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This story begins in October 1996 on Wilbur Earl Tennant’s farm outside of Parkersburg, WV, a town of 30,000 people located across the Ohio River from Ohio. For decades, Earl raised beef cattle on his 300-acre spread. For the last two years, he noticed with alarm that his cows had been dying off. The post Water Contamination in Parkersburg, WV first appeared on ACKC.org ..read more

A group of researchers and doctors belonging to the OnCovid Study Group published a retrospective study of survival rate and other factors, in Europe, of vaccinated versus unvaccinated cancer patients. The article was published in the June 2, 2022 issue of Lancet Oncology. The post Patient Survival and COVID-19 Vaccines first appeared on ACKC.org ..read more

It is said that to succeed one must be persistent and be prepared to take advantage of opportunities when they arise. ACKC’s decades-long effort to obtain Federal funding for kidney cancer research confirms the wisdom of that approach. Here’s the story. The post Funding Kidney Cancer Research, A Story of Persistence and Luck first appeared on ACKC.org ..read more

Oncologists generally prescribe adjuvant therapy to patients  who not only have been diagnosed and treated for their disease but, also have a  high probability that the disease will return. The post Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) as an Adjutant Therapy for RCC first appeared on ACKC.org ..read more

In its July 10, 2022 issue, the ASCO Post reported on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) intention to create the “Youth E-Cigarette Prevention Campaign” to discourage American Indian /Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth from vaping. According to a CDC survey [1]: AI/AN youth are twice as likely to be heavy users of e-cigarettes than high […] The post Special Program to Discourage Use of e-Cigarettes among Native American Youth first appeared on ACKC.org ..read more