pancreatic Cancer - Nuts and Woody Allen

In the 1973 Woody Allen movie ”Sleeper,” Miles Monroe (played by Allen), is the nerdy owner of the Happy Carrot health food...

Garlic – The Common Man’s Cure All

A recent study published in the Journal of Cancer Prevention Research by investigators in China compared the outcome of...

The Vitamin Myth, Myth

An article by Paul Offit, MD, published in The Atlantic Monthly, July 19, 2013, reports the lack of evidence supporting the use...

Best Chance for Colon Cancer Survival – Don’t Let It Start

Two papers in the February 23, 2012, New England Journal of Medicine reported important findings in the fight against colon...