Wrapping oral melatonin supplements in lipid particles increases delivery into the bloodstream and increase the effectiveness of tamoxifen requiring a lower dose of Tamoxifen t ...

A recent research report shows that children’s cancer has grown 40 per cent in just 16 years, with colorectal cancer growing a whopping 200 per cent. Leukaemia, lymphoma and brain cance ...

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 ...

Chemotherapy and radiotherapy effectiveness is improved significantly by oral melatonin supplementation with decreased side-effects; this is recorded in two meta-analyses and in a review by S ...

Although Prostate cancer surgery has undoubtedly improved over the past two decades with experienced surgeons and robot-assisted surgery, men are still rightly concerned about the twin threats of ...

Personalised vaccines prepared from GBM tissue removed during surgery can enhance the performance of Temozolomide and Avastin and significantly increase survival times in patients with grade 4 bra ...

When relations between the USA and Cuba improved a year or so ago, CANCERactive reported that US drugs companies were rushing to gain a deal with the Cuban company making a lung cancer vaccine tha ...

Periodontal disease, or gum disease, and the pathogens involved have been linked to an increased risk of pancreatic cancer. Researchers have found that men and women whose oral microbiomes incl ...

Brian Coombes, Professor of Biochemistry, and a team at McMaster University have shown that even after killing off a serious bout of food–poisoning (for example, from Salmonella or Listeria) ...

  Healthy fat the key to good health A meta-analysis of 56 unique studies, reviewed by Hanna E. Bloomfield, MD, MPH and colleagues from the Minneapolis Veterans Affair ...

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HIFU melts bone metastases awayCANCERactive has championed the use of HIFU for over a decade. With HIFU, cancer tumours simply melt away, side-effects are minimal and hospitalisation can be just a ...

Australian scientists have shown that ‘stress acts as a fertiliser for cancer‘ - it induces signaling in the sympathetic nervous system and drives cancer progression. It actually restr ...

Inflammation and immune response directed by gut bacteriaThe Mayo Clinic is partnering with Evelo Biosciences in an attempt to use gut bacteria to stimulate the immune system to attack cancer. Bot ...

Women and men with a mutation in one of their chromosomes can have a higher risk of cancer. This article explains this a little more about a less common gene mutation PALB2.Mutation - what exactly ...

  There is a Living Proof in every issue of icon. Real people, living with cancer; or real cancer patients; or real cancer survivors tell you their stories of what worked for them.  We ...

Research from scientists led by Dr. Yunxia Lu, Associate Professor in the Colorectal Surgery Dept. at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden has shown that since 1980, when prostate treatment with oes ...

New guidelines from the Academy of Royal Medical Colleges, which represents 24 Royal Colleges and other important health bodies, has been bluntly honest in its assessment of drugs used for palliat ...

Your breast has its own microbiome Until 2014 scientists had no reason to believe that bacteria might play any role at all in breast cancer.  But then a Canadian, Dr. Gregor Reid, a scient ...

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 bee ...

Keytruda - first line treatment for non-small cell lung cancerThe week of October 24th 2016 may go down in cancer history. This week the FDA in America approved the immunotherapy drug Keytruda as ...

There is a Living Proof in every issue of icon. Real people, living with cancer; or real cancer patients; or real cancer survivors tell you their stories of what worked for them.  We have a ...

Vernon Johnston tells how he used sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) and molasses along with juicing and eating vegetables to alkalise his body and beat his prostate cancer; it's the second in a ...

There is a Living Proof in every issue of icon. Real people, living with cancer; or real cancer patients; or real cancer survivors tell you their stories of what worked for them.  We have a ...

Drugs that might help in brain tumour and brain cancer survival Tarceva, or Erlotinib works against Epidermal growth factor, EGFR, and has now been used in cancers such as non-small cell lung c ...

Originally published in May 2003 icon, this article looks at the potential of using chlomipramine, a tricyclic drug already widely available to treat depression, in the treatment of brain tumours, ...

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 try ...

Aluminium (aluminum) salts frequently used in many industrial compounds like antiperspirants, skin care products, vaccines, ant-acids and food additives could well be carcinogenic and implicated i ...

