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| Myth: Cell phones cause brain cancer.
Large population studies have shown no evidence that cell phones cause any kind of cancer, including brain cancer.
Cell-phone use today is much higher than it was a decade ago. If there were any truth to the cancer/cell-phone link, we would be seeing an increased incidence of brain cancers by now, but that hasn't happened.
Experimental Treatments Really Work!
Experimental cancer treatments are more beneficial than previously thought.
Recent study: Approximately 11%—and in some cases, 27%—of the patients in Phase 1 cancer trials responded positively. |
Jack Challem
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 Her study focused on 1,051 children with brain cancer and 1,919 healthy children. She found that pregnant women who took multivitamin supplements were, overall, 40 percent less likely to have children who developed brain cancer. However, women who took vitamins for the greatest length of time had children with the lowest risk of brain cancer.
Cancer
What Happens
All normal cells have clear biological functions and a cycle of life, beginning when they are created. When cells malfunction or get old, this life cycle ends with apoptosis, a type of biologically programmed self-destruction. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Large population studies have shown no evidence that cell phones cause any kind of cancer, including brain cancer.
Cell-phone use today is much higher than it was a decade ago. If there were any truth to the cancer/cell-phone link, we would be seeing an increased incidence of brain cancers by now, but that hasn't happened.
Experimental Treatments Really Work!
Experimental cancer treatments are more beneficial than previously thought.
Recent study: Approximately 11%—and in some cases, 27%—of the patients in Phase 1 cancer trials responded positively. |
Devra Davis
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 Can you believe that Pratt & Whitney—one of the largest and most profitable makers of airplane engines in the world—does not know whether or not its workers have higher rates of brain cancer than the general population?
According to the company's website, Pratt & Whitney engines power nearly half of the world's commercial fleet.46 Every few seconds—more than 20,000 times a day—a Pratt & Whitney-powered airliner takes flight somewhere in the world. |
| But, because the disease can take forty years to develop in adults, and because most adults with brain cancer often develop problems of speech and recall—either from the disease itself or from the treatment—and usually don't survive, we often have to interview their remaining family members about their life histories and try to figure out what could have led to the disease. Few of us really know all the good and bad things we've dealt with in our lives, let alone those of our relatives. |
| But an aging population does not explain why live times more men and women get brain cancer in America than in Japan. Nor do we understand why rates of testicular cancer in men under age forty have risen 50 percent in one decade in most industrial nations, why women of generation X are getting twice as much breast cancer as their grandmothers did, or why young black women get and die from breast cancer in greater numbers than their white counterparts do.
Aging does not explain why so many more children have developed cancer. |
| My colleague Joel Schwartz, a talented statistician on his way to becoming one of the nation's top epidemiologists (now at Harvard), and I asked whether the incidence of multiple myeloma and brain cancer in men between the ages of forty-five and eighty-four had changed over time. We found that both of these usually fatal cancers had grown by more than a third in less than two decades. This work was published in the Lancet and became the basis for an entire volume of the Annals of the NewYork Academy of Sciences.
The Lancet article made headlines. |
| Can aging be involved in growing cases of childhood leukemias, kidney and brain cancer? In a strange way, yes. All of these cancers come about because some part of the body begins to act as though it were much older, losing its ability to repair itself, as deformed cells take over. Normal cells of healthy children have a springlike ability to recover from shocks, stay in order, stay in line, as though following some intelligent design. Children with cancer have lost their springs. |
Bill Sardi
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 The risk for intestinal bleeding from aspirin use can offset risk reduction for cancer, [journal American Medical Assn 294: 914-23, 2005]
¦ Furthermore, aspirin appears to increase the risk for bladder and brain cancer mortality among women. [Anticancer Research 24: 3177-84, 2004]
¦ Side effects from long-term aspirin use probably outnumber any tumor prevention benefits. Use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs resulted in 107,000 hospitalizations and 16,500 deaths in 1997 in the U.S. alone. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Rape (Canola) oil also causes emphysema, respiratory distress, anemia, irritability, brain cancer and blindness.
