Nov - Dec 2013 Cancer Watch
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Burzynski - it’s all over now, surely
There is potential in replacing missing peptides as a cancer treatment. It is not just Burzynski that claims this but German Clinics and Israeli Scientists. But Burzynski had problems of ...
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Researchers discover why Multiple Myeloma returns
Researchers at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre have discovered why multiple myeloma, an incurable cancer of the bone marrow, seems to return even after an initially effective treatment; the answer ...
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Nov - Dec 2013 Cancer Watch
Cancer Watch November 2013 (Brain Tumour Centre of Excellence on way in UK)Cancer Watch November 2013 (Integrative cancer treatment improves survival times in metastatic breast cancer)Cancer Watch ...
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Integrative cancer treatment improves survival times in metastatic breast cancer
Integrative cancer treatment is of substantial interest to many cancer patients, and particularly, it seems, to women with breast cancer, judging by the correspondence in to CANCERactive. An inter ...
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Prostate vaccine immunotherapy likely
A new generation of immunotherapies is increasingly likely, with the imminent clinical trials of a vaccine developed by researchers at Nottingham Trent University’s John Van Geest Centre. ...
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Addiction to prescription drugs growing
Many of the UK’s adult population are addicted to prescription drugs, claims the Home office and the Department of Health and the death toll is rising. Last year 1.5 million were addicted to ...
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Rainbow
Leading clinicians have today written a joint letter to David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, urging him to put the Mediterranean Diet at the heart of health policy and to make it centre stag ...
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York University isolate prostate cancer stem cells and question existing thinking
Scientists at the University of York have revealed the existence of a cancer-inducing DNA re-alignment in stem cells taken from human prostate cancers. Professor Norman Maitland said, “This ...
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Acetyl-L-Carnitine may help prevent chemo side-effect of peripheral nerve loss
Acetyl-L-Carnitine, or ALC, is used by some people with nerve pain, and now research shows it may help prevent neuropathy from Chemotherapy; it is also used by sportsmen to aid recovery and b ...
Diabetes drug Metformin seems to aid cancer survival
Diabetes drug Metformin seems to aid cancer survival
A meta-analysis of research in 2013 suggested that Metformin, the type-2 Diabetes drug could increase survival times in cancer patients with type 2 diabetes; this concurred with other studies for ...
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A Rainbow Diet increases lifespan
Readers of the Rainbow Diet will already understand why eating a diet full of colourful vegetables anfd fruit, olive oil, nuts, seeds, and low in salt, common sugar and refined carbs helps you ...
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Child chemotherapy and heart problems
Child chemo can damage a child's heart by 9% immediately and make then more likely to suffer early and long-term heart disease; chemo makes them eight times more likely to die from c ...
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Spirulina appears to activate NK cells against cancer
Research from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Hokkaido University in Japan, has shown that spirulina extract increases Natural Killer cell (NK) immune response against tumours.Mel ...
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Drugs dont make the 2013 cut on cost grounds
Pfizer’s lung cancer drug Xalkori (crizotinib).will not be available for NHS use in England and Wales according to final draft guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence ( ...
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Cambridge researchers find breast cancer deaths ’increase with deprivation’
New research from Cambridge and Leicester Universities presented at November’s National Cancer Research Institute cancer conference in Liverpool, has concluded that deprivation at the time o ...
Nuts reduce cancer risk and increase heart health
Nuts reduce cancer risk and increase heart health
A study following 76,464 female nurses and 42,498 male health professionals since the 1980s and conducted by Dr Ying Bao of Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston has s ...
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Brain Tumour Centre of Excellence on way in UK
Eight British universities and hospitals are in a bid to become the next Centre of Excellence dedicated to research into brain tumours. The successful institution will enter a funding partnership ...
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