Brain Tumours and brain cancer
Brain Tumours and brain cancer

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* An Overview of Brain Tumours and brain cancer - symptoms, causes and treatment alternatives
* An Overview of Brain Tumours and brain cancer - symptoms, causes and treatment alternatives
This patient-friendly overview on brain tumours, or brain cancer, covers symptoms, causes and treatments from chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery, to alternative and co ...
* Brain cancer - Latest News, Latest Research | CANCERactive
* Brain cancer - Latest News, Latest Research | CANCERactive
LATEST NEWS AND RESEARCH ON BRAIN CANCER and BRAIN TUMOURS Increase your personal odds of survival by empowering yourself with the latest news and research on brain cancer; news you c ...
** An A to Z guide to cancer drugs - chemotherapy, immunotherapy etc.
** An A to Z guide to cancer drugs - chemotherapy, immunotherapy etc.
Below are listed, from A-Z, the top 150 or so cancer drugs used currently in the UK, each review written in a patient-friendly manner. Your anti-cancer drug programme can involve several ...
** CANCERactive guidelines on nutrition and physical activity for cancer
** CANCERactive guidelines on nutrition and physical activity for cancer
These CANCERactive guidelines on nutrition and physical activity are for people with cancer who want to increase their personal odds of survival; they include adhering to the colourful Mediterrane ...
** Complementary Therapies for People with Cancer
** Complementary Therapies for People with Cancer
A 'kiddies guide' to complementary Therapies!  By Caroline Hoofman of The Breast Cancer Haven, London, with additional research by Chris Woollams. Introduction In a recent re ...
** Exercise increases cancer survival
** Exercise increases cancer survival
Exercise acts as a potent drug in the body, increasing oxygenation of the tissues, producing anti-inflammatory and stress- and depression-reducing hormones called endorphins and altering the ...
** The Active8 Programme
** The Active8 Programme
Almost 20 years of research has gone in to the ACTIVE8 PROGRAMME® designed to help you take control of your cancer and build your own integrated, cancer therapy programme to help inc ...
American Scientists finds parasite in brain cancer
American Scientists finds parasite in brain cancer
Many experts have theorised that parasites in varying forms (bacteria, viruses, yeasts and parasites themselves) lie behind cancer. Now an American Scientist, Dr. Alan B. Macdonald, has found Borr ...
An enhanced ’off-label’ drug anti-cancer protocol?
An enhanced ’off-label’ drug anti-cancer protocol?
Some people want to create an off-label or repurposed drug protocol; others understand that you may need conventional therapies, and natural compounds as well; here CANCERactive creates an easy to ...
Anti-Worm drug, Fenbendazole, effective at killing cancer cells
Anti-Worm drug, Fenbendazole, effective at killing cancer cells
Research shows that Fenbendazole, commonly used as a canine deworming drug in veterinary practice, can block sugar uptake, cause apoptosis in cancer cells, reduce tumour size a ...
Artemisinin anti-cancer protocol
Artemisinin anti-cancer protocol
Here we describe an anti-cancer protocol using the natural herb artemisinin (from sweet wormwood) plus supplemental iron, vitamins C, D and a restricted diet and increased exer ...
Berberine as a cancer treatment
Berberine as a cancer treatment
Berberine has been shown in research to work along a number of quite separate pathways against cancer; it reduces blood sugar levels, it reduces inflammation, boosts immune response and attacks ce ...
Berberine treats brain cancer better than Temozolomide
Berberine treats brain cancer better than Temozolomide
Berberine has a strong effect against brain cancer (GBM) Chinese Medical Scientists from Shandong Medical School have shown that the herb Berberine down-regulates brain cancer cells better than ...
Brain cancer - alternative treatments that work?
Brain cancer - alternative treatments that work?
There are definitely alternative and complementary treatments for brain tumours that can increase your personal odds of survival, from Dendritic cell vaccines to oncolytic viruses a ...
