Cancer Treatments - Alternative and Complementary
Commentary by Thomas Sullivan
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What is the difference between alternative and complementary treatments? We define alternative cancer treatments as those modalities that are outside the current mainstream of known and established cancer treatments which may replace a current treatment. Complementary treatments on the other hand are designed to be used as an adjunct to a traditional cancer treatment. Although the news presented here may be both positive and negative, for sure, you will be informed.
Our mission here is to provide the most current information on alternative and complementary cancer treatments. We will leave it up to the doctor and patient to concomitantly decide if the treatment is appropiate. It is up to the patient and physician to know what cutting edge treatments are available. This news journal provides a means by which to increase the treatment knowledge base. This news journal will be updated at least once per day.
For the cancer patient, information can increase his or her chance of survival. If you find a news post which stimulates your interest, you should consult with your oncologist about possibly pursuing that particular treatment. This news journal provides information on alternative and complementary cancer treatments only, and we do not endorse any of the treatments presented. We simply want to let you know that there are alternative and complementary treatments available. Our goal here is to simply provide the most current news in terms of alternative and complementary cancer treatments.
Because the oncologist must deal with many types of cancer, keeping up on the absolutely latest treatments and non-mainstream medical modalities, can be difficult. There are over 200 different types of cancer. You can develop cancer in any body organ. There are over 60 different organs in the body where you can get a cancer.
The prudent patient should concentrate on his or her particular cancer. You may find some information that your oncologist may not be aware of. The prudent patient should thoroughly research the available treatments, both mainstream and non-mainstream that may exist.
One thing is clear…the most promising treatment programs are integrating traditional and non-traditional approaches. It is our hope that this frequently updated news journal becomes a viable sources of information for both patient and oncologist. We encourage you to bookmark this journal and view it daily to keep up on what is happening in terms of new cancer treatments.
The following are informative videos, current news about alternative and complementary cancer treatments, and general cancer treatment news. While the diagnosis of malignant cancer is something most of us can do without, medical research has brought to the table an assortment of treatment alternatives that did not exist even 10 or 15 years ago. Review the following news frequently, and if you find something that sparks your interest and is relevant to your situation, discuss the information with your oncologist. Simply put, being informed increases the chances of survival.
HolisticCancerSolutions.com is the website of Eclectic Medicine International (E.M.I.), a 15-year old medical data research and information service firm, focusing on non-toxic medications and therapies. They provide some very interesting reports. To learn more about what they have to offer to the cancer patient, click the following link:(Make sure you click their “About Us” link to learn more about their reports and for ordering)
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Stay Ahead of the Pain
Control the pain both before and after it hurts By Elaine Wacholtz, PhD For Troy Mikell and his wife, Tami, it is business as usual - but it has not always been that way. They work as a team running T & T Transportation Services, LLC , their freight brokerage business. Eighteen months ago, however, life was very different for Troy, who was recovering from bladder cancer. The pain imposed upon him by the disease proved to be both a blessing and a burden, but learning how to manage that pain led to better healing and quicker recovery. It all started on a Friday in the summer of 2004 during an appointment with his urologist who "reassured Tami and me that the blood I had noticed in my urine had a non-cancerous cause," explained Troy....
Soothe Stress, Reap Rewards
Use the mind-body connection to promote peace of mindBy Cheryl A. Sweet Inhaling deeply, Laura Sereyko soaked in the scenery from her rural Maine porch. Snuggling in a wooden swing overlooking Lake Escutarsis, she delighted in a hovering hummingbird and the poignant perfume of pines. She closed her eyes, breathed big, and began transporting herself towards total tranquility. "I'm flying over the lake like a bird, guiding myself with my arms," Laura related. "Suddenly, a wand appears and starts to circle my body with white light - good cells - beginning with my head, all the way down to my feet. Out of my feet come colored lights - bad cancer cells. I may repeat this up to 10 times. After it's over, I take several really deep breaths an...
Laughter: It's a Family Affair!
