Upending decades-old dogma, a team of scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine showed that enzymes long categorized as promoting cancer are, in fact, tumor suppressors. As a result, the current clinical efforts to develop inhibitor-based …
As we have seen elsewhere in this blog, immune deficiency is a key element in carcinogenesis. In this perspective, scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of California at San Francisco have revealed how a type …
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According to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published today in Nature Communications, two existing cancer drugs turn on a gene that tells tumor cells to remain inactive. Researchers discovered that …
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Green tea (camellia sinensis) has been studied for both its cancer prevention role and its contribution in cancer reversals. In addition, many other diseases and illness symptoms can benefit from green tea, from cardio-vascular diseases to diabetes, osteoporosis, allergies, inflammation, …
Sweet potato protein is not only beneficial for hormonal balance, but also for cancer control. In this perspective, this protein was shown to slow down the growth of colon cancer cells by 65% in vitro, and by 58 percent in …
Black seed oil (Nigella sativa) can be a safe, cost-friendly and effective adjunctive therapy for breast cancer and other malignancies. Notwithstanding the lack of clinical trials data, there nonetheless is evidence that does support the claim that black cumin seed …
One of the continued challenges of cancer therapy is the high recurrence rates of tumour development after surgical removal. Chemo and-or radiotherapy is often given following surgery to prevent this, but these treatments cause serious side effects including new cancerous …
As the ASCO meeting last year finally concluded, (See our post on the ASCO meeting), immunotherapy is one of the most scientifically exciting research fields, if only because it remains one of the most long term safe and efficient pathways …