A pain-relief drug Celebrex (Celecoxib), already approved by the FDA for treating polyps in pre-colorectal cancer, when used in higher doses than normal, locks onto specific 'De ...

Using off-label drugs as an anti-cancer protocol is a hot topic among cancer patients; here is a practical guide to the top repurposed drugs being currently used by patients to help fight their ca ...

Men who take cholesterol-lowering statins have a 24% lower risk of an aggressive prostate cancer and, with or without metformin, an increased survival time, but no reduced level of developing ...

Here we examine alternative pancreatic cancer treatments including specific supplements from Holy Basil to ginger and berberine, off-label drugs that kill yeasts like Itraconozole, t ...

Clinical Trials on Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) with metastatic prostate cancer have been mixed with 80% of patients seeing no real benefit and just 5% of patients doing very well. In particul ...

The Prostate Urine Risk test, used at home first thing in the morning, is able to accurately predict prostate cancer and how aggressive it is, according to Dr. Jeremy Clark and his team from the U ...

CANCERactive and the Oesophageal Patients Association (UK) have combined to write these Quick Facts for you on oesophageal cancer - both ESCC and EAC.  Cancer of the oesophagus or gullet i ...

Ablation, immunotherapy, virotherapy and even repurposed off-label drugs are four alternative treatments for kidney cancer, or renal cancer, worth looking into given that, despite many new drugs, ...

Biosimilar drugs are the new generics, as the NHS looks to cut hundreds of millions of pounds off its annual budgets by using any of four copies of Herceptin and then others; unfortunately, generi ...

Almost one in four patients having chemotherapy or radiotherapy develop cardiotoxicity, leading to heart failure, often in the years after their treatment has finished, according to scientists at ...

Women with DCIS breast cancer gain no benefit from having a sentinel node biopsy yet unnecessary and potentially painful side-effects, according to new research from the Yale School ...

A natural compound found in human breast milk caused the death of bladder cancer cells, in human patients and then 40 more different cancer cell lines in vitro, in research from Lund Uni ...

Researchers at Northwestern University, Chicago followed 195,140 patients data from Northwestern Memorial Hospital across a 5-year period, and found that those men who took a daily aspirin fo ...

Yet more solid research evidence, this time from Johns Hopkins University, that exercise can reduce the risk of developing cancer by up to 77%, and increase the chances of survival once someo ...

The new world of organoids will enable personalised treatment programmes using combinations of sophisticated and genetically tailored drugs for cancer and other chronic illnesses Organoids - No ...

The latest icon (Integrative Cancer and Oncology News) magazine is now available in Hospitals such as the Royal Marsden and Christie’s, and Cancer Centres including The Haven, Penny Bro ...

A widely available insecticide, Ivermectin, has been shown to make drug-resistant tumours and leukaemia immediately responsive to the drugs; this is not the first time anti-cancer activity has bee ...

A healthy microbiome has bacteria that make chemicals which can fight infection as antibiotics and these are capable of protecting different human populations around the g ...

Eight natural compounds have been shown to reduce the aggression of prostate cancer in expert research studies over recent years; and with half of all men diagnosed with prostate cancer ...

A carbohydrate, mannose-binding lectin or MBL, carried on the surface of a species of acne-causing fungi, Malassezia, has been shown to cause carcinogenesis and an increase in Pancreatic Ductal Ad ...

Newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients with disease confined to the capsule have a number of alternative treatments like brachytherapy, ablation, cryoablation, Nanoknife, HIFU or Proton Bea ...

Dipyridamole or DIP, has been found in numerous studies to reduce cancer tumour size, reduce metastasis, progression and inflammation whilst improving immune response and certa ...

It would appear that red meat and processed meat increases the risk of breast cancer by 6% and 9% respectively but only some studies show this; while switching from red to white meat reduces ...

Itraconazole is a broad spectrum antifungal drug shown in various research studies to increase cancer-free progression, increase cancer survival and reduce chemo-resistance; it has effects ag ...

Scientists at the Dana-Faber Cancer Institute have used the Epigenetic principal of methylation to develop a new blood test capable of more accurately predicting almost any cancer. Epigenetics ...

The consumption of milk and dairy products increases prostate cancer progression and helps cause prostate cancer: however, not all dairy products were equal, according to a meta-review o ...

Fiona Shakeela Burns lives and works in Bristol, practising as a Natural Health Consultant. She is a qualified Medical herbalist as well as an EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) practitioner, Matri ...

