Dr. McKee’s Health Matters

Grape seed extract kills leukemia cells

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

A new study from the University of Kentucky (where I graduated from medical school in 1975!) was published Jan 1st 2009 in Clinical Cancer Research.
An extract from grape seeds forces laboratory leukemia cells to commit cell suicide, according to researchers from the University of Kentucky. They found that within 24 hours, 76 percent of leukemia [...]

vitamin D supposedly doesn’t protect against breast cancer

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

A study of 36,000 women, half of whom took a gram of calcium and 400 IU of vitamin D for a period of 7 years was recently published in the Journal of the National Cancer Instutute
The main findings do not support a causal relationship between calcium and vitamin D supplement use and reduced breast cancer incidence, despite [...]

Walnuts Slow Growth of Tumors in Mice

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Here an interesting study I’ve come across:
Researcher W. Elaine Hardman, Ph.D., of Marshall’s Joan C. Edwards
School of Medicine said the study was designed to determine whether mice
that got part of their calories by eating walnuts had slower breast cancer
growth than a group eating a diet more typical of the American diet.
“When we fed the mice [...]