Brain Cancer and Mobile Phones
Brain Cancer and Mobile Phones
When I was nine, my eldest sister Catherine died of a glioma, a brain tumour. She had lived almost 4 years since she was diagnosed; it was some sort of record for St Thomas’ Hospital. My ...
Brain Tumours and brain cancer
Brain cancer risk increases 3-fold with long-term mobile phone use
New research from Dr.Lennart Hardell and his colleagues in Sweden indicates that brain cancer risk increases with more years and/or more hours of cell phone and cordless phone use. In the third ...
Brain Cancer Survivor Amy’s Story
Brain Cancer Survivor Amy’s Story
An interview with Amy who beat her GBM, using a tailored dendritic cell vaccine made by Dr Henry Friedman, and a combination of supplements, diet and exercise. Twelve years on, Amy is married and ...
Brain Cancer Trial on natural compounds
Brain Cancer Trial on natural compounds
With the continued failure of drugs to effectively fight and ideally beat brain cancer, some scientists are turning to bioactive, natural compounds known to cross the blood brain barrier and try ...
Brain Tumours and brain cancer
Brain Tumour Centre of Excellence on way in UK
Eight British universities and hospitals are in a bid to become the next Centre of Excellence dedicated to research into brain tumours. The successful institution will enter a funding partnership ...
Brain tumours - can three drugs be better than one?
Brain tumours - can three drugs be better than one?
A combination of three drugs, none of which has worked alone, are being touted as a possible combination treatment for brain cancer and GBM. Scientists at SouthWestern Medical School, Texas, ha ...
Brain Tumours and brain cancer
Brain tumours in mice ’cured’ with radiotherapy and ketogenic diet
In a 2012 research study, brain cancer researchers successfully treated mice with malignant aggressive gliomas, (a cancer for which there is no ‘orthodox’ cure), with a unique combin ...
Cancer cells self-destruct with Celebrex
Cancer cells self-destruct with Celebrex
A pain-relief drug Celebrex (Celecoxib), already approved by the FDA for treating polyps in pre-colorectal cancer, when used in higher doses than normal, locks onto specific 'De ...
Brain Tumours and brain cancer
Cellphones and Brain Tumors - 15 Reasons for Concern
PRESS RELEASE ISSUED 25 AUGUST 2009 25th August, 2009, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands. UK Radiation Research Trust - a UK based charity focused on the health effects of electromagnet ...
Chemotherapy reduces magnesium levels
Chemotherapy reduces magnesium levels
Cancer drugs can reduce the levels of magnesium in the body to dangerously low levels risking nerve, heart and bone damage and causing reduced levels of essential vitamin D and a poor immune respo ...
Complementary and alternative brain cancer treatments
Complementary and alternative brain cancer treatments
Enlightened Medicine - using complementary therapies to improve the success of your cancer treatment programme This article aims to demonstrate just how many complementary approaches are availa ...
Could Ebola help fight brain cancer?
Could Ebola help fight brain cancer?
Scientists at Yale have used the Ebola virus to target brain cancer cells The Ebola virus attacks organs but does not attack the nervous system. It is not a ‘Corona Virus’. Although ...
Brain Tumours and brain cancer
Curcumin works with chokeberry to kill brain cancer cells
At CANCERactive we have told you that chokeberry, curcumin, fish oils, echinacea choline and inositol and CoQ10 all had a positive effect with brain tumours according to UK research. A decade lat ...
Cutting sugar and glutamate starves cancer to death
Cutting sugar and glutamate starves cancer to death
A high potency molecule named Glutor can block cancer cells feeding on glucose, and in combination with a glutaminase inhibitor CB-839, which blocked the metabolism of fall-back fuel glutamate, ca ...
Dendritic cell vaccine increases survival in GBM
Dendritic cell vaccine increases survival in GBM
Dendritic Cell Vaccines have been around for over 20 years but early results suggested they had an effect in only 12% of brain cancer patients; but now in a new 4 country clinical trial, Dendritic ...
Brain Tumours and brain cancer
Dichloroacetate (DCA) and brain cancer trial
Phase 1 Clinical Trials have now been completed (https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01111097) and Dr Evengelos Michelakis, associate chair and medical researcher at the University of Alberta&rsqu ...
