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Fasting helps regenerate the immune system Scientists at the University of Southern California led by Dr. Valter Longo have shown that fasting for as little as 3 days seems capable of regen ...

News item - Researchers have found that people diagnosed with colon cancer or bowel cancer, have less variety of bacteria in their gut than healthy people; and those they do have, feature more har ...

Mistletoe is a parasitic plant that grows on apple and other trees. The ancient Greeks swore by it as a treatment for all manner of ailments. It seems to increase immune response and can inc ...

At CANCERactive we worry. All too often we find nurses and doctors chanting out some repetitive myth when solid research suggests the opposite. Perhaps Preventative Double Mastectomies (PDM) provi ...

We have told you before in Cancer Watch of research into how glyphosphate is NOT broken down by the soil, how it gets into the food chain and damages essential bacteria in the soil and in the gut; ...

Scientists have now shown that increased sugar uptake actually causes cancer, not simply that cancer cells have an increased appetite for sugar; while a second study shows sugar also damages the i ...

Yet again higher plasma levels of vitamin D have been shown to be linked to improved survival. This time it is for Bowel cancer. Vitamin D has long been known to be of preventative benefit in bowe ...

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 s ...

Melatonin has been shown to have important epigenetic (cancer-correcting) benefits in breast cancer, being capable of regulating the growth and spread of breast cancer, according to a re ...

According to new evidence from UK Government scientists, choking smog in cities caused by diesel fumes is worsening. Nitrogen Dioxide levels are rising by 10-15 per cent a year. And because diesel ...

SYNCAN study shows taking probiotics can reduce colorectal cancer and may even help defeat it (Chris Woollams. CANCERactive). Taking Probiotics can reduce your risk of colorectal cancer, and ma ...

Light daily physical activity such as daily walks can increase survival and reduce the risk of dying from cancer. Exercise has many benefits and time and time again it has been shown to prevent ca ...

Pharmaceutical firm Takeda has been fined $6 billion for covering up health risks relating to bladder cancer associated with their popular type-2 diabetes drug ACTOS. Takeda’s partner, Pharma comp ...

Sharon Kelly - Living ProofWhen Sharon Kelly was suddenly diagnosed with a stage IV lung cancer and given little hope of living more than a few months, she decided to build her own Compl ...

With a Regional Health Authority in Australia announcing it is to ban soft drink sales in schools, came visuals of sugar cubes in front of each bottle to show exactly the problem -14 for coca cola ...

Postmenopausal women with diverse gut bacteria have a reduced risk of breast cancer according to research published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (Associations of the F ...

IBS drugs called thiopurines, cause a 7-fold risk of blood and bone marrow diseases’ like leukaemia and multiple myeloma, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University Hospital ...

A major pan-European research led by the University of Glasgow Dental School suggests that people rinsing with alcohol-based mouthwash more than three times a day have a greater chance of developi ...

Professor Gail Prins and her team at the University of Illinois, Chicago have shown that exposure to the chemical BPA in the womb, increases the risk of prostate cancer later in life.  Exp ...

Scientists from the University of Minnesota have been studying hard-to-treat pancreatic cancer. Conventional medicine currently offers little in the way of a cure.The basic problem is that pancrea ...

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 lev ...

Harvard Scientists have followed 49,400 males for 24 years starting in 1986 and shown that the 25% of the men in the study who had had a vasectomy, had a 10% higher risk of prostate cancer than th ...

A body of research evidence is building which shows current orthodox prostate cancer treatment may be a waste of time. Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, (results publi ...

Dr. Tan Ince is a pathology professor at the University of Miami and an accomplished breast cancer researcher He is working on a new personalized multi-hormone treatment protocol for breast cancer ...

Researchers have shown that vitamin D given in conjunction with gemcitabine chemotherapy in mice results in a 57% increase in survival over chemo on its own(1).  29% of the mice were consi ...

2014 research into natural B-17, or amygdalin, on bladder cancer cell lines showed that it blocks cancer cells in vitro; it dose-dependently reduced cancer cell growth  and proliferation in a ...

Professor Duan Chen from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Timothy Wang, professor at Columbia University, have produced a study (journal Science Translational Medicine) in w ...

