541-323-3833This Plant Slows Prostate Cancer Growth
For men with prostate cancer, the PSA doubling time (PSADT) is a critical number to watch. The PSADT measures how quickly a tumor is growing. PSADT of 2 years? Your treatment plan is working well. PSADT of 4 months? The treatment isn’t working and the tumor is growing fast. Do you want all options to decrease your PSADT? Look into modified citrus pectin. This citrus plant extract binds to galactin-3, a receptor that cancer cells use to grab onto tissue and spread. Galectin-3 is pivotal to metastasis. Modified citrus pectin (MCP) blocks...
read moreDoes Fish Oil Really Cause Prostate Cancer?
A study from the National Cancer Institute recently found an association between Omega-3 and prostate cancer risk. Dr Robert Rountree shares this helpful analysis of the study: “Greetings, As you may be aware, an article published in the July 2013 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute suggests there is an association between elevated plasma omega-3 fatty acid levels and a heightened risk of prostate cancer. This study must be interpreted with a significant degree of caution for a variety of reasons: The data came from...
read moreCoriolus Lengthens Life in Breast, Colon, and Gastric Cancer
For every 11 people who breast, colon, or gastric cancer who take coriolus, 1 more person will be alive 5 years later. This result is from a metanalysis of 13 clinical trials. To put this effect in perspective, let’s compare it to some other therapies used in these cancers. Breast: To extend 3 years of life for 1 woman, 8-17 women have to take Herceptin at a total cost of $450,000 to $4 million. Colon: To extend 3 years of life for 1 person with stage III cancer, 14 have to take FOLFOX chemotherapy for 24 weeks. Clearly, coriolus is a...
read moreWhy Less Breast Cancer in Asia?
Nutrition Facts – Why Less Breast Cancer in Asia? – By Michael Greger M.D. Though breast cancer is the most common cancer among women around the world, the rate in some areas of the world, such as Asia, is up to six-fold lower than in North America. Maybe it’s the green tea and soy? As I show in my 3-min. video Why Do Asian Women Have Less Breast Cancer?, if anything, green tea may only drop risk by about a third. Soy works better, but only, it appears, if you start young. Soy intake throughout the lifecycle is associated...
read moreMushrooms For Breast Cancer Prevention
Nutrition Facts.org (nutritionfacts.org) – Mushrooms For Breast Cancer Prevention – By Michael Greger M.D. – (Thursday, June 06, 2013) Breast cancer can take decades to develop, so “early” detection via mammogram may be too late. The breast cancer you may feel one day as a lump in the shower, may have started 20 years ago. We now suspect that all the epithelial cancers: breast, colon, lung, pancreas, prostate, ovarian-the ones that cause the vast majority of cancer deaths-take up to 20 years or more to manifest....
read moreTest Predicts Risk of Recurrence In Bladder and Colorectal Cancer
You’re newly diagnosed with bladder or colorectal cancer. Surgery is planned, but the doctors aren’t sure how comprehensive the radiation or chemotherapy plan should be. Some people with early stage bladder or colorectal cancer are cured by surgery. However, others have a more aggressive type of cancer, and are likely to get a cancer recurrence. A new test can help doctors determine the risk of cancer recurrence in bladder and colorectal cancer. The test detects a protein, PODXL, that is associated with early cancer recurrence....
read moreNew Noninvasive Oral Cancer Detection Method
Texas A&M scientists are developing a more accurate and less invasive way to detect early oral cancer. The new method uses a fluorescent dye and microscopic examination. In research tests, the new method detects oral cancer and squamous cell carcinoma much earlier than current methods. While this oral cancer screening tool is still experimental, the scientists hope that it will be available to physicians and dentists within the next few years.
read moreThis Plant May Prevent Melanoma
Star Tribune (startribune.com) – Can Thistle Plant Help Prevent Melanoma? – By Colleen Stoxen -(Monday, May 20, 2013) “Researchers at the Hormel Institute in Austin, Minn., say they have discovered an element in milk thistle that can slow the growth of melanoma – a common, often deadly form of skin cancer. The milk thistle plant contains a natural anti-cancer agent called silybin, also known as silibrinin, which has long been used for preventing allergies and repairing liver damage. Previous studies have shown that...
read moreStatins Increase Breast Cancer Survival by 33%
From Science News: Breast cancer patients do better on statins Cholesterol-lowering drugs might limit the lethality of breast cancer. While these drugs, called statins, can kill breast cancer cells in laboratory tests (SN: 5/5/2012, p. 30), scientists don’t know whether they can prevent the disease in people or help breast cancer patients. Teemu Murtola, a physician and epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University and colleagues analyzed records of more than 31,000 women in Finland who received a first-time diagnosis of breast cancer from 1995...
read moreOncotype Dx Validated for DCIS
Newly diagnosed with DCIS? Wondering whether you’ll need radiation after surgery? Considering a lumpectomy versus a mastectomy? The Oncotype Dx test has been used to identify which breast cancers need chemotherapy. Now, a new version of the test helps determine which DCIS tumors need radiation therapy. Read the full story here. Oncotype Dx needs to be ordered along with your surgery or biopsy. The test looks at biochemical markers in the tumor tissue that can predict how the tumor will behave.
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