Sir Tim Hunt told a cancer conference that eating fruit and vegetables does nothing to cut cancer risk. The piece notes he was not on the research team, and that neither the BBC report nor the cited abstract explains which levels of intake were compared.
Section archive
Page 15 of 18
Cancer
Diet, lifestyle and cancer risk, prevention and treatment.
- All desks
- Abortion
- Accutane
- Acetaminophen
- Acid Reflux
- Acidic Foods
- Acne
- Acrylamide
- Acupuncture
- Additives
- ADHD
- Adiposity
- Advisories
- Aerobic Exercise
- Aflatoxin
- Agave
- Agent Orange
- Aging
- Agriculture
- AIDS
- Air Pollution
- Airline Passengers
- Airport
- ALA
- Alcohol
- Alcoholic Beverage
- Alerts
- Allergy
- Alli
- Aloe Vera
- ALS
- Alternative Medicine
- Aluminum
- Alzheimer's
- Amalgam
- AMD
- Ampyra
- Amygdala
- Anal Cancer
- And
- Anemia
- Angiogenesis
- Animal Protein
- Animals
- Anorexia
- Anthocyanins
- Anthrax
- Anti-Angiogenesis
- Anti-Obesity
- Antibacterial
- Antibiotic
Cancer
Martina Navratilova diagnosed with breast cancer, what you need to know
Martina Navratilova, 53, said she was diagnosed with breast cancer after resuming mammogram screening she had skipped for four years, and doctors call her prognosis excellent. The writer pairs the news with arguments that screening radiation itself raises risk.
Cancer
Infertile men more likely to get prostate cancer, what you can eat to prevent the disease
Drawing on records from 22,000 California men seen at fertility centers between 1967 and 1998, a study in Cancer found 1.2% of infertile men developed prostate cancer against 0.4% of fertile men, about 2.6 times the risk. The piece then lists foods studied for prostate cancer risk.
Cancer
Dr. Lawrence Kushi Makes the Connection Between Food and Cancer (PR)
An announcement for PCRM's Vital Signs continuing education seminar in Universal City, California on April 10, 2010, where Lawrence Kushi of Kaiser Permanente Northern California will present food and nutrition recommendations for cancer prevention.
Cancer
Mango fights cancer
Texas A&M researchers tested polyphenol extracts from five mango varieties against several cancer cell lines. Ataulfo and Haden showed the strongest activity; Ataulfo cut growth of SW-480 colon cancer cells by about 72 percent in culture without inhibiting normal colon cells.
Cancer
Papaya extract slows cancer growth
A University of Florida team reports a papaya leaf extract slowed the growth of cultured cells from 10 cancer types, including breast, cervix, liver and pancreas, without harming healthy cells. The work was done in vitro.
Food
Garlic may help fight cancer (Press release)
Ohio State researchers built a urine test that measures both garlic consumption and a marker of the nitrosation process that turns dietary compounds into carcinogens. In a small pilot study, the more garlic people ate, the lower that cancer-risk marker ran.
Cancer
The Vitamin D Newsletter: Vitamin D fights cancer
The Vitamin D Council newsletter highlights a BMJ study of more than 500,000 people confirming that low vitamin D levels precede colorectal cancer in a dose-response pattern, and argues its authors underplayed their own finding that vitamin A appears to blunt that protection.
Cancer
Bitter melon extract kills breast cancer cells
Ratna Ray's team at Saint Louis University reports bitter melon extract induced death in breast cancer cells and slowed their growth and spread. Ray calls the result encouraging but says animal studies and clinical trials are still needed before any claim about treating the disease.
Cancer
Meat and fat linked to pancreatic cancer
Chan and UCSF colleagues compared 532 pancreatic cancer cases with 1,701 controls and found the highest intake of beef or lamb carried 120 percent greater risk, with raised risk also for hamburger, eggs, butter and total dairy. Eating more lean chicken or turkey tracked with 30 percent lower risk.
Cancer
Louis Gossett diagnosed with prostate cancer
Louis Gossett Jr., 73, says he has early stage prostate cancer and went public to urge African-Americans to seek early examination and treatment. The piece notes men 70 and older are not advised to screen routinely, since diagnosis and treatment may do more harm than good.
Nutrition
Cancer's Secret Weakness
Herbalist Donnie Yance argues herbs act more like foods than drugs, producing many effects at once and supporting health at a basic level, and that they lose that quality once manipulated into man-made pharmaceuticals.
Cancer
Vitamin d deficiency linked to high risk for colorectal cancer
Comparing 229 colorectal cancer cases with 343 controls, University of Hawaii researchers found serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D inversely associated with the disease: subjects above the lowest quintile of under 16.8 ng/mL had a 37 to 46 percent lower risk. The study was not a clinical trial.
Cancer
Cancer News: Green Tea Prevents Lung Cancer
A Taiwanese case-control study comparing 170 lung cancer patients with 340 healthy people found that drinking at least one cup of green tea a day was associated with sharply lower lung cancer risk among both smokers and non-smokers, with growth factor genotypes also shaping the risk.
Cancer
Dennis Hopper losing cancer battle: What you need to know
Dennis Hopper, 73, is reported to be losing his fight with prostate cancer after it spread to his bones; he had been treated since 2002. The article then reprints a roundup of earlier research on diet and prostate cancer, including a 2007 review of plant-based diets.
Nutrition
Pomegranate compounds may prevent hormone-dependent breast cancer
City of Hope researchers screened 10 ellagitannin-derived compounds from pomegranates and found they inhibit aromatase, the enzyme converting androgen to estrogen; the metabolite urolithin B notably slowed cell growth. Outside experts caution that ellagitannins absorb poorly from the diet.
Cancer
Soy cuts breast cancer risk - study
Zhang C and colleagues compared 438 Chinese women with breast cancer to 438 age-matched healthy women and found the highest soy isoflavone intake tied to 46% less risk and the highest soy protein intake to 38% less, across receptor status.
Cancer
Want to defeat your cancer? Eat less!
University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers exposed healthy and precancerous human lung cells to normal and reduced glucose. Restricting glucose let the healthy cells live longer and hastened death of the precancerous ones, with effects on the telomerase and p16 genes.
309 stories