Patients with breast cancer on adjuvant chemotherapy can experience weight gain and concurrent loss of muscle mass.
Researchers at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston studied the feasibility and impact of home-based diet/exercise options. Continue reading Diet and exercise to prevent weight gain in breast cancer
 Here are the results of a Cochrane review of non-drug options in advanced stages of malignant and non-malignant diseases. Continue reading Non-pharmacological treatments for breathlessness
Young patients with cancer commonly use CAM, yet only about half of them discuss CAM with their oncologist, according to researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York.
What’s a pediatric oncologist to do? Continue reading Pediatric oncologists’ views of CAM
 “What’s really compelling is that we see the association between exercise and lower colon cancer risk regardless of how physical activity was measured in the studies,” say researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Continue reading Physical activity lowers colon cancer risk
 Yoga of Awareness is an 8-week program that includes gentle yoga poses, meditation, and breathing exercises.
Researchers from Oregon Health & Science University in Portland studied its effects on menopausal symptoms in breast cancer survivors. Continue reading Yoga of Awareness in breast cancer survivors
 Protection from prostate cancer may be associated with the type of soy foods consumed, according to this review by researchers at the Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. Continue reading Soy and prostate cancer risk
 Researchers from Washington State and Illinois report no association between marijuana use and increased oral-cancer risk. Continue reading Marijuana and the risk of oral cancer
 Multivitamins have little or no influence on the risk of common cancers, cardiovascular disease, or total mortality in postmenopausal women, according to the Women’s Health Initiative study. Continue reading Multivitamins: Little value in postmenopausal women
 Researchers from the Charité Center for Internal Medicine and Dermatology in Berlin, Germany report benefits in women with early stage breast cancer. Continue reading Benefits of massage in women with breast cancer
 Researchers from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee studied the relationship between eating soy food and the risk of colorectal cancer risk in women. Continue reading Soy and colorectal cancer risk in women
 According to this study, yoga might have a role in managing psychological distress in early breast cancer patients undergoing adjuvant radiotherapy. Continue reading Benefits of yoga in breast cancer patients
Researchers from Vanderbilt School of Medicine Nashville, Tennessee and the Shanghai Center for Disease Prevention and Control in the People’s Republic of China report a weak association. Continue reading Does drinking green tea reduce breast cancer risk?
 Massage is a popular adjunct to cancer palliation.
And, Prof. Ernst says “the evidence is encouraging. Continue reading Massage therapy for cancer palliative care
 January is turning out to be a bad month for vitamins and their purported anticancer effects.
Researchers from Harvard Medical School in Boston add to the negative results. Continue reading More bad new for vitamins to prevent cancer
 The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reports 2 studies where vitamin E was not effective in preventing prostate cancer. Continue reading Bad news for vitamin E and cancer prevention
This study by researchers at Malmö University in Sweden suggests that the development of breast cancer might be delayed in women who drink more than 2 cups of coffee each day and have a certain form of the enzyme CYP1A2.
Before you drink more coffee, read on. Continue reading The coffee (caffeine)/breast cancer relationship
 Laura Christman and Deb Peterson have written interesting articles on these resins, which became forever famous more than 2 centuries ago.
Highlights follow. Continue reading Frankincense and myrrh
Mistletoe preparations are sometimes used as CAM to treat solid cancers such as breast cancer.
Here are statistics on the use of mistletoe to treat cancer, the results of a recently published clinical study in women with breast cancer, and a review of the medical literature.
Researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston have published a detailed review.
Their interest relates to the needs of vitamin D in the breastfeeding mother and her infant and child, but they also present a detailed and well-referenced review. Continue reading Update on vitamin D
Dr. Brent Bauer (photo) who practices in the Division of General Internal Medicine and is Director of the Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program at Mayo Clinic was interviewed as part of their ongoing series of podcasts.
Here are the highpoints. Continue reading CAM benefits in cancer patients