Cancer

Here's a powerful and enlightening interview with leading cancer researcher Webster Kehr. Webster is the founder of the #1 alternative cancer treatment website cancertutor.com...

How to Kill Cancer Stem cells with Non-toxic therapies

Using a new approach, scientists have discovered a novel drug candidate that could be used to treat certain types of breast cancer, lung cancer and melanoma.

You may have cursed it and tried to get rid of it. Discover the cancer fighting medicine that's likely hiding in plain sight on your front lawn.

Aging humans can derive enormous benefit from an antidiabetic drug called metformin.

In this case report, we describe the treatment of a 64-year-old male patient diagnosed with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in June of 2008. In spite of a left nephrectomy and the standard oncological protocols, the patient developed a solitary left lung metastasis that continued to grow. He w …

This strain of mouse has an immune system that kills cancer cells.

Dietary guidelines often patronizingly recommend what they consider acceptable or achievable rather than what the best available balance of evidence suggests is best. Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org’s free newsletter to receive our B12 infographic that covers the latest research takeaways and Dr. Greger’s updated recommendations: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ How Much Cancer Does Lunch Meat Cause? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-much-cancer-does-lunch-meat-cause/) Good question—watch the video! Can even just cutting down on meat extend our lifespan? Find out in Do Flexitarians Live Longer? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/do-flexitarians-live-longer/). I think the role of health authorities is to share with patients the pros and cons of all the options and let the patients, their families, and their doctors all decide together what’s right for them. For example, check out: • Fully Consensual Heart Disease Treatment (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fully-consensual-heart-disease-treatment/) • Optimal Diet: Just Give it To Me Straight, Doc (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/optimal-diet-just-give-it-to-me-straight-doc) • Physicians May Be Missing Their Most Important Tool (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/physicians-may-be-missing-their-most-important-tool) • The Actual Benefit of Diet vs. Drugs (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/The-Actual-Benefit-of-Diet-vs-Drugs) • What Diet Should Physician’s Recommend? (http://www.nutritionfacts.org/video/what-diet-should-physicians-recommend/) Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-palatability-of-cancer-prevention and he'll try to answer it! Image Credit: MarkusHendrich via Pixabay. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

Purpose We aimed to examine the radioprotective effects of melatonin on the blood cell counts of patients with rectum cancer undergoing radiotherapy. Materials and methods This double-blind placebo-controlled study was conducted on 60 rectal cancer patients who were referred to Rajaii Hospital of Babolsar, Iran. An equal number of patients were randomly assigned to the control group which received placebo and study group which received 20 mg melatonin a day as an intervention. The melatonin was administered 5 days a week for 28 days. Blood samples were taken before melatonin received on day 1 and also day 28; then, to measure the changes in blood cell counts representing our primary outcomes, the samples were analyzed by Sysmex K810i auto-analyzer. Results Our results showed that the platelet, white blood cells, lymphocyte, and neutrophil population reduction induced by radiotherapy were slighter or even insignificant in melatonin recipients compared to control. However, the difference between red blood cells in both groups was not significant. Conclusion Our results are indicating that melatonin could prevent or minimize the unfavorable effects of radiotherapy on blood cell count reductions by attenuating the adverse influence of radiation, probably through stimulation of cellular antioxidant potential as previously reported in animal models. Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials (IRCT) Registry No. IRCT2016021626586N1.

As many as 37% of human breast cancer cases may be attributable to exposure to bovine leukemia virus. Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org’s free newsletter to receive our B12 infographic that covers the latest research takeaways and Dr. Greger’s updated recommendations: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ For some historical background leading up to these shocking findings, see the last video http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-bovine-leukemia-virus-in-milk-infectious I couldn’t wait to read the meat and dairy industry journals to see how they’d try to spin this. Find out what I found out in my next and final video in this series Industry Response to Bovine Leukemia Virus in Breast Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/industry-response-to-bovine-leukemia-virus-in-breast-cancer). Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-role-of-bovine-leukemia-virus-in-breast-cancer and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-role-of-bovine-leukemia-virus-in-breast-cancer. You’ll also find a transcript of the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Image Credit: Wayne Stadler via flickr. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

