Bill Sardi See book keywords and concepts | They began to question just how prostate cancer mortality rates could have improved so abruptly.
It all has to do with the grading score that pathologists give when they examine a biopsy slide of a patient's prostate tissue.
Prostatic Adenocarcinoma (Histologic Grades)
Appearance of cancer cells ranked according to the Gleason grade.
1
Pathologists rate the severity of prostate cancer by the Gleason score, which measures the severity of the tumor on a scale from 2 to 10, the highest number being the most severe. | Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews See book keywords and concepts | The fact that lung cancer mortality rates are lower in Japan than in the United States, even though Japanese men are twice as likely to smoke as American men, is consistent with the view that lifestyle factors or diet inhibit the activation of tobacco carcinogens.
Experiments on animals indicate that the polyphenols in green tea ameliorate the damage caused by NNK. When mice are treated with NNK they develop an average of 22.5 lung tumors per mouse, scientists from the American Health Foundation report. But when EGCG is added to their water, only 16.1 tumors develop. | Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S. See book keywords and concepts | Oh yes, and a 50 percent decrease in total cancer mortality. (The authors speculate that the reason they didn't see results with skin cancer was because the nature of skin cancer is such that this study may have been too short to demonstrate a positive effect.)
An Antioxidant Superpower
Selenium is also one of the most powerful antioxidants on the planet. | Thomson Healthcare, Inc. See book keywords and concepts | Hebert JR, Hurley TG, Olendzi BC, et al: Nutritional and socioeconomic factors in relation to prostate cancer mortality: a cross-national study. J Natl Cancer Inst 90(24): 1637-1647. 1998.
Hermansen K, Hansen B, Jabobsen, R, et al. Effects of soy supplementation on blood lipids and arterial function in hypercholesterolaemic subjects. Eur J Clin Nutr; 59(7): 843-850. 2005.
Hilakivi-Clarke L, Cho E & Clarke R: Maternal genistein exposure mimics the effects of estrogen on mammary gland development in female mouse offspring. Oncol Rep 5(3):609-616. 1998. | Andreas Moritz See book keywords and concepts | Nordic Cochrane Center in Denmark—and his associates recently published a peer-reviewed study that found major fault with the results of a large trial that reported a 31 percent reduction in breast cancer mortality as a result of mammogram screening. After carefully reviewing the data, Dr. 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. | Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S. See book keywords and concepts | It's worth noting that in Okinawa, Japan, which has one of the lowest cancer mortality rates in Japan, people eat their kombu mostly uncooked.) Breast cancer rates are lower in Japan than in Western countries, and this just might have something to do with seaweed consumption.
Seaweeds are also a great source of fluorine (not fluoride), a compound that boosts the body's defenses and strengthens teeth and bones. However, to get the fluorine you have to eat the seaweed raw—even minimal cooking causes the fluorine to be lost. Seaweed is also a good source of the cancer-fighting mineral selenium. | Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D. See book keywords and concepts | Their findings, they concluded, suggest that, "in the United States, impaired glucose tolerance is an independent predictor for cancer mortality."
A Closer Look at the Sugar-Diabetes Connection
Diabetes, as I said previously, is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. (It is also the fifth leading cause of death by disease.) Nearly 21 million people, or 7 percent of the population, already have diabetes, and another 41 million Americans have prediabetes, meaning that their blood glucose levels are higher than normal but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes. | Andreas Moritz See book keywords and concepts | An examination of 506 regions found a close inverse correlation between cancer mortality and levels of UVB light. The likeliest mechanism proposed by scientists for a protective effect from sunlight is vitamin D, which is synthesized by the body when exposed to ultraviolet B rays. According to the study's author, Dr William Grant, the northern parts of the United States may be dark enough during the winter months that vitamin D synthesis shuts down completely. | J. Douglas Bremner See book keywords and concepts | I added up the cancer rates reported in the major trials I reviewed above and found that patients taking statins have a 7% greater risk of cancer mortality than that of patients taking placebo. In one study of women, for whom evidence of the benefit from statins is not very strong, some particularly alarming results were twelve cases of breast cancer among those on statins vs. one in the placebo group. Some cancers can take up to twenty years to develop, so we don't know how many patients developed cancer after the five-year trial was finished. | Devra Davis See book keywords and concepts | Table 2-1 Proportion of Gastric Cancer Out of All cancer mortality in Different Occupations of Bavarian Men, 1924—1928
Social Class
Description of Occupation
Stomach
I
Merchants, high officials, lawyers, doctors
38.8
II
Office workers
40.1
III
Publicans, brewers, small officials
48.5
IV
Skilled workmen
56.8
V
Unskilled workmen
63.4
VI
Agriculture
68.5
Many of the texts were written in several languages, English, Spanish, French, and German, all presumed to be understood by the multilingual scientific crowd. One speaker, Clarence C. | Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD See book keywords and concepts | Interestingly, their cancer mortality rates also had fallen.
