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The Butterfly - Catherine Woollams The Butterfly By Chris Woollams, founder CANCERactive “Chris. It’s awful. Catherine’s got a brain tumour.” Eight words that have changed the lives of so many people. The ...

Poor science Vitamins and Cancer - the whole truth ‘Common Vitamins do not extend Life - and may even cause premature death‘ So said the TV news and most of the UK’s newspapers, often on the front page (w/c 14th April 2008). As always I wou ...

Cancer, coenzyme Q10, myopathy, dementia and statins As more and more people take statins for cancer, it should be remembered that these are drugs not sweets and have proven side-effects. People should also not believe they can self-medicate with drugs; it can be count ...

The EU DIRECTIVE on HERBAL MEDICINES; A HERBALIST S VIEW (Chris Woollams; CANCERactive) The following is in two parts. Alan Hopking wrote the first part calling for urgent Government action to ’regulate’ Herbalists, in the UK. His calls were finally met on February 1 ...

Skeptics may be harmful to your health Warning: Skeptics may be harmful to your healthThe late Becky Simpson, a six-year cancer survivor at the time, was a panellist at the Dartington debate.The great majority of cancer patients will empathise with the fr ...

Cancer Voices - CANCERactive Postbag Your views on CANCERactive, icon magazine and Chris Woollams April 2020 Hi Chris, I just wanted to send a quick thank you for your deeply researched information on COVID-19. &n ...

Stress, mental state and cancer - Pillar IV Stress, mental state and cancerThere can be little doubt that your mind can make you ill. So can your mind heal you? Can stress or mental state cause cancer? Can stress management help you beat it?The answer seems to ...

Supplements and cancer - Kill or cure On Monday October 19th 2009, the Daily Express featured the front page Headline ’Vitamin Pill Cancer Risk’. (http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/134841/Vitamin-pill-cancer-risk-) The story ...

How to alkalise your acid body Your blood needs to be slightly alkaline to be at its healthiest with a pH in the range 7.35 to 7.45; your cells and your immune system work better in a slightly alkaline environment. This is especially true for ...

Eating Vegetables and Fruit to beat cancer Recent research has shown that eating 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day is linked to a 2.5 per cent reduction in the risk of cancer. This ’5 a day’ plan originated in 1990 when the World Health Organisation su ...

The role of gut bacteria in colorectal cancer A large and increasing volume of convincing evidence links the loss of specific, friendly gut bacteria and the increased presence of known pathogens to heightened Colorectal Cancer, or CRC, risk; in this overview -&n ...

How to avoid prostate panic A few tips on how to Prevent Prostate Cancer CLICK HERE TO READ OUR PROSTATE CANCER OVERVIEW Originally published in September 2003 icon -updated March 2007 Prostate will shortly become th ...

The Pill and Cervical Cancer Unprotected sex and cervical cancer WOMEN who take the contraceptive pill may increase their risk of cervical cancer, according to a major study published in the Lancet. In the study, commissioned by the ...

01/09 - 1 Cancer Prevention Latest Research Below are a number of articles referring to cancer prevention through lifestyle, diet and nutrition that have appeared in CANCERactives icon magazine. Just click on the title to read the piece. Shock Ne ...

An Overview of Bladder cancer - causes, symptoms and treatment alternatives A patient-friendly overview on Bladder cancer, its causes, symptoms and treatment alternatives from chemotherapy to immunotherapy and natural and alternative treatments including BCG, immunotherapy, PDT, metformin, g ...

An Overview of Brain Tumours and brain cancer - symptoms, causes and treatment alternatives This patient-friendly overview on brain tumours, or brain cancer, covers symptoms, causes and treatments from chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery, to alternative and complementary therapie ...

Brain Cancer Trial on natural compounds With the continued failure of drugs to effectively fight and ideally beat brain cancer, some scientists are turning to bioactive, natural compounds known to cross the blood brain barrier and trying to fund a seriou ...

Complementary and alternative brain cancer treatments Enlightened Medicine - using complementary therapies to improve the success of your cancer treatment programme This article aims to demonstrate just how many complementary approaches are available to the average b ...

Cervical Cancer - Latest News, Latest Research | CANCERactive LATEST NEWS AND RESEARCH ON CERVICAL CANCER Increase your personal odds of survival by empowering yourself with the latest news and research on cervical cancer; news you can use today and incorporat ...

Colorectal Cancer - Latest News, Latest Research | CANCERactive LATEST NEWS AND RESEARCH ON COLORECTAL CANCER Increase your personal odds of survival by empowering yourself with the latest news and research on Colorectal Cancer; 'news you can use today' and incor ...

Symptoms and causes of colorectal cancer Every year over 33,000 men and women are diagnosed with colorectal cancer.Colorectal cancer is the second most common cancer in the UK and the third most common cancer affecting both men and women.The exact cause rem ...

15 facts about colon cancer and diet Colon cancer, rectal cancer, colorectal cancer - here are 15 quick facts on diet and other things to get you up to speed. 1: Colon Cancer, rectal cancer and colorectal cancer have long been consider ...

Alternative Colorectal Cancer Treatment Before using alternative or complementary cancer treatments for Colorectal Cancer, whether artemisinin, off-label drugs such as metformin, or treatments such as oncothermia, immunotherapy or the Nanokn ...

Hairy Cell Leukaemia, HCL - symptoms, causes and treatment alternatives Hairy Cell Leukaemia, or Hairy cell leukemia, or HCL is a very rare and slow-growing cancer, usually classified as a sub-division of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) because it is a blood cancer where the bone ...

Liver Cancer - Latest News, Latest Research | CANCERactive LATEST NEWS AND RESEARCH ON LIVER CANCER Increase your personal odds of survival by empowering yourself with the latest news and research on Liver Cancer; news you can use today and incorporate into ...

