Posts Tagged ‘cancer’
According to Scientists discover how Cordyceps mushrooms fight cancer by S. L. Baker, recent research has made progress in understanding how cordycepin, isolated from Cordyceps fungi (Ascomycota), may act to inhibit the growth and spread of cancer cells: The University of Nottingham scientists found that the Cordyceps-derived treatment has two important effects on cells that [...]
Tags: cancer, cordycepin, Cordyceps, medicinal mushrooms
Among all the web news about fungi, posts about medicinal mushrooms are notably less common than those about just plain old “mushrooms.” Here’s a collection of recent medicinal mushroom mentions found using both Google and Bing (Honestly? Bing isn’t up to speed for my purposes). A Melding of Performance Art and Mycological Culture? It’s a [...]
Tags: cancer, influenza, medicinal mushrooms, mushroom growing
Tamoxifen is a drug used to both treat and prevent recurrence of breast cancer. It works by disrupting estrogen, which is known to promote the growth and spread of some forms of breast cancer. New research from the University of Rochester Medical Center suggests that tamoxifen shows promise as an antifungal agent as well. It [...]
Tags: antifungal, cancer, tamoxifen
Wanna’ read something silly? How about the guy who considers all cancers to be caused by fungi? Dr. Simoncini (he’s Romulan, er…I mean “Roman”), wrote the book on it. You won’t find any legitimate medical web sites touching it. Plenty of alternative medicine folks seem to be enthralled with the idea. If you snoop around [...]
Tags: cancer, weird science
