cancer

Protecting Your Hair and Nerves During Chemotherapy: How Cold Caps and Cold Booties Can Help Cancer treatment is challenging, but you are not powerless. You can take steps to protect your body from some of...

Nausea is one of the most distressing symptoms experienced during cancer treatment. It disrupts daily life, interferes with sleep, and makes eating and drinking difficult. When nausea is not managed, patients often struggle to maintain...

Cancer and Inflammation The relationship between cancer and inflammation is well established. There is a strong association between chronic, ongoing inflammation in the body and the occurrence of cancer. It is most obviously demonstrated with...

Here is an excerpt from wonderful article by  Dr. Joseph Nowinski, that appeared on the Huffington Post exploring meditation as a complement to cancer treatment. How Meditation Can Support Cancer Treatment Is Meditation Effective? There...

Can an Ancient Healing System practiced for thousands of years be useful in the modern cancer care setting? The National Cancer Institute says YES! Acupuncture has demonstrated benefit to cancer patients in the following areas:...

Anticancer, A New Way of Life This is a book about alternative cancer care and health by David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., a medical doctor who was diagnosed with brain cancer and beat the odds. When faced...

In June 2010 CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians published research exploring the relationship between Diabetes and Cancer Risk. Type 2 Diabetes (non-insulin dependent diabetes) and Cancer share many risk factors. The researchers asked the...

Herbal Medicine, Healing & Cancer: A Comprehensive Program for Prevention and Treatment by Donald Yance, C.N., M.H. Donald Yance, a Master Medical Herbalist and Clinical Nutritionist is one of the most knowledgeable and experienced experts...

Cancer patients undergoing surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and hormonal therapy, cancer patients in recovery as well as cancer survivors all deal with quality of life issues. Integrative Oncology and Alternative Cancer Care focus on the needs...

Dr. William Li, M.D. asks Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?  Here is an amazing talk that describes how the process of angiogenesis, by which cancer cells make new networks of blood vessels can be...

It is well known that smoking cigarettes  leads to an increase in lung cancer and oral cancers.  Recent research has now shown that nicotineitself is linked specifically to breast cancer. In a recent study published...

Red grapes, strawberries, soybeans, dark chocolate, oranges, and green tea are among the foods with the ability to prevent blood vessel growth and thus slow the spread of cancer. ‘What we eat is really our...