15 ways to love your liver Improve your liver function The liver is the largest organ in your body. Your life depends on the health of your liver. Yet it is constantly attacked by environmental toxins, alcohol, drugs, processed foods, too m ...

Lung Cancer - Latest News, Latest Research | CANCERactive LATEST NEWS AND RESEARCH ON LUNG CANCER Increase your personal odds of survival by empowering yourself with the latest research and news on lung cancer; 'news you can use' today an ...

An Overview of Lymphoma, or Lymphatic Cancer - types, symptoms, causes and alternative treatments Patient-friendly overview of Lymphoma, a group of blood cancers which develop from lymphocytes; the main types being Hodgkin's Lymphoma and Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL); they are not lifestyle- ...

Lymphoma- Latest News, Latest Research | CANCERactive LATEST NEWS AND RESEARCH ON LYMPHOMA, or LYMPHATIC CANCER Increase your personal odds of survival by empowering yourself with the latest research and news on Lymphoma Cancer; 'news you ...

Skin cancer, melanoma - Latest News, Latest Research | CANCERactive LATEST NEWS AND RESEARCH ON SKIN AND MELANOMA CANCER Increase your personal odds of survival by empowering yourself with the latest news and research on skin cancer and melanoma; news you can use to ...

An Overview of Multiple Myeloma - symptoms, treatments and alternative therapies Multiple Myeloma is a cancer of the white blood cells which help you fight infection and is also called plasma cell myeloma. Frequent infections, bone pain and even cracking of bones can occur and so some p ...

Multiple Myeloma or Bone Cancer - Latest News, Latest Research | CANCERactive LATEST NEWS AND RESEARCH ON MULTIPLE MYELOMA, OR BONE CANCER Increase your personal odds of survival by empowering yourself with the latest news and research on multiple myeloma, or myelo ...

An Overview of Ovarian Cancer - symptoms, causes and alternative treatments A patient-friendly review of ovarian cancer, a cancer that begins in the ovaries or fallopian tubes, looking at the types, symptoms, causes and treatment alternatives - from the involvement of pathogens and viruses t ...

An Overview of Pancreatic Cancer - symptoms, causes and alternative treatments An overview of pancreatic cancer including its causes, links to gum disease and fungi, and treatment options including drug combination FOLFIRINOX, and natural compounds such as Vitamin D, shikonin, feverfew, ar ...

Alternative Pancreatic Cancer Treatments Here we examine alternative pancreatic cancer treatments including specific supplements from Holy Basil to ginger and berberine, off-label drugs that kill yeasts like Itraconozole, the effects of MBL an ...

$Pfeifer Protocol for refractory prostate cancer$

Pfeifer Protocol for refractory prostate cancer Prostate Cancer and the Pfeifer Protocol (Chris Woollams, CANCERactive). This article details the Pfeifer Protocol for hormone refractory prostate cancer - an alternative prostate cancer treatment, developed by Pr ...

Medical treatment a waste of time in men over 55 diagnosed with prostate cancer WARNING: PROSTATE CANCER DIAGNOSED? MEN - Do not do a thing until you read this! A growing number of research studies shows that there is little or no survival benefit in having orthodox medical prostate c ...

12 natural compounds that fight prostate cancer An overview of twelve bioactive natural compounds, and the foods that contain them, each shown in research to have a potent effect against prostate cancer and its prevention. Over the past few years a surge ...

BREAST CANCER Why take the risk BREAST CANCER - why take the risk one in three women and one in two men can currently expect to develop cancer in their lifetimes. And cancer is becoming an ever younger disease. In the last decade levels of ...

Breast cancer - Latest News, Latest Research | CANCERactive LATEST NEWS AND RESEARCH ON BREAST CANCER Increase your personal odds of survival by empowering yourself with the latest news and research on breast cancer; news you can use today and incorporate into your in ...

Everything you need to know about breast cancer. This is a breast cancer article from icon magazine giving readers an overview of breast cancer prevention and treatments available, from 2014. We have, of course, updated it. It gives you a 30 point guide to som ...

Natural compounds fight HER2+ breast cancer Five natural compounds, psoralen, curcumin, olive oil, beta-glucans and anthocyanins, each seem to have strong actions against HER2 positive breast cancer. We also have a second article on eight further compounds tha ...

An Overview of Stomach or gastric Cancer - symptoms, treatments and therapies This stomach cancer, or gastric cancer overview and associated articles will give you help you increase your personal odds of beating stomach cancer - the symptoms, the diagnosis and all the latest options on tr ...

An Overview of Throat Cancer - symptoms, causes and treatments Information on throat cancer - an area that includes the voice box, tonsils and larynx and often being included in 'Head and Neck' cancer - including symptoms, causes such as alcohol or HPV,&nb ...

The Ultimate Cancer Detox Clean up your act! You’ve been diagnosed with cancer. The problem is that you built a body over a six to ten year period, (maybe longer) that was conducive to cancer. So, now’s the time to build on ...

Professor Pfeifers Alternative Prostate cancer treatment Bart’s Hospital Holds Prostate Trial using a cancer nutritional Therapy (Chris Woollams, CANCERactive). Professor Ben Pfeifer has developed an alternative prostate cancer treatment. In Switzerland it even ...

Pillar 1 - A diet to beat cancer This is the first pillar in the CANCERactive series, the 4 pillars of cancer, looking at the causes and drivers of cancer. Pillar 1 examines the ideal diet to beat cancer. We are adamant that there is only one: The c ...

Pillar 4 - Stress, mental state and cancer Stress, mental state and cancer There can be little doubt that your mind can make you ill. So can your mind heal you? Can stress or mental state cause cancer? Can stress management help you beat it? The ans ...

Alternative therapies - Cancer cures or quackery Todays alternative cancer therapies - are they tomorrows cancer treatments?I was asked to speak to Doctors at an NHS conference a few years ago. I chose the title Alternative Therapies - cancer cures or quackery? bec ...

