Increasingly research shows that prostate cancer is more likely linked to low levels of testosterone but has far more to do with levels of estrogen in men; but this runs counter to the h ...

A brain cancer vaccine, DCVax®-L, created individually for each GBM patient from their own dendritic cells, can extend life following surgery for many months and even years according to the in ...

PDT, London Free Hospital and breast cancer trials Professor Dr Mo Keshtgar and his team at London’s Royal Free Hospital have embarked on a clinical trial involving women with newly dia ...

Cancer Watch January 2013 (Calorie restriction seems to improve radiotherapy outcomes)Cancer Watch January 2013 (Can ginger help in prostate cancer?)Cancer Watch January 2013 (Children with low bl ...

Cancer Watch July 2013 (Good diet and lifestyle changes can limit aggressive prostate cancer) Cancer Watch July 2013 (Fish oils reduce breast cancer risk) Cancer Watch July 2013 (Brain tumo ...

  Here, by month, is a list of the very latest cancer research studies and news stories for the year 2013. Bear in mind we only cover stories that you can use in your life today; not p ...

Pomegranate has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years. Not just the fruit but the bark of the tree and the fruit rind is used to stem diarrhoea, dysentery, bladder problems, mo ...

According to a recent analysis of international studies, "Circulating Carotenoids and Risk of Breast Cancer: Pooled Analysis of Eight Prospective Studies," women whose diet include high caroteno ...

A ketogenic diet - an extreme low carb, low protein, high fat diet - together with hyperbaric oxygen therapy (or HBO) can prolong cancer survival in mice. Research shows Ketogeni ...

In a new study published in the journal Nutrition and Cancer researchers investigated the eight World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) lifestyle recommendations for preventing aggressive prostate ca ...

  Professor Moira Brown and beating brain cancer with a herpes virus A team lead by Professor Moira Brown from Glasgow’s Southern General Hospital has produced promising Clinical ...

Researchers at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, US, have produced a statistical formula that calculates a woman’s risk of developing breast, ovarian and endometrial cancers across ...

British MPs ban GM foods in their own restaurant "In line with its procurement policy, the House of Commons Catering Service avoids, wherever identifiable, the procurement of foods that con ...

More informed personal choice We’ve told you before - At CANCERactive so many people have told us throughout our ten years: People with cancer want to be EMPOWERED, to take some contr ...

It’s not obesity - Poor insulin control mean higher plasma glucose, greater cancer risk and lowered survival According to the National Cancer Institute in America, obesity is ass ...

At CANCERactive we are great fans of the Japanese algae/food product Chlorella, especially when combined with beneficial bacteria supplementation. Researchers in Kyoto (Journal of Medici ...

According to a research study by Dr. Christopher Li and his colleagues from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, a woman who takes calcium ‘channel blockers for ...

Scientists from the University of Oxford have developed a way of delivering drugs more effectively to treat cancers in the brain (Journal of the National Cancer Institute). Research with in ...

T-DM1 and Her-2 positive breast cancer   About 20 per cent of breast cancers diagnosed are HER2-positive. In some cases it can be particularly aggressive, and tends to strike women at y ...

Professor Robert Thomas and his research team have completed a randomised double blind, placebo controlled trial of an polyphenol-rich dietary food supplement, called Pomi-T, in men with prostate ...

We have quoted Dr Ana Soto and her research into chemicals and cancer before. Her latest research (October: Environmental Health Perspectives) shows that pre-natal exposure to toxic bisphenol-A (B ...

In 2012, the average death rate from cancer in under-75s across the country was 123 per 100,000 population, compared to 118 in 2009. The area with the highest rate in 2012 was Bradford in W ...

New research from Dr.Lennart Hardell and his colleagues in Sweden indicates that brain cancer risk increases with more years and/or more hours of cell phone and cordless phone use. In the third ...

‘Hundreds of thousands of people in the UK face poor health or disability after being treated for cancer’, says a 2013 report from Macmillan Cancer Support. The charity has c ...