The high temperatures used in canola refining and margarine production will damage many of the essential fatty acids, which are much more susceptible to damage by heat than saturated fats. As discussed earlier, heat is known to convert many of the unsaturated double bonds to the "trans fatty acid" configuration. |
Devra Davis
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| Another study that was well publicized in 2000 found no increased risk of most types of brain cancer in cell phone users; but the average length of use among participants was less than three years.5 Still, the study found that those people who had used phones for even this short period of time had twice the risk of a very rare brain tumor—neuroep-itheliomatous cancers, the kind that wraps itself around the nerve cells of the lining of the brain, right at the locus that cell signals can reach. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 That's four times the death rate from skin cancer; twice the number of deaths from brain cancer; two times the number of murders committed annually in the United States. More and more medicine wasn't necessarily helping the elderly; sometimes it was killing them. Fisher eventually showed that Medicare recipients were dying in high-cost regions largely because they were spending far more time in the hospital than people in lower-cost regions. |
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| Virtually every type of cancer has been studied in a clinical trial, including brain cancer. Many of these trials have involved patients whose cancer has metastasized, or spread to other parts of the body.
Vaccines are also being used in adjuvant settings—in a person who has had a tumor and has a high risk of a recurrence. |
Jack Challem
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| She found that pregnant women who took multivitamin supplements were, overall, 40 percent less likely to have children who developed brain cancer. However, women who took vitamins for the greatest length of time had children with the lowest risk of brain cancer.
Cancer
What Happens
All normal cells have clear biological functions and a cycle of life, beginning when they are created. When cells malfunction or get old, this life cycle ends with apoptosis, a type of biologically programmed self-destruction. |
Mike Adams
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 Of 53 foods and beverages and three alcoholic beverages consumed by mothers during pregnancy, only hot dogs were associated with an excess risk of childhood brain tumor. (18)
Sarusua and Savitz studied 234 childhood cancer cases in Denver and found a strong association between the consumption of hot dogs and brain cancer. Children born to mothers who consumed hot dogs one or more times per week during pregnancy had approximately double the risk of developing brain tumors. Children who ate hot dogs one or more times per week were also at higher risk of brain cancer. |
| Sodium nitrite gives children brain cancer and leukemia
In one published medical study that followed children who regularly eat hot dogs containing sodium nitrite, researchers found that their risk for brain cancer quadrupled, and their risk of leukemia skyrocketed to 700 percent of the norm. (Preston-Martin, S. et al. "N-nitroso compounds and childhood brain tumors: A case-control study." Cancer Res. 1982; 42:5240-5.)
Keep in mind that the same ingredient, sodium nitrite, is found in far more foods than just hot dogs. It's in virtually all packaged meats. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Perhaps the only condition that is worse than the uncontrolled death of brain cells is the uncontrolled growth of brain cells, as occurs in brain cancer. Introducing NGF into our brains could have the unintended consequence of causing tumors to form out of neural or other cells present in the brain, which possess NGF receptors. Researchers had attempted to add a tetracycline-responsive gene to the NGF virus that would serve as a switching-off mechanism and shut down production of NGF if it became excessive, but this technique has never worked well. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If Ritalin, for example, were preventing brain cancer in at-risk children, it might be reasonable to trade a reduction of cancer risk with stunted growth. But Ritalin has no justifiable medical use whatsoever and is, in fact, more a form of chemical mind control than anything resembling real medicine. To place the growth of children at risk in order to give them a drug so powerful that it would be illegal if sold to children on the street is to engage in medical madness. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You can't convince utility companies that power lines cause brain cancer in children. And you'll never convince Big Pharma scientists that there's any danger whatsoever to their profitable vaccines.
But the truth is that the potential dangers of these mandatory vaccination policies are not really known to anybody. It's only after the fact -- after thousands of children are harmed by these chemicals -- that the evidence becomes so overwhelming that health officials finally adopt some common sense and back off the policies. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Adrian Gross, the FDA's own toxicologist, told Congress that "without a shadow of a doubt, aspartame can cause brain tumors and brain cancer and violated the Delaney Amendment, which forbids putting anything in food that is known to cause cancer."
