Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In this study, we learn that exposure to sunlight actually reduces the risk of skin cancer.
This is important evidence backing up what doctors like Dr. Michael Holick, author of "The UV Advantage," have been saying for years: Sunlight is actually good for you. In fact, the risk of many cancers increases when you do not have sufficient exposure to sunlight.
It's remarkable just how baffled the scientists really are with the results of the study. They can't believe everything they've been told all these years could somehow be false. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Earlier trials yielded similar results, including 2 that showed no statistically significant benefit of supplemental beta-carotene for basal or squamous cell skin cancers (Frieling et al 2000, Green et al 1999). The skin cancer Prevention Study followed men who had received treatment for an earlier skin cancer, and interceded with beta-carotene supplementation (50 mg/day) to observe the effect of supplementation on the development of subsequent NMSC. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 The most common skin cancer is basal cell, which accounts for about 80 percent of skin cancers; next most common are squamous cell cancers. Melanomas are the least common. Of more than 1 million new cases of skin cancer a year, only 112,000 are melanoma. Of those 112,000, about half are invasive. Seventy-three percent of skin-cancer deaths are attributed to malignant melanoma.
UV light is one of about sixty carcinogens that the World Health Organization recognizes. Evidence that links UV exposure to basal cell and squamous cell cancer of the skin is plentiful and indisputable. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Oral and topical L-selenomethionine protection from ultraviolet-induced sunburn, tanning and skin cancer. lournal Orthomolecular Medicine, 1992;7:83-94.
32 Burke KE, Combs GF Jr, Gross EG, et al. The effects of topical and oral L-selenomethionine on pigmentation and skin cancer induced by ultraviolet irradiation. Nutrition and Cancer, 1992;17:123-33.
SAFETY
Risks and Benefits
As with any form of therapy, vitamin B-3 needs to be evaluated on the basis of its risks and benefits. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 The progression of skin cancer is lessened by topically applied green tea. As a whole, Dr. Katiyar's body of research shows that green tea extract has a protective effect in ah three stages of cancer: initiation, promotion, and progression. Studies by other researchers even show that green tea extract inhibits development of melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer.1
ESOPHAGEAL CANCER
Green tea has a less clear-cut role in esophageal cancer than in cancers of other sites. |
Elaine Magee
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 Tomatoes may prevent or treat skin cancer. According to the AICR, epidemiological (population) studies suggest that people who consume more lycopene have less skin cancer. If you commit to regularly eating tomato products, such as tomato paste and sauce, over several weeks, you'll find yourself 40 percent less sunburned than those who skimp on those foods. Of course, continue to slather on the sunscreen. But who wouldn't want to boost protection with such a tasty kitchen staple? |
Ray D. Strand
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 This may in part explain why we have seen a fivefold increase in almost every skin cancer over the past twenty years.
We are finally seeing sunscreens on the market that offer protection against both UVA and UVB sunlight. Obviously, this is the kind of sunscreen you want to purchase to protect yourself and your children against both being sunburned and developing skin cancer. I would encourage everyone to keep a watchful eye on his skin for any unusual growths or changes in pigmented moles.
Medications and Radiation
Every medication I prescribe causes increased oxidative stress in the body. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Here are some of the health headlines that appeared earlier this week in the twisted universe of Allopathia:
Antioxidants will kill you
All this week, the news outlets in Allopathia were reporting that antioxidants greatly increased the rate of skin cancer. Nutrition, it seems, actually causes cancer in Allopathia, and the only way for people living in that alternate universe to protect themselves from skin cancer is to coat themselves with synthetic chemicals that, in our universe, actually cause cancer! But in Allopathia, those chemicals are apparently inert. |
Marshall Editions
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 Repeated sunburns increase the risk of developing skin cancer, and can also cause signs of premature aging such as wrinkles. Burns result from the ultraviolet (UV) radiation produced by the sun, and can happen within 30 minutes of exposure. UVA and UVB are different wavelengths in the light spectrum. UVB is more damaging to the skin and is linked to skin cancer, while both UVA and UVB are responsible for premature aging and sunburn. Tanning beds also produce UVA and UVB rays and improper tanning bed use can cause sunburn.
The sun is at its strongest between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Even though UVB rays are stopped at the level of the skin, they can still cause burning and cancer of the skin, although they cause tanning as well (see more on skin cancer in the cancer chapter). Meanwhile, UVA rays deeply penetrate the skin to cause burns, wrinkles, and skin cancer. To top it off, sunlight also destroys your reserves of folic acid, also known as folate or vitamin B9. Folate is needed so your body can replicate DNA properly (that's why it helps protect against birth defects). And the rays can damage your eyes—the subject of our next chapter.