In a more recent literature review, it was shown that in spite of fortification of flour with niacinamide, many people are deficient in vitamin B-3, even though they may not show obvious signs of pellagra. In Sweden, 15% of females were found to be deficient in vitamin B-3, while in the United States, 22% of the geriatric population were eating inadequate amounts. In such niacin deficient individuals, genes are more susceptible to DNA damage. | Bill Sardi See book keywords and concepts | 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. | | The National Cancer Institute's 5-A-Day Program has been abandoned in favor of 9 tol 3 servings of fruits and vegetables, which is still an unproven approach to reduce cancer mortality. While the American Institute for Cancer Research estimates 30 to 40% of all cancers are associated with a poor diet, less than 9% of Americans consume even five servings of fruits and vegetables a day and only 1 to 3% of all government funding for cancer research is devoted to cancer and nutrition. | | The American Cancer Society has set a goal to reduce cancer mortality rates by 50% between 1985 - 2000. Some parts of its report made it sound like millions of lives would be saved. But the report went on to say that goals were unlikely to be reached. [Cancer, June 12, 2006 online] Much of the decline in mortality rates is imagined, extrapolated from manipulated statistics and the contrived idea that years of life are gained by early detection of cancer, when in fact most cancer patients succumb to their disease on the same calendar day whether their diagnosis is early or late. | | Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers 15:1688-95, 2006]
Annual age-adjusted breast cancer mortality rates in the US range from a low of 17-19 per 100,000 in sunny areas (southwest) to 33 per 100,000 in cloudy areas (northeast). [Preventive Medicine 19: 614-22, 1990]
A vitamin D deficiency develops in a significant percentage of patients with advanced prostate cancer. With vitamin D treatment, pain scores drop among prostate cancer patients. | | Maximal potential reduction of cancer mortality in the world by categories of factors
1 Factor
Percentage
Tobacco
25
Diet in adult life
15
Infection
15
Occupational factors
*\
Reproductive factors
4
Environmental pollustion
CO
Alcohol
3
Sedentary life
2
Food additives and contaminants
Source: European Journal Epidemiology 20: 565-74, 2005
Exactly what causes cancer? Is it pesticides, industrial chemicals, electromagnetic fields, acidity, germs, oxygen free radicals, hormones, or all of these?
An argument can be made for all of the above causes. | Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea See book keywords and concepts | Is there any evidence that these same factors can influence the course of the disease, or, more specifically, cancer mortality?
In 1976, Stanford Psychiatrist, David Spiegel, designed an experiment to see if he could help women cope with the suffering of terminal breast cancer. Women were randomly assigned to two groups: in addition to standard medical therapy, one group received weekly group therapy, learned relaxation techniques, and were taught self-hypnosis; the other received the same medical care, but no therapy. | | We found no evidence," they concluded, that self-examination "reduces breast cancer mortality." Even so, the Task Force gave the grade "I," insufficient evidence, to evaluate the effectiveness of breast self-examination. In light of published evidence, this grade seems generous, to say the least. Such is the reluctance of official bodies to criticize standard medical practices.
We see this same attitude all around us. Last year, Fran attended a defense of a master's thesis. | Andreas Moritz See book keywords and concepts | Cancer patients dying from something else than cancer lowers the number of cancer mortality further, which only benefits the cancer industry.
To heal cancer, we must let go of the idea that cancer is a disease and out to kill us. We also must learn to identify and remove the causes that force the body to take to recourse to such drastic survival mechanisms as cancer. To cure oneself of cancer is neither expensive nor difficult, but it requires that you trust, love and respect your body and yourself. | Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey See book keywords and concepts | Waist-to-hip ratio and breast cancer mortality. Am. J. Epidemiol. 158, 963-968.
174. Kumar, N. B., Cantor, A., Allen, K., and Cox, C. E. (2000). Android obesity at diagnosis and breast carcinoma survival: Evaluation of the effects of anthropometric variables at diagnosis, including body composition and body fat distribution and weight gain during life span, and survival from breast carcinoma. Cancer 88, 2751-2757'.
175. Camoriano, J. K, Loprinzi, C. L., Ingle, J. N., Therneau, T. M., Krook, J. E., and Veeder, M. H. (1990). | Dan Buettner See book keywords and concepts | But for some reason, it's the cancer mortality rate that is much lower in Nicoya. Perhaps they are eating something—or not eating something?"
