Showing posts with label cancer prevention. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cancer prevention. Show all posts
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Resveratrol And VDR

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Resveratrol is purported to have a number of health benefits ; this paper explains one possible mechanism of action, abstract: The 1,25...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

Cancer Incidence In Different Parts Of The USA

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Different forms of cancer seem more prevalent in some areas of the USA compared to others.  For example, read here.  Part of abstract: ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Fiber And Microbiota

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Dietary fiber can increase levels of certain gut microbiota bacterial species, as well as higher levels of butyrate, a short chain fatty a...
Saturday, August 4, 2018

Dietary Influences On The Plasma Membrane: Cancer Implications

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Diet can affect the cell plasma membrane and hence decrease caner risk, through modulation of cell signaling. Abstract: The cell pl...
Tuesday, June 26, 2018

More On Gut Microbiota And Colorectal Cancer

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Another paper about gut microbiota and colorectal cancer is of interest.  Abstract: Pre-clinical and clinical data produce mounting e...
Friday, November 24, 2017

More On Cancer Prevention And Lifestyle

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Here is recent news on yet another study linking lifestyle to cancer risk.  These are all things you, as a reader of this blog, should be ...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Yet More On The Microbiota Colon Cancer Connection

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A review paper asserts , from the abstract: From the abstract: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer and the fo...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Diet And Colorectal Cancer: Nucleus To Cell Membrane

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Review article: The International Agency for Research on Cancer recently released an assessment classifying red and processed meat as ...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Eat, drink, smoke – no problem

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In March this year, there was yet another feast of ignorance, but I could not bring myself to address it until now. I t was reported at t...
Thursday, May 25, 2017

Breast cancer risk

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Decrease your risk of breast cancer by more than 30%.  AICR tells you how . Just do not follow the AICR recipes !
Saturday, February 4, 2017

More On Diet, Gut Microbiota, And Colorectal Cancer

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At left, colorectal cancer diagram, By Blausen Medical Communications, Inc. - Donated via OTRS, see ticket for details, CC BY 3.0, https:...
Sunday, January 8, 2017

Adenoma Detection Rates In Obese And Smoking Patients

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At left, stained adenoma under the microscope. By Nephron - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=827...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

Colonary Concepts Update

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I previously wrote about the company Colonary Concepts and their development of a more palatable colonoscopy prep, something which from p...
Monday, October 17, 2016

New Colonoscopy Prep In Testing

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Here is a possibl y good news: better-tasting colonoscopy preps are under development and are in the testing stage.  My own personal expe...
Friday, September 30, 2016

TAXPAYERS MONEY WILL BE FLUSHED

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Twenty years from now, you’ll be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail ...
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Alcohol And Cancer

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Paper analyzing the role of alcohol consumption in cancer: Abstract BACKGROUND AND AIMS: There is increasing research evidence abo...
Thursday, July 7, 2016

Carbs and Cancer: Glycaemic Index and Lung Cancer

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Is eating certain carbs as bad as smoking? PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – You’ve heard that carbs can increase your waistline, but according to a new...
Thursday, June 9, 2016

Gut Microbiota As A Colorectal Cancer Screening Tool

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A proposed method for non-invasive colorectal cancer screening is to test the gut microbiota from stool samples; this is interesting, b...