Margaret was Olszówka with lung cancer on New Year's Eve, was diagnosed in 2002. The prognosis was very cruel: her disease had advanced to stage 4 were taken into account. The doctors of a teaching hospital renowned said there was nothing I could do for her. Chemotherapy have not even offered as an option, it was said that his months of life has had. But instead of surrendering, he decided he had to fight the disease, and eventually found a way to cancer specialist, Keith Block, MDwhere she received chronotherapy as part of his treatment plan. Today you are doing well and enjoying his two children and six grandchildren. Chronotherapy They want the world to know about his role in his survival, in the hope of helping other cancer patients.

What is chronotherapy?

Chronotherapy takes into consideration the impact of natural rhythms of our bodies' on our ability to process medicines. Models like sleeping, menstrual cycles, even our physical responsechanges of the seasons is different for everyone. In the old days we called biorhythms. Today, doctors found that understanding a patient's biorhythms, and coordinate the time of their medical treatments to these biorhythms, you can deep result of their treatment involved. This is called chronotherapy.

"Every drug has an optimal time when it is less toxic and more effective." said Keith Block, MD, Editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Integrative CancerTherapy, and Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Education at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago (UIC) and Department of Pharmacology. For the treatment of cancer is determined by several factors including the biological uniqueness of the drug names are given, when the specific type of cancer cells divide more when the normal healthy cells from the patient generally divide the least, the 'the patient's circadian clock and individualrest-activity cycles, and even the time zone for the person who live in "

According to Dr. Michael Smolensky, co-author of the book The Body Clock Guide to Better Health, "When administered cancer drugs in chronobiological manner, patients may be able to tolerate higher doses than would be stronger possible otherwise. "

"This method of administering chemotherapy is revolutionary and has demonstrated in large randomized trials its potential to improve survival," says Dr. Block."We found that many patients chronotherapy reduce what would have been recurring side effects such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and fatigue. This is important because it was weakened because a man can get patients to reduce or treatments that could help them win their battle to stop the cancer. "

Chronotherapy has been widely studied throughout the world:

There are more than 62,000 references in PubMed (National Institute of Health in biomedical archiveLife sciences and newspaper articles), the clock (like biology is influenced by time) and more than 500 scientific articles on specific chronotherapy. National Cancer Institute Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM) devotes an entire Web cast of doctors on chronotherapy.

So why not chronotherapy most commonly used?

One major problem is logistics – finding ways to deliver chemotherapy doses exactly fast. "Infusion laptoppumps the answer can not wait, "explains Gerald Sokol, MD, an oncologist with the Division of Oncology Center FDA's Drug Evaluation and Research.

Dr. Block has brought technology to the United States, which administer the chemotherapy through a pump just run up to four channels simultaneously infused the individual needs of the patient. Portable and small enough to fit in a pouch, in which patients are able to maintain full mobility, sports, and enjoy a full night's sleep- While receiving their cancer specific routes.