Colorectal cancer: a new smoking risk - Results of a new study by the American Cancer Society show that around 12 per cent of colorectal cancer deaths in the US are attributable to smoking....

Chemo: - When earlier treatment isn't better - It's generally accepted that the earlier chemotherapy is given, the better the outcome for the cancer patient. It's become common practice to give wo...

Aspirin: can it also combat alzheimer's and colorectal cancer? - Aspirin the over the counter painkiller was touted as the wonder drug of the last century Just one a day would avert a heart attack its advocates...

High dose chemo suffers a fatal new blow - An early report of a recent trial has shown that high dose chemotherapy does not improve survival in women with metastatic breast cancer (Lancet, 2000...

Chemotherapy - When it works, when it doesn't - To attempt to separate fact from the vast fiction propagated about both orthodox and alternative treatment of cancer, we have produced a special cance...

Chemotherapy: hit or myth? - What is it that persuades some people to succumb to the use of extremely toxic petrochemical drugs in the hope of killing a deadly disease? After all,...

Chemo-caused cancer - If you are lucky enough to be one of the few where a chemotherapy drug actually does successfully treat you, chances are high that chemotherapy will...

High dose chemo for breast cancer no advantage - There is no evidence to support the use of high dose chemotherapy over standard regimens in breast cancer treatment, say researchers in the Netherland...