You can target differences between cancer cells and healthy cells if you know how This article looks at the known differences between healthy cells and cancer cells and the various ways these differences can be exploited to defeat cancer, all of which you can do yourself!With cancer it pays to kno ...

Six steps to building a personal cancer-fighting programme Building a Personal cancer-fighting programme tailored to you and your cancer So you have cancer. What can you do to help yourself right now? We asked Chris Woollams, former Oxford University Biochemist and founder ...

Antioxidants cut cancer death by 37 per cent Three large studies show antioxidants cut cancer rates and death from cancer Scientists in France have recently finished a major 7-year study involving 13,000 men and women aged 35-60. Called the Su Vi Max stu ...

The 12 best supplements to fight cancer 12 of the best supplements to fight cancer Certain bioactive compounds, found in foods, are known to have strong epigenetic (cancer correcting) benefits. Supplements concentrate those benefits. Dr. Yo ...

Cancer-Beating Natural Compounds Here are 20 natural compounds from a longer list by John Boik of the MD Anderson Cancer Centre in Texas in his book 'Natural Compounds in Cancer Therapy' - each has been shown in research ...

Using herbs to boost your immune system How Astragalus, Cat’s Claw and Echinacea can really boost your immune system. This article looks at how the best way to boost your immune system may well be by using natural herbs. As you may b ...

Green tea, EGCG, chronic illness and cancer Green tea is derived from the unoxidised and unfermented leaves of Camellia sinensis and contains the polyphenol Epigallocatechin-gallate, or EGCG, a powerful antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and free-radical ...

Indole 3 Carbinol - its many benefits with cancer and health Indole 3 carbinol, or I3C, is produced by the mastication of glucosinolate, which is found in high levels in broccoli, kale, cabbage, Brussels sprouts and other cruciferous vegetables, further breaking down in t ...

Should you take anti-oxidants whilst undergoing chemo or radiotherapy Antioxidants and natural compounds can improve the effectiveness of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Fact. Recently, I was asked by a lady with Breast cancer about taking antioxidants at the same time as chemoth ...

A review of Herbs and Cancer The Use of Herbs and Natural Plant Compounds in the Fight Against CancerAlan N Hopking MA MNIMH MRCHM FINEH(Originally published in Issue 3, 2006, icon)Alan has been a Herbal Medicine Practitioner for 25 years and is ...

Curcumin, or turmeric, as a natural cancer treatment Curcumin is the main bioactive phenol derived from the turmeric root (curcuma longa), a member of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae); it is probably the most researched compound in health being known for its anti ...

Acid bodies and poor diets Cancer Patients with acid bodies are nutritionally toxic, nutritionally deficient Newly diagnosed cancer patients are invariably nutritionally deficient and have acid bodies. For the main article (acid bodies and ...

Resveratrol and cancer, dementia, heart health and longevity Resveratrol is a stilbene, a natural polyphenol, and research shows it has antioxidant, anti-fungal, anti-viral and anti-inflammatory properties, promotes heart health, slows macular degeneration, ...

20 Herbs that can fight cancer Herbs can be potent and powerful, and research is growing with many herbs shown to have powerful anti-cancer properties without the damaging side-effects of drugs; here are twenty herbs that just might help your figh ...

Aspirin, inflammation and cancer An overwhelming body of research evidence shows that a small 78-81 mg aspirin can both reduce cancer risk and increase cancer survival by reducing inflammation in the body and on the cancer cell, thus reducing metast ...

The future? Cancer Stem Cells What are stem cells?Stem cells are the natural repair cells of the body – they exist throughout the body and are replaced from the bone marrow. When damage occurs, the stem cells collect in the area of damage a ...

Pomegranates aid longevity and fight heart disease, high blood sugar levels and breast and prostate cancer Pomegranates are rich in antioxidants and polyphenols. They have significant anti-inflammatory benefits too. Here we look at research evidence for their benefits with reducing heart and stroke risk, ...

Modified Citrus Pectin (MCP) and cancer Modified Citrus Pectin, or MCP, or fractionated pectin would appear to have anticancer, anti-metastasis, strong immune boosting and heavy metal detoxification properties; it blocks an important cancer promoter, ...

Polyphenols understanding led to highly effective Pomi-T A review of polyphenols in foods such as broccoli, pomegranate, green tea, and turmeric and their strong health benefits, by Professor Robert Thomas; and how his understanding led him to research a pol ...

The top 10 cancer fighting supplements What supplements should I take? It’s one of the most frequent questions we are asked at CANCERactive. A variation is ‘Can you tell me the Top Ten supplements to take?’ So here we asked Chris Wool ...

Why good nourishment and supplements are essential for people with cancer The junk food diet for UK cancer patientsThere is a strange dichotomy occurring in the world of cancer at the moment. Over the last few years both he UK’s leading cancer charities (drug developers Cancer Resear ...

Berberine as a cancer treatment Berberine has been shown in research to work along a number of quite separate pathways against cancer; it reduces blood sugar levels, it reduces inflammation, boosts immune response and attacks certain pathogens; it ...

Vitamin P and Cancer Vitamin P and the Rainbow DietVitamin P was a name given to bioflavonoids or flavonoids, a collection of colourful pigments in fruits, vegetables and flowers; they are in many common foods like citrus fruits, grape s ...

The Spice Of Life Click here go to : Rainbow Recipes – Cooking with turmeric, ginger or cumin What do I eat if I have cancer? Preparing a diet for cancer is always hard. Cancer nutrition is not the same as eating whe ...

The TREE of LIFE Originally published in March 2003 icon The "Eat-to-Beat Cancer" Diet A scientific approach to a healthier life Click here for further information. By Chris Wo ...

