Researchers from Belgium, France, the US and Poland have concluded that just because a tumour ‘responds’ to chemotherapy doesn't automatically mean a better chance of patient survival. They drew their conclusions from a meta-analysis of 25 randomised trials involving nearly 4000 patients with colorectal cancer. The data showed that, while different drugs produced different responses rates experimental [...]
Grape see extract is more effective than chemotherapy at fighting colorectal cancer – especially in its later, aggressive stage – and may be a powerful alternative treatment for other cancers too, say researchers. The extract suppresses cancer cell growth and kills half of all stage IV colorectal cells, researchers from the University of Colorado Cancer [...]
Scientists are finally realising that medicine has it wrong about cancer and the way to treat it. Many aggressive cancers are caused by low oxygen levels in cells, scientists have discovered and not by genetic mutations that need to be blasted by chemotherapy. The discovery – by scientists at the University of Georgia – means [...]