How to bring humor back into your life By Christine Clifford Beckwith, CSP Three days after undergoing breast cancer surgery in December, '94, I heard the doorbell ring downstairs from my place of rest in my bedroom. "Mom!" screamed my second-grader, Brooks, "More flowers for your breast!" It was a turning point for me, his innocent statement brought laughter to my already developing self-pity. After all, as a young child of 15, I watched my mother crawl into bed with a diagnosis of cancer at the age of 38. In the months that followed my mother's radical mastectomy, my family watched in horror as she sank into a shockingly deep, clinical depression. Eventually, my father left my mother, no longer able to deal with her depression. S...
First U.S. Patient Undergoes Non-invasive Magnetic Resonance-Guided Focused Ultrasound Procedure To Relieve Pain From Bone Metastases
TIRAT CARMEL, Israel -- InSightec Ltd. announced today that the first U.S. patient has been treated in the company's pivotal trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the non-invasive, radiation-free ExAblate(R) Magnetic Resonance-guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) system as a pain relieving treatment for patients with bone metastases who have failed an initial round of palliative radiation. The ExAblate system was approved to treat women suffering from symptomatic uterine fibroids in 2004. Over 4,000 women have already undergone treatment with ExAblate worldwide. "Pain from tumors that have spread to the bone is the most common kind of pain for cancer patients," said Dr. Kobi Vortman, InSightec's president and...
Allos Therapeutics Initiates Phase 2 Study Of PDX In Patients With Advanced Or Metastatic Relapsed Transitional Cell Carcinoma Of The Urinary Bladder
WESTMINSTER, Colo. -- Allos Therapeutics, Inc. today announced the initiation of patient enrollment in a Phase 2, open-label, single-arm, multi-center study of PDX (pralatrexate) in patients with advanced or metastatic relapsed transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the urinary bladder. "We are pleased to broaden our PDX solid tumor development program into an additional indication," said Pablo J. Cagnoni, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of Allos. "TCC of the bladder is an area of high unmet medical need with no agents currently approved for the second-line treatment of advanced or metastatic disease. Given the established role of antifolates in the treatment of bladder cancer, we believe this trial represents an important oppo...
Doctors Give Cancer Patients More Options To Preserve Fertility
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Jennifer Smith always knew she wanted to have a house full of children someday. But two months ago, a diagnosis of breast cancer threw that plan into serious jeopardy. Smith's cancer was aggressive. She had to start chemotherapy right away. And the cancer-killing drugs could damage her ovaries, drastically reducing her chances of ever becoming pregnant. So the 25-year-old Roeland Park, Kan., woman decided to take a chance on an unproven but promising experimental procedure - freezing one of her ovaries. If it's successful, she may be able to have children of her own in the future. Not many years ago, Smith wouldn't have had this option. Her doctor may not have even told her that her fertility was at risk. But...
A Gene Test To Assess Lung Cancer
U.S. and Canadian researchers have taken steps toward developing a gene test to determine whether a patient's lung cancer is especially aggressive or whether radical treatment can be avoided. The researchers reported Sunday that they had analyzed lung cancer tissue from 442 people to confirm that measuring the activity of certain genes could help predict early on which cases may be the most deadly and which had a better prognosis. Knowing whether a person has an aggressive tumor - one likely to spread quickly and uncontrollably beyond the lungs - is critical in determining the type of treatment needed. The researchers said tracking gene activity, along with taking into account clinical factors like the patient's age...
U.S. Hits Weight Marker: 1 In 4 Officially Obese
Americans, who have been getting fatter for decades, reached an unwelcome milestone in a report released Thursday: More than one in four of us are obese. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the number of adults who say they are obese jumped 2 percent between 2005 and 2007--from 23.9 percent in 2005 to 25.6 percent in 2007. That doesn't include people who are overweight. A different CDC survey--a gold-standard project in which researchers actually weigh and measure survey respondents--put the adult obesity rate at 33 percent for adult men and 35 percent for adult women in 2005 and 2006. "It's alarming," said Dr. Robert Kushner, professor of medicine at Northwestern University...
Tomato And Grilled Bread Salad With Halibut
Grills get a workout in the summertime, but they can take a break from hamburgers and hot dogs with today's recipe. The American Heart Association recommends that most people eat at least two servings of fish each week, but many of us - including me - don't always follow that advice. So I started searching for a recipe that would help me meet that goal this summer. Tomato and bread salad is one of my favorite meals, and I thought it might work well to toss some fish into that dish. First, I wanted to find a healthier marinade for fish. The original recipe I liked for halibut included a generous amount of olive oil, but I found that adding some white wine vinegar to a fraction of the oil kept the flavor I wanted while trimming calor...
