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Promising new treatments in the fight against cancer
– The future of cancer treatment, part two The Promise of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy Chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) are engineered molecules that can be introduced into T cells to enable them to target specific tumor antigens. CAR T...
Cancer treatment – looking towards the future
– The future of cancer treatment, part one. This week we take a look at some promising new cancer treatments… We have something like 14 million cells in our body, but only one in three of us, and over many...
Vitamin C and Cancer Treatment – Fact or Fiction?
Why high-dose vitamin C kills cancer cells Vitamin C has a patchy history as a cancer therapy, but researchers at the University of Iowa believe that is because it has often been used in a way that guarantees failure. Most...
GMO – What you need to know
A GMO, or genetically modified organism, is a plant, animal, microorganism or other organism whose genetic makeup has been modified using recombinant DNA methods (also called gene splicing), gene modification or transgenic technology. This relatively new science creates unstable combinations...
Reading Behind the Lines – Food Label Lies
9 Food Label Lies Reading food labels isn’t as easy as you think. Here’s how to decipher nutrition labels so you can separate fact from marketing. It’s a fact of the grocery store that the most healthy food often has...
Did you make a new year’s resolution to get healthy, lose weight, or eat better?
New year, new chance to eat clean this year. What exactly does this buzzy phrase mean? YOUR ULTIMATE GUIDE FOR EATING CLEAN “Although no clinical definition exists, clean eating generally refers to how a food is produced. It’s about the...
Does Obesity Increase Cancer Risk?
How being overweight causes cancer Research has shown that many types of cancer are more common in people who are overweight or obese, including cancers of the breast (in women after the menopause), bowel, womb, oesophageal (food pipe), pancreatic, kidney,...
What’s in a word? The language of food labels
11 common words with very specific meanings on food labels One of the responsibilities of the Food and Drug Administration is to assure that foods are labeled properly. It provides regulations on what, where, and how prominently information should be...
Biomarkers – The Future of Medicine
Cancer biomarkers: Written in blood In 2012, Charles Swanton was forced to confront one of cancer’s dirtiest tricks. When he and his team at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute sequenced DNA from a handful of kidney tumours, they...
