Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Well, let's say that for ten years, somebody feeds all the kids sodium nitrite and cancer rates skyrocket. Then, they take all the sodium nitrite out of the food and replace it with a different cancer-causing chemical that they keep feeding the kids. Guess what? The cancer rates don't come down. Therefore, the logic goes, sodium nitrite didn't cause cancer in the first place!
Notice that when mercury was removed from vaccines (which is not entirely true, by the way, bringing into question yet more details about this study), the rates of autism did not drop? |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Colon cancer rates in Asian countries are much lower than colon cancer rates in the United States and Europe. Since much of Asia drinks plenty of green tea, could this be one of the sources of the difference?
The research data for assessing green tea's potential as a chemopreventive agent against colon and rectum cancer would benefit from more human studies, but the data available from animal studies are promising. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 In her book The Truth About Breast Cancer, Claire Hoy states the following:
Greenpeace found that one country that banned pesticides— Israel—quickly went from breast cancer rates that were among the highest in the world to rates in keeping with other industrialized nations. It also found that U.S. counties with chemical waste sites were 6.5 times more likely to have elevated breast cancer rates than those without waste sites. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 In nine of the twelve largest statin studies that have reported cancer rates, there was a 3% increase in the development of new cancers overall in patients on statins above and beyond cancers developed by those on placebo.
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. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Those studies have found changes in cancer rates within one or two generations, which is just too quick to be related to the introduction of new genes, Baker and Kaprio note.
The idea that your genetic makeup is going to be the main factor that determines your susceptibility to cancer has been oversold, explains Dr. Michael Thun, vice president of epidemiology and surveillance research at the American Cancer Society. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Click here to see the map of the United States shaded by breast cancer rates. Once you see this map, you'll instantly understand the link between sunlight, geographic latitude, skin color, vitamin D and breast cancer.)
Is there no sunlight in Chicago?
Is there an IQ vortex in Chicago that sucks the intelligence out of doctors' heads? How did 100 doctors, nurses and cancer experts get together for a task force on breast cancer and completely miss the single most obvious cause of the disease in black women? |
Michael Pollan
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 Colin Campbell, a Cornell nutritional biochemist who served on the panel, all of the human population studies linking dietary fat to cancer actually showed that the groups with higher cancer rates consumed not just more fats, but also more animal foods and fewer plant foods as well. "This meant that these cancers could
*Sucrose is the exception that proves the rule. Only the power of the sugar lobby in Washington can explain the fact that the official U.S. recommendation for the maximum permissible level of free sugars in the diet is an eye-popping 25 percent of daily calories. |
Mark Schapiro
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 Jurisdiction over phthalates in the United States is scattered: the EPA has responsibility for phthalates released into the environment; the FDA for medical devices like intravenous tubes; the National
Institutes of Occupational Safety and Health for workplace exposure (there appear to be higher pancreatic cancer rates among phthalate workers).26 In each agency, U.S. policy makers are confronted with a powerful industry lobby that has largely succeeded in shaping a regulatory culture that imposes an obstacle course of cost-benefit analyses before acting.
"If you're a U.S. |
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| Esophagus cancer rates Soar 600%
Rhonda F. Souza, MD, associate professor of medicine, division of gastroenterology, Dallas VA Medical Center and Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
B.Jay Brooksjr., MD, chairman, hematology/oncology, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, Baton Rouge, LA.
CA: A CancerJournal for Clinicians.
The incidence of a deadly form of esophagus cancer that is associated with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is rising at an alarming rate, experts say. |
| THE NEW TECHNOLOGY
The study should help settle the controversy about rising thyroid cancer rates. Some investigators have attributed the increase to environmental radiation from sources such as nuclear power plants. However, the report suggests that the real reason for the higher rates may be "increased detection of subclinical disease."
"New tests are available to detect abnormalities that we never saw in the past," says the coauthor of the national report, Dr. Louise Davies, an assistant professor of surgery at Dartmouth Medical School. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 A very recent study indicates that overall cancer rates have declined by 0.8% between 1990-1997. This is miniscule compared to the enormous increase over the last 30 years and says nothing about the many individual cancer rates that have skyrocketed. chronic disease in general
• More than 90 million Americans live with chronic illnesses.
• Chronic diseases account for one-third of the years of potential life lost before age 65.
• Poor nutrition and lack of physical exercise are associated with 300,000 deaths each year, factors that nutrition & cancer
According to Sir Richard Doll, M.D. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's because the livelihood of the industry depends on more cancer! If cancer rates plummeted by 70 percent or more, the industry would be devastated. The incomes, egos and power positions of cancer industry operators depend entirely on the continued spread of cancer among the population.
Ever notice that cancer centers are not called, "Anti-Cancer Centers?" You see them in virtually every city and state across the country: The Washington Cancer Center, or the San Francisco Cancer Center. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| It seemed logical, these scientists suggested, that drinking green tea contributed to the surprisingly lower cancer rates, but this statistical relationship was not enough to prove the link. Scientists began dozens of experiments to determine whether their theory was true. Does green tea reduce the risk of cancer? Let's see what they found out.
Investigations into the effects of green tea included laboratory experiments, experiments on animals, experiments on humans consuming various ordinary diets, and statistical studies of human populations. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| If you are over age seventy, evidence from the PROSPER study I review on page 67 suggests that statins given even at normal doses increase cancer rates by 25% with no benefit for heart-disease prevention if you don't have a prior history of heart disease.
For every hundred people known to have heart disease who take a statin for five years, three will die of a heart attack even though their cholesterol was lowered with a statin. Only one will be saved from dying of a heart attack. That translates into the much-vaunted 25% reduction in risk, based on "relative risk. |
Devra Davis
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 As cervical cancer rates were dropping, breast cancer was growing in importance. Here was a chance to do something about it. If screening worked for cervical cancer, and did so for women at all ages, why should mammography be any different?