As usual, falling to cancer is your fault! According to Cancer Research UK, nearly 46% of cancers are stage 3 or stage 4 when diagnosed, giving people a much lower chance of survival. As we have o ...

In a not too impressive piece of research, "Bra Wearing Not Associated with Breast Cancer Risk: A Population-Based Case-Control Study," published in the journal of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers ...

While skeptics hurl abuse at alternative therapies and never consider a patient’s right to use a treatment on their own life, it was somewhat bizarre to receive a Press Release from Astra Ze ...

Researchers at the University of Calgary’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) and Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute (SACRI) have shown that a drug AZD8055, when combined with Temozolom ...

Less, more accurate doses has to be one aim and it seems a specialist group (the Arizona breast cancer specialists) may have developed a solution. They have created a new surgical marker with a un ...

Chokeberry extract improves Gemcitabine performance In a laboratory study using pancreatic cancer cells, chokeberry extract seemed to increase the effectiveness of gemcitabine. Researchers t ...

October 2014 - A new partnership between the UK charity Brain Tumour Research and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) in collaboration with the UCL Institute of Neurology sees  the opening ...

We have covered Apigenin before in Cancer Watch.A new study followed mice that were injected with ovarian cancer, in a form that is particularly resistant to chemotherapy. All the mice developed c ...

New research conducted by Dr. Norman Breslow, of the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA followed 2,492 women who received treatment for Wilms tu ...

October 27, 2014 saw the 4th International Symposium on Focused Ultrasound in Charlottesville, VA, which featured clinical and research advances on the use of this non-invasive therapeutic technol ...

The World Health Organisation has come up with 12 ‘rules’. Are you ready?      1. Do Not Smoke/Do Not Use Tobacco   It’s estimated that t ...

And so another medical myth dies.A new research study, this time published in the British Medical Journal, has looked at whether high milk consumption is associated with mortality and fractures in ...

In research provided by the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen’s University, Belfast, of the 81 rice products tested, 58% exceeded new, recommended limits for children’s produ ...

One in six patients with oesophageal cancer have EGFR duplication and, as with some lung cancers, gefitinib seems to be able to extend survival by an average 6 months according to clinical trial r ...

Despite research in the past stating clearly that soy had a protective effect in breast cancer, there have always been doubts about the claim. ’Did you know that this cancer can be driven ...

Researchers at Oxford, Cambridge and Bristol Universities compared the lifestyles of 1,806 men with prostate cancer to 12,005 men without. All were between ages 50 and 69 (Cancer Epidemiology, Bio ...

Research from the Guangdong Medical College in China has suggested that a laser-based cancer test may provide a breakthrough in prostate cancer screening (Li S, Zhang Y, Xu J, et al. Noninvasive p ...

In a 2008 study (Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. Jul 2008; 17(7): 1746–17510) researchers showed that having three bowel movements a day was linked with a reduced breast cancer risk of 46% ...

In the first ever edition of ‘Everything you need to know to help you beat cancer’ more than 10 years ago, I commented that, depending upon which research study your read, and what the ...

Airline pilots and cabin crew are exposed to both cosmic radiation and UVA and have double the risk of melanoma over the general population according to a meta-analysis by scientists from the Univ ...

Here, by month, is a list of the very latest cancer research and news for the year 2014. Bear in mind we only cover stories that you can use in your life today; not possibilities of t ...

Special Report:Aspirin benefits confirmed in the fight against cancerSeveral studies have recently appeared concerning the benefits of common aspirin in the fight against cancer.Firstly, scientist ...

Research from a team from South Korea, the US, UK and Saudi Arabia and published in Nature Chemistry has prompted some publications to suggest salt (sodium Chloride) can kill cancer cells.There is ...

Bradford University researchers have developed a simple test that can be used universally to diagnose cancer. This will enable doctors to rule out patients with symptoms similar to cancer and it m ...

Nice has approved the use of Intrabeam radiotherapy – a 20 minute blast of radiotherapy which can take place at the same time as surgery. The benefit for patients is that they don’t ha ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided to end their use of neonicotinoids to save the pollinating bees and butterflies. The insecticide resembles nicotine and kills a variety of pests. It ...

