Articles: Cancer Information

IS CANCER CONTAGIOUS? By David Holland, MD I recently spoke with a nurse who was diagnosed, as an adult, with leukemia. She endured the chemotherapy regimen her doctors prescribed, only to suffer... Read More

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY NOW BELIEVES OBESITY IS AS DANGEROUS AS SMOKING The risk of cancer from being obese is similar to the risk of cancer from using tobacco, according to the American Cancer... Read More

BETTER HABITS COULD SLASH U.S. CANCER by Maggie Fox WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If people would quit smoking, eat more healthily and exercise, cancer deaths could be cut by nearly a third, a report issued... Read More

CHEMOTHERAPY QUOTES "Two to 4% of cancers respond to chemotherapy….The bottom line is for a few kinds of cancer chemo is a life extending procedure---Hodgkin's disease, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia... Read More

FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CANCER One in three people will contract cancer, and one in four will die from the disease.* Within five years, cancer will surpass heart disease as the leading cause of... Read More

Fitness May Prevent Cancer Deaths Results of a 25-year study found that men who were most in shape at the beginning of the study were less likely to die from cancer, while women who started the study... Read More

Cancer: Scans and Imaging Tests By: Bruce WestHealth Alert, November 2006, 23:11, pp 5-6 "The highlight of the latest cancer news can be summed up in one sentence: Cancers that will not kill you... Read More

HOW WELL TESTED ARE NEW CANCER DRUGS? by Maryann Napoli With a certain amount of regularity a new cancer drug makes headlines, generating an enormous amount of hope as well as pressure to make the... Read More

CHLORINE, CANCER AND HEART DISEASE "We are quite convinced, based on this study, that there is an association between cancer and chlorinated water." - Medical College Of Wisconsin research team The... Read More