A Diet for Chemotherapy by Chris Woollams An anti-cancer diet and cancer nutrition that would help the average person on Chemotherapy. By Chris Woollams 1. A diet for Chemotherapy - the NHS One of our readers was having chemotherapy and picked up an NH ...

12 foods to fight cancer One of the easiest things for a person with cancer to address is their diet. Research tells us that certain foods like oily fish, nuts, tomatoes, carrots, ginger, beetroot and pulses contain bioactive ingredients ...

Important rules on Diet and cancer Diet and cancer - what really matters? A lot of rubbish is talked when it comes to cancer nutrition and the subject of diet and cancer. ’Some lady down the road ate this’, ’the man ...

25 epigenetic compounds to correct cancer There are more than 65 bioactive compounds with strong epigenetic abilities capable of reversing gene silencing and cancer as part of a metabolic treatment programme - here are 25 that you might use im ...

Bioactive natural compounds can correct breast cancer and even TNBC Over the past two decades, as the Science of Epigenetics and the Metabolic Theory of cancer have come to the fore, more and more bioactive natural compounds have been shown in research to have correcti ...

The Banerji Protocol for brain cancer The Banerji Protocol for brain cancer is a homeopathic remedy claimed to be able to treat, and cure, brain cancers such as glioma and astrocytoma by the Prasanta Banerji Homeopathic Research Foundation in India. A ...

20 things you need to know about chemotherapy Chemotherapy is the use of chemicals to kill rogue cells. Historically these cancer drugs worked almost indiscriminately on rapidly dividing cells, usually poisoning them through free-radical toxic action ...

Capecitabine, or Xeloda - uses, side-effects, warnings This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Capecitabine (Xeloda), which is a treatment for women with advanced breast cancer who have not responded well to chemotherapy with other agents such as T ...

Doxorubicin, or Adriamycin, and Doxil This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Doxorubicin (Adriamycin) and Doxil widely used for a number of cancers including breast cancer, bladder cancer, multiple myeloma, Kaposi's sarco ...

Fluorouracil, 5-FU, 5 Fluorouracil This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) which is a chemotherapy agent first approved by the FDA in 1956 and is usually used as part of a package of drugs to treat bre ...

The Truth about Tamoxifen This patient-friendly article is about the drug, Tamoxifen, a long-standing hormone therapy, used to block and modify cellular receptor sites from the action of ooestradiol. It is used to treat breast ...

Temozolomide, Temodal This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Temozolomide (Temodal) which is a treatment for brain tumours (or, brain cancer). Temozolomide has also been used for melanoma as an alternative to dicar ...

PCV This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, PCV is a triple drug treatment for brain tumours and consists of Procarbazine, Carmustine and Vincristine. The following information is taken from an art ...

10 Important foods for chemotherapy patients The top 10 foods for chemotherapy The anti-cancer diet for people on chemotherapy There are foods to eat on chemotherapy. And there are foods to avoid on chemotherapy. Here we tell you. 1. Eat oily fish and fish ...

A Diet for Chemotherapy. An anti-cancer diet and cancer nutrition that would help the average person on Chemotherapy. By Chris Woollams Introduction 1. A diet for Chemotherapy - the NHS One of our readers was having chemoth ...

The future? Tackling cancer stem cells to defeat cancer Cancer Stem cells have now been found to lie at the heart of all cancers - breast, prostate, multiple myeloma etc. They control the growth and regrowth of a cancer. An ’inconvenient truth’ is that there is no drug cu ...

Radiotherapy - Catherines story Originally published in September 2002 iconMy personal experience with radiotherapyBy Catherine WoollamsTo be told you need to have radiotherapy is daunting for many people."What will happen?""Will it hurt?""What els ...

Can Surgery Spread Cancer? Can Surgery, and even biopsy, spread cancer? This article looks at the question, ’Can Surgery spread cancer?’ The answer is clearly, ’Yes’. But there are suggestions in this article on ...

10 ways to improve your chemotherapy and drug success and reduce side-effects Here are ten ways to improve the results of your chemotherapy or cancer drugs, whilst reducing the risks and severity of potential side-effects; including using hyperbaric oxygen therapy, hyperthermia, fasting and so ...

Cancer survivor Beata Bishop beat melanoma with the Gerson Therapy How Beata beat metastatic melanoma cancer with diet alone Beata Bishop beat cancer - melanoma - more than 35 years ago. After orthodox treatment had failed her, she decided to take an alternative approach usin ...

How Professor Ben Williams beat his brain cancer Professor Ben Williams beat GBM, brain cancer using orthodox therapies supported by his own concoction of 'repurposed' old drugs and compounds he added based on his own extensive research. ...

Smart choices How Geoff Boycott bowled a googly at cancer. When Geoff Boycott discovered he had cancer and heard that he would never talk on radio or TV again, one of the people he first turned to was icon editor Chris Woollams, who helped him build his Integrative Progra ...

April-May 2009 CANCER WATCH APRIL/MAY 2009 Just click on the title to read the item. STAR STORIES Take Ginger to quell nausea from chemotherapy Crucial role of fi ...

January 2009 CANCER WATCH JANUARY 2009 Just click on the title to read the item. LATEST WORLD CANCER NEWS Breast patients ‘risking their lives’ by not ...

Issue 3 - 2006 LATEST WORLD CANCER NEWSPublic Confidence In Medical Research DeclinesReducing Fatigue In Cancer PatientsExemestane Trials Set Doctors A Breast Cancer ConundrumChallenge To Thinking On Lobular Breast CancerSilicone B ...

Cancer Watch June 2010 CANCER WATCH JUNE 2010 Just click on the title to read the article STAR STORIES New Blood test for cancer a breakthrough in detection Vitamin Supplements may increase cancer survival times ...

