Townsend, Ralph

Ralph Moss s name continues to surface with regard to innovative cancer treatments. For instance, he was interviewed by Lily Giambarba Casura in the January 1998 issue of the Townsend Letter for Doctors Patient. Among other things it was mentioned that Moss s newsletter The Cancer Chronicles has been switched entirely over to the Internet, and in fact Moss has written Alternative Medicine Online A Guide to Natural Remedies on the Internet (Equinox Press, Brooklyn, NY, 1997). This takes some of the chore out of searching the Internet for information about cancer, for instance. 

Ralph W. Moss s article in the May 2006 issue of the Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients is titled Playing with Numbers. He questions the statistics whereby cancer mortality rates are reported to be diminishing slightly or at least staying essentially constant. For one thing, this apparent trend correlates with a decline in antopsies in other words, the cause of death is not known definitively. 

Furthermore, recent information about pancreatic enzymes is furnished by Ralph W. Moss in the November 2004 issue of the Townsend Letter for Doctors Patients in an article titled Of Enzymes, Worms, and Cancer. (Moss has a section Enzyme... 

As for reporting on the status of alternative cancer therapies in general, there are, for instance, the frequently mentioned volumes Ralph W. Moss s Cancer Therapy The Independent Consumer s Guide to Non-Toxic Treatment Prevention and Richard Walters Options The Alternative Cancer Therapy Book. Moss also furnishes the Moss Report and is a regular contributor to the Townsend Letter for Doctors Patients. It can be assumed that there will be much more information... 

A featured article by Fortune executive editor Clifton Leaf titled Why We re Losing the War on Cancer appeared in the March 2(X)4 issue. This in turn caused some talk. Thus, in the June 2004 issue of the Townsend Letter for Doctors Patients, Ralph W. Moss reviewed Leaf s article in his monthly colunrn The War on Cancer. Moss restates some of the facts uncovered by Leaf, namely that no improvements have occurred in the survival rate, with no dramatic breakthroughs (such as occurred for Hodgkin s disease). This, despite spending an estimated 14.4 billion per year on cancer research. In fact, cancer research has become irrelevant and compartmentalized, and is fundamentally flawed by utilizing animal rather than human models. 

Along these lines, Ralph Moss described a somewhat similar electromagnetic treatment in his monthly column The War on Cancer, which was published in the December 2002 issue of the Townsend Letter for Doctors Patients. Referred to as... 

Casura, L.G. 1998. Twenty Questions with Ralph Moss, Ph.D. Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, no. 174 (January). 

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