Erdafitinib (Balversa) for bladder cancer, brain tumours
Erdafitinib (Balversa) for bladder cancer, brain tumours
Back in 2018, research was presented at the ASCO annual meeting showing that a new drug Erdafitinib appeared to be both safe and effective; Erdafitinib is an oral FGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor. ...
Brain Tumours and brain cancer
Gliadel Wafers Approved For Brain Tumour Treatment in the UK
FIRST CLICK HERE  AND READ OUR OVERVIEW Originally published in Issue 2 2005 icon The anti-cancer drug carmustine (Gliadel) was developed over 30 years ago but was so toxic to the ...
Gut bacteria help immunotherapy drugs work better in humans
Gut bacteria help immunotherapy drugs work better in humans
Professor Thomas Gajewski, MD, PhD of UChicago Medicine is an expert in immunotherapy. His latest findings may shock a number of people in orthodox medicine. Published in Science, Jan 18th 2018, ...
High dose Vitamin C slows tumour growth and reduces side-effects
High dose Vitamin C slows tumour growth and reduces side-effects
IVC, brain cancer and non-small cell lung cancer High dose vitamin C, obtained through Intravenous Vitamin C (IVC) injections has been shown to improve the success of chemotherapy and radiother ...
How I beat GBM
How I beat GBM
This article is about Amy, a GBM brain cancer survivor, for whom orthodox treatment failed and so embarked on her own mix of complementary therapies around the Dendritic Cell vaccine therapy ...
How Professor Ben Williams beat his brain cancer
How Professor Ben Williams beat his brain cancer
Professor Ben Williams beat GBM, brain cancer using orthodox therapies supported by his own concoction of 'repurposed' old drugs and compounds he added based on his own exte ...
Hyperbaric Oxygen, HBO, or HBOT, increases uptake of chemotherapy drugs
Hyperbaric Oxygen, HBO, or HBOT, increases uptake of chemotherapy drugs
The uptake of chemotherapy drugs is increased immediately after, and for the duration of, Hyperbaric Oxygen (HBO, or HBOT) treatment according to several specific research studies involving diff ...
Ibudilast increases effectiveness of temozolomide in brain cancer
Ibudilast increases effectiveness of temozolomide in brain cancer
An anti-inflammatory drug, Ibudilast, has been found to sensitise glioblastoma (GBM) brain tumour cells to Temozolomide, (TMZ), the primary chemotherapy drug, and to increases the effica ...
Increasing fibre intake improves immunotherapy outcomes
Increasing fibre intake improves immunotherapy outcomes
A review in The Lancet Oncology, from researchers at MD Anderson in Texas argues that host factors rather than tumour-intrinsic features may play a greater role in the success or failure of n ...
King’s College London trials brain tumour vaccine
King’s College London trials brain tumour vaccine
A brain cancer vaccine, DCVax®-L, created individually for each GBM patient from their own dendritic cells, can extend life following surgery for many months and even years according to the in ...
Brain Tumours and brain cancer
London Hospitals cutting carbs to tackle brain tumours
We have told you about the Rainbow Diet repeatedly, the good fat, low carb, high bioactive compound diet that originated from research Chris Woollams put together about the Mediterranean Diet and ...
MD Anderson wins approval for Child Brain cancer protocol
MD Anderson wins approval for Child Brain cancer protocol
The NOAH Protocol The NOAH Protocol is the brain-child of MD Anderson in Texas. The NOAH protocol is so important, MD Anderson are claiming that children who have been told they have no hope fo ...
Mediterranean Diet enhances your good gut bacteria
Mediterranean Diet enhances your good gut bacteria
Eating a Rainbow Diet, a colorful Mediterranean Diet, can increase the good bacteria in your gut by 7%, when compared with the standard Western diet, according to scientists at Wake Forest Ba ...
Metformin and increased cancer survival; a Review
Metformin and increased cancer survival; a Review
Metformin may reduce both the risk and increase survival times of certain cancers; it appears to have multiple actions against cancer. However its actions are not consistent ac ...