How do UV rays cause damage? |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Limonene is found in the peel and has been shown in studies to be chemopreven-tive against mammary, liver, lung, and UV-induced skin cancer, and chemotherapeutic against mammary and pancreatic tumors. A recent study from the University of Arizona concluded that when citrus peel is consumed with hot black tea, the risk of skin cancer is reduced by 30 percent (amazing how these traditional combinations—tea and lemon, for example—keep being validated by science, isn't it?). And it doesn't take much limonene to get the value. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Someone like that—with very little natural ability to tan and regular, unprotected exposure to tropical sun—is vulnerable to severe burning, premature aging, and skin cancer, as well as folic acid deficiency and all its associated problems. And the consequences can be deadly. More than 60,000 Americans are diagnosed with melanoma—an especially aggressive type of skin cancer—every year. European Americans are ten to forty times as likely to get melanoma as African Americans. as humanity was evolving, we probably had pretty light skin too, underneath a similar coat of coarse, dark hair. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 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. There's an inverse relationship between blood levels of selenium and the incidence of cardiovascular disease; selenium protects against oxidative damage to blood vessels—damage that probably plays a big role in the formation of dangerous plaque. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| Skin Cancer
Within the Physician's Health Study—a large, randomized, placebo-controlled trial with 12 years of follow-up—a nested case-control study was conducted to examine the effects of supplemental beta-carotene on the risk of developing nonme-lanoma skin cancer (NMSC) in subjects with low baseline plasma levels of the antioxidant. Beta-carotene 50-mg was administered on alternate days to 1,338 men, most of whom subsequently developed NMSC over the 12-year follow-up, specifically, basal cell carcinoma (BCC, n=1156) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC, n=166). |
Mark Sircus
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 Rosin, for instance, was accused of falsely diagnosing patients with skin cancer and operating on them unnecessarily. He was recently ordered by federal authorities to refer all patients with confirmed or suspected skin cancer to other doctors instead of treating them himself. The order says Rosin, 54, poses "an immediate and serious danger to the health, safety and welfare of the public." He was found guilty by jury trial.
3 The Journal of Urology {2001;166:2034-8}. December issue.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Vitamin D is quite simply the world's best anti-cancer medicine, and recent studies have shown that it can prevent nearly four out of five cancers in women (ALL cancers, including breast cancer, cervical cancer, lung cancer, brain tumors, multiple myeloma and even skin cancer). Click here to read NewsTarget articles on Vitamin D.
The Environmental Working Group, sadly, still does not recognize the healing power of Vitamin D and continues to recommend that people avoid sunlight. This is merely an oversight by the group, not any sort of malicious disinformation conspiracy. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 If you are exposed to the sun, even for as little as a few minutes every day—and that includes walking to your car, walking to the bus, or sitting next to a window during the day (the sun's damaging UVA rays come through window glass)—regardless of the season, that exposure adds up over the years, and it will wrinkle your skin, cause skin discolorations, and potentially result in skin cancer. If exposure that minimal can wrinkle the skin, imagine how much worse the impact of being in the sun for a long period of time can be and how ultimately detrimental sunbathing can be. |
| Talk about the fast track to wrinkles and, potentially, skin cancer!
© Natural Sun SPF 12 Protective Tanning Butter ($7.25 for 4 ounces) does contain an in-part titanium dioxide sunscreen, but an SPF 15 is critical and basic to good skin care, and the padimate-o (PABA) can still be a problem for most skin types.
© Natural Sun SPF 20 Tinted Sunscreen, for Face & Body ($8.50for 4 ounces) is similar to but has a lighter texture than the Natural Sun SPF 12 Protective Tanning Butter above. |
| UVA protection from its in-part avobenzone sunscreen, but the SPF rating, according to the American Academy of Dermatology and the skin cancer Foundation, is too low for daytime protection, and the base formula is primarily alcohol, which makes rhis drying and irritating.
