Cancer Labs

Eating red meat increases possibility of Cancer

Denzel — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:38:42 +0000

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, led by Ajit Varki, M.D., have shown a new mechanism for how human consumption of red meat and milk products could contribute to the increased risk of cancerous tumors. Their findings, which suggest that inflammation resulting from a molecule introduced through consumption of these foods could promote tumor growth, are published online this week in advance of print publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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Is Your Mattress Making You Sick?

Denzel — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:42:53 +0000

As of July 1, 2007, all U.S. mattresses are required to be highly flame retardant, to the extent that they won’t catch on fire if exposed to a blow torch. This means that the manufacturers are dousing them with highly toxic flame-retardant chemicals like polybrominated diphenyl ether, better known as PBDE, which do NOT have to be disclosed in any way.

PBDEs, which have been banned in Canada, Europe and several states, build up in your body over time, and what you absorb or inhale does not go away. This is concerning not only because of the health problems PBDE is associated with (brain and reproductive damage, decreased sperm quality, thyroid problems and even cancer at high levels), but also because of how pervasive these chemicals have become.

Other flame-retardant chemicals currently approved for use in mattresses include:
• Boric acid, a toxic respiratory irritant used to kill roaches
• Antimony, a metal that may be more toxic than mercury
• Formaldehyde, which causes cancer

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Interview With Woman Who Cured Breast Cancer Naturally

Denzel — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:03:29 +0000

Are natural cancer cures out there? What about a natural breast cancer cure? All it takes is one breast cancer survivor to convince me that yes, there’s a natural cure for breast cancer. Ruth Heidrich was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1982 at age 47. Today at age 73, she competes in triathlons. She never had any chemotherapy or radiation for her metastatic breast cancer.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer for women, killing about 40,000 American women yearly, despite all the rounds of chemotherapy and radiation. Medical treatment for breast cancer is hit or miss. Ruth found the breast lump in a breast self-exam. A doctor ordered an excisional biopsy which confirmed breast cancer.

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High rates of skin cancer among airline pilots

Denzel — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:09:42 +0000

Rates and types of cancer were assessed in 458 pilots, 265 of whom flew the national Icelandic airline across European and transAtlantic routes. These were then compared with the rates of cancer expected to develop in the population as a whole, gathered from data supplied by the national cancer registry, according to age.

Rates of skin cancer (malignant melanoma) were the highest for all types of cancers. They were 10 times higher among pilots than would be expected, and over 15 times as high for those flying international routes. Skin cancer was also 13
times more common among those taking longer flights and those exposed to higher levels of radiationup to 28 times higher. Pilots flying over five or more time zones had a 25-fold greater risk.

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Migraines prevent breast cancer

Denzel — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:44:00 +0000

Women who suffer from migraines may take at least some comfort in a recent, first-of-its-kind study that suggests a history of such headaches is associated with a significantly lower risk of breast cancer. Christopher I. Li, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center report these findings in the November issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.

“We found that, overall, women who had a history of migraines had a 30 percent lower risk of breast cancer compared to women who did not have a history of such headaches,” said Li, a breast-cancer epidemiologist and associate member of the Hutchinson Center’s Public Health Sciences Division.

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Twelve Changes That Will Cut Your Cancer Risk in Half

Denzel — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:19:19 +0000

Over 570,000 people are expected to die from cancer in 2005, and according to a report, more than 60 percent of those deaths could have been prevented if Americans adopted healthier lifestyles. The American Cancer Society said that Americans could realistically cut their cancer death rate in half by:

* Quitting smoking
* Exercising more
* Eating healthier food
* Getting recommended cancer screenings

In 2005, over 1.3 million Americans will learn they have cancer, and of the expected 570, 280 cancer deaths it’s estimated that more than 168,000 of those will be caused by tobacco use and one-third will be related to poor nutrition, physical inactivity, being overweight or obese or other lifestyle factors. That makes up 62 percent of all cancer deaths.

To show how an American could, in reality, reduce their death risk from cancer, one expert pointed out that quitting smoking would eliminate about 50 percent of cancer deaths, while maintaining a healthy body weight and exercising would eliminate another 10 percent.

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Breast Cancer Prevention’s Dirty Little Secret …

Denzel — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:23:53 +0000

There is no solid evidence that mammograms save lives. In fact, research demonstrates that adding an annual mammogram to a careful physical examination of the breasts does not improve breast cancer survival rates over getting the examination alone.

Yet, most physicians continue to recommend mammograms for fear of being sued by a woman who develops breast cancer after which he did not advise her to get one. But think for yourself and consider safer, more effective alternatives to mammograms.

The option for breast screening most highly recommended is called thermography.

Thermographic breast screening is brilliantly simple. It measures the radiation of infrared heat from your body and translates this information into anatomical images. Your normal blood circulation is under the control of your autonomic nervous system, which governs your body functions.

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Treating Cancer — With Herbs

Denzel — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:38:28 +0000

Many of the chemotherapies used to fight cancer in modern medicine were developed from natural substances.
For instance:
* Taxanes used to treat prostate and breast cancer came from yew trees.
* Vinca alkaloids, which are used to treat malignant lymphomas, are made from periwinkle plants.
* The anti-cancer drugs topotecan and irinotecan come from a component of the Chinese Happy Tree.
Scientists are increasingly focusing on plants used in traditional medicine in their search for new compounds. About three-quarters of the pharmaceutical compounds used today came from plants used in traditional medicine.
Professor Dr. Thomas Efferth from Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum in Heidelberg, for example, has begun analyzing 76 Chinese medicinal plants that are believed to treat malignant tumors and other growths. Extracts from 18 of the plants were found to significantly suppress the growth of cancer cells.

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Are Vitamin Supplements a Bad Idea for Cancer Patients?

Denzel — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:11:26 +0000

Millions of U.S. cancer survivors take vitamin supplements. However, there is little evidence that supplements help, and worries that some may actually fuel the disease.

A review of 32 studies conducted between 1999 and 2006 found that 64 percent to 81 percent of cancer survivors take extra vitamins or minerals (excluding multivitamins). But little is known about how megadoses of vitamins affect cancer.

A 1995 report showed that cancer cells in a petri dish thrive in the presence of vitamin C, and subsequent studies have suggested that vitamin C supplements may lower survival rates. A study of vitamin E showed patients with cancers of the head and neck who took supplements increased their risk for developing a second cancer.

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Mammograms Can Actually INCREASE Your Risk of Breast Cancer

Denzel — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:52:10 +0000

Despite what you may hear from other medical sources mamograms expose your body to radiation that can be 1,000 times greater than that from a chest x-ray — this makes you vulnerable unnecessarily to further risks of radiation-induced cancer.

Additionally, mammography compresses the breasts tightly (and often painfully), which could lead to a lethal spread of any existing malignant cells.

And there is no solid evidence that mammograms save lives. In fact, research demonstrates that adding an annual mammogram to a careful physical examination of the breasts does not improve breast cancer survival rates over getting the examination alone.

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