The type of fat you consume appears crucial in terms of increased risk of cancer and switching from saturated fat to unsaturated fat consumption can lower risk, according to multi-center  ...

Vitamin A can control cell growth and cancer cell death; a concentrated form, Isotretinoin, 13-cis-retinoic acid, or Accutane originally developed to treat acne, has sometimes been& ...

A 12-country Phase 3 trial of DCVax has resulted in significantly approved survival rates in newly diagnosed GBM patients, including those who could not have surgery, older patients and even in th ...

A low protein diet when used with chemotherapy, restricts tumour growth, chemo-resistance, and delivers a demand versus supply crisis in cancer cells, resulting in less tumour growth, less chemo-r ...

In four studies, Krill oil has not only been shown to have anti-colorectal cancer properties but now it has been shown to be as effective as the drug oxaliplatin.   First, Krill oil was ...

A significant difference in genes between sub-Saharan African women and white women of European ancestry seems linked to the finding that Black women have a higher incidence of, and a higher morta ...

Exercise increases the effectiveness of chemotherapy by increasing the blood supply to tumours and damaging their defences; it may also bring benefits in reducing fat levels in tissues, a predicto ...

Researchers from China have suggested that Flumazenil, a selective GABAA receptor antagonist administered via injection, is a possible route to protecting the gut wall and microbiome from chemothe ...

People with breathing difficulties (Dyspnea) are often given the steroid Dexamethasone, but new research shows it doesn't work and can even make matters worse.   We recently co ...

Physical exercise of light to moderate intensity, significantly increases survival in Colorectal cancer patients; these findings reflect other studies in CANCERactive in recent years. In a new ...

Collagen seems to be a major driver of cancer, influencing almost every step in the cancer process, and an inhibitor of anti-cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy ...

Proton Pump Inhibitors have an increasing list of side-effects yet are more widely used, including in cancer treatment; a new expert review recommends they are used at lower doses and for shorte ...

Cancer patients are invariably given a corticosteroid Dexamethasone with their IV drug combinations, despite side-effects such as reducing white blood cell levels, reducing the diversity of the mi ...

Disruption of your circadian clock by poor sleep, environment, dietary and lifestyle factors can influence your metabolism, cell growth and increase cancer risk and progression in colorectal cance ...

Research from the UK’s Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden has shown that a new drug, guadecitabine, has the potential to overcome resistance to immunotherapy drug Pembrolizum ...

Johnson & Johnson will stop selling its iconic talc-based baby powder on a worldwide basis in 2023, having ended sales in the USA and Canada in 2020 because of possible asbestos contamination ...

Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors, (MAOIs), including chemo drugs such as Procarbazine and antidepressants such as Marplan, sometimes taken by patients during chemo, can conflict with foods s ...

Grapefruit and its juice can concentrate, or dilute, a number of common drugs including anti-cancer drugs and lipophilic statins, and it can also cause aromatisation (more oestradiol producti ...

Patients with metastatic colorectal cancer and a BRAF mutation should be given encorafenib, binimetinib and cetuximab rather than old-fashioned chemotherapy according to MD Anderson scientists ann ...

Radium-223 dichloride (radium-223) is a radioactive isotope that emits low levels of alpha particle radiation, which causes double-strand breaks in DNA, killing cancer cells. It mimics calcium and ...

Natural compounds, especially polyphenols such as berberine, turmeric, honokiol, resveratrol and EGCG, are potent inhibitors of PARP and, along with Vitamin D and fish oils, can only help PARP-inh ...

5-HTP, or L-5-Hydroxytryptophan, is a direct precursor to serotonin, which in turn, produces melatonin in the pineal gland; 5-HTP is a dietary supplement to improve mood and to improve sleep. 5 ...

Antibiotics can have a severely detrimental effect on your gut, depending upon how strong your microbiome is at the outset; lowering good (commensal) bacteria, increasing pathogens, and prompting ...

Researchers from Ohio Medical School and University have found the presence of large numbers of microbes in all types of Sarcoma and are suggesting that this should be a new therapeutic target. ...