Cabbage Is Inexpensive And Offers Loads Of Health Benefits
Sweet-and-Sour Crunchy Coleslaw is inexpensive, deliciously filling and nutritious. In tough economic times, fill 'em up with cabbage. Inexpensive yet highly nutritious, the humble cruciferous vegetable is known to reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease. Coleslaw is the perfect delivery vehicle for the vitamin C in cabbage, because the vitamin is readily available in the vegetable's raw form. If you're feeding a crowd, using a shredded and bagged coleslaw mix eliminates the need for chopping. While there are probably as many variations of coleslaw as there are cooks, The Star's Sweet-and-Sour Crunchy Coleslaw is inspired by an upscale version that has been known to make frequent appearances on the Whole Foods salad bar. Wha...
Genenews Launches World's First Blood Test For Colorectal Cancer Screening
TORONTO -- GeneNews Limited, a company focused on developing blood-based biomarker tests for the early detection of diseases and personalized health management, today announced the launch of ColonSentry(TM), the world's first blood-based molecular test for colorectal cancer screening. ColonSentry(TM) is a blood test that assesses a patient's current risk of having colorectal cancer, identifying those in the asymptomatic general population with increased risk who might benefit from further more invasive diagnostic testing such as colonoscopy. This risk stratification approach allows for a more targeted application of colonoscopy which could increase the detection rate of colorectal cancer by as much as 3 fold in an asymptom...
Research Results Update Understanding Of Cervical Cancer Quality Of Care
Current study results from the report, 'Stress, immunity, and cervical cancer: biobehavioral outcomes of a randomized clinical trial,' have been published. According to recent research from the United States, "Cancer diagnosis and treatment imparts chronic stressors affecting quality of life (QOL) and basic physiology. However, the capacity to increase survival by improving QOL is controversial." "Patients with cervical cancer, in particular, have severely compromised QOL, providing a population well-suited for the evaluation of novel psychosocial interventions and the exploration of mechanisms by which modulation of the psychoneuroimmune axis might result in improved clinical outcomes. A randomized clinical trial was conducted in cervic...
Hope For Pregnant Cancer Patients
Something felt wrong in Leila Sadat's right breast. The Washington University law professor tried to ignore the nagging worry about a hard spot that mammograms did not detect. Doctors thought it was nothing more serious than a blocked milk duct. It couldn't be cancer. Sadat was pregnant. As many as one in 1,000 pregnant women will be diagnosed with cancer. Doctors expect that number to rise as more women delay childbirth into their 30s and 40s, because cancer risk increases with age. Pregnant women with cancer must make life-and-death decisions times two. "That tension is more poignant because here it's my life versus my baby's life," said Dr. James Bartelsmeyer, director of maternal-fetal medicine at St. John's Mercy M...
Public Service Announcements Not Getting Message Across
Breast cancer specialists were alarmed last year when research from the National Cancer Institute revealed mammography use had dropped so sharply that doctors feared a rise in invasive cancers. Clearly, some women were not getting the message that mammograms save lives. They had not been reached by all the walkathons and pink awareness bows affixed on everything from T-shirts to cans of soup. The answer? Perhaps more messages. "We're talking about doing some public service announcements," said Dr. Clare Bradley, executive vice president of IPRO, a health quality organization in Lake Success and chair of a "strike force" on mammography for the American Cancer Society. Awareness about breast cancer screening may not be th...
Testicular Cancer Options Debated: Research Supports 1 Dose Of Chemo After Surgery
Testicular cancer is a rare beast. It's relatively easy to detect. And it's very treatable. It's also one of the few cancers that can be cured. Yet specialists still debate the best way to continue treatment once the cancerous testicle is surgically removed. "If you ask a surgeon, they might say chemotherapy or a radiologist might say radiation and a medical oncologist will then say let's do either one round of chemotherapy or just observation," said Gil Rodrigues, a medical oncologist with the Milwaukee-area Oncology Alliance. "But the real issue, since we know it's curable, is how can we minimize toxicity during treatment," he said. At a meeting of cancer specialists last month in Chicago, researchers showe...
