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Advanced Breast Cancer Treatment at CMN Hospital
When Chemotherapy Fails for Breast Cancer
Receiving the news that chemotherapy is no longer working can feel overwhelming. Many women are left searching for other options, hoping for a treatment that doesn’t weaken their body further. At CMN Hospital, we offer scientifically supported therapies that focus on strengthening the immune system while targeting cancer at its source.
Scientific Evidence for Advanced Therapies
Studies continue to show the effectiveness of immune-supporting therapies for patients with breast cancer, particularly for those with Stage 3 and Stage 4 diagnoses. A study from Stanford University found that women with Stage 4 breast cancer who received autologous bone marrow stem cell therapy had a median survival of 60 months, compared to 28 months for those who did not receive treated cells. This research highlights the potential of stem cell-based therapies in improving long-term outcomes.
How Bone Marrow Stem Cell Therapy Works
Unlike traditional allogenic transplants, which rely on donor cells, autologous bone marrow stem cell therapy uses a patient’s own cancer-free stem cells. This method ensures complete compatibility, reducing risks of rejection or complications. At CMN Hospital, Dr. Edgar Payan and his team conduct rigorous testing to ensure that all harvested stem cells are free from cancer before reinfusion.
The collection process is minimally invasive and performed under sedation. A small sample of bone marrow is extracted, processed, and reintroduced into the patient’s system to help restore immune function. This therapy can be used alongside Dendritic Cell Therapy to enhance the body’s ability to detect and fight cancer cells.
Why Avoid High-Dose Chemotherapy?
High-dose chemotherapy can damage the body's blood-forming system, reducing red and white blood cell production and leaving patients vulnerable to infections, extreme fatigue, and other complications. Worse, cancer cells can sometimes hide during chemotherapy, increasing the risk of relapse even after intensive treatment.
Dr. Payan’s approach prioritizes therapies that enhance, rather than deplete, the immune system. By avoiding aggressive chemotherapy, his protocols help patients retain their body’s natural blood-forming and infection-fighting capabilities, providing a better quality of life during and after treatment.
Autologous Bone Marrow Stem Cell Therapy After Chemotherapy
For patients who have undergone chemotherapy or radiation therapy, autologous bone marrow stem cell therapy offers a way to help the body recover. These treatments, while effective in targeting cancer, often severely weaken the immune system. By reintroducing a patient’s own healthy stem cells, this therapy helps restore the body’s natural ability to regenerate blood cells, improving overall health and resilience.
Success and Safety of Autologous Bone Marrow Stem Cell Therapy
Extensive research has confirmed the safety and effectiveness of autologous bone marrow stem cell therapy. Studies from institutions such as the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Stanford University have shown that using a patient’s own stem cells significantly reduces the risks associated with donor transplants, including rejection and graft-versus-host disease.
Patients undergoing autologous bone marrow transplantation have reported improved survival rates and immune system recovery, particularly when this therapy is used after chemotherapy or radiation. Research published in the journal Nature highlighted that patients who received this treatment experienced better overall health and immune function.
There is Hope for Breast Cancer
At CMN Hospital, we recognize that each breast cancer case is unique. If you have been told that your options are limited or that chemotherapy is your only choice, we want you to know that additional scientifically supported therapies exist. Our advanced treatments provide renewed hope for patients with Stage 3 and Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, as well as for those with other metastatic cancers.
Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation
Ultraviolet blood irradiation (abbreviated as UBI or UVB) is an “intravenous therapy that represents a safe, non-toxic, low cost and drug-free method of treating most blood-borne viruses and it offers hope to those who suffer from viral infections and related conditions,” such as cancer.[1] Dubbed ‘the cure that time forgot’ by the American Journal of Surgery, UBI was first used in the 1940s and 1950s to treat diseases including pneumonia. Its success led it to be used extensively to treat “tuberculosis, arthritis, asthma, and even poliomyelitis. "[2]
How Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation Works
UBI is a multi-process medical treatment that assists the immune system and rejuvenates blood properties. Furthermore, “it has also proven to increase oxygen flow to the tissues, causing vasodilation and microcirculation,” a benefit highly regarded in cancer treatments.
UBI, as explained by the Physicians UBI Awareness Center, is a simple process that produces major, effective results. In step-by-step explanation:
“blood is withdrawn from the patient’s arm using a butterfly needle, and then run through a device which exposes the blood to controlled ultraviolet rays. The patient’s blood is exposed to UV light, where smaller bacterial and viral cells are targeted; they absorb the majority of the photonic energy. The healthy cells remain intact while the disease cells are killed and become antigenic. An “autogenous vaccine,” meaning self-generated, is thus produced. This process is formally known as “induced secondary immune reactivation,” and the end result provides a new supercharged immune response, greater oxygenation, and a balancing of your system; this enriched blood is then re-directed back into the body via the same needle.” [3]
The science behind UBI is clear, exemplifying that “low and mild doses of UV kill microorganisms by damaging the DNA, while any DNA damage in host cells can be rapidly repaired by DNA repair enzymes.”