Metformin and Temozolomide synergistically enhanced effect against astrocytomas and GBM brain cancer
Metformin and Temozolomide synergistically enhanced effect against astrocytomas and GBM brain cancer
Metformin, the diabetes drug, has been shown in research to improve the effectiveness of brain cancer drug, Temozolomide, which despite its universal use, is really only effective for the 20% of G ...
Milk Thistle compound suppresses brain metastases
Milk Thistle compound suppresses brain metastases
People with lung cancer and metastases to the brain receiving silibinin (from Silybum marianum) during whole brain radiotherapy, showed significantly superior overall survival, In a 2017 study (1) ...
Moderate exercise make tumours less aggressive and improves treatments
Moderate exercise make tumours less aggressive and improves treatments
Brad Behnke and fellow researchers at Kansas State University have shown that moderate exercise on a regular basis helps to oxygenate tumours making them less aggressive and more sensitive to chem ...
Brain Tumours and brain cancer
New Drug enhances Temozolomide for brain cancers
Researchers at the University of Calgary’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) and Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute (SACRI) have shown that a drug AZD8055, when combined with Temozolom ...
Brain Tumours and brain cancer
Night goggles for brain tumour surgeons
M D Anderson Cancer Centre researchers have suggested that near-infrared optical imagery, based on night goggle technology, can help show up tumour margins more easily and thus help surgeons becom ...
Optune - using electric fields to treat brain tumours
Optune - using electric fields to treat brain tumours
Optune™ (TTF): A treatment for Brain Tumours; which also improves the performance of Temozolomide;  The Optune Treatment (formerly called Novocure NovoTTF-100A System) is a successfu ...
Patients need personal plans after cancer diagnosis
Patients need personal plans after cancer diagnosis
A report by Macmillan Cancer Support, the Royal College of Anaesthetists, the National Institute for Health Research Cancer and Nutrition Collaboration recommends the introduction of “prehab ...
Pembrolizumab extends survival in GBM
Pembrolizumab extends survival in GBM
Immunotherapy drug, Keytruda (Pembrolizumab), extends survival times in patients with brain cancer but these results are obtained only when it is used pre-surgery. The trial was with just 35 ra ...
Personalised vaccine aids brain cancer survival
Personalised vaccine aids brain cancer survival
Personalised vaccines prepared from GBM tissue removed during surgery can enhance the performance of Temozolomide and Avastin and significantly increase survival times in patients with grade 4 bra ...
Pinworm drug, Mebendazole, targets cancers like GBM and osteosarcoma
Pinworm drug, Mebendazole, targets cancers like GBM and osteosarcoma
Mebendazole, oe Vermox, a widely used anti-helminthic drug for treating pinworm infestations in humans, blocks tubulin, which normally causes more parasites to form becaus ...
Polyphenols - top foods for health
Polyphenols - top foods for health
Some 502 polyphenols are found in foods; the richest sources and the best foods and drinks are all listed here; as a diet rich in polyphenols can protect and even correct against most of the main ...
Radiotherapy makes brain cancer MORE aggressive
Radiotherapy makes brain cancer MORE aggressive
Scientists working with the National Foundation for Cancer in the USA have had a worrying moment of honesty. They are developing an agent to help radiotherapy kill more cells in brain cancer patie ...
Repurposed malaria drug Chloroquine effective with certain brain tumours
Repurposed malaria drug Chloroquine effective with certain brain tumours
Chloroquine (or Chloroquinone) is an anti-malaria drug that can be repurposed for use in oncology, as it can reduce tumour growth, proliferation and metastasis; it also seems t ...
Salinomycin, a promising anticancer stem cell agent
Salinomycin, a promising anticancer stem cell agent
The antibiotic Salinomycin, used in animal feed to kill pathogens, is another repurposed or off-label anti-cancer drug that seems very capable of killing cancer stem cells. It is already used as s ...
