Those who cling to the belief that medicine is more a science than a commercial enterprise might consider the story of a group of drugs known as erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) and their approval process.ESAs are routinely given to cancer patients with anaemia.  As they are genetically-engineered forms of erythropoietin (EPO), a ...

In the 1970s, computed axial tomography (CAT), or CT, scans revolutionized diagnosis, offering pictures  ith up to 20 times the detail of ordinary x-rays, particularly of bones, blood vessels and soft tissues of the body. It has made it possible to scan for diseases of the abdomen, lungs, heart, liver and pancreas, and even for early ...

My decision to become a nutritionist was directly related to my own experiences using nutrition to cure my breast cancer. The dietary changes I made following my diagnosis arguably saved my life, and my decision not to have surgery was perhaps the most important I ever made.  I wanted to get the message out about how much I was helped by ...

We had put our house on the market earlier in the year and at the end of November 2005 we sold up in Cardiff and moved 45 miles away to Swansea. It was a very stressful time as most moves are, especially as we had booked up a holiday to go away for Christmas again to Fuerteventura, and the time of the completion was likely to clash with ...

I carried on with the diet and supplements. When I had been away at Christmas I ate really well and found that I could still enjoy a lot of good food without feeling that I was “depriving” myself of anything. However, having to watch what I ate all the time did get to me at times. I’m not the kind of person that responds ...

In September 2004 I visited my GP as I was suffering from bouts of diarrhoea and was worried that I was not absorbing my supplements enough.  He told me to take Imodium to stop it, but the symptoms persisted along with other IBS symptoms I had not experienced for a long time. During this time I lost a lot of weight, developed a high ...

The new health regime I had introduced to beat my breast cancer had two particularly noticeable effects. My reaction to B17 I was taking large doses of B17 in the form of up to 50 kernels a day plus two tablets twice a day.  The nutritionist was surprised I could tolerate so many, and certainly I felt a bit nauseous from time to ...

Having researched available dietry/nutritional advice extensively I can say that it is of no wonder whatsoever, that we have an ever increasing, obesity, diabetes, cancer, etc....NHS crippling, health problem!..whilst accepting other contributary factors also, such as life-style choices, emotional problems, man-made toxins, stress, ...

The results of the blood tests gave me even more conviction that surgery was the wrong route. When doctors take a tumour away, they cannot take the cancer away completely as it is not a local disease but a symptom of a disease.  If cancer is a rogue healing process, as many experts seem to think, taking healthy tissue away at the same ...

The blood tests I was told to have every six months to monitor my progress measured two main things, or tumour markers: 1.  The level of telomerase.  Telomerase is an enzyme that helps a cell to self-replicate.  If an increased number of cells have active telomerase, it means that there is some destruction of transformed ...