Economists were not widely engaged in such matters at the time. They ask questions such as, "Are the costs of using this procedure on women of certain ages in line with the benefits?" Costs are the simple part. Benefits are harder to measure. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The industry refuses to educate black women about the real reasons why their cancers are more severe than white women, and it simultaneously refuses to teach black women the simple, natural solution to breast cancer prevention that can reduce national breast cancer rates by over 75 percent."
Adams backs up his assertions with charts from the National Cancer Institute as well as considerable research into the effects of vitamin D on the halting of cancer tumor growth. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| If you are over age seventy, evidence from the PROSPER study I review on page 67 suggests that statins given even at normal doses increase cancer rates by 25% with no benefit for heart-disease prevention if you don't have a prior history of heart disease.
For every hundred people known to have heart disease who take a statin for five years, three will die of a heart attack even though their cholesterol was lowered with a statin. Only one will be saved from dying of a heart attack. That translates into the much-vaunted 25% reduction in risk, based on "relative risk. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Mother Nature provides all the medicine we need to slash cancer rates by 90%, and she doesn't charge a dime in royalties or patent fees. She keeps on giving, generation after generation, hoping that one day a race of human beings will walk this planet with the humility to listen to her.
Until that day comes, our fellow human beings will continue to suffer under the arrogance, greed and myopia so eloquently demonstrated by this Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| 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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Guess what? The cancer rates don't come down. Therefore, the logic goes, sodium nitrite didn't cause cancer in the first place!
Notice that when mercury was removed from vaccines (which is not entirely true, by the way, bringing into question yet more details about this study), the rates of autism did not drop? This means the vaccines remain dangerous to children. Autism continued to climb right alongside vaccination rates, indicating the possibility that something in the vaccines (or a combination of various chemicals) may very well be responsible for the increase. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 CERVICAL DYSPLASIA
OVERVIEW
Over the past four decades, cervical cancer rates have dropped dramatically in most developed countries. This improvement in our health is attributable to the commonly available Pap smear, whereby early premalignant lesions can be found and treated, most often with fairly simple office techniques. 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. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Their skin cancer rates are higher, too. For example, the incidence of melanoma (skin cancer) on the Orkney and Shetland Isles, north of Scotland, is 10 times that of Mediterranean islands.
UV light is known to activate an important skin hormone called solitrol. Solitrol influences our immune system and many of our body's regulatory centers, and, in conjunction with the pineal hormone melatonin, causes changes in mood and daily biological rhythms. The hemoglobin in our red blood cells requires ultraviolet (UV) light to bind to the oxygen needed for all cellular functions. |
| While the study focused mainly on white Americans, it also found that the same geographical trend affects black or darker skinned Americans, whose overall cancer rates are significantly higher. As explained earlier, darker skinned people require more sunlight to synthesize vitamin D.
The study showed at least 13 malignancies affected by lack of sunlight, mostly reproductive and digestive cancers. The strongest inverse correlation is with breast, colon, and ovarian cancer, followed by tumors of the bladder, uterus, esophagus, rectum, and stomach.
The Sun Cuts Cancer Risk by Half or More! |
| The collected data showed that individuals in the group with the lowest blood levels of vitamin D had the highest rates of breast cancer, and the breast cancer rates dropped as the blood levels increased. The most astounding finding in this study is that the blood level associated with a 50 percent lower risk of breast cancer could be reached by spending as little as 25 minutes in the sun for darker skinned people, and no more than 10 to 15 minutes for lighter skinned individuals. |
Bill Sardi
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 The National Cancer Institute just issued a news release claiming modest drops in cancer rates, just prior to the publication of this book. So, wait a minute, maybe the failures of the past can be forgotten if true advancements are being made now. Don't bet on it. As Clifton Leaf of Fortune Magazine said:
Researchers also say more people are surviving longer with cancer than ever. Yet here, too, the complete picture is more disappointing. Survival gains for the more common forms of cancer are measured in additional months of life, not years. |
| The World Cancer Research Fund examined 4500 published reports in 1994 and concluded that "if everyone ate at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day cancer rates could be reduce by more than 20 percent." Now, the latest study doesn't support this notion. Plant food diets marginally help reduce the risk for heart disease, but not cancer. [Journal National Cancer Institute 97: 1307, 2005]
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) program to promote 5 servings of fruits and vegetables is another disappointment. |
| The number of people who think cigarette smoking is one of the causes of lung cancer has changed over time:
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Lung cancer is such a large portion of all cancers that it skews all the other combined statistics regarding cancer rates and therapy. |
| Fewer than 5% of smokers develop lung cancer before age 40. Lung cancer rates rise more sharply after age 65. But nobody explains why.
Another important fact is that about 64% of lung cancer cases are among men. Age and gender are important factors. Men begin to accumulate iron after full growth is achieved, while women delay iron overload until they stop menstruating. Dietary iron has been found to increase lung cancer risk, particularly among smokers. [Epidemiology 16:772-9, 2005] Male iron foundry workers have a particularly high rate of lung cancer. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Folate supplementation decreases colon cancer rates by 20 percent to 50 percent, but more than 50 percent of Americans don't even get the recommended amount, and 90 percent don't get the amount that seems to reduce colon cancer (800 micrograms a day). Lots of foods-like spinach, tomatoes, and orange juice-contain folate, but it's absorbed less well than folic acid from supplements. The average intake of folate through food is 275 to 375 micrograms, so you need a supplement of about 400 micrograms to reduce your risk of cancer. |
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