Cancer Watch January 2011 To read an article just click on the title below. STAR STORIES Do newly-diagnosed prostate cancer patients need treatment? Micronutrients can prevent mutation and canc ...

Cancer Watch April 2011 To read an article just click on the title below. SPECIAL STORIES New step forward for prostate cancer treatment using HIFU Cancer Research to edit Wikipedia cancer information ...

An aspirin a day cuts cancer death risk by 37% Oxford University and John Radcliffe Hospital Scientists led by Professor Peter Rothwell have found ’strong evidence’ across a number of recent studies that aspirin can not only h ...

Bioactive foods stop cancer stem cell re-growth A poor diet can encourage the re-growth of cancer tumours from the cancer stem cells at their heart, while a good diet containing Biotic compounds like sulforaphanes, curcumin, piperine, EGCG and others can prevent t ...

Does Chemotherapy promote cancer? Alarming study from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle: Chemotherapy ’backfires’Researchers from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, lead by Peter Nelson M.D. have shown that chemotherapy drugs can CA ...

Curcumin reduces fatty liver disease Turmeric (Curcuma longa) and curcumin can reduce fatty liver disease; they are known to prevent liver inflammation, restrict high blood glucose and are powerful antioxidants; they can switch ...

Curcumin wakes up tumour suppressing gene Cheryl Myers, an American integrative health nurse, author, and expert on natural medicine, is the head of Scientific Affairs and Education for EuroPharma, Inc. She refers to curcumin as the anti-cancer herb, because ...

Now vitamin D is shown to prevent bladder cancer We have told you how good blood serum levels prevent breast cancer, prostate cancer, colorectal cancer and lung cancer plus several others. Now it’s the turn of bladder cancer. The positive studies on other ...

Curcumin inhibits metastases in prostate cancer A research team from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany has shown that curcumin can inhibit the formation of metastases in prostate cancer tissues and other cancer lines such as breast cancer, as we ...

Curcumin works with chokeberry to kill brain cancer cells At CANCERactive we have told you that chokeberry, curcumin, fish oils, echinacea choline and inositol and CoQ10 all had a positive effect with brain tumours according to UK research. A decade later, researchers from ...

Resveratrol inhibits cancer stem cell renewal Resveratrol is a stilbene, a natural polyphenol compound produced when, for example, grape skins are under attack from moulds or fungi. It has been shown to have an anti-tumour and anti-cancer stem cell effect with v ...

Curcumin reduces the risk of breast cancer caused by HRT At CANCERactive we have long warned you that HRT is dangerous and increases the risk of breast cancer significantly. In 2007 we covered research that a natural compound in olives, artichokes, basil, parsley, celery a ...

Polyphenol-rich Pomi-T highly effective against PSA in research Professor Robert Thomas and his research team have completed a randomised double blind, placebo controlled trial of an polyphenol-rich dietary food supplement, called Pomi-T, in men with prostate cancer; reducing PSA ...

Pomegranate effects in cancer Pomegranate has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years. Not just the fruit but the bark of the tree and the fruit rind is used to stem diarrhoea, dysentery, bladder problems, mouth ulcers, and inte ...

How to take curcumin properly This article explains how to take Curcumin (turmeric) because it is a molecule too large to pass easily across the gut wall and so only about 7% is normally absorbed. In other words, 93% of your supplement and your m ...

Triglyceride levels linked to prostate cancer recurrence Prostate cancer recurrence A new study from Duke University Medical School and published October 10th online in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention has linked high triglyceride levels with the recurre ...

Triple Negative Breast cancer and rose hips Rose hips slow TNBC spread Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a particularly worrying form of breast cancer as oncologists have no protocol to treat, let alone cure, it. The disease tends to be more aggressiv ...

Curcumin may knockout HPV in cervical and oral cancers Alok Mishra from Emory University in Atlanta has shown that curcumin can suppress the growthand cancer effects of the human papillomavirus (HPV) . In addition to the anti-cancer and antiviral properties, the resea ...

Curcumin improves chemo drug effectiveness A good number of research studies provide convincing evidence that curcumin, or turmeric, improves the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs, for example 5-FU and carboplatin, whilst acting against cancer cells and pro ...

New meta-study shows best foods to kill off cancer A report on 30 years of scientific study Scientists have analysed 30 years of research studies to produce a report on the food compounds that can best help you kill off a cancer. The ’inconvenient tr ...

Adherence to Mediterranean Diet reduces cancer risk, increases survival Adherence to a colourful Mediterranean Diet helps beat cancer 1. A meta-analysis involving over 30 studies and 1,784,404 people in all, has shown that a higher adherence to a colourful Mediterran ...

Brain cancer - alternative treatments that work? There are definitely alternative and complementary treatments for brain tumours that can increase your personal odds of survival, from Dendritic cell vaccines to oncolytic viruses and taking off-l ...

Milk Thistle and Curcumin with colorectal cancer Milk thistle strengthens the liver, protecting against chemotherapy damage; it restricts brain metastases from lung cancer and can be used in the treatment of Cushing's disease. Now researchers have sho ...

Intriguing test shows curcumin does have anti-cancer effect The BBC TV Programme ‘Trust me – I’m a Doctor’ decided to explore the world of Turmeric and curcumin.Starting from a point of cynicism, they gave three groups of people either a placebo, or fr ...

Researchers find how colorectal cancer stops the drugs attacking it Cancer-associated Fibroblasts stop chemo working and repair damaged cancer cells Cells in the colorectal ’tumour microenvironment’, or TEM, produce chemical compounds that provide a brake and stop chem ...

Common cold remedy enhances chemo drugs Flufenamic acid, a cheap drug used with colds, has been ‘unexpectedly proven to fight cancers’ according to Dr. Shinya Tanaka of Hokkaido University in Japan. Recently there has been great interest in ...

