Antioxidants including vitamin E can promote lung cancer: study

The discovery of how antioxidants thwart cells' innate cancer-fighting machinery might explain why a groundbreaking 1994 study found an 18 percent higher incidence of lung cancer among 29,133 male smokers who received beta carotene than those who did not. The result was so unexpected and unwelcome that the editorial in the journal where it was published tried to dismiss it as "an extreme play of chance."

"It's disappointing but not surprising that people's beliefs are not modified by scientific evidence," said Dr Paul Marantz, an epidemiologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. "People so want to believe there is a magic bullet out there."

http://news.yahoo.com/antioxidants-including-vitamin-e-promote-lung-cancer-study-190119863--finance.html;_ylt=AwrBJSAjVelS9BgAR53QtDMD

Cancer patients who exercise could HALVE their risk of death, claims study

Scientists from the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine studied 1,021 men with an average age of 71 who had survived cancer

They found men who beat cancer and who burned more than 12,6000 calories a week exercising, almost halved their risk of death

Cancer survivors are living longer because of early diagnosis and better treatment - as well as exercise

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2545417/Cancer-patients-exercise-HALVE-risk-death-Exercise-boosts-life-expectancy-men-disease.html#ixzz2rVnrDHXG

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AUSTRALIA has become the cancer capital of the world...

The Cancer Council says one third of cancer deaths in Australia are caused by preventable risk factors.

It says the seven key steps to lower cancer risk are: limit alcohol intake, quit smoking, maintain a healthy weight, exercise, eat for health, be sunsmart and take advantage of cancer screening programs.

There is some good news in all of this Australia also leads the world in cancer survival.

http://mobile.news.com.au/national-news/federal-election/who-cancer-rate-data-show8217s-australia-has-worst-in-the-world/story-fnho52ip-1226690657650

Revolutionary #cancer treatment brings scientists closer to cure...

A revolution is brewing on an English business park as scientists harness our natural-born killers – the T cells – to target malign tumours

Immunocore is probably the only company in the world that has developed a way of harnessing the power of the immune system's natural-born killer cells: the T-cells of the blood which nature has designed over millions of years of evolution to seek out and kill invading pathogens, such as viruses and bacteria.

T-cells are not nearly as good at finding and killing cancer cells, but the hard-nosed executives of the drugs industry – who are notoriously cautious when it comes to investments – believe Immunocore may have found a way around this so that cancer patients in future are able to fend off their disease with their own immune defences.

"Immunotherapy is radically different," said Bent Jakobsen.... more follow link below

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/exclusive-cancer--a-cure-just-got-closer-thanks-to-a-tiny-british-company--and-the-result-could-change-lives-of-millions-8707590.html