Brain Tumours and brain cancer
Scottish team use virotherapy with brain tumours to great effect
  Professor Moira Brown and beating brain cancer with a herpes virus A team lead by Professor Moira Brown from Glasgow’s Southern General Hospital has produced promising Clinical ...
Sugar in fruit juice as bad for you as in soft drinks
Sugar in fruit juice as bad for you as in soft drinks
Sugar in home-made fruit juice, bought fruit juice or fizzy soft drinks is equally linked to an 18% increased risk of cancer according to research from Inserm, the French National Institute of Hea ...
Sugar increases cancer tumour growth via an enzyme P13K
Sugar increases cancer tumour growth via an enzyme P13K
Consuming the equivalent of just one can of fizzy soft drink or soda a day, causes cancer tumours to increase their growth rate, according to researchers led by Dr Lewis Cantley, a biochemist ...
Tarceva in Brain Cancer Trial
Tarceva in Brain Cancer Trial
Drugs that might help in brain tumour and brain cancer survival Tarceva, or Erlotinib works against Epidermal growth factor, EGFR, and has now been used in cancers such as non-small cell lung c ...
Brain Tumours and brain cancer
The Banerji Protocol for brain cancer
The Banerji Protocol for brain cancer is a homeopathic remedy claimed to be able to treat, and cure, brain cancers such as glioma and astrocytoma by the Prasanta Banerji Homeopathic Research Found ...
The Coming Treatments for Brain Tumours
The Coming Treatments for Brain Tumours
This article centres on an interview with UK oncologist Mike Brada, where he talks about the latest developments in brain tumour treatment. Brain Cancer Treatments - Future Perfect   ...
The dreadful statistics for brain tumours
The dreadful statistics for brain tumours
The incidence rate of Glioblastoma (GBM) in the UK has more than doubled in the years from 1995 to 2015 from 2.4 per 100,000 population to 5.0 according to a new research study(1) using ONS d ...
Brain Tumours and brain cancer
The Final Connection - Brain tumours and mobile phones
FIRST CLICK HERE  AND READ OUR OVERVIEW Originally published in May 2003 icon After a study by Mild and Hardell, linked brain tumours to the use of analogue mobile phones a couple ...
The Latest Treatments for brain tumours
The Latest Treatments for brain tumours
BRAIN CANCER and BRAIN TUMOURS- Latest Treatments; PART 1  This article by Madeleine Kingsley centres on an interview with Dr Henry Friedman (Duke Medical Centre in America), one of the worl ...
Three new approaches for brain cancer treatment
Three new approaches for brain cancer treatment
A new targeted drug that more than doubles survival times, an mRNA vaccine and the use of Ultrasound to open the blood brain barrier to standard chemo, offer potential for tackling GBM.  V ...
Top ten natural compounds against cancer stem cells
Top ten natural compounds against cancer stem cells
Here are ten natural bioactive compounds, including sulforaphane, genistein, turmeric, lycopene, ursolic acid, resveratrol, 6-gingerol, Honokiol, piperine, parthenolide and EGCG, that have be ...
Two independent studies link cell phone tower radiation to cancer
Two independent studies link cell phone tower radiation to cancer
In a peer-reviewed report(1) by the National Institute of Environmental Health Studies (March 2018), male rats exposed to cell phone tower radiation were shown to develop Schwann cells, or neurile ...
Using Clomipramine to treat brain tumours
Using Clomipramine to treat brain tumours
Clomipramine is a widely available tricyclic antidepressant, which can be repurposed to treat brain tumours or brain cancer and can improve the performance of Temozol ...
Vitamin D supplementation increases breast cancer and colorectal cancer survival
Vitamin D supplementation increases breast cancer and colorectal cancer survival
Two separate studies on vitamin D say the same thing. That if you have breast cancer or colorectal cancer, having good levels of vitamin D in your body increases your chances of survival significa ...
Your brain has a microbiome, for better or worse
Your brain has a microbiome, for better or worse
Electron Microscope evidence shows your brain has a microbiome, the membership of which seems the same as that of the human gut, according to researchers from The University of Alabama at Bir ...
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