Pomegranate for Prevention and Treatment of Cancer: An Update

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Pooja Sharma et al. Pomegranate for Prevention and Treatment of Cancer: An Update Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, and those who survive cancer may experience lasting difficulties, including treatment side effects, as well as physical, cognitive, and psychosocial struggles. Naturally-occurring agents from dietary fruits and vegetables have received […]

Pain Medicine and Palliative Care as an Alternative to Euthanasia in End-of-life Cancer Care

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Michael Erdek Patients suffering from terminal cancer often have pain. Some have advocated euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide as a potential way of alleviating this suffering. Further examination of this topic, however, shows this approach may be essentially utilitarian and fail to consider the inherent value of human life. There has been significant development in recent […]

Cleaning Supplies and Your Health

EWG Environmental Working Group’s investigation of more than 2,000 cleaning supplies on the American market has found that many contain substances linked to serious health problems. EWG concludes that: Fumes from some cleaning products may induce asthma in otherwise healthy individuals. A large and growing body of evidence links frequent use of many ordinary cleaning […]

Mistletoe and Immunomodulation: Insights and Implications for Anticancer Therapies

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Shiao Li Oei et al. In early tumor development, cancer cells develop a plethora of strategies to escape surveillance from the adaptive and innate immune system. Cancer immunotherapies, in particular immune checkpoint inhibitors, are becoming a highly promising cancer therapeutic approach that has remarkable increased progress in combating various cancer types. Unfortunately, their mechanisms of […]

Cancer Therapy with Phytochemicals: Evidence from Clinical Studies

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Azar Hosseini and Ahmad Ghorbani Cancer is still one of the major causes of mortality in both developing and developed countries. At present, in spite of intensive interventions, a large number of patients suffer from poor prognosis. Therefore, the effort for finding new anticancer agents with better efficacy and lesser side effects has been continued. […]

Green tea Compound Aids p53, ‘Guardian of the Genome’ and Tumor Suppressor

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute An antioxidant found in green tea may increase levels of p53, a natural anti-cancer protein, known as the “guardian of the genome” for its ability to repair DNA damage or destroy cancerous cells. Published today in Nature Communications, a study of the direct interaction between p53 and the green tea compound, epigallocatechin […]

Chemotherapy: The Scary, Staggering Truth About the Fraud

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Vernon Coleman Over the years I have repeatedly found that all medical recommendations are best treated with a large dose of scepticism. Nowhere is this more true than in the treatment of cancer. … Chemotherapy might improve a patient’s chances of survival by three to five per cent though that modest figure is usually over […]