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Researchers use nanotech to target chemo cancer treatment - Computerworld
Researchers use nanotech to target chemo cancer treatment Computerworld, MA - By better targeting the chemo, less of the drug needs to be injected into the patient for treatment of cancer. And that would reduce the side effects of ... Treatment advance for drug-resistant diseases Nanotubes to deliver knockout punch to cancer sans side effects Nanotech boost for chemotherapy |
Cancer treatment target missed again - Scotsman
Cancer treatment target missed again Scotsman, United Kingdom - By Lyndsay Moss THE NHS has failed to hit a long-overdue waiting-time target for cancer patients to start treatment within two months, it emerged yesterday. ... Cancer patients in Scotland still face delays in treatment despite ... NHS fails cancer waiting time bid Targets for treatment of cancer cases still not met |
Zoledronic Acid Protects Bones of Women Getting Breast Cancer ... - Washington Post
Zoledronic Acid Protects Bones of Women Getting Breast Cancer ... Washington Post, United States - Adjuvant endocrine therapy is widely used in patients with endocrine-responsive early breast cancer, but the treatment causes bone loss in premenopausal ... |
Pancreatic Cancer Treatment Most Expensive - 조선일보(영문판)
Pancreatic Cancer Treatment Most Expensive 조선일보(영문판), South Korea - This was followed by breast cancer treatment and mastectomy (11.1 days on average, W2.877 million), cervical cancer treatment and hysterectomy (8.3 days, ... |
Hampton Univ. Gets Cancer Treatment Grant - (8:59pm) - WTVR
Hampton Univ. Gets Cancer Treatment Grant - (8:59pm) WTVR, VA - (AP) - Hampton University and Eastern Virginia Medical School are using a grant to improve cancer treatment. The schools received a nearly $490000 grant ... |
UNC professor to try new cancer treatment - University of North Carolina The Daily Tar Heel
UNC professor to try new cancer treatment University of North Carolina The Daily Tar Heel, NC - He plans to use the grant to research immunotherapy, a type of cancer treatment less common than radiation and chemotherapy. David Etchison, communications ... |
New Technology Helps Guide Cancer Patient Care - YourHub.com
New Technology Helps Guide Cancer Patient Care YourHub.com, CO - Testing for CTC's is typically done at baseline before starting any new line of cancer treatment for metastatic disease, and then again at physician ... |
'My battle to have cancer treatment' - The Argus.co.uk
'My battle to have cancer treatment' The Argus.co.uk, UK - By Siobhan Ryan » “This organisation has taken it upon itself to say, that patient will not see Christmas,” cancer sufferer Colin Ross, who has been given ... Spire hospital staff to Relay for Life |
Authority 'on back foot' over cancer treatment - Oxford Mail
 BBC News | Authority 'on back foot' over cancer treatment Oxford Mail, UK - Kidney cancer patients in Oxfordshire are fighting to overturn the National Institute for Clinical Excellence's (Nice) draft guidelines ruling the drug ... Private care providers plug gap in state cancer treatment Medicines chief calls for end to postcode prescribing Bashing drug companies is Nice work if you can get it |
Jade Goody's Cervical Cancer Spotlights The Disease - eMaxHealth.com
 WELT ONLINE | Jade Goody's Cervical Cancer Spotlights The Disease eMaxHealth.com, NC - Surgery (removing the cancer in an operation) is sometimes used to treat cervical cancer. Radiation therapy is a cancer treatment that uses high-energy ... Jade back home for cancer treatment Jade's very upset ...and frightened Jade Has Cancer |
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New study of targeted therapies for breast cancer establishes ... - Oskaloosa Herald
New study of targeted therapies for breast cancer establishes ... Oskaloosa Herald, IA - “It may be that using two treatments that work in different ways against HER2-positive breast cancer offers a complementary strategy that is more powerful ... |
Trick or Treatment - Wall Street Journal
 Wall Street Journal | Trick or Treatment Wall Street Journal - He is a pioneer in the field of complementary medicine -- a branch of the medical profession whose practitioners prescribe selective alternative treatments. ... |
Karolinska Institute to Test Vical's Vaxfectin(R) Adjuvant with ... - MarketWatch
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Accuray Announces Results for the Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year ... - CNNMoney.com (press release)
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OncOptima, a New Service Offer Launched by PhenoPro and Oncodesign - MarketWatch
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CSL profit up 30pc, to outlay $3.5b for Talecris - Australian Life Scientist
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Roche offers to buy rest of Genentech for $43.7 bln in cash; first ... - Trading Markets (press release)
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Vical Receives $1 Million Milestone Payment From AnGes MG for ... - Trading Markets (press release)
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Roche Makes Offer to Acquire All Outstanding Shares of Genentech ... - PharmaLive.com (press release)
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Targeted radiation therapy can control limited cancer spread
Precisely targeted radiation treatment can eradicate all evidence of disease in selected patients with cancer that has spread to only a few sites, suggests the first published report from an ongoing clinical trial. In the August 15, 2008, issue of Clinical Cancer Research, (published online August 12) scientists from the University of Chicago Medical Center report that targeted radiation treatment had completely controlled all signs of cancer in 21 percent of patients who had five or fewer sites of metastatic disease........