Ultraviolet blood irradiation is extremely beneficial to patients battling cancer because it strengthens the immune system and improves overall health. In addition, UBI has multiple therapeutic benefits, which can further assist in other cancer treatments simultaneously. These benefits include:
Destruction of fungal, viral, and bacterial growth
Improves circulation and decreases platelet aggregation
Improves circulation by dilating blood vessels
Improves the body’s ability to detoxify and inactivate or remove toxins
Activates cortisone-like molecules, sterols, into vitamin D
Restores the normal size and movement of fat elements
Following the advent of antibiotics, UBI declined in common usage; doctors turned to prescribing pills, which could be taken out of the hospital, arguably a more minimalist approach to curing disease to multi-day hospital stays. However, due to “the increasing incidence of antibiotic-resistant infections and a desire for more natural therapies, UBI is enjoying a type of rebirth” and becoming more highly requested and used in medical offices.
What can UBI treat?
Ultraviolet blood irradiation is unique in that it “invokes photolysis of proteins,” which plays “a role in antigens, launching the appropriate immune reactions in the organism of the patient.”[4] As such, UBI is used to treat a variety of illnesses and medical conditions, some of which include:
Viral infections
Hepatitis
Mononucleosis
Bacterial infections
Wound infections
Lymphadenitis
Septicemia
Furunculous and carunculous
Inflammatory process: thrombophlebitis, fibrositis, cholecystitis, pancreatitis
Diseases due to inadequate peripheral circulation
Varicose or diabetic ulcers
Peripheral atherosclerosis
Vascular headache
Non-healing wounds and delayed union fractures
Rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases
How does CMN utilize Ultraviolet blood irradiation?
CMN Alternative Cancer Treatment has found UBI therapy to be immensely effective in treating patients with a wide variety of illnesses – especially those who are struggling with cancer. At CMN, our physicians can safely administer this form of therapy and use it as part of our comprehensive approach to patient treatment and wellness.
To learn more about how CMN utilizes this therapy, click here or to schedule a video consultation with Dr. Payan at CMN Hospital please contact us.
References
[1]Innovative Medicine. “Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation Therapy.”
[2]J Phototochem Photobiol B. “Ultraviolet blood irradiation: Is it time to remember ‘the cure that time forgot?”
[3]Physicians UBI Awareness Center. “What is BPT?”
[4]Dr. Levon Gasparyan. “Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation Therapy Method.”
What are Stem Cells?
Stem cells are fundamental components of every tissue and organ in your body. There are different types of stem cells, and they can originate from various places in the body; they are also formed at different times in our lives. Some of “these include embryonic stem cells that exist only at the earliest stages of development and various types of tissue-specific (or adult) stem cells that appear during fetal development and remain in our bodies throughout life.”[1]
Why are they important?
Stem cells have unique properties that make them extremely important. Specifically, stem cells hold the “remarkable potential to develop into many different cell types in the body during early life and growth. In addition, in many tissues they serve as a sort of internal repair system, dividing essentially without limit to replenish other cells.”[2] What this means is that “stem cells regularly divide to repair and replace worn out or damaged tissues,” thus working to maintain health and rejuvenation within the human body.
While stem cells are by nature unspecialized, they are also important because they can “give rise to specialized cells” via a process known as differentiation. [3] As such, a stem cell may start out in a universal context but can go “through several stages, becoming more specialized at each step,” thus taking on a more specific role in the body over time.
Stem Cells and Cancer Treatment
Stem cells are found throughout the body, but when used to treat cancer, there are 3 key sources [4] within the body. They are:
Bone marrow, from you or someone else
The bloodstream, from you or someone else
Umbilical cord blood from newborns
Stem cells are used for regenerative purposes in a treatment known as engraftment. During this process, stem cells are used via transplant, alone or in conjunction with other treatments, to “try to kill all the cancer cells. This treatment also kills the stem cells in the bone marrow. Soon after treatment, stem cells are given to replace those that were destroyed.” Stem cells are injected into the body intravenously, in a similar fashion to that of a “blood transfusion. Over time they settle in the bone marrow and begin to grow and make healthy blood cells.”
Future Potential of Stem Cells
As researchers continue to explore the properties of stem cells, major breakthroughs have the potential to occur. For example, stem cells “may soon become the basis for treating diseases such as Parkinson's disease, diabetes, heart failure, cerebral palsy, heart disease and host of other chronic ailments.” [5]
For More Information
The following video was taken from a TED-Ed lecture by Craig A. Kohn and features animation explaining what stem cells are and how powerful they can be in aiding the body’s healing.
For more information and resources provided during his lecture, click here or schedule a video consultation with Dr. Payan at CMN Hospital please contact us.
References
Breast Cancer Advanced Treatment
Hope for Metastatic Breast Cancer
A Glimmer of Hope from Clinical Scientific Evidence
If you’ve been diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer or Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, it’s normal to feel overwhelmed—especially if treatments like chemotherapy or hormone blockers haven’t given you the results you hoped for. At CMN Hospital, we want you to know that there are still scientifically-supported options available that don’t just target the disease but help preserve your immune system’s natural strength.
Understanding Autologous BMT (Bone Marrow Stem Cell Therapy)
Unlike allogenic transplants, which use stem cells from a donor, autologous stem cell therapy uses the patient’s own cancer-free bone marrow stem cells. This makes it 100% compatible and reduces the risks of rejection or complications. At CMN Hospital, Dr. Payan ensures that the bone marrow is thoroughly tested to confirm there are no cancer cells present before the transplant.
There is Hope Beyond Standard Treatments
At CMN Hospital, we know that every breast cancer case is unique. If you’ve exhausted chemotherapy and hormone blockers, you still have choices. Our advanced, scientifically-supported therapies offer renewed hope for patients with Stage 3 and Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, as well as other metastatic cancers.