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| This cancer grows slowly, so it may never cause related health problems—but prostate cancer still is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths among men (lung cancer is the first). I advise every man to eat soy.
•Menopausal discomfort. The phytoestrogens in soy are metabolized in the body into equol, an estrogen-like compound. Soy seems to be most effective for women who experience five or more hot flashes a day—it can reduce hot-flash frequency by up to 40%. Some menopausal women who eat soy also notice an improvement in vaginal dryness.
•Diabetic renal disease. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They are licensed by the state to practice medicine, after all, and yet they demonstrate absolutely no ability to cover even the fundamentals of anti-cancer nutrition that could save hundreds of thousands of women from breast cancer deaths.
Who are these task force "experts? |
Ray D. Strand
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 There were 537,000 cancer deaths in 1995; there has been a steady increase in the number of deaths caused by cancer over the past thirty years.6
The U.S. has spent more than $25 billion in cancer research over the past twenty-five years only to see absolutely no decrease in the relative number of people dying from cancer. The greatest advancements in cancer treatment have developed because of earlier diagnoses of certain cancers—not that our treatments for cancer have been pleasant or overly effective. |
| Smoking and secondary smoke are the main reasons lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths. Radiation, charcoal steaks, too much fat in our diet, saccharin, and the many other chemicals found in herbicides and pesticides are what medical literature refers to as carcinogens, or those things that increase our risk of developing cancer.
Since the first report that chimney sweeps had an increased risk of scrotal cancer because of their exposure to soot,3 we have become more and more afraid of our environment, and rightfully so. |
Devra Davis
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 There is evidence, moreover, that the disease is not an inevitable consequence of bodily degeneration due to age, although the changes of senescence under certain conditions may be contributing factors. It seems certain that there is a net increase in true cancer deaths, if only because fewer people die from other diseases than in the past.
An explanation of this increase and of the causes of the disease is therefore being sought in our environment, so much more complex than it was in 1900. |
| Cancer deaths have dropped chiefly because fewer people are smoking and more are getting screened for survivable cancers, like those of the colon, cervix and breast. Yet some forms of the disease not tied with tobacco use continue to increase, and deaths are unconscionably higher in blacks than in whites with few exceptions. Accounts of breathtaking advances in research provide a steady rumble today, just as they have done for decades. Leaders come and go. Battles change. Rhetoric shifts. But the conflict is not ending. The early talk of imminent victory has grown muted. |
| When reports surfaced that lung cancer deaths had increased in the 1930s and 1940s, it strengthened the resolve of public health scientists to find out what lay behind these patterns.
Lilienfeld insisted that evaluating cancer was not simple. Once I had allowed for the effects of aging, I then had to make sure doctors were not simply counting more cases because they were getting better at finding them. We had to find out whether deaths that had in the past been attributed to tuberculosis had really been lung cancer in disguise. |
| Researchers had long recognized a paradox: the better the medical care in a given region, the higher the recorded rates of cancer deaths. The only way to figure out whether this was due to a real rise in the disease or simply the result of better record keeping was to develop national standards for counting cancers overall.
Once these standards were in place, Hammond and his team turned to the issue of how to understand patterns of cancer in humans. |
| This work began with the shocking fact that in three decades the disease had gone from a rare occurrence to the second leading cause of cancer deaths in Germany.
In 1939 Miiller came up with an ingenious approach. He assembled detailed information on smokers and compared their lives to those who had not smoked. He was one of the first to use a technique that looks backward into the natural experiments of people's lives. Like many scientific breakthroughs, his method was deceptively simple. |
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| Proponents of PSA testing point out that prostate cancer deaths have declined in the years since the test has been widely used. However, PSA skeptics say that this trend could also be the result of better treatment, not just better diagnosis.
IMPROVING ACCURACY
In recent years, several variations of the PSA test have been used to improve its accuracy and limit the number of men who are advised to get a biopsy. They are...
•Free vs. bound PSA. The majority of PSA floats through the bloodstream bound to protein molecules, while a smaller portion of PSA is free. |
Devra Davis
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| Nor can we know whether this decline in breast cancer deaths has anything to do with a reported decline in the proportion of women undergoing mammograms in the past seven years.11 In an ideal world, we would have the ability to track the capacity of any of these things to affect breast cancer statistics.
