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Cancer Watch May 2012 (Not one death from vitamins, but plenty from medicines!)
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Dandelion, the cancer killer?
Dandelion, the cancer killer?
Claims in the US press that Dandelion 'kills 98% of cancer cells in 48 hours' were somewhat exaggerated, but these detracted from the increasing research in vivo a ...
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April - June Cancer Watch 2012
Cancer Watch April 2012 (Prostate Cancer - is modern medical treatment simply wrong?)Cancer Watch April 2012 (New localised hyperthermia study with prostate cancer)Cancer Watch April 2012 (Breast ...
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Clinical Trials for Sodium Bicarbonate
Clinical Trials now planned on Sodium Bicarbonate as a cancer treatmentThe University of Arizona Cancer Center has been working for a decade on the use of Sodium Bicarbonate as a biological buffer ...
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Study Linking Night Shift Work to Breast Cancer
  Yet another study links night shift work to breast cancer   Now Danish researchers have looked at larks and owls and their cancer risk from night shift work.   Lark ...
American Cancer Society and Complementary and Integrative Cancer Therapies
American Cancer Society and Complementary and Integrative Cancer Therapies
The American Cancer Society urges three complementary therapies as crucial to cancer patients The American Cancer Society has published an important report detailing how extensive research since 2 ...
Natural compound Apigenin seems to act powerfully against cancers
Natural compound Apigenin seems to act powerfully against cancers
Apigenin is a common flavone found in a wide number of fruits and vegetables, (for example artichoke, basil, parsley, celery, green leafy vegetables, whole olives, chamomile tea) and is linked ...
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Carotenoids can stop breast cancer returning
 Numerous research studies (including those from Harvard Medical School, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and the Universities of Basel, and Chicago) have shown the ability of caroten ...
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PSA Tests Do Significantly More Harm Than Good
PSA tests do significantly more harm than good   We have reported a number of times that PSA tests are increasingly regarded in the USA as misleading or useless. Now the conclusi ...
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Abiraterone, the new prostate cancer drug
Abiraterone does not actiually cure prostate cancer. It does not kill it off. It does not kill prostate cancer cells. But it does stop them ’feeding’ and therefore it stops them growing. ...
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Bee Propolis ingredient seems to stop prostate cancer growth
We have written extensively on the subject of Bee Propolis before. (Bee Propolis article: /cancer-active-page-link.aspx?n=2028&Title=Bee Propolis) Propolis, a substance the bees make to protect th ...
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Another Cancer Research tells of falsified drug research
Fraud is rife in the world of drug research, according to C. Glenn Begley, a former head of global cancer research at drug giant Amgen. He has prepared a review of ’scientific studies’ in cancer r ...
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Prostate Surgery failing to deliver survival benefits
PIVOT Study shows little survival benefit in Prostate surgery - but a lot of unwanted side-effects.According to new research from America in the PIVOT Study - prostate surgery does not extend life ...
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10 subgroups in breast cancer
  New research ’paves way’ for personalised breast cancer treatment - One-size does not treat all We do realise that shortly readers are going to become fed up with CANCE ...
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NICE unsure of benefits of two drugs with certain stages of breast cancer
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) does not recommend lapatinib (Tyverb, GlaxoSmithKline) or trastuzumab (Herceptin, Roche) with aromatase inhibitors for a particular ...
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Could Breast Cancer be Linked to IVF?
Research from Australia suggests younger women having IVF fertility treatment do have a higher risk of breast cancer later in life.   Chris Woollams, former Oxford University Biochemist ...
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Common Calcium Supplements and Heart Problems
Warning on common calcium supplements and heart problems     At CANCERactive we have never recommended common calcium supplementation. In research there is a little evidence ...
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Tea Drinking and Prostate Cancer
Tea drinking and prostate cancer   In a peculiarly British research study, scientists from the University of Glasgow, led by Dr Kashif Shafique, followed the lives of 6,000 men ove ...
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Vitamin D Helps Prevent Pancreatic Cancer
  Vitamin D helps prevent pancreatic cancer   Another week passes,; another study on the benefit of vitamin D with cancer.   This time research from the Que ...
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Are common suncreams linked to the growth of endometriosis?
Oxybenzone, just another ingredient to avoidAs regular readers will know CANCERactive has long held that ’Sunshine is good for you; it’s burning that’s bad’. Sunshine on the fat layers under ...
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Cocktails of conventional medicines and herbs putting lives at risk
Herbs have powerful effectsA curious confusion exists when people talk about supplements like herbs and vitamins. I’ve read that, like all Complementary and Alternative Medicines, they have no evi ...
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New localised hyperthermia study with prostate cancer
New localised hyperthermia study with prostate cancer We have told you about HIFU now for almost nine years. We analysed the research available almost a decade ago, since when we have updated re ...
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