Archive for October, 2008

Immunotherapy: could it be the cure for cancer?

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

The body's own defences could be the key to defeating the disease, reports Roger Highfield It sounds like a hippy approach to medicine: everyone has the power within them to heal cancer and all we have to do is to find a way to unlock our inner potential. Oncologist Dr. Steven Rosenberg ...

Curcumin Temporarily Slows Pancreatic Cancer

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Curcumin, a compound in the spice turmeric, temporarily stopped advanced pancreatic cancer growth in two patients and substantially reduced the size of a tumor in another patient, according to a small study published July 15 in the journal Clinical Cancer Research. Significance of results In the Phase II M. D. Anderson study ...