NEW HOPE FOR PATIENTS WITH BRAIN TUMORS

Major improvements and possible cure of some Grade 3 Astrocytoma (Gioblastoma Grade 3) in patients are illustrated in this website.  To view the pictures of CT scans and MRI’S before and after treatment, please CLICK HERE to view Gliomas … individual patients in html format.

A consistent shrinkage of tumors was observed in 70% of 200 patients.

Malignant brain tumors (gliomas) can rarely be cured by surgery and/or radiotherapy alone. Chemotherapy, as generally available, has been of limited value.

Dr. Isaac Djerassi has perfected a form of intensive chemotherapy which is proving to be the most effective treatment of brain gliomas.  Among 200 patients with brain glioma, treated by this method, 70% have shown substantial reduction or disappearance of their tumors, with marked improvement of their symptoms, and prolonged survival.  Eighteen of 57 (31%) patients with advanced and terminal Grade 3 or near Grade 3 Gioblastoma were alive at 10 to 38 years later.  Four of the 18 long-term survivors received chemotherapy alone with no radiation therapy at all.  Higher success rates are expected in recently diagnosed and previously untreated patients in good general condition.  These results were reported to the profession in various publications.  (See References in Clinical Data)

GIOBLASTOMA GRADE 3

Gioblastoma Grade 3 infiltrating completely the "pons" in the brain of a patient (left) which disappears completely after treatment (right).

A survival benefit is shown in the graph below which presents the survival in Astrocytomas (Gioblastoma Grade 3) as compared with standard treatment.  Almost 30% of 57 patients with Gliomas Grade 2 ½ and 3 survived over ten years. Please click on image of the graph below to enlarge and view details.

Additional details on all of the above is obtainable by clicking on the various Chapters listed under the main title.

The actual effect of this treatment on brain malignant tumors, which Dr. Djerassi has been able to recover from his records, for 24 more patients who responded to the treatment, CLICK HERE to view the before and after pictures in html format.

In his previous work Dr. Djerassi has found that the same chemotherapy, used at different intensities, was most successful in a wide range of different tumors.   The objective results in a variety of tumors are listed below and can be seen on the following document (CLICK HERE to download a zipped Adobe Acrobat file)  or by clicking on any of the following:

1.   BRAIN.DOC
2.   LUNGS.DOC
3.   LYMPHOMA.DOC
4.   BREAST.DOC
5.   LYOMIOSARCOMA.DOC
6.   PRIMARY BRAIN LYMPHOMA.DOC
7.   MESOTHELIOMA.DOC
8.   MISC (HISTOCYTOMA, SCHWANOMA).DOC
9.   PANCREAS CANCER.DOC
10. OVARIAN CANCER.DOC
11. MELANOMA.DOC
12. OSTEOGENIC SARCOMA.DOC
13. RETICULOENDOTHELIOSIS.DOC
14. NEUROBLASTOMA.DOC

Isaac Djerassi, MD, a renown pioneer in cancer treatment, and recipient of the Lasker Award (the highest American Award for Medcal Research), has had remarkable success in treating cancers unresponsive to standard chemotherapy. This website will introduce you to him and to his techniques.Dr. Djerassi has received some of the most prestigious professional awards and large-scale government grant support for his work over the last 30 years. He has over 150 scientific publications to his name. Many of Dr. Djerassi’s discoveries have been featured in the popular press, such as Reader’s Digest, Newsweek, Time Magazine, New York Times and others.

Click here to read about Dr. Djerassi in Reader’s Digest

Read about Dr. Djerassi's glioma treatment by CLICKING HERE.

Read some selected clinical data by CLICKING HERE.

Read Dr. Djerassi's chemotherapy by CLICKING HERE .

For Dr. Djerassi's history, look at his curriculum vitae by CLICKING HERE.

Dr. Djerassi’s Treatment of Other Cancers

Most remarkable results with Dr. Djerassi’s High Dose Methotrexate chemotherapy have been obtained by him and by others in the following types of cancer

	Lung cancer - highest response rate and survival
	Ovarian cancer - potentially curative
	Mesothelioma (asbestos cancer) - highest response and survival
	Stomach (gastric) and bladder cancers and sarcomas - potentially curative neo or adjuvant
	Breast cancer - highest response and survival. Curative as adjuvant or long-term treatment

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