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An A to Z guide to cancer drugs - chemotherapy, immunotherapy etc.
An A to Z guide to cancer drugs - chemotherapy, immunotherapy etc.
Below are listed, from A-Z, the top 150 or so cancer drugs used currently in the UK, each review written in a patient-friendly manner. Your anti-cancer drug programme can involve several ...
An enhanced ’off-label’ drug anti-cancer protocol?
An enhanced ’off-label’ drug anti-cancer protocol?
Some cancer patients want to use off-label or repurposed drugs as part of a total programme using natural compounds as well; here CANCERactive creates an easy to understand integrative 3-in-1 anti ...
An Overview of Bladder cancer - causes, symptoms and treatment alternatives
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, immunotherap ...
BCG (Bacillus Calmette and Gurin)
BCG (Bacillus Calmette and Gurin)
This patient-friendly article is about chemotherapy drug, Bacillus Calmette and Guérin (BCG), used for treating bladder cancer. It contains attenuated mycobacteria which also allows it ...
Bladder and lung cancer immunotherapy
Bladder and lung cancer immunotherapy
A new immunotherapy, Atezolizumab, has now been successfully used in a clinical trial with 300 invasive bladder cancer patients. All had been previously treated but their cancer had returned. Dr. ...
Bladder cancer - Latest News, Latest Research | CANCERactive
Bladder cancer - Latest News, Latest Research | CANCERactive
LATEST NEWS AND RESEARCH ON BLADDER CANCER Increase your personal odds of survival by empowering yourself with the latest news and research on bladder cancer; news you can use today a ...
Bladder cancer, E. coli and UTIs
Bladder cancer, E. coli and UTIs
Strains of the pathogen E coli, found most frequently in Urinary Tract Infections or UTIs, have now been linked to bladder cancer, and research shows they are more likely to be present in acidic u ...
Breast milk compound cures cancer?
Breast milk compound cures cancer?
A natural compound found in human breast milk caused the death of bladder cancer cells, in human patients and then 40 more different cancer cell lines in vitro, in research from Lund Uni ...
Building an off-label drugs protocol for cancer?
Building an off-label drugs protocol for cancer?
Using off-label drugs as an anti-cancer protocol is a hot topic among cancer patients; here is a practical guide to the top repurposed drugs being currently used by patients to help fight their ca ...
CANCERactive guidelines on nutrition and physical activity for cancer
CANCERactive guidelines on nutrition and physical activity for cancer
These CANCERactive guidelines on nutrition and physical activity are for people with cancer who want to increase their personal odds of survival; they include adhering to the colourful Mediterrane ...
Chemotherapy reduces magnesium levels
Chemotherapy reduces magnesium levels
Cancer drugs can reduce the levels of magnesium in the body to dangerously low levels risking nerve, heart and bone damage and causing reduced levels of essential vitamin D and a poor immune respo ...
Complementary Therapies for People with Cancer
Complementary Therapies for People with Cancer
A 'kiddies guide' to complementary Therapies!  By Caroline Hoofman of The Breast Cancer Haven, London, with additional research by Chris Woollams. Introduction In a recent re ...
Coxsackie cold virus knocks out bladder cancer
Coxsackie cold virus knocks out bladder cancer
A strain of the common cold virus, the coxsackie virus (CVA21), can halt the early stages of bladder cancer, according to researchers from Surrey University in the UK. In the study(1), involvin ...
Cutting sugar and glutamate starves cancer to death
Cutting sugar and glutamate starves cancer to death
A high potency molecule named Glutor can block cancer cells feeding on glucose, and in combination with a glutaminase inhibitor CB-839, which blocked the metabolism of fall-back fuel glutamate, ca ...
Bladder cancer
Diabetes drugs linked to bladder cancer
A popular class of diabetes drugs (thiazolidinediones, or TZDs) which make up a fifth of all prescribed diabetes drugs in the USA, increases patients’ risk of bladder cancer, according to 20 ...
Erdafitinib (Balversa) for bladder cancer, brain tumours
Erdafitinib (Balversa) for bladder cancer, brain tumours
Back in 2018, research was presented at the ASCO annual meeting showing that a new drug Erdafitinib appeared to be both safe and effective; Erdafitinib is an oral FGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor. ...
Exercise increases cancer survival
Exercise increases cancer survival
Exercise acts as a potent drug in the body, increasing oxygenation of the tissues, producing anti-inflammatory and stress- and depression-reducing hormones called endorphins and altering the ...
Bladder cancer
First bladder cancer drug in 30 years
New “immunotherapy” drugs shrank bladder cancer tumours in half of the patients with advanced disease. And in seven per cent of cases the tumours -disappeared completely. Every ye ...
Gut bacteria link with foods can reduce cancer risk
Gut bacteria link with foods can reduce cancer risk
The foods you consume determine the composition of your gut microbiome, which in turn determines the messages sent out in your body; messages that can control or cause inflammation and even chan ...
High fat diets damage the microbiome
High fat diets damage the microbiome
People who believe a high fat diet is a recipe for good health may be badly mistaken; the evidence is against them. Consuming a high-fat diet can cause a significantly lower gut microbiome dive ...
How antibiotics cause C. difficile and death in hospitals
How antibiotics cause C. difficile and death in hospitals
How a more virulent strain of Clostridium difficile, caused by drugs and antibiotics, emerged to kill patients in hospitals Clostridium difficile, or C-difficile is a bacterium found in about a ...
Hyperbaric Oxygen, HBO, or HBOT, increases uptake of chemotherapy drugs
Hyperbaric Oxygen, HBO, or HBOT, increases uptake of chemotherapy drugs
The uptake of chemotherapy drugs is increased immediately after, and for the duration of, Hyperbaric Oxygen (HBO, or HBOT) treatment according to several specific research studies involving diff ...
Now vitamin D is shown to prevent bladder cancer
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 positi ...
Patients need personal plans after cancer diagnosis
Patients need personal plans after cancer diagnosis
A report by Macmillan Cancer Support, the Royal College of Anaesthetists, the National Institute for Health Research Cancer and Nutrition Collaboration recommends the introduction of “prehab ...
Pesticides and Herbicides as ’cancer-causing’ as smoking
Pesticides and Herbicides as ’cancer-causing’ as smoking
People who live in areas where there is agricultural chemical spraying of herbicides and pesticides, have a similar cancer risk to that of smokers; even children and young adults are at risk. & ...
Polyphenols - top foods for health
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 ...
Poor diet leads to more deaths than drinking and smoking
Poor diet leads to more deaths than drinking and smoking
Poor diets and processed foods kill more people than drinking or smoking according to a robust study from the University of Washington and part of the larger Global Burden of Disease study; sugar, ...
Salinomycin, a promising anticancer stem cell agent
Salinomycin, a promising anticancer stem cell agent
The antibiotic Salinomycin, used in animal feed to kill pathogens, is another repurposed or off-label anti-cancer drug that seems very capable of killing cancer stem cells. It is already used as s ...
The Active8 Programme
The Active8 Programme
Almost 20 years of research has gone in to the ACTIVE8 PROGRAMME® designed to help you take control of your cancer and build your own integrated, cancer therapy programme to help inc ...
Top ten natural compounds against cancer stem cells
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 be ...
Bladder cancer
Two proteins and bladder cancer
First, according to researchers at Lund University, Uppsala University and KTH in Sweden, aggressive forms of bladder cancer involve the protein PODXL and this could hold the key to improved treat ...
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