The Reading room: Cancer articles that may help.
It is no surprise that excess weight increases one's chances of developing cancer. A new study suggests overweight women 55 and older may be doubling their risk of developing acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). Further, older women with a body mass index of 30 or more (obese) have a 140 percent higher risk of developing the disease.
Researchers have found traces of chemicals called parabens in every sample of tissue taken from 20 different breast tumors. Studies suggest that paraben, a chemical found in underarm deodorants and other cosmetics, can seep into the tissue after being applied to the skin.
Nutritional means of avoiding cancer
This year, about 156 people every hour will learn they have cancer, and by the end of 2004 scientists predict 563,700 people will have died from cancer in the United States, according to a report from the American Cancer Society. Evidence from the report shows that obesity and little exercise can cause as many as one-third of the United States’ cancer cases.
Immune system used to fight cancer
Researchers are trying to improve the odds of undetected cancer spreading by boosting the body’s own immune system so that it can mount a body-wide assault on cancer cells. A study conducted on animals suggests that a treatment given to just one tumor produces an immune response that targets hidden tumors in other places throughout the body.
Vegetables that prevent & cure cancer
A natural compound, diindolylmethane (DIM), found in vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, turnips and mustard greens can not only prevent cancer, but may be able to cure it as well.
Safe alternative to mammograms
"Mammography screening is a profit-driven technology posing risks compounded by unreliability. In striking contrast, annual clinical breast examination (CBE) by a trained health professional, together with monthly breast self-examination (BSE), is safe, at least as effective, and low in cost. International programs for training nurses how to perform CBE and teach BSE are critical and overdue. "
BBC report: nutrition and faith fight off cancer
"In September 2003 Felicity Corbin-Wheeler was given between five weeks and six months to live with pancreatic cancer. Now fully recovered, she attributes her cure to vitamin B17 and her Christian faith. Michelle Moffat went to meet her."
Scientists think they are unravelling the secret of just why greens are good for you in the fight against cancer. Chemicals in some brassica vegetables, such as cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli and brussels sprouts, sabotage colon cancer cells in a similar way to that employed by some cancer drugs.
Two to three portions a week of such foods might offer protection against colon cancer, Ian Johnson, leader of a research team at Institute of Food Research told a press conference in London yesterday.
Reducing deaths from heart attack and cancer
Wayne Martin: "This is to suggest that deaths from heart attacks and cancer can be reduced by half without changing our lifestyles all that much."
"The experts for the prosecution were all there. Predictably, the defense specialists had missed their taxi and never got on the program. The conclusion was implicit. People should trust conventional science and stick with tried and tested treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation. We understand people’s emotional need to look for alternatives, but please don’t be silly. Cancer is a serious business." Another great article from Phillip Day
Acrylamide, a white, odorless but potentially cancer-causing chemical, has been found in many common foods such as potato chips, French fries, bread, rice and cereals. It appears that the chemical, which is used in the treatment of sewage and waste and to manufacture certain chemicals, plastics and dyes, is a byproduct of cooking food at high temperatures.
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