cancer

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0227384

full article here https://www.salk.edu/news-release/mitochondria-are-the-canary-in-the-coal-mine-for-cellular-stress/

In case it's of interest to anybody Free full text: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0284186X.2019.1659513

mGluR5 mediates post-radiotherapy fatigue development in cancer patients https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-018-0161-3 In essence, a genetic vulnerability primes the immune system to an inflammatory reponse to radiotherapy in those who develop long term fatigue. Interestingly these...

Research news from Canada: "In a phase I clinical trial, the research team is the first in Canada to study the use of fecal transplants to alter a cancer patient’s microbiome and improve their response to anti-PD1 immunotherapy drugs."...

The Guardian: 'Church' to offer 'miracle cure' despite FDA warnings against drinking bleach https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/19/church-group-to-hold-washington-event-despite-fda-warnings-against-miracle-cure

Ungar, N., Rupprecht, F., Steindorf, K., Wiskemann, J., & Sieverding, M. (2019). Worse or even better than expected?—Outcome expectancies and behavioral experiences in the context of physical activity among cancer patients. Journal of Health Psychology. doi: 10.1177/1359105319832345...

Excerpt: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/05/faking-cancer-online/588334/ I thought that this article was a bit interesting in relation to some of the controversies around ME/CFS. eg an indication someone somewhere has been faking/exaggerating CFS symptoms can be presented as...

https://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-mother-s-cancer-misdiagnosed-as-irritable-bowel-syndrome-1-4895603

https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2019/02/08/hilde-t-myrhaug-and-tone-hansen-co-producing-a-systematic-review-with-patients/ I thought that this was of interest for showing how patients can end up pushing for a more 'positive' presentation of results if they've had a positive experience with a...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6691259/Family-demand-hospital-wide-cervical-cancer-inquiry-nurse-died-doctors-failed-spot-it.html

A study from South Korea (Epub ahead of print): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30605994

Firefighters Worried Dirty Gear May Be Causing Cancer - Video - NBC10 Philadelphia (2018)

Immunologists, James Allison, and Tasuku Honjo, went against conventional wisdom to "pioneer treatments that unleash the body's own immune system to attack cancer cells." These two scientists will share the 2018 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/schizophrenia-psychiatric-disorders-immune-system.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=4&pgtype=sectionfront Interesting........

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/health/jose-baselga-cancer-memorial-sloan-kettering.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/world&action=click&contentCollection=world&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=9&pgtype=sectionfront See also the related articles noted at...

Full title: Cytotoxic Profiling of Endogenous Metabolites Relevant to Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS) on p53 Variant Human Colon Carcinoma Cell Lines Open access at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1559325818790999

Not pretending to understand that much of this, but it seemed interesting.

Was just doing some reading and came across the below in Cancer as a Metabolic Disease. I thought this was apt and a good framing for ME! https://nutritionandmetabolism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-7075-7-7 "Confusion surrounds the origin of cancer. Contradictions and paradoxes have...