Natural Compounds can fight HER2 positive breast cancer: Review Research advances have shown a great many natural compounds such as berberine, melatonin, turkey tail mushrooms, honokiol, vitamin D, melatonin and apigenin-containing compounds, to be capable of helping fi ...

Five natural compounds that help fight HER2 breast cancer Five natural, bioactive compounds - psoralen, curcumin, olive oil, anthocyanins and beta glucans - have been shown to improve HER2 treatments while also being active against HER2 positive breast cancer in their own r ...

Seven natural compounds shown to fight Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) Triple Negative Breast Cancer or TNBC has a number of clear features that do respond to both Natural treatments and bioactive compounds - here are seven bioactive compounds and three supporting treatments. &nbs ...

Vitamin C plus antibiotic doxycycline, a lethal combination to cancer stem cells Professor Michael Lisanti and his team at the University of Salford, Biomedical Research Centre have shown that cancer stem cells can be defeated by a 'double punch’ of antibiotic doxycycline in combin ...

Using only alternative cancer therapies is linked to lower survival Cancer patients who chose solely alternative therapies rather than conventional cancer therapies like surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy had a significantly poorer survival record, according to rese ...

Curcumin suppresses HPV oncoproteins and restores the p53 gene Curcumin has the ability to prevent Human papillomavirus creating cervical cancer cells. This important research finding (1) has the potential to help over 6 million Americans who are infected currently ...

Hyperbaric oxygen and curcumin stabilises woman with myeloma Dieneke Fergusson, a woman with recurrent Multiple Myeloma since 2007, finally stabilised her disease by using Hyperbaric Oxygen and 8 gms of curcumin daily; the case has been documented in the British Journal.&nbs ...

Three foods starve prostate cancer of glutamate Three natural compounds - ursolic acid, curcumin, resveratrol - consumed in combination can inhibit prostate cancer cell growth by restricting glutamate consumption, according to researchers at the University of Texa ...

A high PSA may be due to the drugs you take, not your prostate Blood thinners and PSA Pradaxa (Dabigatran etexilate) is an oral medication which claims to be ‘the only oral blood thinner with a specific reversal treatment to lower your risk of stroke’. ...

Rainbow Diet ingredients reduce anxiety and depression Curcumin and the potent Mediterranean spice, saffron, have been shown in research to act in a powerful combination to reduce anxiety and also depression.While there have been previous studies showing the same results ...

The Rainbow Diet and Spices Spices are widely used throughout the Mediterranean, reflecting a strong multi-cultural, and particularly Arab, influence. Spices have been used to treat and cure a wide variety of ailments. For example Saffron, whic ...

Increasing your personal odds of beating cancer You can beat the statistics by building your own personal Integrative Medicine plan. It's up to you. There is so much you can do to increase your personal odds of survival. You developed the cancer over a number ...

Chris Woollams - Man on a Mission In 2002 and 2003 Chris Woollams was repeatedly dubbed ’A Man on a Mission’ by the British Press. He had tried to help his daughter Catherine who had been diagnosed with a grade IV glioblastoma and the ...

Personal prescriptions with Chris Woollams; feedback and comments Feedback and comments from people who have had a Personal Prescription with Chris Woollams Read real comments and feedback from people with cancer who have had a Personal Prescription (PP) with Chris Wool ...

DCIS Q: I have recently had a lumpectomy following the finding of calcium deposits in a milk duct, coupled with the presence of a tumour waiting to be coated in calcium deposits. The only way this was found was through a ...

THE Complementary Cancer Charity CANCERactive - the UKs number 1 complementary cancer charity. Empowering you with more information on more cancer options to give you more personal choice and so increase your personal odds ...

Comprehensive Integrative Cancer Information Expert information on complementary and integrative cancer therapies and the latest emerging alternative cancer treatments, not just orthodox cancer treatment. Integrative oncology - The CANCERa ...

An Overview of Cervical Cancer - symptoms, causes and treatment alternatives A patient-friendly overview of the symptoms, causes and treatment alternatives available for cervical cancer and dysplasia including surgery, drugs, radiotherapy and alternative therapies such as proton beam therapy, ...

An Overview of Colorectal cancer - symptoms, causes and treatment alternatives Comprehensive information about colorectal cancer, also called bowel cancer, colon cancer or rectal cancer, including symptoms, causes and alternative colorectal cancer treatments from berberine and artemisinin to Ke ...

An Overview of Leukemia cancer - symptoms, causes and alternative treatments A comprehensive review of leukaemia including the symptoms, causes, and alternative treatments from CAR-T immunotherapy and stem cell transplants to the herbs Feverfew and Honokiol; it covers the different types AML, ...

Catherine Woollams Catherine Louise Woollams. Founder, CANCERactive (1978 - 2004) Sadly, on October 22nd 2004 at 2.00 am Catherine passed away. The oncologist told her parents that when he first saw her he gave her 6 ...

Chris Woollams, Founder CANCERactive Chris Woollams. Helping people, not cancer. Are you the Cancer Guru who helped Geoffrey Boycott beat his cancer? Thus started an email from a Doctor to Chris in 2007. Cancer Guru is not a title Chris consi ...

Alternative Cancer Therapies Alternative cancer treatment options Welcome to the home page of the UKs number 1 charity for Alternative Cancer Treatments. Here we cover more than a dozen Alternative cancer therapies in areas like ...

An Overview of Lung cancer - symptoms, causes, types and treatment alternatives Patient-friendly overview of lung cancer; the types of lung cancer, the causes of lung cancer and orthodox and complementary lung cancer therapies, including alternative lung cancer therapies and immunotherapy. Lu ...

An Overview of Melanoma and Skin Cancer - symptoms, causes and treatment alternatives Information on Melanoma and Skin Cancer - symptoms, causes and alternative therapies; This overview on melanoma and skin cancer and its associated articles will give you everything you need to know to help y ...

