Up to 90% of colon cancer cases can be linked to diet. Let food be your medicine The National Cancer Institute says colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. Rather than wait for drug companies to find more toxic treatments that don’t work, it’s best to take your…
Detecting Cancer in a Vocal Print
Sharry Edwards, MEd, named Scientist of the Year in 2001 by The International Association of New Science for her work in BioAcoustic Biology, has been studying sound frequencies and diseases for years. Using what she calls “Human BioAcoustics,” Edwards combines vocal profiling through voice spectral analysis with the use of low frequency analog sound to…
Cancer Check Referral in England Hits Record Number After Pandemic Decline
Almost three million people were referred for cancer checks in the 12 months between March 2021 and February 2022, NHS England said on Monday. The National Health Service said the number is the highest on record and up by more than a tenth of the number before the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic. According…
Prostate Cancer
What Is the Prostate, and How Common Is the Cancer? It’s a walnut-size gland that lies at the base of the bladder and surrounds the urethra. In the United States prostate cancer is one of the two most frequently diagnosed cancers in men (the other is skin cancer). The American Cancer Society (ACS) estimates that…
Merck Raises 2022 Forecast as COVID Pill, Cancer Drug Fuels Profit Beat
Merck & Co. on Thursday reported quarterly profit and sales that beat estimates and raised its full-year forecasts on strong demand for top-selling cancer drug Keytruda, its Gardasil vaccine and COVID-19 antiviral pill molnupiravir. The U.S. drugmaker’s shares rose 1.8 percent to $85.90 before the opening bell as revenue rose 50 percent to $15.9 billion,…
Fighting the 10 Hallmarks of Cancer with Food
“The vast majority of cancer research is devoted to finding cures, rather than finding new ways to prevent disease.” And the results of these skewed priorities are plain to see: 2021 is the 50th anniversary of Nixon’s declaration of war on cancer, and the death tolls from the most common forms of cancer in the…
Books May Be the Answer to Fighting Cancer Brain Fog
Researchers from the University of South Australia are studying the potential effect of bibliotherapy, or being read to, by investigating the possibility of fictional reading as a form of “escape” for cancer patients. “There is something to be said for losing yourself in a book and escaping reality for a while, particularly for people who…
Bride With Terminal Cancer Has Beautiful Wedding
Even though their future was uncertain, they chose love and commitment. …
Warning: Emotional Stress Increases Breast Cancer Risk
The diagnosis of breast cancer is inevitably a very emotional event. As your mind races a hundred miles an hour, dozens of questions come to the surface. You wonder about your course of treatment, what the outcome will be and how you and your family will make it through it all. I deal with these…
Is It Time to Remove the Cancer Label From Low-Risk Conditions?
Over the past few decades, our understanding of cancer has changed. We now know some cancers don’t grow or grow so slowly that they’ll never cause medical problems. But the way we label disease can harm. The use of more medicalised labels, including cancer, can increase levels of anxiety and the desire for more invasive…
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