CHINESE MEDICINE MAY OFFER HOPE IN THE TREATMENT OF CANCER

Western scientists look to chinese medicine for fresh leads In the quest for new treatments, U.S. researchers are looking to traditional Chinese medicines, some of the oldest remedies in the world. A recent discovery resulted in a better treatment for a type of leukemia that strikes about 1 in 250,000 in the U.S. Another study […]

PANCREATIC CANCER – TUMOUR CELLS HAVE BEEN FOUND TO CHOOSE FRUCTOSE

PANCREATIC TUMOUR CELLS CHOOSE FRUCTOSE Glucose and fructose have long been thought of as interchangeable monosaccharide substrates with regard to metabolism. Liu and colleagues now report that fructose metabolism can result in enhanced pancreatic cancer cell proliferation by induction of thiamine-dependent transketolase flux and preferential metabolism via the nonoxidative pentose phosphate pathway to synthesize nucleic […]

PANCREATIC CANCER RISK REDUCED WITH ANTIOXIDANTS

High dietary antioxidant intake might cut pancreatic cancer risk Increasing dietary intake of the antioxidant vitamins C, E, and selenium could help cut the risk of developing pancreatic cancer by up to two thirds, suggests research published online in the journal Gut. If the association turns out to be causal, one in 12 of these […]