Wednesday, 25 February 2026

Foods that restrict prostate cancer?

Yet another trial that challenges those oncologists who say changing diet makes no difference.....I've covered this topic before but it was good to see a prostate cancer trial by Prof Robert Thomas of Addenbrooke's Cambridge. 

Broccoli, organic ginger, turmeric, pomegranate, cranberry and green tea were all in the trial and when the men took for 16 weeks both the foods and a probiotics blend of 5 lactobacillus probiotics their PSA progression slowed by 44%.

See summary at CancerActive here.

Saturday, 14 February 2026

Chemo?

I think this is a useful article looking at chemo from The Life Organic blog by Dale Atkinson (Stage IV cancer); 'Chemotherapy: what it can cure, what it can’t, and what we have to own after the drip stops' https://thelifeorganic.com/chemotherapy-what-it-can-cure-what-it-cant-and-what-we-have-to-own-after-the-drip-stops/

The article covers lots more but in terms of prostate cancer here is a brief summary:
Prostate cancer: In metastatic hormone-sensitive disease, chemotherapy can offer survival benefits alongside androgen deprivation, but it is not curative in this metastatic stage. Guidelines and large trials agree on this: https://www.cancer.gov/types/prostate/patient/prostate-treatment-pdq 

Foods that restrict prostate cancer?

Yet another trial that challenges those oncologists who say changing diet makes no difference.....I've covered this topic before but it ...