Childhood Cancer
Childhood Cancer

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20 Ways to reduce the risk of child cancer
20 Ways to reduce the risk of child cancer
Child cancer has trebled and some even quadrupled in the last 20 years or so. But there are simple things you can do to increase their chances of preventing child cancer. Here are&n ...
Alternative non-drug treatment cures child leukaemia
Alternative non-drug treatment cures child leukaemia
  In 2014, Layla was diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukaemia. She wasn’t even one year old. The oncologists gave her chemotherapy, of course. And then a bone marrow transplant. Both f ...
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 people want to create an off-label or repurposed drug protocol; others understand that you may need conventional therapies, and natural compounds as well; here CANCERactive creates an easy to ...
Are antibiotics the cause of rising colorectal deaths amongst the young?
Are antibiotics the cause of rising colorectal deaths amongst the young?
Research shows that more younger adults are dying of colon or rectal cancer and health 'experts' are blaming this on a lack of screening, which has nothing to do with cause; the cause is m ...
Are poor sleep patterns linked to child cancer increases?
Are poor sleep patterns linked to child cancer increases?
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 ...
Cancer numbers surge for children in the modern world
Cancer numbers surge for children in the modern world
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 ...
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 ...
Child cancer survivors and increased risk of breast cancer
Child cancer survivors and increased risk of breast cancer
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 ...
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Child chemotherapy and heart problems
Child chemo can damage a child's heart by 9% immediately and make then more likely to suffer early and long-term heart disease; chemo makes them eight times more likely to die from c ...
Childhood Cancer - Latest News Latest Research | CANCERactive
Childhood Cancer - Latest News Latest Research | CANCERactive
LATEST NEWS AND RESEARCH ON CHILDHOOD CANCER Increase your personal odds of survival by empowering yourself with the latest news and research on childhood cancer; news you can use tod ...
Childhood Cancer Survival
Childhood Cancer Survival
Britain's survival rates for the most common forms of children's cancer now match those of the US, universally acknowledged as the gold standard, according to figures published in a book t ...
Childhood Leukaemia linked to strength of microbiome
Childhood Leukaemia linked to strength of microbiome
Childhood leukaemia is the result of a two-step process, according to a meta-analysis by Professor Mel Greaves from the Institute of Cancer Research in London. First, it seems there has to be ...
Childhood Cancer
Children with cancer bullied at school and lose friends
According to a report by the CLIC Sargent cancer charity, cancer can significantly disrupt a child’s education as well as their ability to make and keep friends. It found that youngsters wi ...
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Children with low blood vitamin D levels more likely to become critically ill
 Dr. Kate Madden, M.D., and her colleagues from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston evaluated 511 children, all of whom were severely or critically ill, and who had ...
Childrens’ Cancer - Why Take The Risk
Childrens’ Cancer - Why Take The Risk
We’ve prepared highly usable, easy to understand, downloadable leaflets entitled ’Why Take The Risk?’ to help bring you information. Simply click to download the "Children ...
Childhood Cancer
CLIC (Cancer and Leukaemia In Childhood)
Originally published in January 2003 icon CLIC stands for Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood, but it’s best summed up by another acronym - TLC, which it delivers not only to all young ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Glucose links to child illnesses like epilepsy, diabetes and cancer
The UK Government fails the health of our children (Chris Woollams, 2006). As if by magic, 4 days after we called on the Government to do something to improve the nutrition and nourishment of o ...
Growing out of Childhood Leukaemia
Growing out of Childhood Leukaemia
Originally published in December 2002 icon Growing Out Of Childhood Leukaemia   William Chadwick and Louise Emberson are looking forward to a long life, living proof that children wi ...
MD Anderson wins approval for Child Brain cancer protocol
MD Anderson wins approval for Child Brain cancer protocol
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 ...
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Older mothers linked to childhood leukaemia
FIRST CLICK HERE  AND READ OUR OVERVIEW Using data from the British National Registry of Childhood Tumours, the Oxford Childhood Cancer Research group found that children of older par ...
Childhood Cancer
Over 200,000 children start to smoke every year in the UK
Nearly 570 children are lighting up and becoming smokers for the first time every day - or a staggering 207,000 children aged 11-15 in the UK every year according to Cancer Research UK. ...
Childhood Cancer
Petrol Station Risk For Children
FIRST CLICK HERE  AND READ OUR OVERVIEW The French Institute of Health and Medical Research have reviewed 280 cases of childhood leukaemia and found a four-fold risk amongst children ...
Professor Mel Greaves
Professor Mel Greaves
This interview is with Professor Mel Greaves, for CANCERactive and was originally published in  July-August 2004 icon Childhood Cancer Specialist - An Optimist Searching For Solutions ...
Professor Vyvyan Howard
Professor Vyvyan Howard
This interview with Professor Vyvyan Howard for icon looks at his work on child cancer, and chemical toxins. Passionate About Protecting The Future Of Our Childen By Madeleine Kings ...
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 ...
Save the Children - An A-Z Guide
Save the Children - An A-Z Guide
Originally published in July 2003 icon Every parent wants to keep their children safe, happy and healthy. Once they grow up, they make their own decisions, but life-forming eating and healt ...
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 ...
The Pollution of Our Children
The Pollution of Our Children
Children are more susceptible to toxic chemicals Children’s cancers are on the increase. Child leukaemia has grown five-fold in the twentieth century. In the USA deaths from brain tum ...
Childhood Cancer
Toxic Landfill And Child Leukaemia?
Source: New York Times, June 7 2006 Court Backs Suit Over Cancer Near Bronx Landfill By Anemona Hartocollis Residents of four Bronx neighborhoods who say their children developed leukemia ...
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