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Recent Advances in the Use of Metformin in Cancer Treatment
Diabetes drug Metformin holds promise for cancer treatment and prevention Use of Metformin — commonly used as the front-line treatment for type 2 diabetes — improves survival for some breast cancer patients, and shows promise as a treatment for patients...
The Integral Role of Nutrition in Cancer Treatment
– Following up on last week’s “The future of cancer treatment” series, this week we take a look at some of the best current treatment options… Nutrition in Cancer Care Healthy eating habits are important during cancer treatment. Nutrition therapy...
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,...
