Researchers from the prestigious Ramazzini Foundation who showed aspartame was linked to increased risks of blood and lymph cancers were criticised for the way they did the study, so the ...

Researchers from the Biological Sciences Department, Faculty of Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia have claimed from their research that ginger extract may be more effective at figh ...

Cancer Watch October 2012 (The American Institute)Cancer Watch October 2012 (New drug for HER-2 positive breast cancer patients)Cancer Watch October 2012 (Researchers claim ginger may be better at ...

Dimethyl sulfoxide (or sulphoxide), DMSO, a colourless liquid, is a chemical solvent that has been around for years. It is a natural product from trees and can be used to treat muscle and joi ...

Scientists at Texas and Florida’s A&M University Medical Center are convinced Indole 3 Carbinol and DIM have a role to play in treating Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC), as well ...

Researchers have found that men who have disturbed sleep patterns and therefore lowered melatonin levels, had significantly higher levels of cancer risk, particularly for prostate, lung ...

At CANCERactive we have told you that chokeberry, curcumin, fish oils, echinacea choline and inositol and CoQ10 all had a positive effect with brain tumours according to UK research. A decade lat ...

A research team from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany has shown that curcumin can inhibit the formation of metastases in prostate cancer tissues and other cancer lines such as ...

Cheryl Myers, an American integrative health nurse, author, and expert on natural medicine, is the head of Scientific Affairs and Education for EuroPharma, Inc. She refers to curcumin as the anti- ...

Evidence has been steadily increasing that small numbers of stem cells within tumours actually orchestrate their growth and proliferation.We have reported before that many experts dismissed the id ...

When Washington State University researchers exposed pregnant rats to low-levels of dioxin, the first generation offspring had more prostate disease and two types of ovarian disease than control g ...

Folate - epigenetic benefits with breast cancer A 2012 study published in American Journal of Epidemiology suggests that eating folate rich vegetables may help reduce breast cancer risk.   ...

Innocente Marcolini is an Italian businessman who developed a tumour in the trigeminal nerve in his brain and right next to where his mobile phone regularly touched his head. This type of tumour i ...

In an 11 year study involving 14,641 physicians aged 50 and over, there was a significant 8 per cent reduction in cases of cancer when compared to those not taking such vitamins.The study, led by ...

At CANCERactive we have repeatedly warned that there are over six studies in the last two years showing that people with higher blood glucose levels develop more cancers and, if they already have ...

Since screening using mammograms became standard practice in the USA, more than a million women have been unnecessarily treated as a result of mis-diagnosis. A new study published in the New Engla ...

We have reported on the importance of magnesium several times before. Unfortunately various research studies show that 40 to 80 per cent of Americans are deficient in the mineral, and you can bet ...

Working in certain jobs and surrounded by a toxic soup of chemicals can double a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer, according to research published in the journal Endocrine Health. &n ...

The Shanghai Women’s Health Study is a large scale statistical survey. One part of it reviewed 70,000 middle-aged or older non-smoking women who drank three cups of green tea or more per week. The ...

Early days, but Korean scientists have demonstrated a new process in bowel cancer cells and living laboratory fish.The magnetic therapy involves creating tiny iron nanoparticles, which are attache ...

  Saturday Oct 06, 2012 (foodconsumer.org) -- A new study in Translational Psychiatry suggests eating Mediterranean diet may help prevent Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and mild cognit ...

Breast cancer surgeon, Ian Paterson, has been suspended from practising and faces a police investigation, after being accused of operating on at least 450 women when they were perfectly healt ...

A hundred of the world’s leading cancer specialists descended on Lugano in Switzerland in November 2012 to formulate a 10-point action plan to finish off what President Richard Nixon started on 23 ...

It seems someone may be reading my e newsletters. The Scottish Cancer Prevention Network assembled 70 people to its annual conference to discuss prevention of cancer through lifestyle choices beyo ...

A new research study has suggested that death from lung cancer can be significantly reduced by taking supplements of vitamin D. (Ed: Presumably going in the sunshine would have the same beneficial ...

We have told you how good blood serum levels prevent breast cancer, prostate cancer, colorectal cancer and lung cancer plus several others. Now it’s the turn of bladder cancer. The positi ...

A team of scientists led by Professor Ulrich John, of the University Medicine Greifswald, Germany, has shown that alcohol consumption is more dangerous than cigarettes.The research followed 149 al ...

According to the French news source RFI, France is expected to call for an immediate and official pan-European ban on Monsanto’s genetically-modified (GM) corn after a University of Caen study fou ...

Memorial Sloan-Kettering and MD Anderson urge people on Chemotherapy to Choose Healthy FoodsIn contrast to UK recommendations, which include pictures of cheeseburgers, sticky, sugary buns and milk ...

In a rather bizarre report from Reuters, it seems in America, some oncologists have started treating breast cancers with brachytherapy a treatment used for prostate cancer in the UK. And there do ...

Researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, in the United States studied the health of almost 800 women diagnosed with breast cancer between 1989 ...

A combination of red grape polyphenols at relatively low doses can be effective at preventing breast cancer from progressing to become an advanced disease, according to a study by S. F. Dharmaward ...

The American Institute for Cancer Research recommends you eat a rainbow of colourful foods in your anti-cancer diet Cortney Malcher is a registered dietitian and a certified specialist in o ...

Cancer care is one of the top priorities for the College of Medicine’s Science Council. That is not surprising with Professor Mustafa Djamgoz, professor of cancer biology at Imperial College, Lond ...

In contrast to the rather self-congratulatory, give-us-more-funds approach of Cancer Research UK, comes a stark warning from Macmillan who are saying that the health service faces a timebomb of ne ...

Avastin will no longer be made routinely available on the NHS for women with breast cancer after a watchdog ruled that it does not help improve patients’ quality of life or provide value for money ...

A ’review’ in September conducted at Stanford University and published in the Annals of Internal Medicine has been used by certain quarters of the media to claim bizarrely that organic food is no ...

A research study by Ohio State University researchers (online - Brain, Behaviour, and Immunity) found that overweight but healthy middle-aged and older adults who took a substantial amount ...

 A new drug, (T-DM1), has been shown to increase the survival time of some hard-to-treat patients by almost six months. The clinical data showed it extended the lives of patients with advance ...