I asked if there was anything else. Luis demurred and threw me a side glance from the driver's seat. He's a top-notch scientist, but sometimes he reminded me of a shy schoolboy, like the smartest kid in class who often had the right answers but was afraid of showing off. "You know in Latin America, we take marriage very seriously. If you get married, there's great pressure to stay married your whole life. But here," he hesitated. | David Steinman See book keywords and concepts | For skeptics and those who demand a human body count, studies confirm human breast cancer mortality among women who work with PVC and who are exposed to vinyl chloride gas.5 These findings are confirmed by animal studies, in which the lowest concentration of vinyl chloride tested induces breast cancers.6'7 Since vinyl chloride has an affinity for fatty tissues, such as the breast, breast cancer among women exposed to vinyl chloride is "biologically plausible. | Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts | And for the Chicago breast cancer task force to curiously refuse to mention this obvious link between vitamin D and breast cancer mortality in black women is nothing short of criminal negligence.
These doctors and cancer "experts" have a responsibility to know what they're talking about. 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? | | Since vitamin D is a substance that halts the growth of cancer tumors when circulating in the blood, it's not at all complex to understand why vitamin D deficiency in black women would result in higher breast cancer mortality.
This stuff is so simple to understand that I recently explained it to an eight grader who wrote it up for a school report. | Joseph E. Mario See book keywords and concepts | Areas of highest cancer mortality was found in areas with soils of Eocene clays, boulder clays of the Pleistocene glacial era, and brick earth clays in river areas of recent flood deposits. Areas of lowest cancer mortality were in older primary elevated Paleozoic soils, upper Silurian and Carbon limestone series of secondary Mesozoic Oolitic limestones ofthe Jurassic age; areas of sand, sandstone, and chalk deposits.
A cancer-causing mutant gene, the neu oncogene, discovered by Dr. | David W. Grotto, RD, LDN See book keywords and concepts | A multicountry ecologic study of risk and risk reduction factors for prostate cancer mortality. Eur Urol. 2004 Mar;45(3):271-279.
Knekt P et al. Flavonoid intake and risk of chronic diseases. Am J Clin Nutr. 2002 Sep;76(3):560-568.
Le Marchand L, Murphy SP, Hankin JH, Wilkens LR, Kolonel LN. Intake of flavonoids and lung cancer. / Natl Cancer Inst. 2000 Ian 19;92(2):154-160.
Onion extract gel versus petrolatum emollient on new surgical scars: prospective double-blinded study. Dermatol Surg. 2006 Feb;32(2):193-197.
Osmont KS, Arnt CR, Goldman IL. | Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac. See book keywords and concepts | Von Pohl was acting on a hunch inspired by a survey of Stuttgart in the 1920s that showed a clear correlation between major geological faults in the city and those districts that had the highest cancer mortality rates. His tentative conclusion was that an unknown but noxious radiation emanating from the faults might be an important and overlooked factor in the cancers.
Baron von Pohl located all the major subterranean water veins (lying at a depth of 144 to 164 feet with a width of 10 to 13 feet) under Vilsbiburg, then mapped their courses onto a map of the city streets. | Gabriel Cousens See book keywords and concepts | People who eat more fruits and vegetables have about one-half the risk of cancer mortality than those people who are not plant eaters. Plant-sourced diets are very high in phytonutrients, which include a variety of antioxidants, carotenes, vitamin E, vitamin C, phenolic compounds, and terpenoids. "We get more than twice the phytonutrients from the same amount of calories on the nutrient-dense live-food diet, which also is a natural calorie-restricted diet. | Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts | Inside, readers learn:
The top 18 causes of breast cancer that you can control or change
How breast cancer provides billions in profits for drug companies
Why the breast cancer industry isn't looking for a real cure
Which simple nutrient prevents 77% of ALL cancers
The latest research on natural breast cancer prevention therapies that really work
Names and web addresses of my top recommended anti-cancer herbs and supplements
The real reason why cancer mortality is much higher in blacks than whites (and why you were never told the truth about this... | Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey See book keywords and concepts | Dietary fiber and plant foods in relation to colorectal cancer mortality: The Seven Countries Study. Int. J. Cancer 81, 174-179.
50. Wakai, K., Date, C, Fukui, M., et al. (2007). Dietary fiber and risk of colorectal cancer in the Japan collaborative cohort study. Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev. 16, 668-675.
51. Bingham, S. A., Day, N. E., Luben, R., etal. (2003). Dietary fibre in food and protection against colorectal cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC): An observational study. Lancet 361, 1496-1501.
52. Park, Y., Hunter, D. J., Spiegelman, D. |
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