Polyoma viruses discovered in meat can survive cooking and pasteurization. Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org’s free newsletter to receive our B12 infographic that covers the latest research takeaways and Dr. Greger’s updated recommendations: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ This reminds me of the bovine leukemia virus story with breast cancer. Check that out at: • Is Bovine Leukemia Virus in Milk Infectious? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-bovine-leukemia-virus-in-milk-infectious/) • The Role of Bovine Leukemia Virus in Breast Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-role-of-bovine-leukemia-virus-in-breast-cancer/) • Industry Response to Bovine Leukemia Virus in Breast Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/industry-response-to-bovine-leukemia-virus-in-breast-cancer/) What about chicken? Check out The Role of Poultry Viruses in Human Cancers (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-role-of-poultry-viruses-in-human-cancers). That’s one of the problems with eating other animals, we put ourselves at risk of animal diseases. Not once have I diagnosed anyone with Dutch Elm Disease or a really bad case of aphids. More on this concept in my video Eating Outside our Kingdom (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/eating-outside-our-kingdom/). Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-role-of-burger-viruses-in-cancer and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-role-of-burger-viruses-in-cancer. You’ll also find a transcript and acknowledgements for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Image credit: Danielle Scott / Flickr. Image has been modified. Icons created by Gan Khoon Lay, Kokota and Andy Selimov from the Noun Project. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

Does a cancer-causing herpes virus in chickens pose a public health threat? Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org’s free newsletter to receive our B12 infographic that covers the latest research takeaways and Dr. Greger’s updated recommendations: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ Other viruses may actually play a role in the obesity epidemic. See, for example, Infectobesity: Adenovirus 36 and Childhood Obesity (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/infectobesity-adenovirus-36-and-childhood-obesity/). Other potential poultry microbiological hazards include: • Chicken Dioxins, Viruses, or Antibiotics? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/chicken-dioxins-viruses-or-antibiotics/) • Avoiding Chicken to Avoid Bladder Infections (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/avoiding-chicken-to-avoid-bladder-infections/) • Past the Age of Miracles: Facing a Post-Antibiotic Age (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/past-the-age-of-miracles-facing-a-post-antibiotic-age/) • Superbugs in Conventional vs. Organic Chicken (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/superbugs-in-conventional-vs-organic-chicken/) • Foster Farms Responds to Chicken Salmonella Outbreaks (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/foster-farms-responds-to-chicken-salmonella-outbreaks/) • Poultry Exposure and Neurological Disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/poultry-exposure-and-neurological-disease/) • Poultry and Paralysis (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/poultry-and-paralysis/) Potential poultry chemical hazards include: • Phosphate Additives in Chicken (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/phosphate-additives-in-chicken) • Illegal Drugs in Chicken Feathers (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/illegal-drugs-in-chicken-feathers) • Chicken Consumption and the Feminization of Male Genitalia (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/chicken-consumption-and-the-feminization-of-male-genitalia/) • California Children Are Contaminated (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/california-children-are-contaminated/) • How Many Cancers Have Been Caused in Arsenic-Laced Chicken? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-many-cancers-have-been-caused-by-arsenic-laced-chicken/) Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-role-of-poultry-viruses-in-human-cancers and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-role-of-poultry-viruses-in-human-cancers. You’ll also find a transcript of the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

The stomach is traditionally regarded as a hollow muscular sac that initiates the second phase of digestion. Yet this simple view ignores the fact that it is the most sophisticated endocrine organ with unique physiology, biochemistry, immunology and microbiology. All ingested materials, including our nutrition, have to negotiate this organ first, and as such, the stomach is arguably the most important segment within the GI tract. The unique biological function of gastric acid secretion not only initiates the digestive process but also acts as a first line of defence against food-borne microbes. Normal gastric physiology and morphology may be disrupted by Helicobacter pylori infection, the most common chronic bacterial infection in the world and the aetiological agent for most peptic ulcers and gastric cancer. In this state-of-the-art review, the most relevant new aspects of the stomach in health and disease are addressed. Topics include gastric physiology and the role of gastric dysmotility in dyspepsia and gastroparesis; the stomach in appetite control and obesity; there is an update on the immunology of the stomach and the emerging field of the gastric microbiome. H. pylori -induced gastritis and its associated diseases including peptic ulcers and gastric cancer are addressed together with advances in diagnosis. The conclusions provide a future approach to gastric diseases underpinned by the concept that a healthy stomach is the gateway to a healthy and balanced host . This philosophy should reinforce any public health efforts designed to eradicate major gastric diseases, including stomach cancer.

