How Much Does Chemotherapy Improve Survival?
If you put together all of the new chemo drugs that had been approved over a dozen years, the average overall survival benefit is only 2.1 months.
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Does Amygdalin or Vitamin B-17 Work as an Alternative Cancer Cure?
The Mayo Clinic puts amygdalin to the test to see if it is an effective cancer treatment.
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Shark Cartilage Supplements Put to the Test to Cure Cancer
Shark cartilage supplements carry risks, but so do many cancer treatments. The question is, do they work?
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Should Women Get Mammograms Starting at Age 40?
Various health organizations offer clashing mammogram recommendations that range from annual mammograms starting at age 40 to eliminating routine mammograms altogether. Who should you trust?
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9 out of 10 Women Misinformed About Mammograms
Most women are just being told what to do, rather than being given the facts needed to make a fully informed decision.
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The Role of Burger Viruses in Cancer
Polyomaviruses discovered in meat can survive cooking and pasteurization.
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Antiperspirants and Breast Cancer
Shaving before applying underarm antiperspirants can increase aluminum absorption. Could this explain the greater number of tumors and the disproportionate incidence of breast cancer in the upper outer quadrant of the breast near the armpit?
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Donating Blood to Prevent Heart Disease?
An extraordinary thing happened when those at high risk for heart disease were randomized to give blood—and it had nothing to do with their heart.
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Is Canned Fruit as Healthy?
Perhaps dietary guidelines should stress fresh, frozen, and dried fruit—rather than canned.
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Vitamin C Supplements for Terminal Cancer Patients
If studies from the 1970s showed cancer patients treated with vitamin C lived 4 times longer and sometimes even 20 times longer, why isn’t it standard practice today?
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Intravenous Vitamin C for Terminal Cancer Patients
Studies in the 1970s with terminal cancer patients appeared to show an extraordinary survival gain with vitamin C, a simple and relatively nontoxic therapy.
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Hospitals Selling Sickness
The movement to remove fast food operations from hospitals parallels the successful movement in the 80s to bar hospital tobacco sales.
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Phytates for the Treatment of Cancer
Do the anticancer effects of phytates in a petri dish translate out into clinical studies on cancer prevention and treatment?
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Carcinogen-Blocking Effects of Turmeric
Less than a teaspoon a day of turmeric appears to significantly lower the DNA-mutating ability of cancer-causing substances.
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Can Cellulite Be Treated with Diet?
Two theories about the buildup of subcutaneous fat, involving the chemical spermine and the hormone adiponectin, suggest a plant-based diet may help with cellulite.
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Flaxseeds & Breast Cancer Prevention
Young women at high risk for breast cancer given just a teaspoon of ground flax seeds a day showed fewer precancerous changes.
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Gerson-style Therapy vs. Chemotherapy
For decades, studies on Gerson therapy for cancer have questioned its safety and efficacy. But, what does the latest head-to-head trial of a Gerson-style regime, versus chemotherapy, show in terms of survival and quality of life for pancreatic cancer ?
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President’s Cancer Panel Report on Environmental Risk
The official National Cancer Institute report on the “unacceptable” burden of cancer stemming from industrial chemical pollutants is strongly worded, but lacks sufficient dietary guidance.
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Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death
Death in America is largely a foodborne illness. Focusing on studies published just over the last year in peer-reviewed scientific medical journals, Dr. Greger offers practical advice on how best to feed ourselves and our families to prevent, treat, and even reverse many of the top 15 killers in the United States.
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Meat Additives to Diminish Toxicity
How meat scientists justify their promotion of foods associated with cancer risk.
