All posts tagged with cancer treatments
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-(Natural News) When a doctor recommends chemotherapy, many patients agree without asking a lot of questions. Facing cancer is frightening, and it’s understandable that sufferers would want to start taking action to fight it right away. However, there are a lot of risks that come with chemotherapy that should be considered first, and one that […]
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-(Natural News) Should low-risk cancers be renamed? In a head-to-head debate recently published by the British Medical Journal, Laura Esserman argues against using the word “cancer” to describe low-risk malignancies. It’s no secret that there is a lot of fear-mongering in the cancer industry — nor is it a secret that cancer overdiagnosis and overtreatment […]
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-(Natural News) There’s no doubt that breast cancer is an insidious disease. New cases of invasive breast cancers are estimated to have affected over 250,000 women and over 2,400 men over the course of 2017 alone. And new research has shown that Big Pharma’s prized cancer treatments are entirely ineffective in many cases of breast […]
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-(Natural News) Chemotherapy may be the cornerstone of conventional cancer treatment, but that doesn’t mean it’s good for you. Studies continue to demonstrate that chemo isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. In addition to worsening quality of life, past research has shown that up to 50 percent of patients on chemo will die — […]
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-(Natural News) One of the side effects women undergoing treatment for breast cancer often experience is sleep disturbances related to their hot flashes. While there are available drugs that treat hot flashes, they come with side effects such as weight gain and hormonal imbalance. Research shows that there is a safer treatment option for this: […]
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-(Natural News) Cancer is still a global cause for concern, despite developments in conventional treatments like chemotherapy. The World Health Organization estimates that the disease will cause more than 9.6 million deaths this year. Given that conventional medications aren’t working out, many healthcare professionals are now looking at medicinal plants to reduce the burden of cancer […]
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-(Natural News) A study published in the American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology has found that chemotherapy can cause adverse effects on the skeletal muscle of patients undergoing treatment. In the study, researchers from the University of Vermont looked at whether chemotherapeutics for breast cancer impact skeletal muscle structure and protein expression. The researchers involved 13 women […]
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-(Natural News) It has been 16 years since the human genome was decoded — an accomplishment that scientists hoped would someday prove useful in cancer therapy. There was an optimistic, if not naive, belief that we could simply “switch off” cancer-causing genes. Nevertheless, oncologists are still encountering problems with this concept more than a decade […]
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-(Natural News) The liver is the single biggest organ in the body and is responsible for over 500 vitally important functions. Officially part of the digestive system, this amazing organ synthesizes protein, produces chemicals to help digest food and, perhaps most importantly, is an essential part of the body’s detoxification process. Although the liver is […]
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-(Natural News) The cost of chemotherapy is often too hard to bear. Even disregarding the physical effects of the dangerous “treatment,” the financial strain alone could force cancer patients to flirt dangerously with despair, or worse, potentially fatal “quick cures.” Yet many people forget that the solution to their condition may be in natural medicine, […]
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