Over-the-counter anesthetic for mammogram pain
The simple application of a pain-relieving gel may reduce the breast discomfort some women experience during mammography exams, as per the results of a clinical trial reported in the online edition of Radiology "We now have something that we know reduces discomfort with screening mammography in women who expect higher discomfortlidocaine gel," said the trial's principal investigator, Colleen Lambertz, F.N.P., a nurse practitioner at St. Luke's Mountain States Tumor Institute in Boise, Idaho. "With a more positive experience, we hope women will undergo more regular mammography screening"........
No need for gene screens in breast cancer families
Research reported today should provide relief to women who are worried after a relative's breast cancer diagnosis. The study in the open access journal BMC Cancer shows that a family history of breast cancer does not give a useful indication of the likelihood that a woman will develop it herself at an early age........
Has Cancer Spread?
For patients with head and neck cancer, accurately determining how advanced the cancer is and detecting secondary cancers commonly means undergoing numerous tests - until now. New Saint Louis University research has observed that the PET-Computerized axial tomography scanner can be used as a stand-alone tool to detect secondary cancers, which occur in 5 to 10 percent of head and neck cancer patients........
Does too much sun cause melanoma?
We are continuously bombarded with messages about the dangers of too much sun and the increased risk of melanoma (the less common and deadliest form of skin cancer), but are these dangers real, or is staying out of the sun causing us more harm than good? Two experts debate the issue on BMJ.com today........
More lymph nodes linked to cancer survival
Why do patients with gastric or pancreas cancer live longer when they are treated at cancer centers or high-volume hospitals than patients treated at low-volume or community hospitals?. New research from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine observed that cancer patients have more lymph nodes examined for the spread of their disease if they are treated at hospitals performing more cancer surgeries or those designated as comprehensive cancer centers........
New breast cancer test under study
Whether a painless, portable device that uses electrical current rather than X-ray to look for breast cancer could be an alternative to traditional mammograms is under study at the Medical College of Georgia. MCG is one of 20 centers internationally and the only place in Georgia studying new technology developed by Z-Tech Inc., to compare traditional mammograms with impedence scanning, a technique based on evidence that electrical current passes through malignant tissue differently than through normal tissue........
Enzyme expression levels and chemotherapy drug response
Why do cancer patients develop resistance to chemotherapy drugs, sometimes abruptly, after a period in which the drugs seem to be working well to reduce tumors or hold them in check? Eventhough largely a mystery to scientists, the result when this occurs is all too familiar: patients relapse and in a number of cases die when their cancers become resistant........
Magnetic Nanoparticles to Combat Cancer
Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a potential new therapy against cancer that attaches magnetic nanoparticles to cancer cells, allowing them to be captured and carried out of the body. The therapy, which has been tested in the laboratory and will now be looked at in survival studies, is detailed online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society........