Drugs and earlier diagnosis are beating cancer – Does CRUK understand what’s going on?New data presented by Cancer Research UK shows that death rates for four cancers (accounting for h ...

New research in America (see,  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?cmd=search&term=Does+Electric+Light+Stimulate+Cancer+Development+in+Children%3F) is definitively studying the possibility ...

Do you honestly believe that radiation from cell phones, masts and WiFi is 100% safe?Dr Dariusz Leszczynski, Adjunct Professor, Division of Biochemistry and Biotechnology at the University of Hels ...

The 2014 Ancestral Health Symposium at the University of California at Berkeley (August 8, 2014) included an important discussion on the emerging cancer treatment, the ketogenic diet.   ...

Scientists at the University of Texas, Austin, have used a synthetic ion transporter to disturb the ionic balance of cancer cells and induce death (August 11, 2014, Nature Chemistry).In cancer cel ...

Scientists at the Cancer Research Center in Seattle have shown that women who had taken contraceptive pills containing 30 micrograms of oestrogen, have a 60 per cent greater risk of developing bre ...

Hot on the heels of research showing a Chinese herb could stop body systems protecting cancer cells from attack, comes another study. This time it is from Bart’s Cancer Institute.Apparently, ...

Too many cancer centres are doing complex procedures, without having the specialist skills. So, the generalism of the last two decades is going to make way for hospitals in specialist cancer field ...

Scientists from MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas have been studying ovarian cancer in mice and women (1). First they found that tumour cells spread ovarian cancer by first ‘ ...

The American College of Clinical Oncolgy meeting in Chicago end May 2014 were told of two news drugs. Both drugs - pembrolizumab and nivolumab - block the biological pathway cancers use to disguis ...

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 ...

A research study in mice has confirmed that a supplement containing a number of bioactive natural compounds, each known to have anti-cancer benefits, can inhibit metastases in Triple Negative Brea ...

Using a system similar to a pregnancy test, scientists think they can use a paper test to determine whether or not you have cancer. MIT has issued a press release on their work.   T ...

The future of cancer treatment could have arrived according to Swedish Scientists from Lund University, who have used magnetically controlled ‘rotating’ nanoparticles to force tumour c ...

 Researchers from Louisiana State University, have observed major anti-inflammatory health benefits produced by the digestion of cocoa powder by gut bacteria.  The results were pres ...

Yet more worrying evidence that orthodox cancer treatments can cause more harm than good comes with research showing women who have had radiotherapy for breast cancer have a significantly increa ...

 A study on deaths from Breast cancer in the UK from 1989 to 2010 show that, having started as the worst country in Europe, Britain has largely rectified the problem with a 41% improvement.&n ...

Damage to your gut bacteria by orthodox medicine is a hot topic. Your health has now been shown to depend upon your microbiome – particularly the flora in your gut. Indeed, it seems from the ...

Cancer Research and their claims that screening mammograms save many lives each year are, yet again, looking hollow. In a long-running Canadian study of 90,000 women, the researchers found that, o ...

The dramatic rise in thyroid cancer in America seems to have come about through over-diagnosis and treatment of tumours often too small to ever cause harm claim researchers in a study published on ...

Kansas University Medical School study on IVCResearchers from the University of Kansas Integrative Medical Research Center have shown that the use of Intravenous vitamin C injections (IVC) seems t ...

Scientists at Imperial College, London, Professor Agamemnon Epenetos and Professor Charles Coombes, may just have found a solution to a problem that has beset the war on cancer from the outset. Ca ...

Fastest growing area of lung cancer caused by oestrogen, not smokingNon-small cell lung cancer has risen from 12 per cent of all lung cancer to 40 per cent in the last 20 or so years in America. A ...

A team of scientists led by Dr. Ari Melnick, Gebroe Family Professor of Hematology/Oncology and director of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Center for Biomedical and Physical Sciences at Weill Cor ...

Michael King, professor of biomedical engineering and his team at Cornell University in the US have found a way of killing 90 per cent of circulating cancer cells by attaching proteins to the whit ...