Some 502 polyphenols are found in foods; the richest sources and the best foods and drinks are all listed here; as a diet rich in polyphenols can protect and even correct against most of the main ...

Euphorbia peplus, or milkweed, or cancer weed, or radium weed, or petty spurge has long been used as an effective treatment for skin lesions, actinic keratosis and even skin cancer by the natives ...

The Sober Club, an online community, was founded by Janey Lee Grace to help people kick the alcohol habit; here in an exclusive article, she continues to inspire people to live their bes ...

Cycling is great exercise, but while it seems healthy is it damaging your prostate health? This essential guide to cycling and prostate health was written by Professor Robert Thomas, of Adden ...

Poor diets kill more people than drinking or smoking according to a robust study from the University of Washington and part of the larger Global Burden of Disease study; sugar, sodium and processe ...

Pueraria mirifica is a herb from South East Asia long-known for its traditional effects of breast enlargement and post-menopausal symptom relief making it potentially the safer, natural alternativ ...

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) dramatically increases the risk of breast cancer and one in 20 cases of breast cancer in the UK are due to HRT; these findings reflect previous studies but do not ...

Cancer drugs can reduce the levels of magnesium in the body to dangerously low levels risking nerve, heart and bone damage and causing reduced levels of essential vitamin D and a poor immune respo ...

Alpha-tocopherol, the ‘vitamin E’ sold in UK shops provides disappointing results in research on cancer but studies on the other seven forms are showing significant advantages, accordi ...

CBD can slow down and even halt the progression of breast cancer, even in its later stages, by switching off a protein Id-1 which causes that final and fatal step, according to research from ...

Johns Hopkins researchers have shown that taking antibiotics is linked to an increased risk of colon cancer; the link is most pronounced for the proximal colon with antibiotics like penicilli ...

People on a Ketogenic Diet taking a cheat day plate of fries or a single fizzy soft drink, damage their blood vessels according to a small scale study (1) from the University of British Columbia O ...

Myomin is a herbal complex containing astragalus membranaceous, white curcumin, aralia, cyperus rotundus and smilax grablar developed by Dr. Tsu-Tsair Chi a Chinese-American Doctor and Naturo ...

Scientists at Imperial College London has crunched data on over 6,000 foods and turned up ‘more than 110 cancer-beating molecules’, particularly those called flavonoids, a group of pol ...

A strain of the common cold virus, the coxsackie virus (CVA21), can halt the early stages of bladder cancer, according to researchers from Surrey University in the UK. In the study(1), involvin ...

Sugar in home-made fruit juice, bought fruit juice or fizzy soft drinks is equally linked to an 18% increased risk of cancer according to research from Inserm, the French National Institute of Hea ...

Electron Microscope evidence shows your brain has a microbiome, the membership of which seems the same as that of the human gut, according to researchers from The University of Alabama at Bir ...

The use of radioactive iodine in people with overactive thyroid problems has been shown in research from the National Cancer Institute to be linked to cancers in other parts of the body, ...

Cancer Research UK is causing controversy with how it is handling its attack on obesity, now that there are apparently twice as many obese people as smokers in the UK, and both are causes of cance ...

A report by Macmillan Cancer Support, the Royal College of Anaesthetists, the National Institute for Health Research Cancer and Nutrition Collaboration recommends the introduction of “prehab ...

Massage, which uses sesame seed oil, can reduce pain, phlebitis risk and embolism risk in patients having chemotherapy via infusions (IV chemotherapy). In research from scientists in Iran (1), ...

Science is about debate, hypothesis, research, evidence and results; If a hypothesis doesn't yield the desired results, the good scientist moves on and explo ...

Researchers from Ohio State University in Columbus have confirmed previous studies and particularly what German researchers’ claimed a decade ago: that Paclitaxel has a ‘dark ...

Statins, particularly lipophilic statins, may exert multiple anti-cancer benefits, including decreased tumour growth, decreased aggression, angiogenesis, and metastasis; a growing&n ...

Here we cover ten tips to prepare yourself for cancer surgery, looking at what you might do before to strengthen your body, and what you might do afterwards to reduce swelling, combat pa ...

A much lower dose of Tamoxifen than is normally used in women with Er+ve breast cancer has been shown to be effective by researchers in Italy. The correct dosage of Tamoxifen has never been res ...

Women with estrogen positive breast cancer who have radiation therapy on top of their hormone therapy increase disease-free survival and improve the odds a cancer won't come back over the long ...