Vitamin A pushes breast cancer to form blood vessel cells
Scientists at Georgetown University Medical Center have discovered that vitamin A, when applied to breast cancer cells, turns on genes that can push stem cells embedded in a tumor to morph into endothelial cells. These cells can then build blood vessels to link up to the body's blood supply, promoting further tumor growth........
Colorectal cancer screening rates still too low
Eventhough colorectal cancer screening tests are proven to reduce colorectal cancer mortality, only about half of U.S. men and women 50 and older receive the recommended tests, as per a report in the July 2008 issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research........
Prostate cancer vaccines more effective with hormone therapy
Among patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer, the addition of hormone treatment following vaccine therapy improved overall survival compared with either therapy alone or when the vaccine followed hormone therapy, as per recent data reported in the July 15 Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research........
How food affects the brain
In addition to helping protect us from heart disease and cancer, a balanced diet and regular exercise can also protect the brain and ward off mental disorders. "Food is like a pharmaceutical compound that affects the brain," said Fernando Gmez-Pinilla, a UCLA professor of neurosurgery and physiological science who has spent years studying the effects of food, exercise and sleep on the brain. "Diet, exercise and sleep have the potential to alter our brain health and mental function. This raises the exciting possibility that changes in diet are a viable strategy for enhancing cognitive abilities, protecting the brain from damage and counteracting the effects of aging." ........
A short and sweet diagnosis for cancer?
In order to provide the most effective therapys for cancer patients, it is essential to develop methods of sensitive and specific early detection of the disease. A team of researchers from the NIBRT Dublin-Oxford Glycobiology Laboratory at UCD has developed a system which aims to pinpoint potential "biomarkers" of early forms of the disease. They do this by looking at the structures of specific sugar molecules which are attached either to proteins made by malignant cells or to proteins involved in the host response. It is hoped that the availability of such cancer biomarkers would also allow disease progression and response to treatment to be monitored more accurately than is currently possible. Professor Pauline Rudd, who is leading the team, will be presenting some of their results on Thursday 10th July at the Society for Experimental Biology's Annual Meeting in Marseille [Session C4]........
Herceptin targets breast cancer stem cells
A gene that is overexpressed in 20 percent of breast cancers increases the number of cancer stem cells, the cells that fuel a tumor's growth and spread, as per a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. The gene, HER2, causes cancer stem cells to multiply and spread, explaining why HER2 has been associated with a more aggressive type of breast cancer and to metastatic disease, in which the cancer has spread beyond the breast, the scientists say........
Young women's breast cancers have more aggressive genes
Young women's breast cancers tend to be more aggressive and less responsive to therapy than the cancers that arise in older women, and scientists at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy may have discovered part of the reason why: young women's breast cancers share unique genomic traits that the cancers in older women do not exhibit........
Higher education and mortality reduction from cancers
Deaths due to the four most common cancerslung, colorectal, prostate, and breasthave dropped substantially in the United States from 1993 to 2001 in working-aged individuals. However, not all Americans are equally likely to benefit from those gains. A study reported in the July 8 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute shows that more highly educated individuals had mortality reductions in nearly all of these cancers, while less educated individuals had a mortality reduction in only one of the cancer types........
Insect warning colors aid cancer drug discovery
Brightly colored beetles or butterfly larvae nibbling on a plant may signal the presence of chemical compounds active against cancer cell lines and tropical parasitic diseases, as per scientists at Smithsonian's Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Such clues could speed drug discovery and provide insight into the ecological relationships between tropical-forest plants and insects that feed on them. The report is reported in the Ecological Society of America's journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.......
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Do not delay in seeking advice from a qualified licensed medical professional about treatment for your cancer. The information presented here is no way meant to discourage you from undertaking conventional treatments for your cancer, but hopefully will support you and your doctor to undertake ’smarter’, more effective approaches to beat your cancer. The information is provided for educational and informational purposes only, and is not intended to be a substitute for the diagnosis, treatment and advice of a qualified licensed medical professional. The information is provided to support your informed consent to any treatment program you may decide to undertake. Self-treatment for clinical cancer is not advised. Statements regarding alternative treatments for cancer have not been evaluated by the FDA. Please consult your qualified licensed medical professional or appropriate health care provider about the applicability of any opinions or recommendations with respect to your own symptoms or medical conditions.
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