For a while a straightforward examination of the facts on mammography seemed possible. Committees of expert statisticians and epidemiologists were charged with taking a hard, cold look at information. |
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| Important: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in men and women. Lung tissue gradually returns to normal when people quit smoking. Ten years after quitting, lung cancer risk is reduced to one-third of what it was.
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. |
| Approximately 90% of all colon cancer deaths can be prevented if diagnosed early through colonoscopy. Don't let its bad rep keep you from being checked.
Marjory Abrams, publisher, newsletters, Boardroom Inc., 281 Tresser Blvd., Stamford, CT 06901.
Colonoscopy Benefits Last Longer than Thought
Timothy R. Church, PhD, professor of environmental health sciences, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis.
Stephen Shibata, MD, director, gastrointestinal program, City of Hope Cancer Center, Duarte, CA.
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| In our study, we did a meta-analysis of all of the trials, and were not able to show any reduction in cancer or in cancer deaths," White reports.
Most of the people in those trials were taking a single drug, pravastatin (Pravachol), "but when we looked at other statins, we couldn't come up with a mixture that suggested there might be a protective effect," he says.
THE SECOND STUDY
The second study also found no reduced incidence of colon cancer in the more than 130,000 people who took statins in the Cancer Prevention Study II Nutritional Cohort. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Thirty-five percent of all cancer deaths may be related to a lack of activity and/or to being overweight, according to one study. Overweight people also frequently struggle with elevated levels of the hormone insulin, which can not only make you fat, but can raise blood pressure and even promote the growth of tumors.
If you're already diabetic, exercise may lower your requirement for insulin and help you manage blood sugar naturally. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Cervical cancer presently ranks third in cancer deaths of American women, although it remains the leading cause of death from cancer among women in developing countries who do not enjoy the same access to diagnosis and early treatment.1 In the United States, approximately 9,710 cases of cervical cancer were diagnosed in 2006 and about 3,700 women died from it. Worldwide, human papilloma infection causes almost 500,000 cases of cervical cancer and 280,000 deaths each year. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 Lung cancer is the leading
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. .. . United States among both drip, allergies, asthma, or GERD. , r 6 men and women. Indeed, more women
(See A Hoarse, Raspy Voice, be- die each year from lung cancer than from low.) More important, it can signal breast, ovarian, and uterine cancer com-chronic obstructive pulmonary Dine<± disease (COPD), a debilitating and potentially deadly lung disorder in which airflow to and from the lungs is disrupted. There are two main types of COPD: chronic bronchitis and emphysema. |
| In fact, it's the fifth-leading cause of cancer deaths among women. Although highly curable if it is found early and confined to the ovary, ovarian cancer is often not diagnosed until it has advanced and even spread to other parts of the body. |
Stacy Malkan
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 To illustrate the point, he showed several slides of declining cancer deaths.2 Natural and synthetic substances have the same cancer "hit rates." A number of natural chemicals in coffee and volatile chemicals in tomatoes are carcinogens. "The idea that science and technology are doing us in and if only we'd go back to nature we'd be fine — people forget that cars are safer than horses," Dr. Ames said. Ninety-nine percent of the scare stories in the paper about toxic chemicals are wrong. "Newspapers like scare stories, intellectuals don't like capitalism and there's nothing to it. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 That's significant because thousands of cancer deaths a year are linked to insufficient UVB exposure and subsequent deficiency of active vitamin D. How does UVB activate vitamin D? From cholesterol. That's why your blood cholesterol levels rise in the winter. Because of the lack of sunlight, you don't have enough active vitamin D, so your body pumps up your cholesterol in the hope of converting as much as possible to active vitamin D. This serves as another example of an evolutionary trade-off between procreation and longevity. |
Bill Sardi
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 According to the Forbes Magazine report, the best approaches to improving cancer survival are to prevent DNA mutations that initiate cancer and to halt the spread of cancer (metastasis) that is responsible for over 90% of cancer deaths. Drs. Linus Pauling and Matthias Rath have long contended that maintenance of the connective tissue and collagen prevents the spread of cancer.
