Tumours - Modern medicine has only its singleminded one-size-fits-all treatment for all types of tumours - with very little evidence of success. However, altern...

Death rate plunge: not from screening - Health officials who have been congratulating their extensive mammogram screening programmes as the reason for the sudden drop in breast cancer deaths...

Air pollution control reduces death rate - Irish researchers have found that measures to control air pollution have dramatically reduced the death rate from respiratory and cardiovascular disea...

Caesarean: It triples the death rate in newborns - Babies born by Caesarean section are three times more likely to die soon afterwards than those born naturally, a new study has discovered.

Tamoxifen: - The cancer drug that causes hepatitis (and cancer, too) - The drug company giveth, and it taketh away, too. The thought came to mind after we looked at the success of the drug tamoxifen in fighting - and pre...

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...

Tamoxifen - The breast cancer drug tamoxifen-marketed in the UK as Emblon, Noltam and Tamofen, and as Nolvadex in the US and the UK-has been enjoying some favoura...

Surgery: Cancer op fails to clear tumour cells in 70 per cent of patients - Tumour cells are left in the body of two-thirds of patients who undergo so-called curative cancer surgery. The survival rate isn’t too impressive eit...