© $$$ Sunscreen Cream High Protection SPF 30,100% Mineral Filters, for Children ($28for 4.8 ounces) is indeed a good option for kids because it provides gentle, broad-spectrum protection with titanium dioxide and zinc oxide. The creamy lotion formula is fine for adults too, particularly those with normal to dry skin. |
Bill Sardi
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 UV-A may also induce skin cancer. [Journal Investigative Dermatology 121:869-75, 2003] Oops! The latest study shows that UV-B rays only partially contribute to the development of melanoma. UV-A is also involved. [Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 97: 1822-1831, December 21, 2005]
SPF (sun protection factor) refers to the ability of a product to block out UV-B rays. So there was a flaw in the design of the sunscreen products themselves. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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| It is now known that most wrinkling, and possibly skin cancer, is a result of unprotected exposure to the sun's UVA rays. Because of the difference between UVA damage and UVB damage, and because there is still no UVA rating system, to ensure you are getting adequate UVA protection your sunscreen must contain one of the five UVA-protecting ingredients, and they must be listed as an active ingredient on the label. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Most popular sunscreen products actually cause skin cancer due to the numerous toxic chemicals they contain (which are quickly absorbed into the skin where they cause DNA mutations that lead to cancer). Even worse, sunscreen blocks the UV radiation that allows the skin to manufacture all-important vitamin D -- the most powerful anti-cancer nutrient yet known to modern science. It prevents over a dozen different cancers, yet parents block it by slathering toxic sunscreen on their children, all while mistakenly believing they're "protecting their children from cancer!" What a scam.
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Bill Sardi
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| Chemoprevention of skin cancer ... 133 Why not prevent them all? ... 133
Case report... 135
Cancer prevention
No matter how efficient we may become at delivering health care, we must also seek to reduce demand by keeping people from developing diseases in the first place. Devar Lee Davis, Calum Muir, Environmental Health Perspectives, November, 1995
A worldwide study estimates, of the 7 million deaths from cancer worldwide (2001 figures), 35 percent were attributed to preventable factors. Smoking, tobacco, over-consumption of alcohol, diet, obesity, infection, are all modifiable factors. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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| Unfortunately, the desire to avoid the sun to prevent the development of skin cancer is leading many people to become vitamin D-3 deficient.
Rickets, a vitamin D-3 deficiency disease is, for example, reappearing in Canada and seems to be averaging about 40 cases a year. Beyond the prevention of rickets, vitamin D-3 is known to have valuable anticancer properties in its own right.
Exposure to the sun should occur in moderation. To avoid excess, it is best to avoid the sun between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Nutrition, it seems, actually causes cancer in Allopathia, and the only way for people living in that alternate universe to protect themselves from skin cancer is to coat themselves with synthetic chemicals that, in our universe, actually cause cancer! But in Allopathia, those chemicals are apparently inert.
FDA to regulate sunscreen
The universe of Allopathia, being a parallel universe to our own, has it's own version of the Food and Drug Administration. And just yesterday, their FDA announced they would regulate sunscreen -- a product that is neither a food nor a drug. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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| Ignoring this fundamental principle and focusing instead on anti-aging claims (which, if they don't involve sunscreen, don't require proof of efficacy) is an open invitation for more wrinkles, skin discolorations, and, potentially, skin cancer. The basics to look for are a product rated SPF 15 or higher, and make sure it has one of the following ingredients listed as active to ensure adequate protection from UVA rays: avobenzone (also known as Parsol 1789 or butyl methoxydibenzoylmethane), titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, Mexoryl SX (ecamsule), or Tinosorb. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 However, people need to exercise caution since the sun's ultraviolet B rays also can cause skin cancer; sunscreen blocks most vitamin D production.
In addition, the latitude at which you live and your ancestry also influence your body's ability to convert sunlight into vitamin D. People with dark skin have more difficulty making the vitamin. Persons living at latitudes north of the 37th parallel -- Omaha is near the 41st parallel -- cannot get their vitamin D naturally during the winter months because of the sun's angle. |
Bill Sardi
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| The invisible solar ultraviolet rays can induce DNA damage that eventually results in skin cancer. X-ray radiation from medical imaging and CT scans are also believed to increase the risk for cancer. A report issued by the Food & Drug Administration now suggests the risk for cancer from medical x-rays may be as much as 1 in 1,000. There are over 3 billion x-ray images taken annually in the world. Dr. Richard C. Semelka, MD, says patients receiving multiple CT scans today are being exposed to doses of radiation comparable to those given off by the x-ray machines used in the 1930s and 1940s. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| This includes breast cancer, colon cancer, skin cancer and other forms of cancer. This research provides strong new evidence that vitamin D is the single most effective medicine against cancer, far outpacing the benefits of any cancer drug known to modern science.
The study involved 1,179 healthy women from rural Nebraska. One group of women was given calcium (around 1500 mg daily) and vitamin D (1100 IU daily) while another group was given placebo. Over four year, the group receiving the calcium and vitamin D supplements showed a 60 percent decrease in cancers. |
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