A popular class of diabetes drugs (thiazolidinediones, or TZDs) which make up a fifth of all prescribed diabetes drugs in the USA, increases patients’ risk of bladder cancer, according to 20 ...

First, according to researchers at Lund University, Uppsala University and KTH in Sweden, aggressive forms of bladder cancer involve the protein PODXL and this could hold the key to improved treat ...

Fish oils linked to prostate cancer in new study? Rubbish!   Hardly a month goes by without CANCERactive reporting on the benefits of fish oils with colon cancer, breast cancer, ...

Researchers from Saint Louis University have identified a molecular pathway that contributes to triple-negative breast cancer. Women who are born with BRCA1 gene mutation are at increased risk for ...

BT is exposing customers to unnecessary electromagnetic radiation through its network of private home Wi-Fi routers. All BT Home Hubs are now enabled with a default feature called &lsquo ...

Researchers from the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio have shown that eating a modest amount of walnuts can protect against prostate cancer (Ca ...

Dutch researchers have found that low vitamin D levels in people over 55 are associated with an inability to perform ordinary tasks of daily life. The researchers.studied two groups of older pe ...

Hot on the heels of revelations from Hollywood star Michael Douglas in June of the link between his throat cancer and HPV, comes research from Oxford University that more than a third carry ...

Men who are treated for prostate cancer with hormone-targeted therapy have a higher risk of developing kidney problems according to research from a team of scientists at the McGill University, ...

Doctors typically give patients prescriptions for medications. But, a new program in New York City has doctors prescribing fruits and vegetables to obese or overweight patients. Deputy M ...

Give credit where credit is due. One year after announcing their intentions to clean up their personal care products, American company Johnson & Johnson are on the road to deliver the promi ...

Women in their late 30s and early 40s are twice as likely to contract cancer as men, according to official UK figures which also show that people in the North are at increased risk. The relativ ...

In a 2012 research study, brain cancer researchers successfully treated mice with malignant aggressive gliomas, (a cancer for which there is no ‘orthodox’ cure), with a unique combin ...

Seemingly for the hundredth time since CANCERactive started ten years ago, research has shown that fish oils can reduce breast cancer risk.   This time, researchers in China analysed almost ...

By Professor Robert Thomas, Ms Mea Holm Professor Robert Thomas: Consultant Oncologist, MRCP MD FRCR. Cranfield University, Bedford Hospital and Addenbrooke’s Hospital Cambridge University Tr ...

Written by Karol Sikora   Karol Sikora is Professor of Cancer Medicine at Hammersmith Hospital and Medical Director of Cancer Partners UK. He is the senior editor of Britain&rsq ...

Calorie Restriction can improve treatment and cancer survivalResearch in 2012 and covered in The Oncologist magazine, and in its Editorial by Andrew Turrisi an expert oncologist in the USA, conclu ...

Regular readers will know about our ten year campaign to expose the dangers of screening mammography. In our view the myth of success for mammography along with vested and financial interests has ...

Researchers from the University of Colorado Cancer Center have shown that a high-fibre diet may have the clinical potential to control the progression of prostate cancer in patients diagnosed i ...

When chemotherapy and radiotherapy damage cells, the immune system is boosted to help in the repair process. Researchers have found that they can introduce a virus into the white immune cells and ...

After a grueling 15-year long battle, the Texas Medical Board has officially ended its crusade to revoke Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski’s medical licence in an effort to stop him developing and using his ...

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 ...

 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 ...

A simple blood test developed by Scottish scientists that can detect cancerous lumps five years earlier than current systems is to be tested amongst 10,000 people across the country. The Early Can ...

Two studies show the importance of vitamin D with Triple Negative Breast Cancer. Researchers led by Susana Gonzalo, Ph.D., assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Saint Louis ...

The British Journal of Nutrition has published the results of a study from the Department of Biology, Georgia State University, in which ginger was shown (both in vitro, and in vivo with mice) to ...