Mebendazole, oe Vermox, a widely used anti-helminthic drug for treating pinworm infestations in humans, blocks tubulin, which normally causes more parasites to form becaus ...

Three studies all show that taking antibiotics damages your microbiome and this is linked to a much higher risk of colorectal cancer; these studies have all been confirmed by others and further st ...

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 ...

Professor Michael Lisanti and his team at the University of Salford, Biomedical Research Centre have shown that cancer stem cells can be defeated by a 'double punch’ of antibiotic d ...

Two types of bacteria in your mouth are linked to an increased risk and two types are linked to a decreased risk of oesophageal cancer (oesophageal cancer), according to research led by Profe ...

Traditional Chinese Medicine Honokiol has many effects against cancer Honokiol is an important bioactive compound derived from several species of Magnolia and from the bark, cones and leaves. ...

Proof that diet and exercise increase survival in cancer Colorectal cancer patients who improve their diet and lifestyle, survive longer with a 42 per cent reduced risk of death than those who ...

  A colourful Mediterranean Diet, or a Rainbow Diet, can reduce the risk of post-menopausal breast cancer by 40 per cent, according to research by the World Cancer Research Fund. It was pa ...

Oestrogen (Estrogen) and oestrogen dominance affects women and men equally and is a product of lifestyle, environment and ageing; here we list 10 natural ways you can reduce levels of oestrogen in ...

This is a breast cancer article from icon magazine giving readers an overview of breast cancer prevention and treatments available, from 2014. We have, of course, updated it. It gives you a 3 ...

  Research published in the Annals of Oncology has showed that people who have 5 or more oral sex partners in their lifetime have the highest rates of oropharyngeal cancer, especially if t ...

Researchers show how to stop sugar feeding cancer      Certain cancers seem to love sugar and researchers at Duke Medical Institute seem to have developed a way to pred ...

Aspirin reduces cancer risk and cancer mortality    In a large-scale study led by Professor Kelvin Tsoi of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, people who took aspirin re ...

  In a bizarre piece of research conducted by Cancer Research UK and Public Health England, results show that whether you have surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy is determined by yo ...

More benefits of red grape bioactive compounds in cancer     Dr. Rei Wakimoto has shown(1) that pterostilibene found in red grapes and red wine could potentially be used in ...

Gut bacteria and pathogens from past infections may well play a big part in prostate cancer according to a number of different research groups, studying the highly inflammatory nature of the ...

  Researchers from the Cleveland Clinic have shown that the microbiome residing in breast cancer tissue is lacking a commensal bacterium genus, Methylobacterium, strains of which are found ...

Dr. Marcia Angell of Harvard Medical School and former Editor in Chief of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine has cried 'Enough' when it comes to Clinical Trials and has told t ...

  A team of researchers (1) from the University of Alabama, Birmingham who specialize in the science of Epigenetics have shown that providing sulforaphane (typically found in sprouting see ...

  Johan Thevelein a microbiologist, and a team at Vrije University in Brussels have shown that a derivative compound from common sugar (fructose-1,6-bisphosphate), acts as a direct act ...

  Researchers from King’s College, London, and the London School of Economics have shown that only 11 out of 68 cancer drugs on the market for 5 years had any ‘Clinically M ...

  The natural compound artemisinin, or sweet wormwood, and its derivatives seem to have great potential as a treatment for HPV. Several laboratory studies have shown efficacy, and in c ...

  Curcumin has the ability to prevent Human papillomavirus creating cervical cancer cells. This important research finding (1) has the potential to help over 6 million Americans who ar ...

  Artemisinin, or sweet wormwood the anti-malarial herb, has shown anti-cancer benefits in three more studies: 1. For example, it has been shown in a small randomised, placebo-controlled ...

  The World Cancer Research Fund has recently confirmed what several studies in Cancer Watch have previously reported. Namely that cutting common salt intake cuts colorectal cancer ris ...

  Research(1) has shown that after a ’good fat’ Mediterranean-style meal, DNA repair of the p53 gene is activated. This held true for the Rainbow Diet on its own, but was h ...

Improve your liver function The liver is the largest organ in your body. Your life depends on the health of your liver. Yet it is constantly attacked by environmental toxins, alcohol, drugs, pr ...

  Cancer Research UK announced its annual business figures to March 31st 2017.   The key points were:   £1million loss because of an actuarial defici ...

  Older people can benefit from a glass of red wine or even a beer. So says a study of 333,247 people between 1997 and 2009 in the National Health Interview Survey.   Th ...

  Cancer patients who chose solely alternative therapies rather than conventional cancer therapies like surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy had a significantly poorer survival recor ...

Professor Marc Alber from the University of California, Riverside and Professor Sharon Slack from the University of Notre Dame have identified how Ovarian cancer spreads (1).  In their late ...

  It has been announced by the National Institutes of Health in the USA that they are funding a clinical trial on metastatic breast cancer, using the drug Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in conju ...