But then, in the early '80s, Donald Rumsfeld made his move into the political arena, joining President Reagan's transition team. One of the first things he did was appoint a new FDA commissioner, Arthur Hull Hays. And in 1981, Hays approved aspartame for use in "dry goods" — despite the long history of controversy and negative findings. |
David Steinman
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 Esmerelda Sanchez got brain cancer. She died. Her father worked in the fields. She was the cousin of Carlos
Sanchez, who got lymphoma. His father and mother both worked in the fields. Sally and Borjas Gonzales's son, Franky, died of bone cancer. Adrian Esparza, five, son of Rosemary, was diagnosed with cancer. Angela Ramirez got adrenal cancer. Gonzalo Ramirez, a grape picker, told a reporter he was certain that exposure to pesticides gave his seven-year-old daughter, Natalie, near-fatal cancer of the kidney. The government, he told the reporter, "Don't want to go up against the farmers ... |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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 More recently, a study published in 2002 documented an in vitro toxic effect against a liver cancer cell line;7 another in vitro study in 2001 reported that anamu retarded the growth of brain cancer cells.8 A German study documenting anamu's activity against brain cancer cells related its actions to the sulfur compounds found in the plant.
In addition to its documented anticancerous properties, anamu has also been found in both in vivo and in vitro studies to be an immunostimulant. In a 1993 study with mice, a water extract stimulated immune cell production (lymphocytes and Interleukin II). |
David Steinman
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| JoAnn Tarpley lost her son Greg to brain cancer. She was kept in the dark. She accused the state of a "cover-up . . . we're just left here wondering who's gonna get sick next."
Schoolchildren made fun of some of the sick kids. They did not come near them at the hospital when brought for a visit for fear of "catching" the disease.
During this time, in the late 1980s, two more cases developed in Fowler and six cases in Earlimart. |
Dawson Church
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Interestingly enough, in the case of certain types of brain cancer, epigenetic deviations are responsible for more tumors than DNA mutations. When the chemical profile of the proteins surrounding the gene does not replicate properly, tumor-fighting genes do not have the opportunity for expression. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 Even if a whole foods, plant-based diet is more effective at treating heart disease than brain cancer, you can be sure that this diet will not promote one disease while it stops another. It will never be "bad" for you. This one good diet can only help across the board.
So I'm afraid I don't have a different, catchy formula for each disease. I only have one dietary prescription. But rather than be forlorn about its effect on my book sales, I'd prefer to remain excited about telling you how simple food and health really is. It is a chance to clear away much of the incredible public confusion. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 Common Neurological Disorders Associated with Chemical Exposure
Autism
Behavioral problems brain cancer Dementia Depression
Dyslexia and other learning disorders
Epilepsy
Memory loss
Multiple sclerosis
Parkinson's disease
Schizophrenia
The good news is that we can do a lot both to improve the current situation and to prevent these diseases from happening in the first place. To find out why our brain and nervous system is so sensitive to toxins and nutrient deficiencies, we need to understand more about what the brain is and how it works. |
D. Lindsey Berkson
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 In the study, the likelihood that a child would develop brain cancer increased with the number of pets treated in the home. A survey run by the Missouri State Health Department found that 80 percent of polled women used some kind of pesticide while pregnant. One study found the risk of brain cancer was 2.9 times greater when the child was exposed through family use of a termite pesticide. Using fog bombs or roach control during pregnancy gave two times a higher risk of brain cancer. Children treated with anti-lice pesticide shampoo also had greater risk. |
Jack Challem
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| Childhood brain cancer See page 166.
What You Can Do
Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control recently reported that folic acid or a multivitamin supplement containing folic acid, taken by a pregnant woman, reduces her risk of delivering a child with any type of birth defect.
Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate
In her above-mentioned study, Steegers-Theunissen found that women who consumed large amounts of folic acid from foods (such as leafy green vegetables) or supplements had a relatively low risk of bearing children with a cleft lip or a cleft palate. |
| In one study, researchers found that the GST gene was absent in four out of five women with gliomas, a type of brain cancer. Polymorphisms in the GST gene have also been linked to inflammatory diseases and allergic reactions to air pollutants, such as diesel exhaust.
Vitamin D Receptor (VDR) Gene
The VDR gene codes for the vitamin D receptor, which influences how efficiently the body uses vitamin D. Researchers have identified a variety of VDR polymorphisms, and some polymorphisms have been strongly associated with an increased risk of breast, prostate, and colon cancer. |
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