Nutrients like folic acid and IP6 rice bran extract are required to repair broken DNA strands, but go unused for this purpose. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Gotzsche's team discovered that a large number of breast cancer deaths in the original data had "somehow" been left out of the final report. The Gotzsche study was originally published last in an online edition of the European Journal of Cancer (EJC). Three weeks later, the study vanished from their web site. Apparently, EJC editors removed his study because they received complaints from pro-mammogram doctors.
To suggest mammography to be a diagnostic tool for detecting pre-symptomatic stages of cancer is deceptive and dubious. |
| Very few people know that not getting enough sun kills 50,000 people from cancer deaths every year in the U.S. alone. As shown later, these are deaths that are easily preventable through the Vitamin D produced by the body in response to regular sun exposure.
Unfortunately, it is the ultraviolet portion of sunlight that is the most easily eliminated by windows, houses, spectacles, sunglasses, sun lotions, and clothing. Before antibiotic drugs were discovered in the 1930s—penicillin having been the first one—the healing power of sunlight was favored by the medical community, at least in Europe. |
| Melanomas, which account for 75 percent of all skin cancer deaths, make up only 5 percent of all reported skin cancers. The most striking fact about this lethal form of cancer is that it can occur in parts of the body that are not necessarily exposed to the sun such as the eye, the rectum, vulva, vagina, mouth, respiratory tract, GI tract and urinary bladder.
Overall, since the beginning of the new millennium, each year one million Americans are being diagnosed with some form of skin cancer. |
| With more than 550,000 annual cancer deaths in the United States alone, the justification of mandatory immunization programs in this country is very questionable. The standard approach of establishing immunity, which is unproved and unscientific, may undermine and override the body's own far superior programs of self-immunization. The body gains natural immunity through a healing crisis, which naturally eliminates cancer-producing toxins. Whether manufactured immunization directly or indirectly causes cancer is irrelevant. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 The controversy looks almost Swiftian when we consider that even under the most optimistic assumptions, mammography still cannot prevent the vast majority of breast cancer deaths." This editorial concluded:
There will come a time when all the study patients have been followed up, all the analyses have been done, all the expert groups have met, and all the editorials have been written, and we still won't be sure how much benefit and how much harm are caused by mammography.48
In this book, we are using mortality as an indicator of effectiveness. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Cancer of the colon or rectum is the second most common cause of cancer deaths in the United States, and more than 133,000 new cases are diagnosed every year. Chemoprevention of colon and rectum cancer is particularly important for two reasons. First, the rate of mortality from colon cancer has not changed substantially over the past several decades, despite intensive efforts at treatment, suggesting that prevention is at present a better strategy than chemotherapy for controlling this disease. |
Mark Schapiro
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 The commission further calculated that the costs of REACH would be repaid many times over by its benefits — including the prevention of 4,500 occupational cancer deaths each year, and saving some $60 billion over three decades that the commission predicted would accrue to the European public, by reducing the costs of health care from ailments related to chemical exposure. |
Bill Sardi
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| Although breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths for women between the ages of 35 and 54, the causes of breast cancer are unknown.
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Ethical Legal and Social Issues
The cause of cancer of the uterus is not known.
- University of Michigan Health System
At this point, the specific cause of prostate cancer is unknown.
- Henry Ford Hospital
Well then, how can cancer be successfully treated if its origin is unknown? Is chemotherapy appropriate if cancer emanates from a folic acid deficiency? |
| Cancer 94: 1 867-75, 2002] Another researcher estimates 30,000 US cancer deaths could be averted by moderate sunning. [Preventive Medicine 22: 132-40, 1993] The world death rate from all causes rises in winter, when vitamin D levels are low. [Age Ageing 25: 343-48, 1996]
Amount supplemental vitamin D3
No supplemental vitamin D3
1000 IU vitamin D3/day (25 micrograms)
Blood concentration achieved
46.7 nanomole/liter 68.7 nanomole/liter
4000 IU vitamin D3/day (50 micrograms) 96. |
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