Harriet Denz-Penhey

Can Natural Cancer Remedies and Self Care Help Survival in Cancer?

I have just read another of those articles in a medical journal that stated that psychological interventions do not affect survival in cancer patients. However what the article was really saying that on the existing evidence the studies they reviewed have... Read >

Natural Cancer Therapies: Supplements and Drug Cautions

"XXX May Offer Health Benefits, But Evidence Still Limited" was the headline about a natural cancer therapy. This was in sharp contrast to an overblown television report about a new cancer drug which was reported to be the hope of all cancer sufferers for... Read >

Natural Cancer Therapies: Comparing Like With Like

The media often deals harshly with a person who has cancer who turns down medical treatment, turns to natural cancer therapies and subsequently dies. The success of a natural cancer treatment is measured on whether the person who is ill survives a natural... Read >

Natural Cancer Therapies and Mainstream Medicine

Medicine thrives on the concept of evidence based medicine. All our training of medical students encourages them to expect to practice using the best evidence available. And there will be few people out there who would argue that we would want to have a g... Read >

Natural Cancer Therapies vs Conventional Treatments

There is a much quoted study on the natural cancer therapies websites. The quote says that 75% of cancer doctors would not take chemotherapy for cancer due to the toxicity of the drugs. The quote is very much out of context but is indicative of some of th... Read >

Natural Cancer Therapies: Can Having Good Friends Reduce The Chance Of Dying?

Another animal study has shown the importance of having company to prevent cancer occurring and in reducing of the likelihood of death from cancer. It is clear that for both animals and humans having good friends definitely improves the quality of life, a... Read >

Cancer Remedies: Is Hope Real or False?

When a person has cancer that has a very poor prognosis doctors are very wary about the patient having what they call "false hope". They get very angry with individuals and information websites who suggest that the fatal consequence might not have to happ... Read >

Alternative Cancer Therapies

There are very strong feelings surrounding alternative cancer therapies. There are frequent television snippets and online blogs bemoaning the deaths lost to alternative treatments used after well recognized medical treatments have been turned down by the... Read >

Cancer Remedies: Cut Cancer Deaths by 75% in the US and Canada

In 2009 a group of well respected medical researchers published a paper and an open letter. They brought together research that showed that breast and colon cancer deaths (two of the four cancers that cause the most deaths in the western world) could be r... Read >

Natural Cancer Treatment: Is fat consumption the problem or is it lack of exercise?

For many years, and even continuing now, there has been an understanding that fat in food is bad and contributes to cancer. And with the upsurge in obesity and obesity related illness there are still many doctors, nurses, nutritionists and dieticians who ... Read >

Natural Cancer Prevention and Treatment: Do I really need to go to the gym?

We keep hearing the health message that all people should undertake physical activity and most of us, if we listen to it at all, think, "Yes, yes. I'm sure it is a good idea." And then we promptly forget about it. However until I started to research the m... Read >

Natural Cancer Treatment: Can exercise really prevent cancer from spreading?

Exercise is well recognized as being a factor which can reduce the risk of cancer by an average of about 30-40%, with some cancers being reduced by up to 70% in some studies. But what is the situation with people who already have cancer? Can exercise help... Read >

Natural Cancer Treatment: Sunlight for Melatonin

Day and night are a natural rhythm of life. For millenia before the electric light was developed people had to live largely by the natural cycles of light and dark. It is to be expected therefore that the human body has used these cycles in ways that enco... Read >

Natural Cancer Treatment: Meditation

Major religious traditions have known for millennia that meditation can improve health. While some medical practitioners are still skeptical about its usefulness this is largely because they are not aware of the amount of evidence there is in the medical ... Read >

Cancer Remedies: Do I Have to

It is usual when someone has cancer for the individual and society to think in terms of using every possible drug in the medical arsenal to attack the cancer in an attempt to subdue and kill it. Many a patient has been told that they have to "Fight the ca... Read >