A case report on a woman diagnosed in August 2015 with stage 4 ER+/PR+/HER2-negative invasive ductal carcinoma who declined surgery, chemotherapy and radiation for an alternative protocol costing about $2,000 a month. The article says doctors confirmed her cancer had gone after 10 months.
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Isothiocyanates help fight breast cancer
Pairing lapatinib with sulforaphane, erucin or sulforaphene cut the viability and migration of both drug-sensitive and drug-resistant breast cancer cells in culture. Erucin worked best against the resistant cells, leading the authors to suggest isothiocyanates may shore up the drug's effect.
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Cancer patients should by all means avoid sugar
In a seven-year study of 317 cancer patients treated naturopathically, remission over follow-up reached 48% among those who avoided sweets against 31% among those who ate them. The authors read this as sugar lowering the odds of remission and raising the risk of death.
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Insulin resistance linked to high liver cancer risk
Among Finnish male smokers, National Cancer Institute researchers found those in the top quartile of fasting glucose were 140 percent more likely to develop liver cancer than those in the bottom quartile, and men in the top quartile of serum insulin or HOMA-IR 241 and 272 percent more likely.
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Bacteria, viruses and cancers
A Lancet Global Health report attributes about 15% of cancers worldwide in 2012, some 2.2 million cases, to infectious agents, led by Helicobacter pylori at 770,000 cases, HPV at 640,000 and hepatitis B at 420,000. In parts of sub-Saharan Africa the share tops 50%.
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Alkalizer suppresses cancer growth
A mouse study found the mineral supplement Basepulver, given daily by oral gavage, significantly slowed melanoma growth, with 8 g/l the best dose, and cell culture work showed dose-dependent inhibition of human and mouse melanoma cells. The rationale is that tumour acidity aids cancer growth.
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Amygdalin fights triple negative breast cancer
A study finds amygdalin, from apricot, peach, apple, cherry and plum seeds, promotes apoptosis and inhibits adhesion in triple negative breast cancer cells, suggesting it may also limit spread. The authors say clinical trials are needed; a 1982 NCI-sponsored trial found it ineffective.
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Hot beverages like hot coffee, hot tea now classified as possible carcinogens
The IARC has dropped coffee from its list of possible carcinogens, saying the bladder cancer studies behind that label ignored smoking. It now classifies very hot drinks of any kind as possibly carcinogenic, pointing to esophageal cancer and to tea served at 65 to 70 degrees Celsius.
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Dietary fiber cuts breast cancer risk
Following 90,534 premenopausal women in the Nurses' Health Study II for 20 years, researchers found those with the highest fiber intake in early adulthood had 19 percent lower breast cancer risk, and those eating the most in both adolescence and early adulthood were 25 percent less likely.
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Eating sugar increases breast cancer risk
A Cancer Research report finds sucrose raised breast cancer and lung metastasis risk in part by increasing 12-lipoxygenase, which produces 12-HETE, a metabolite found at high levels in breast tumors. Fructose, half of sucrose, accounted for the metastasis and the 12-HETE production.
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Eating dietary fiber reduces breast cancer risk
Harvard researchers analyzing 90,534 women in the Nurses' Health Study II found those who ate the most fiber in early adulthood were up to 19 percent less likely to develop breast cancer, with each extra 10 grams a day tied to 13 percent lower risk.
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Physical activity, diet linked to ovarian cancer risk
Comparing 578 ovarian cancer cases with 7,188 controls, researchers tied vegetables to up to 20% and dairy foods to up to 40% lower risk, meat to up to 60% higher risk, and more than 160 minutes of weekly activity to 60% lower risk than 30 minutes or less.
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Healthy Diet Helps to Reduce Risk of Colon Cancer
About 20 percent of colon cancer deaths in low-income communities could have been prevented by early screening and proper diet, and the CDC estimates $6 billion in lost wages. The piece explains colonoscopy and recommends less saturated fat and salt and more colorful fruits and vegetables.
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Mediterranean diet helps fight prostate cancer
A study of men with prostate cancer linked high intakes of dairy, red meat and serum omega-6 fats to more DNA damage, while Mediterranean diet adherence, monounsaturated fats and oleic acid tracked with less. Diet did not appear to affect PSA levels.
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Hormone therapy, alcohol boost breast cancer risk
Following 30,789 women aged 50 and over for more than a decade, researchers recorded 1,579 breast cancers and found hormone therapy raised risk at any body weight, with alcohol adding to that increase. The associations held only for estrogen receptor positive tumors.
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Garlic prevents gastric cancer
A meta-analysis in Nutrition and Cancer pooled 17 studies and found the highest garlic intake linked to a 50% lower risk of gastric cancer, and any intake to about 25% lower risk. About 60% of cases are caused by H. pylori, which makes carcinogens in a high-salt environment.
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Elevated cholesterol and triglycerides may increase the risk for prostate cancer recurrence
Among 843 men who had a radical prostatectomy and had never taken statins, those with triglycerides of 150 mg/dL or higher faced a 35% higher risk of prostate cancer recurrence, Duke researchers report. They suggest normalizing lipid levels may reduce that risk.
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Dietary fat affects outcome of breast cancer
In mice given human breast cancer cells and treated with paclitaxel, a diet containing stearate cut lung metastasis by 50 percent compared with corn oil and low-fat diets, and reduced the number and size of metastatic nodules.
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