An Overview of Oesophageal Cancer - symptoms, treatment and alternative therapies This overview on oesophageal cancer (esophageal cancer) and associated articles will hopefully give you everything you need to know to help you increase your personal odds of beating oesophagael cancer - the sym ...

An Overview of Prostate cancer - symptoms, causes and alternative treatments Prostate cancer - symptoms, causes and alternative treatments An overview of prostate cancer, including symptoms, causes and orthodox, integrative and alternative prostate cancer treatments, so you can increase yo ...

Prostate cancer - Latest News, Latest Research | CANCERactive LATEST NEWS AND RESEARCH ON PROSTATE CANCER Increase your personal odds of survival by empowering yourself with the latest research and news on prostate cancer; 'news you can use' today and ...

An Overview of Breast cancer - symptoms, causes and treatments (orthodox, complementary, alternative) A comprehensive overview of Breast Cancer - symptoms, diagnosis, causes and alternative treatments This breast cancer overview and the many associated articles on our website will give you everything you need to ...

8 ways to strengthen your liver A weak liver weakens the whole body reducing metabolism, increasing blood fats like cholesterol and triglycerides, weaking the immune system and increasing inflammation; here are 8 proven ways to strengthen your l ...

The Truth about Intravenous vitamin C (IVC) and cancer Vitamin C is an antioxidant, essential to the immune system, yet plasma levels are usually depleted in people with cancer, sometimes severely. While oral ingestion barely raises these levels, Intravenous in ...

The Ketogenic Diet and cancer: Keto Diet Chris Woollams with Keto Diet champion, Professor Thomas Seyfried of Boston College The Ketogenic Diet, or Keto Diet, is a high fat (90% of calories), ...

Holistic Cancer Therapies Holistic Cancer Therapies If you are in America you may talk about using integrative cancer therapies to help beat your cancer. In the UK you are more likely to refer to them as holistic cancer therapies. Im not t ...

An A to Z guide of Complementary Therapies for cancer Over 80 per cent of people with cancer use a Complementary Therapy and this review by two top UK cancer charities - the London Breast Cancer Haven and CANCERactive - looks at the most co ...

Hyperbaric Oxygen in Cancer Treatment Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, HBO, or HBOT, or HBO2T, can be an important part of a complementary and integrative cancer treatment programme; it can increase blood oxygen levels quickly to 100 per cent, it can ...

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Vitamins, minerals, natural compounds and supplements Natural cancer treatments, herbal cancer treatments, and things that just don't do any good at all. We do our best to tell you the truth. This section covers a whole range of natural, bioactive and h ...

Changing your diet to beat cancer Your doctor, oncologist or nurse are completely wrong when they say that there is no point in changing your diet to help you survive longer or even beat cancer; the main reason for their error is that they have ...

Rainbow Diet Recipes Cancer nutrition with Nutrichef What do I eat if I have cancer? Preparing a diet for cancer is always hard. Cancer nutrition is not the same as eating when you are well. Here Barbara Cox, the Nutrichef, gives ...

Chronic Inflammation, chronic illnesses and, especially, cancer Stop chronic inflammation driving your cancerChronic inflammation is one of the biggest driving forces in cancer. It can both cause cancer and it is used by cancer to spread. If you want to cure cancer, or at least g ...

Mental State and cancer Mental state and stress are definitely linked to cancerDepression is linked to cancer. Theres a factual explanation. People who are depressed have lowered plasma oxygen levels. And people who have low plasma oxygen d ...

Stress Management aids cancer survival There are at least 3 ways (via histamine, the microbiome and Cox-2) that stress has been proven to cause cancer and increase metastases; and stress management techniques are an essential part of an Integrative cancer ...

Chemotherapy and cancer drugs The Truth about Cancer DrugsHere CANCERactive covers chemotherapy and cancer drugs and we include our A to Z review of the top cancer drugs. In the past, several experts have conducted reviews for ...

Chemosensitivity Testing An article on the benefits of chemosensitivity testing, where a blood test checks for circulating cancer cells, CTCs, and then measures their sensitivity to drugs and natural compounds before they are used.Chemosensi ...

Cancer research and news - 2012 Below you will find the latest cancer research, news and information from around the world for 2012. Just click on the one you want to read: Cancer Watch January 2012 (Parabens in breast tissue) ...

July - September Cancer Watch Cancer Watch July 2012 (Japanese no longer the longest lived)Cancer Watch July 2012 (Study Reveals Optimal Interval for Stomach Cancer Screening)Cancer Watch July 2012 ( Largest Pharmaceutical Misconduct Settlement i ...

Resveratrol and its significant benefits in prostate cancer treatment Research has shown that resveratrol has a number of benefits in cancer treatment. The natural compound commonly found in organic red grape skins, where it wards off fungal attack, has been linked to strengthening the ...

A Tip for Oncologists, Doctors and Nurses After I left Oxford with my Biochemistry Degree, I went into Advertising in London, training with top company, Ogilvy and Mather. Somehow I rose to the top pretty quickly and was MD of Publicis when I w ...

Holy Basil, ursolic acid and cancer Holy Basil or Tulsi Holy Basil is an important herb in medicinal folklore throughout Asia. In India this herb, Ocimum sanctum is called Tulsi. It has numerous proven properties. ...

Ayurvedic herbs that fight cancer The top 4 Ayurvedic herbs that fight cancer - Research into Traditional Ayurveda Medicine and cancer is growing rapidly and four herbs (Holy Basil, Ashwagandha, Turmeric and Ginger) stand out in showing signi ...

Triple Negative Breast Cancer overview, causes and treatments Triple Negative Breast Cancer overview and treatments This article on TNBC is in production and will be completed shortly. It is an overview on Triple Negative Breast cancer, or TNBC, a cancer where orthodo ...