Not only is avocado an exceptionally dense source of good fats, vitamins, and antioxidants, but it offers protection against some of the worst degenerative diseases known to humanity

Inhibitory effects of trehalose liposomes (DMTre) composed of 30mol% l-α-dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) and 70mol% trehalose surfactants on the growth of lymphoblastic leukemia (MOLT-4) cells in vitro and therapeutic effects of DMTre for xenograft mice model of carcinoma in vivo were examined …

Inhibitory effects of trehalose liposomes (DMTre) composed of 30mol% l-α-dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) and 70mol% trehalose surfactants on the growth of lymphoblastic leukemia (MOLT-4) cells in vitro and therapeutic effects of DMTre for xenograft mice model of carcinoma in vivo were examined …

The biological functions of melatonin range beyond the regulation of the circadian rhythm. With regard to cancer, melatonin's potential to suppress ca…

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is virtually therapy-resistant. As noninvasive lesions progress to malignancy, the precursor period provides a window for cancer therapies that can interfere with neoplastic progression. Thymoquinone (Tq), a major ...

Did you know the vast majority of thyroid cancer diagnoses are FALSE? And yet, the vast majority goes ahead and gets 'treated' anyway, with total removal of the gland, radiation and life long hormone replacement.

One of the hottest areas of cancer research has to do with cancer stem cells and the top 12 cancer stem cell killing nutrients.

Dr. Dean Ornish showed that a plant-based diet and lifestyle program could apparently reverse the progression of prostate cancer; this was for early stage, localized, watch-and-wait cancer. What about for more advanced stage life-threatening disease? Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org’s free newsletter to receive our B12 infographic that covers the latest research takeaways and Dr. Greger’s updated recommendations: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ Support NutritionFacts.org with a donation at http://www.NutritionFacts.org/donate. Wait, making men’s bloodstreams nearly 8 times better at suppressing cancer cell growth? Check it out at How Not to Die from Cancer (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-not-to-die-from-cancer/). It’s not all-or-nothing, though. Any movement we make towards healthy eating may help. See my video Prostate Cancer Survival: The A/V Ratio (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/prostate-cancer-survival-the-av-ratio). What if you repeated this study in a new group of patients but this time tried it for six months? Find out what happened when researchers attempted just that in my next video Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer with Diet: Part 2 (http://www.nutritionfacts.org/topics/Treating-Advanced-Prostate-Cancer-with-Diet-Part-2). Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/treating-advanced-prostate-cancer-with-diet-part-1 and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/treating-advanced-prostate-cancer-with-diet-part-1. You’ll also find a transcript and acknowledgements for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Image credit: Kristina DeMuth https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

What happens when metastatic prostate cancer patients were taught to increase intake of whole grains, vegetables, fruit, and beans and to decrease meat, dairy, and junk? Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org’s free newsletter to receive our B12 infographic that covers the latest research takeaways and Dr. Greger’s updated recommendations: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ Support NutritionFacts.org with a donation at http://www.NutritionFacts.org/donate. Healthy diets only work if you eat them, though. Check out the earlier study in my last video, Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer with Diet: Part 1 (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/treating-advanced-prostate-cancer-with-diet-part-1). Why is it so hard to get men to change their diet even in the face of cancer? Watch my video Changing a Man’s Diet After a Prostate Cancer Diagnosis (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/changing-mans-diet-prostate-cancer-diagnosis/). Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/treating-advanced-prostate-cancer-with-diet-part-2 and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/treating-advanced-prostate-cancer-with-diet-part-2. You’ll also find a transcript and acknowledgements for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Image credit: Sally Plank via Flickr https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

Treating Cancer with Sodium Bicarbonate – Good Idea or Not? Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) is the least expensive, safest and perhaps most effective cancer medicine there is.

A leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, colon cancer is famously resistant to treatment. Now the biological pathway behind the growth of colon cancer has been discovered by researchers who have been able block it with vitamin A.