April - June Cancer Watch 2013
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April - June Cancer Watch 2013
Cancer Watch April 2013 (Over 200,000 children start to smoke every year in the UK)Cancer Watch April 2013 (Processed meat link to lower survival)Cancer Watch April 2013 (Simple breath test 90 per ...
Drinking cows milk during adolescence increases prostate cancer risk
Drinking cows milk during adolescence increases prostate cancer risk
At CANCERactive we have covered the link between teenage girls’ cows’ milk consumption and an increased risk of breast cancer later in life. Now it’s the turn of the boys. ...
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Did a parasite cause your cancer?
Four common cancers linked to infectionsIn a research study (Lancet Oncology May 2008) using IARC data, researchers found four common infections linked to a large number of cancers: Huma ...
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Curcumin reduces the risk of breast cancer caused by HRT
At CANCERactive we have long warned you that HRT is dangerous and increases the risk of breast cancer significantly. In 2007 we covered research that a natural compound in olives, artichokes, basi ...
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Glyphosphate in Roundup and very disturbing research
Is glyphosphate going to be the next major health scandal, after pesticide DDT and drug Vioxx? A new research report by Anthony Samsel, a retired science consultant, and Dr. Stephanie Seneff, ...
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Triclosan the door on this chemical
The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that one million pounds of triclosan are produced annually. It is found in soaps, especially ‘anti-bacterial’ liquid soaps, hand sanitisers, too ...
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Breast cancer screening useless
I hate to say ‘I told you so’. I hate to say it about so many things I have said since I started this ‘mission’ in cancer 10 years ago. The problem is that when you come af ...
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New test to distinguish fast from slow growing prostate cancers
While almost 95 per cent of prostate cancer is slow growing and found in males above 60 years, some 5 per cent is fast growing and was typically found in younger men.Unfortunately, with a six-fold ...
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New drug to aid performance of Herceptin in breast cancer
Pharmaceutical company Roche has clinched European approval for its breast cancer drug Perjeta, fuelling the company’s hopes that the drug will become the standard of care for an aggressive, ...
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Fasting increases survival times, stops cancer growth and reduces drug side-effects
There has recently been an increase in the number of studies looking into fasting with cancer patients. Fasting seems to have a number of benefits when used with, or without chemotherapy. For exam ...
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Common Chemicals a danger to health warns WHO
Common chemicals found in every home may be causing cancer, asthma, birth defects and reduced fertility, the World Health Organisation has warned. In its ‘State of the Science of Endocrine D ...
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Fagonia cretica, a plant extract from Pakistan, seems to live up to breast cancer fighting claims
The plant, Fagonia cretica, (also known as Virgon’s Mantlem), has been used in tea form to treat women in rural Pakistan who have breast cancer. Is this mythology or does it have real proper ...
Rainbow diet links to improved bone structure as you age
Rainbow diet links to improved bone structure as you age
Osteporosis is a fear for many ageing men and women. But research in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM) have now shown that going on a two year Rainbow Diet enhanced wi ...
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How to reduce your pesticide consumption
We have covered these studies in part before, but now the Environmental Working Group in the USA has produced a ‘dirty dozen’ list of fruits and vegetables which contain high levels of ...
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Prostate cancer risk and meat cooking
Researchers from the University of Southern California and Cancer Prevention Institute of California have reported that cooking red meats at high temperatures, especially pan-fried red meats, may ...
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Over 200,000 children start to smoke every year in the UK
Nearly 570 children are lighting up and becoming smokers for the first time every day - or a staggering 207,000 children aged 11-15 in the UK every year according to Cancer Research UK. ...
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Gene therapy shows great promise for lung cancer
In mice with up to 200 lung tumours and given a new gene therapy treatment for four weeks, followed by four-week rest periods for more than a year, only 2 cases failed to have their tumours disapp ...
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Simple breath test 90 per cent accurate for stomach cancer
In China Doctors will regularly examine the eyes, ears and breath of patients. Now it seems they may be right to do so.  Scientists from Israel and China have developed a single test that is ...
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Processed meat link to lower survival
Scientists who followed the lives of 450,000 people aged 36 to 69 for 13 years have shown that those who eat more processed meats (ham, bacon, sausages, salamis etc) have a 72 per cent increased r ...
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