  A study from University of Calgary and Health Services of Alberta and published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, sought to assign definitive percentages to 24 potential c ...

Womb, uterine or endometrial cancer can be linked to higher levels of cadmium in the body, according to researchers from the University of Missouri.    There are two types of end ...

  The University of Missouri have shown that statistically a sugar-rich diet and especially sugar-rich drinks leads to a significantly increased risk of endometrial or womb cancer.  N ...

Scientists working with the National Foundation for Cancer in the USA have had a worrying moment of honesty. They are developing an agent to help radiotherapy kill more cells in brain cancer patie ...

  Chemotherapy can actually encourage cancer spread, according to new research findings (1) by a team of scientists from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. &nbs ...

Mathew Gdovin an associate Professor in the University of Texas, San Antonio, (UTSA), Department of biology, has spent the last three years trying to perfect Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) and make ...

    A complex of Ellagic acid and Annona muricata has been shown to greatly reduce the chances of a positive Pap smear in women with HPV infection, whether or not they had cer ...

Five natural compounds, psoralen, curcumin, olive oil, beta-glucans and anthocyanins, each seem to have strong actions against HER2 positive breast cancer. We also have a second article on eight f ...

Triple Negative Breast Cancer or TNBC has a number of clear features that do respond to both Natural treatments and bioactive compounds - here are seven bioactive compounds and three supporti ...

  A new trial providing Abiraterone at a much earlier stage in treating prostate cancer and in conjunction with Zoladex, is reported to extend the life of patients to 7 years rather than 3 ...

Exercise seems to cause changes in the bone marrow and increases bone strength. In particular, exercise burns bone fat in the marrow.   According to the University of North Ca ...

In a seven-year study, following 800 stage III colorectal cancer patients who had received surgery and chemotherapy, those who ate at least 2 ounces of nuts a week had a 42 per cent lowered risk o ...

Researchers from the University of Salford, near Manchester, U.K. found that, in laboratory tests, vitamin C inhibited the growth of cancer cells. In particular, Vitamin C ‘starved ...

A new form of testing, called liquid biopsy, spots cancer cell presence long before traditional methodology used currently in UK hospitals, like CT scans.   The test, which is already use ...

IVC, brain cancer and non-small cell lung cancer High dose vitamin C, obtained through Intravenous Vitamin C (IVC) injections has been shown to improve the success of chemotherapy and radiother ...

Two separate studies on vitamin D say the same thing. That if you have breast cancer or colorectal cancer, having good levels of vitamin D in your body increases your chances of survival significa ...

Five natural, bioactive compounds - psoralen, curcumin, olive oil, anthocyanins and beta glucans - have been shown to improve HER2 treatments while also being active against HER2 positive breast c ...

Button mushrooms have been found to reduce levels of oestrogen in the body and so have significant effects against breast and prostate cancers. So say the City of Hope Hospital, Los Angeles, in th ...

A study involving 7,000 men found that those who drank more than 3 cups of Italian style coffee a day (for example, expresso or capuchino), had a 53 per cent lowered prostate cancer risk. The reas ...

A Clean, Efficient Liver - for a better immune system, anti-cancer strength and all-round health Your life depends on your liver. It is the largest organ in your body, and a very compl ...

  Dr. Ana M Soto of Tufts University School of Medicine has been studying ‘Endocrine Disrupting chemicals’ or xenoestrogen for a considerable amount of time and is clear, &lsqu ...

Poor sleep patterns in humans negatively affect more than 700 genes, damaging the body’s biochemistry and causing ill health according to researchers from the University of Surrey. ...

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma immunotherapy Kite Pharma, a new US stock market company, has developed a drug which uses gene therapy CAR-T for non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In a clinical trial 82 per cent of pa ...

Cancer Research UK and University College London have conducted a study (the Seckl study) on statins involving 846 patients at 91 hospitals across the UK. Having followed patients for two years ...

Leading breast cancer surgeon Dr. Ian Patterson, is on trial at Nottingham Crown Court accused of performing ‘unnecessary breast removal operations’ having found ‘ticking time bo ...

Luteolin is an important flavone, a naturally occurring non-toxic plant compound, which seems to have important anti-cancer properties. Because of previous anti-cancer studies with several ...

  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 ...

The Italian Government and their doctors believe that cannabis has strong medicinal properties. In Italy it is prescribed for pain relief and for illnesses from MS to cancer. The Italians were ...

Second generation antihistamines, in particular Desloratadine and Loratadine, have been shown by Swedish Researchers to significantly increase survival in breast cancer patients who are ER+ or&nbs ...

Brad Behnke and fellow researchers at Kansas State University have shown that moderate exercise on a regular basis helps to oxygenate tumours making them less aggressive and more sensitive to chem ...

In a worrying development, several top medical schools and mainstream media have co-incidentally come out of the closet in recent months on the dangers of the new immunotherapy drugs. A New ...

Scientists at University College London led by Professor Mark Emberton have been using bacteria, from the bottom of the oceans as agents (‘drugs’, according to the researchers) to sele ...