Cancer immunotherapy drugs are more successful of the patient has a strong gut microbiome, whether that is through diet, probiotic and prebiotic foods or even where patients have a fecal micr ...

Research is consistently showing that thyroid problems (thyroid nodules, thyroid cancer, hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism) stem from an imbalance of gut bacteria; problems may even have started ...

A large scale study has shown that cancer patients and cancer survivors are more likely to die from flu than the general population even many years after the cancer has gone, and should take an an ...

The makeup of a person's gut microbiome is linked to their levels of active vitamin D, a hormone important for immunity, fighting illnesses from cancer to Co ...

Pancreatic cancer cells are so dependent on cholesterol, researchers have found genetic evidence that they can create their own, while others claim blocking it is crucial. Two studies shed new ...

Prior use of statins, especially lipophilic statins, give women a better chance of beating cancers such as breast, bowel and melanoma, according to a nationwide study in Australia. All women in ...

Twenty percent of children treated with drugs called anthracyclines suffer heart failure later in life seemingly because the chemotherapy changes the function of cells that normally repair heart i ...

PD-1 inhibitor drugs such as Keytruda and Opdivo seem to increase inflammation in the immunotherapy patient resulting in greater levels of cardiovascular disease later in life. A small study (1 ...

Swiss scientists have developed a rapid assessment system called Therapy-Guided Multidrug Optimization that evaluates all possible combinations of the latest cancer drugs to deliver the maximum be ...

Controlling high blood fat levels is essential in prostate cancer, and exercise - especially vigorous exercise - is an important way to do this according to research studies which c ...

Fecal Transplants from people with Colorectal Cancer change the microbiome of the recipient for the worse; what if people with CRC were given Fecal Transplants from Healthy donors? It is now we ...

An analysis of Pembrolizumab against Nivolumab in NSCLC shows that their progression-free survival is similar, but that Pembrolizumab has a positive effect with more people. In a retrospective ...

An imbalanced gut microbiome can affect the brain and brain cancer through hormones and metabolites in the blood or lymph and/or through the central nervous system; it is almost certainly crucial ...

Meeting just minimum requirements for exercise of 2.5 hours of speed-walking per week, can significantly reduce the risk of breast cancer return and increase survival; not simply reducing the risk ...

Cancer survivors tend to have healthier diets than the average person but most over-estimate the quality and health benefits and erroneously think they eat a much healthier diet than they do ...

Acetyl-L-carnitine, also known as ALC, is produced in the body from the amino acid L-carnitine and is known to help the body produce energy; it has research in aiding dementia patients and with fa ...

Malignant Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs) can be exposed by Doxycycline, changing the way they produce their energy, leading to the use of secondary compounds (such as vitamin C, berberine and Azithromyc ...

Care Oncology have designed an off-label drug protocol, the COC protocol, to enhance the standard of care for cancer treatment and improve survival times; it involves an attack on the metabolism o ...

Antibiotic use has been linked to a number of different cancers, not just colorectal cancer, and antibiotics are now known to cause long-term damage to the gut microbiome and the immune system.&nb ...

Bio-Resonance Feedback Therapy, or Meta-Therapy, is a frontier technology to both diagnose and treat the body, by providing electromagnetic waves, which work&nbs ...

At CANCERactive, we receive many great messages about the success of Personal Programs built for people with cancer - this e-mail received this week is a perfect example. Dear Chris, We met ...

There are a great many research studies showing links between pathogens and B-cell lymphoma - Hodgkin and NHL; it is even possible that the cancer is caused by the body’s own defences r ...

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. ...

Here we describe an anti-cancer protocol using the natural herb artemisinin (from sweet wormwood) plus supplemental iron, vitamins C, D and a restricted diet and increased exer ...

There is a Gut-Lung axis which links the two microbiomes and the two immune systems and any dysbiosis or deficiency in the gut microbiome is soon reflected in the lungs - infection can t ...

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 res ...

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 rath ...

Research from New York shows that cancer patients have higher death rates from Covid-19 but it varies by type with lung cancer or blood cancer faring far worse. In a study (1) from the Montefio ...

Dendritic Cell Vaccines have been around for over 20 years but early results suggested they had an effect in only 12% of brain cancer patients; but now in a new 4 country clinical trial, Dendritic ...

Immunotherapy drug, Keytruda (Pembrolizumab), extends survival times in patients with brain cancer but these results are obtained only when it is used pre-surgery. The trial was with just 35 ra ...

52% of people taking PD-1 immunotherapy experience thyroid dysfunction; in those patients where thyroid hormone rises, lung cancer survival increases. In a study of lung cancer patients ta ...

A combination of three drugs, none of which has worked alone, are being touted as a possible combination treatment for brain cancer and GBM. Scientists at SouthWestern Medical School, Texas, ha ...

Your mouth is the gateway to your gut, and gum disease (that currently affects 40% of adults) plus other oral pathogens are now linked to multiple diseases such as IBS, type-2 diabetes, liver cirr ...

Researchers in Korea have found that while cancer cells in the primary site burn glucose, metastatic cells in lymph nodes burn fatty acids and lipids. Lymph nodes contain immune substances to f ...

Researchers at Yale School of Public Health have shown that people with a high intake of saturated fat, or of animal protein have a higher risk of lymphoma, whereas this who eat high levels of who ...

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 ...

Here are 12 research facts that you may not have been told about ovarian cancer; some to do with causes such as pathogens in the ovaries or fallopian tubes, others on BRCA1 and 2 (you ...

Poor oral health is linked to a 75% increased risk of Liver cancer according to researchers from Queen’s University Belfast; it is also linked to a 13% increased risk of colorectal cancer an ...

Weill Cornell researchers have shown that once E coli is found in levels greater than 1% of the gut microbiome, patients are more likely to have UTIs; E coli has also been linked to kidney cancer, ...

Professor Olivier Feron, a researcher at Belgium’s University of Louvain has shown that cancer cells load up on lipids and this makes them become more aggressive and spread more. Louvain has ...

Many cancer patients have been rushing to use metformin as an anticancer agent, but metformin may contain a cancer-forming nitrosamine, NDMA, and also seems to make BRAF m ...

The microbiome in patients having a Stem Cell Transplant is seriously damaged by the high levels of chemotherapy drugs, antiviral, anti fungal drugs and antibiotics; but autologous fecal tran ...

Scientists at Yale have used the Ebola virus to target brain cancer cells The Ebola virus attacks organs but does not attack the nervous system. It is not a ‘Corona Virus’. Although ...

Here are ten natural bioactive compounds, including sulforaphane, genistein, turmeric, lycopene, ursolic acid, resveratrol, 6-gingerol, Honokiol, piperine, parthenolide and EGCG, that have be ...

In testicular cancer, patients with a high risk of recurrence do just as well in terms of survival, by having one rather than two rounds of chemo. The incidence of Testicular cancer has tripled ...

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) ...

A review of 1.44 million people across the United States, Europe, and Asia, showed that high intakes of dietary fibre and/or yogurt were individually and jointly associated with reduced risk ...

The number of men dying in the UK from prostate cancer has hit an all-time high of over 12,000 in 2017. The usual reason of an aging population is compounded by a poor early diagnos ...

Scientists from Manchester, England, have shown that they can cut off the energy generators in pancreatic cancer cells by using Shikonin, a TCM, and cause an overload of calcium which kills the ce ...