Positive Health Online

Cancer Target - Cellular Respiration

by Mike Menkes

Mitochondria are the cellular energy generators that supply virtually all the power your body requires for a healthy life span. Energy-intensive organs like the heart and brain are...

Cancer-Preventing Properties of Essential Oil Monoterpenes D-Limonene and Perillyl Alcohol

by Mark Brudnak PhD ND

When people first hear the word monoterpene (MT), typically the 'terpene' portion conjures up images of some sort of cleaning fluid such as turpentine. Associated with this image i...

Cancer, Atherosclerosis and Sympathetic Dominance

by Carlos ETB Monteiro

I have read with interest the article Hypothesis: Cancer causes and mechanisms by John Spottiswoode, published in Positive Health PH Online in Issue 110 - April 2005,[1] where he pr...

Cancer: A Call for Change

by Maureen Usher

I've been on an extraordinary journey. It's not been an easy one and as I travelled I became aware that many others have travelled down the same road....The journey starts the day ...

Cardiac Glycosides at Low Concentration Providing Neurohormonal Effects: The Final Solution Against Cancer?

by Carlos ETB Monteiro

“Although there is not total agreement on the nature and clinical significance of the effects of digitalis on the autonomic nervous system, the following points seem well establishe...

Case Study Issue 125: Reversal of Brain Tumours

by Hillel Fridman

In this Case Study the author shares his sister Bernice’s remarkable survival of four rounds of cancer. About a year ago four tumours were discovered around Bernice’s brain stem wi...

Case Study: Three Generations of Breast Cancer Survivors

by Susan Beausang

This is a history of three generations in a family now known to have the BRCA2 gene, with an 85 percent lifetime chance of developing breast cancer. Both Susan’s grandmother (at ag...

Cervical Cancer – Symptoms, Signs and Treatments

by Eddie Jones

Cervical Cancer Prevention Week initiative took place from the 23rd to the 29th of January 2023. The aim is to ‘work towards a future where cervical cancer is a thing of the past’. ...

Complementary Therapies for Hormone Refractory Prostrate Cancer

by Prof Ben L. Pfeifer MD PhD

In this article, the authors say there is a growing demand for complementary therapies by prostrate cancer patients even though they cannot replace potentially curative methods suc...

Coriolus versicolor as an Effective Addition to the Treatment of HPV Infection

by Dr Silva Couto and Prof. Todor Chernev

Six months of treatment with Coriolus-MRL, a food supplement that contains biomass of the fungus Coriolus versicolor, is associated with a reduction in viral load in low-grade squam...

Coriolus versicolor for HPV Patients with Cervical Lesions (LSIL)1,2

by J Silva Couto and D Pereira da Silva

Link between HPV and Cervical Cancer. Cervical cancer rates are high in women between the ages of 35 and 55. Risks increase with earlier sexual intercourse, number of sexual partne...

Curcumin vs Cancer

by Mike Menkes

Turmeric extract, curcumin, has been classified as a potent anti-inflammatory agent in the treatment of arthritis, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, and a natural anti-inflammat...

Deuterium Depletion in Cancer Treatment and Prevention - Practical Application Advice

by Krisztina Krempels, Orsolya Abonyi, Krisztina Balog, Ildikó Somlyai

Deuterium depletion is a new complementary modality in oncotherapy and in prevention of the disease as it was reviewed in Positive Health PH Online earlier this year in Issue 203 F...

Developments in HPV Care and Coriolus versicolor Supplementation

by Dr Stoyan Borisov

PSK (Krestin) is a extract of Coriolus versicolor developed by Kureha Chemical Industry Company and licensed to Sankyo Pharmaceuticals Ltd in the 1980s for use as adjunct immunoth...

Dietary and Chemo-prevention Strategies for Prostate Cancer

by Yvonne Leahy

Projects concerning the relationship of various nutritional factors to the incidence of prostate cancer, the sixth most common cause of death in men.  Mortality rates, however, var...

Ellagic Acid: A Potent Anticarcinogen

by Llori Valenzuela and Mark A Brudnak

Llori Valenzuela and Dr Mark Brudnak investigate the link between diet and cancer, in particular the health benefits associated with the consumption of plant-based foods. This is a...

Epilogue: Much Needed Research Strategies for Breast Cancer

by Dr Fleur Fisher

Breast cancer remains the most feared diagnosis for women in the developed world – yet, despite intense therapeutic effort, the results of treatment cannot be described as an overa...

Essiac Herbal Remedy - The Entire Story

by Claire Cummings

Essiac herbal remedy, developed by Rene Caisse in the 1920s, is believed to have a positive remedial action on cancer. It is also reputed to ease the effects of conventional cancer...

Fake Blow to CAM Use for Cancer

by Dr Robert Verkerk

Did you hear that cancer patients who refuse conventional cancer treatment and opt for alternative medicine are twice as likely to die than patients who use only conventional treatm...

Feeding the Skin

by Jillian Alexander-Gregory

This article tells the incredibly inspiring story of a woman, her life literally ebbing away following treatment for breast cancer, who 'miraculously' recovers after being given an...