The combined use of two immunotherapy drugs has again been shown to be a powerful force against cancer. Professor John Wagstaff and his team at Swansea University Medical School have repeated s ...

Professor Freddy Hamdy and his Oxford University team have found that there is no advantage in having orthodox treatment in localised prostate cancer. The NHS study followed more than 82,000 men a ...

Xofigo, or radium-223 dichloride, is in the final stages of approval by NICE. It could be available on the NHS by December 2016. It is a drug for prostate cancer patients where the disease has spr ...

The UN’s cancer agency along with researchers from IARC have concluded that the ‘epidemic’ of thyroid cancer cases in richer countries is caused by over-diagnosis with CAT scans ...

Researchers from IARC and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin have investigated the importance of selenium in preventing cancer. Low levels were shown to be linked with increased risk of ...

Bisphosphonates can reduce the risk of metastases to the bones in cancer patients. In fact, bisphosphonates reduce the risk of breast cancer moving to the bones by 28 per cent and prevent 18 pe ...

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 ...

Researchers from Duke’s Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine have used genome studies to show that aspirin affects a protein (RUNX1) that regulates two genes in particul ...

Drugs, and particularly chemotherapy drugs can deplete vitamin D levels. And good vitamin D levels are essential to prevent many different illnesses from Alzheimer’s to Ricketts and bone weakness ...

At last, the FDA has decided to ban triclosan – and for two reasons, it causes health problems, and it doesn’t work! Indeed, 19 similar ‘antibacterial’ agents in soaps a ...

Research from the Institute of Cancer Research in the UK is clear: HRT TRIPLES a woman’s risk of breast cancer. This apparently ‘is far higher than previously thought’. N ...

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 eit ...

Women undergoing fertility treatment (IVF) have no increased risks of breast cancer if they are premenopausal, even 20 years later, according to research published in JAMA July 19th 2016, by resea ...

A study by researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden has shown that people who consume two sugary drinks per day develop more gallbladder and bile duct cancers.Study author, Susan Larsson, ...

Public Health, England has concluded that more people die from chemotherapy drugs than previously thought. Their research looked at 23,000 breast cancer and 10,000 lung cancer patients, and was pu ...

Public Health, England (PHE) has made a simple recommendation: Go in the sun to ensure you have enough vitamin D. And if you can’t, supplement because there is simply not much vitamin D foun ...

Many experts have theorised that parasites in varying forms (bacteria, viruses, yeasts and parasites themselves) lie behind cancer. Now an American Scientist, Dr. Alan B. Macdonald, has found Borr ...

When I was nine, my eldest sister Catherine died of a glioma, a brain tumour. She had lived almost 4 years since she was diagnosed; it was some sort of record for St Thomas’ Hospital. My ...

Published in the research journal ‘Addiction’, a study by Jennie Connor, of the preventive and social medicine department at Otago University in New Zealand, shows that seven cancer ...

Two articles in as many weeks confirm what CANCERactive has been telling readers for more than 12 years. Vitamin D is essential to your health. And if you cannot derive enough from sunshine, yo ...

  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 ...

‘Mamaprint’ test to decide whether chemo is needed or notA new genetic test, dubbed the ‘mamaprint’, can show if women need chemo after breast cancer surgery. And whether o ...

Testicular Cancer Information and cancer facts Originally published in October 2003 icon Family Connections Diagnosis Fertility The Warning Signs   Its most common in young men ...

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 ...

Sucralose, which constitutes about 30 per cent of the sweetener market and is commonly in Splenda has been shown in Italian research from the Ramazzini Instituto to be linked to a higher risk of c ...

More than seven years of research has led to ISET (Isolation by Size of Tumor cells). It’s a test that can detect the presence of circulating tumor cells in just a 10 ml sample of blood and ...

The Indian Government’s Children’s Agency has asked Indian states to test baby talc and ‘No more tears’ from Johnson and Johnson, looking for asbestos in the former and for ...

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. ...

Cancer cells burn common glucose (or High Fructose Corn Syrup) in the absence of oxygen. It is called glycolysis. The waste produced is Lactic acid, a highly toxic substance. This is rapidly remov ...

