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Chemo: basically, it doesn’t work

Chemotherapy results in substantial remission for only 3 per cent of cancers - mainly blood-based ones like Hodgkin’s disease, leukaemia and Burkitt’s lymphoma. Also successfully treated are testicula... more »

The psychology of cancer

Sir Peter Medawar, the great British scientist and Nobel prizewinner in immunology, was once asked what the best prescription for success against cancer might be. 'A sanguine personality,' he replied. more »

Screening doesn’t work

One of the reasons given for the so-called advances in the war against cancer is that doctors are now screening for cancer, and so are able to detect and treat it earlier. more »

Cancer: the 33 years (and still counting)

In 1971, Richard Nixon famously declared war on cancer and predicted that medical technology would find a cure for it 'within six years' - a boast to rival Kennedy’s goal to put man on the moon. more »

The best alternative therapies

If conventional treatments fail so badly, where do you turn? According to Lothar Hirneise of Menschen Geben Krebs and Frank Wiewel of People Against Cancer, cancer survivors: more »

When it’s not cancer at all

Breast cancer is the second biggest lady killer in the Western world, we’re told. Most experts believe the causes are almost certainly to be found in the environment - particularly with the latest dis... more »

A safer way to screen for breast cancer

The routine medical test for breast cancer is mammography, a procedure which involves squeezing the breast between two plates and taking an X-ray picture. more »

If you do have breast cancer . . .

If you have DCIS, experts such as Dr Samuel Epstein, a world authority on cancer, favour the watch-and-wait approach, then frequent monitoring; only consider treatment if it turns into true cancer. If... more »

Your self-help treatment programme

Avoid the following, which can cause cancer * Radiation therapy, such as for cancer (J Natl Cancer Inst, 2001; 93: 618-29) more »

My low-cost, natural, home cure for breast cancer

Around four years ago, I wrote to you about my experience with Paget’s disease [a form of cancer] (see WDDTY vol 10 no 9). In March 2003, I was seen by a senior oncologist, who confirmed my suspicions... more »

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The poisoned generation

Perhaps the most underappreciated health scandal in modern times is the fact that, every day, we are all subjected to some 80,000 drugs—virtually all of which have not undergone a single regulat... more »

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DNA: it's not destiny

When we become ill, most of us lay the blame at the feet of our ancestors: my heart problem is like dad’s, who had a dicky ticker; I’m likely to get breast cancer because it’s what m... more »

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