Leukaemia overview - symptoms, causes and alternative treatments A comprehensive overview on leukaemia including its symptoms, causes and alternative treatments covering AML, CML, CLL and ALL as well as child leukaemia. This leukaemia overview and associated articles will help ...

Curcumin blocks enzyme in multiple myeloma and TNBC Proteasome inhibitors are important drugs for the inhibition of proteasomes in the treatment of multiple myeloma; and research shows turmeric (or curcumin) can inhibit the same enzymes i ...

Ten ways to reduce your PSA Ten ways to reduce your PSA Every man over the age of 60 worries about his PSA level. PSA stands for Prostate Specific Antigen and is actually more a measure of the size and hence inflammation of th ...

An overview of endometrial cancer, womb cancer, uterine cancer - causes, symptoms and alternative treatments This overview of endometrial cancer (also called womb cancer or uterine cancer) covers causes (from estrogen to pathogens), symptoms (from vaginal bleeding to discharge), diagnosis and all the latest treatment altern ...

How curcumin targets cancer stem cells, while drugs make matters worse Curcumin, the active ingredient of turmeric, has been shown to have numerous cytoxic effects on Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs), while protecting normal stem cells in the body. In a thorough review of available ...

Anti-Worm drug, Fenbendazole, effective at killing cancer cells Research shows that Fenbendazole, commonly used as a canine deworming drug in veterinary practice, can block sugar uptake, cause apoptosis in cancer cells, reduce tumour size and even help overcom ...

Is low dose Tamoxifen the way forward in breast cancer? A much lower dose of Tamoxifen than is normally used in women with Er+ve breast cancer has been shown to be effective by researchers in Italy. The correct dosage of Tamoxifen has never been researched nor actually ...

CANCERactive - The Appliance of Science Science is about debate, hypothesis, research, evidence and results; If a hypothesis doesn't yield the desired results, the good scientist moves on and explores another avenue o ...

Is Myomin the alternative natural aromatase inhibitor? Myomin is a herbal complex containing astragalus membranaceous, white curcumin, aralia, cyperus rotundus and smilax grablar developed by Dr. Tsu-Tsair Chi a Chinese-American Doctor and Naturopath, to reduce estr ...

Polyphenols - top foods for health Some 502 polyphenols are found in foods; the richest sources and the best foods and drinks are all listed here; as a diet rich in polyphenols can protect and even correct against most of the main types of cancer; bot ...

Alternative treatments for early prostate cancer Newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients with disease confined to the capsule have a number of alternative treatments like brachytherapy, ablation, cryoablation, Nanoknife, HIFU or Proton Beam Therapy available ...

Milk Thistle compound suppresses brain metastases People with lung cancer and metastases to the brain receiving silibinin (from Silybum marianum) during whole brain radiotherapy, showed significantly superior overall survival, In a 2017 study (1). The Spanish res ...

Top ten natural compounds against cancer stem cells Here are ten natural bioactive compounds, including sulforaphane, genistein, turmeric, lycopene, ursolic acid, resveratrol, 6-gingerol, Honokiol, piperine, parthenolide and EGCG, that have been shown to attack s ...

Throat, neck and mouth cancer - Latest News, Latest Research | CANCERactive LATEST NEWS AND RESEARCH ON THROAT, NECK and MOUTH CANCER Increase your personal odds of survival by empowering yourself with the latest news and research on throat cancer, neck and mouth cancer; ne ...

Glutamate and prostate cancer Plasma glutamate levels directly correlate with the prostate Gleason score and the primary cancer’s aggression; this finding could lead to less invasive ways to diagnose prostate cancer rather than a biopsy and ...

Curcumin and Tamoxifen in breast cancer A single report based on a laboratory test that curcumin or turmeric might reduce the effectiveness of Tamoxifen seems misleading as studies involving the whole body have produced the opposite result and shown that t ...

The Sunday Show 06: Chris Woollams interviewed Dr. Thomas Lodi On Sunday 16th August 2020 in The Sunday Show, Chris interviewed Integrative oncology expert Dr. Thomas Lodi on the benefits of holistic health treatment and on Private Health Clinics and exactly what they have to of ...

Cytomegalovirus - common in brain, prostate, ovarian, colorectal and breast cancers The presence of active cytomegalovirus proteins and nucleic acids has been found in both Glioblastoma and Medulloblastoma tumours, and more recently and in other cancers such as ovarian cancer, br ...

How to eradicate Liver Fluke parasite Parasites - worms or fluke - that are common in South East Asia, China, India and which live and rapidly breed in the bile ducts are an important factor in the increasing levels of Cholangiocarcinoma (Bile Duct ...

PARP inhibitors - what supplements may help? From Research Natural compounds, especially polyphenols such as berberine, turmeric, honokiol, resveratrol and EGCG, are potent inhibitors of PARP and, along with Vitamin D and fish oils, can only help PARP-inhibitor drugs. ...

Encorafenib (Braftovi) This patient-friendly review is about the anti-cancer drug Encorafenib (Braftovi); it is a kinase inhibitor currently used for Colorectal cancer and Melanoma. Encorafenib is taken as a capsule by mouth, ...

Multiple Myeloma, causes, alternative treatments, natural therapies: Research Review A research review of the key information, such as causes, microbiome involvement, bone marrow transplant success and natural compounds you should consider if diagnosed with Multiple myeloma, MGUS or smouldering myelo ...

Is a combination of Fenbendazole and Ivermectin a real cancer killer? Fenbendazole and/or Mebendazole seem the perfect pairing with insecticide Ivermectin as an off label combination against cancer; recent research shows this 3-in-1 combination attacks the mitochondrial stem cell conne ...

HPV and cancer - are there any natural treatments? HPV cancers are booming since the pandemic. Are their ways of eradicating, or at least reducing the load of this Herpes virus? HPV related cancers - not just cervical, but tongue, throat, mouth and even oe ...

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