A new study from the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) showed an increased risk of stomach cancer for people drinking three or more alcoholic drinks or eating just two rashers of bacon a day; w ...

Scientists have found how cancer cells move around, by tracking them in the body. They found that if a protein EPHA2 is inactive, cancer cells can spread.If the receptor protein is active, the can ...

Drug packaged in exosomes far more efficientResearchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a revolutionary idea that means less chemotherapy can deliver even bette ...

The NOAH Protocol The NOAH Protocol is the brain-child of MD Anderson in Texas. The NOAH protocol is so important, MD Anderson are claiming that children who have been told they have no hope fo ...

Seriously? Dutch scientists led by Dr. Roelof van Leeuwen, of Erasmus MC Cancer Institute in Rotterdam, Netherlands are claiming that “powerful’ lung cancer drug Tarceva, becomes even ...

Johnson & Johnson has been ordered by a St Louis circuit court jury to pay $72 million in damages to the family of a woman whose death from ovarian cancer was linked to her use of the company& ...

  New research from Cornell University has found that, over hundreds of generations, vegetarians develop a different set of genes. Indeed, Cornell researchers describe diff ...

World’s biggest clinical trial on aspirin and cancer Hailing it as the “world’s largest clinical trial to investigate whether taking aspirin every day stops the recurrence ...

CLL Leukaemia and immunotherapy Two separate studies using CAR-T immunotherapy announced results almost simultaneously in February 2016. 1. The University of Pennsylvania’s Abrams ...

A new study (Anasuya Ray, Smreti Vasudevan, Suparna Sengupta, http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone) looked at the inhibitory activity of the ginger-derived compound 6-s ...

Researchers at the University of Santiago, Chile, have developed an ointment from plant extracts and shown in clinical trials with animals that it is an effective treatment for skin cancer and mel ...

Bacteria called Porphyromomas gingivalis, which are involved in gum disease, have been linked to an increased risk of oesophageal cancer, according to researchers at the Louisiana S ...

What do you think is in your pure’ aspirin tablet?At Lloyds Pharmacy, each tablet of 300mg Aspirin also contains: lactose, potato starch and talc. At Boots, each tablet contains Aspirin 300 m ...

A breast cancer patient recently wrote to us at CANCERactive. She is 52 and has breast cancer, ER+ and Her-2+. The programme being offered offered by her oncologist is: Surgery plus radiothe ...

Scientists writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Feb 16, 2016; Jun Li et al) have shown that probiotics (beneficial bacteria) can reduce liver tumour growth. And t ...

A study published I the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition concludes that eating more than your far share of carrots can reduce breast cancer risk. Unfortunately this phenomenon had no effect ...

In fact, your commensal bacteria (the good guys) feed off a sugar called sulfoquinovose produced during normal photosynthesis. Certain ‘unharmful’ strains of E Coli in the gut b ...

Good bacteria help ipilimumab, immunotherapy drug, workWe recently covered research in Cancer Watch from the University of Chicago where researchers looked at tumour growth in two groups of mice a ...

Do you want the good news, or the bad news? Scientists from the Eastern Maine Medical Center in the USA and the Performance Unit, South Metropolitan Health Service Perth,  ...

Breakthrough with metastaic ’terminal’ cancer? A new cancer therapy using nanotechnology has cured terminal breast cancer in mice. The nanotechnology by-passes the cancer tumour&rsq ...

Her-2 Breast cancer tumours disappear in 11 days Total euphoria is sweeping the drug industry over the recent clinical trials on the new drug Tyverb (Lapatinib). This is called Tykerb in t ...

Ever wondered why you should be eating more fibre? Scientists at the University of Reading say the results of their new randomised controlled trial show the best evidence yet that ’pr ...

Meta-study shows clear benefits for organic foodA meta-study from more than 230 scientific papers, examined the difference between organic and non-organic milk and meat products. The researchers f ...

Cancer Watch - Latest news and cancer research, Spring 2016       This is a review of some of the cancer research stories and information we have covered in Cance ...