Neuroscience researchers in China have concluded that a repurposed antihistamine drug, Clemastine, is capable of rescuing cognitive function caused by white matter damage due to chemotherapy; remy ...

Research is consistently showing that Heparin (especially low-molecular weight heparin) can restrict angiogenesis, cancer cell growth, proliferation and metastasis of cancer cells, improving cance ...

Black cumin seed has a wealth of therapeutic benefits in research; it comes from two different plants; Nigella sativa is the more common, also called caraway, and its black seeds possess three pow ...

Whey protein is a genuine superfood; it helps to boost the immune system, heal IBS, reduce blood pressure, restore weight, counter cachexia, boost energy, inhibit infections and pre ...

C-Statin, a natural compound from bindweed, appears to inhibit abnormal blood vessel growth by up to 73% and abnormal cell growth by up to 96.8%, while promoting the immune system, a trilogy ...

Consuming a high fibre diet and increasing levels of a family of bacteria called Ruminococcaceae, stabilises the cancer, improves survival and significantly increases the effectiveness of imm ...

Neuroendocrine neoplasms or NENs are on the rise; typically found in the GI tract, pancreas, lungs and liver; here we summarise emerging treatments for these rare cancers. Neuroendocrine cancer ...

Fish oils can improve the nutrition status of cancer patients, reduce inflammation and have now been shown several times to reduce the risk of cachexia, with one study recommending their use wit ...

Fish oil long-chain omega 3 is extremely anti-inflammatory both directly, and indirectly via your microbiome, and now research from Tufts explains the distinct benefits of the two components DHA a ...

CUSP9* is nine off-label drugs - aprepitant, artesunate, auranofin, captopril, celecoxib, disulfiram, itraconazole, sertraline, ritonavir - packaged to improve the effectiveness of Temozolomide in ...

Ferroptosis, a term coined in 2012, is being studied as a way of producing programmed cell death in cancer;  it is biochemically distinct from other forms of regulated cell death such as necr ...

Trimethylglycine (TMG) is a natural polysaccharide usually derived from betaine in beets (beetroot); it has three methyl groups and can convert dangerous oxidant and free-radical producer homocyst ...

Research on statins shows that Lipoprotein A, which causes both plaque and clotting, is increased by an average of 8.5% to 19.6% in people who take statins. Conversely, people who take natural Lyc ...

An oncolytic viral vaccine prepared by French Biotech company Transgene is being used as part of a Clinic Trial for the first time with Head and Neck cancer patients in the UK. A patient who wa ...

New research from the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel has reported that attacker T-cells in the Innate Immune system need good levels of magnesium in order to operate effectively ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have found that a wide array of anticancer drugs renders Covid-19 mRNA vaccines far less effective at boosting the cancer patient's immune system.   Cancer p ...

University of Chicago researchers have shown that high quality CBD oil, without THC, crucially blocks the replication of Covid-19 inside human cells although it does not block the virus entering c ...

Depression is linked to lowered testosterone, stress and poor sleep patterns; the new generation of androgen antagonists such as Abiraterone and Enzalutamide can make this worse, also reducing out ...

Researchers at Purdue University have shown that thymohydroquinone, a compound with strong anticancer properties normally derived from Nigella Sativa, can also be derived from Mediterranean herbs ...

Yet again, researchers have shown that an increased consumption of sugar drives cancer, this time looking at how a second serving of sugar-sweetened drinks can more than double the risk of colorec ...

Infection, whether by two gram-negative bacteria, Klebsiella and Streptococcus, or by other pathogens such as Epstein Barr and Herpes viruses appears to be important in both causing and drivi ...

PARP inhibitors can be blocked in cancer treatment by the p97 protein, but this in turn can be blocked by a repurposed drug Disulfiram, increasing the number of people with BRCA1/2 mutations who m ...

Selinexor, a drug approved recently for pretreated multiple myeloma and lymphoma patients seems capable of benefiting patients with GBM, even if they are neither methylating nor have an IDH-1 muta ...