Mastectomy to remove the breast containing the original tumour in Stage 4 Her2 +ve breast cancer patients has been shown to increase survival. Normally, surgery is not considered where women ha ...

Where clear margins have been obtained in breast cancer surgery and the tumour is fully removed, the immune system turns its attention to ridding the body of circulating cancer cells and those in ...

A cream containing aminolevulinic acid (ALA), that is activated by sunlight, is now being used in the UK to treat pre-cancerous skin cancer cells successfully. Actinic Keratoses are rough patch ...

Prostate cancer cells express PSMA (Prostate-specific Membrane Antigen) which can be targeted by a specific binding agent carrying Lutetium-177, or 177 Lu, a radioactive isotope that kills prostat ...

Artificial Intelligence can outperform radiologists reading CT scans for early detection in lung cancer where the doctors regularly conclude both false negatives and false positives. A team of ...

Researchers at London's Francis Crick Institute believe it is possible to strengthen the body's fight against cancer by transplanting immune cells from healthy donors to people with cancer ...

Researchers at the Colorado Cancer Center led by Dr. Craig Jordan have shown that cancer cells devour blood sugar, rob healthy cells of their sugar and increase serotonin levels to further increas ...

The first ever randomised clinical trial to explore the effects of short-term fasting (STF) during chemotherapy found beneficial effects on quality of life, fatigue and well-being and improved dru ...

Professor Robert Thomas, a UK Oncologist at Bedford Hospital, has created Polybalm, which aims to stop brittle nails and nail loss resulting from chemotherapy; he has even conducted clinical trial ...

Women with breast cancer who follow a low-fat diet are 22% more likely to survive at least 10 years, when compared to women who consume a more normal higher fat diet, according to researchers from ...

A new HPV screening test, hrHPV,  which is more accurate than the current PAP smear test and means women will be able to have their check-ups every 5 years compared to the current 3 ...

Israeli scientists claim to have created a cancer treatment, MuTaTo, which uses small peptides to attack cancer tumours on a number of fronts simultaneously, so preventing the cancer cel ...

Professor Charlie Swanton of UCL has stated that the 71 cancer drugs approved by US regulators in the 12 years to 2016 have generated an average increased survival of just 2.1 months of extra life ...

A ‘Landmark study’ from four experts in various aspects of vitamin D, sun exposure and health, unveils that past public health advice to reduce sun exposure actually inc ...

Scientists from the Howard Cancer Center in Washington DC, have found anticancer compounds in Muscadine red grape skins can prevent and even stop metastatic prostate cancer. The researchers fou ...

An anti-inflammatory drug, Ibudilast, has been found to sensitise glioblastoma (GBM) brain tumour cells to Temozolomide, (TMZ), the primary chemotherapy drug, and to increases the effica ...

High fat diets can produce an increase in two types of bile acid stopping signals in our intestines to stem cells, which normally repair and regenerate the gut lining after digesting a m ...

Ozone Therapy has been shown in a single Pilot study to convert the natural state of hypoxia in cancer tumours towards a state of hyperoxia, which weakens the tumours and cancer cells so that more ...

A review in The Lancet Oncology, from researchers at MD Anderson in Texas argues that host factors rather than tumour-intrinsic features may play a greater role in the success or failure of n ...

A study from the University of Guelph in Canada finds omega 3 fats from fish oils are eight times more potent in reducing breast cancer risk than omega 3 fats derived from plant sources and recomm ...

Methadone is a synthetic opiate drug commonly used for pain relief in cancer patients, and for weaning addicts off drugs; researchers at The Institute of Forensic Medicine in Ulm believe it appear ...

Human papillomavirus or HPV lies behind about 70% of cervical cancer and a disproportionate amount of publicity is given to this lower volume cancer and the use of two vaccines. But what if HPV la ...

Women who have fertility problems are 18% more likely to develop cancers such as Endometrial or Ovarian cancer in later-life, according to researchers from Stamford University.   64,345 ...

Curcumin, the active ingredient of turmeric, has been shown to have numerous cytoxic effects on Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs), while protecting normal stem cells in the body.   In a thorough ...

Consuming the equivalent of just one can of fizzy soft drink or soda a day, causes cancer tumours to increase their growth rate, according to researchers led by Dr Lewis Cantley, a biochemist ...

A team of scientists from Oxford University has shown that inhibiting the metabolic activity of cancer cells by restricting blood sugar levels can make cancer treatment more effective.   ...