Causes Of Cancer
I just read a report about the link between BPA exposure and breast and uterine cancer. It appears that BPA is Bisphenol A and is commonly found in plastics (those with a “7” code on the bottom), in the lining of aluminum cans and in dental sealants. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expressed [...]
Cigarette Smoking A Risk Factor For Leukemia, Study Says
Tobacco use has been strongly linked to many diseases, including heart disease, bronchitis, emphysema, and roughly one-third of all human cancers. It has been estimated that smoking is responsible for : 90% of all deaths from lung cancer ; 80% of all deaths from cancer of the larynx ; 78% of all deaths from esophageal [...]
Asbestos Exposure And Mesothelioma
Asbestos has been recognized as a public health hazard. Thanks to the efforts of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate public exposure to asbestos, the incidence of asbestosis, a lung scarring disease, has been declining in the United States for nearly 40 years.
The relationship between asbestos and lung cancer is well known, what is [...]
10 Things You Can Do To Lessen Your Risk Of Cancer
Cancer is probably the most dreaded of all diseases. It is one of the leading killer overall, after heart disease. Thus cancer prevention is a goal that almost everyone would agree is worth achieving. The book, “Changing the Odds : Cancer Prevention Through Personal Choice and Public Policy,” by R. Grant Steen, gives us [...]
Be Aware Of Carcinogens In Food
Studies on diet and it’s association on specific forms of cancer are becoming consistent in their findings nowadays. Diet that includes substantial amounts of smoked foods and meats treated with nitrates and nitrites, used as preservatives, have higher rates of cancer of the stomach and esophagus. Foods that are prepared in these ways include [...]
Beating Cancer With Nutrition
Why do certain cells multiply to produce the outlaws we call cancer cells? We don’t know. What we know, for example, is that after cells have become cancerous, the situation changes, and it is not possible to curb the aggressive multiplying cancer cells by good nutrition. While some studies showed possible nutritional manipulation to starve [...]
Eating Meat Fat Causes Cancer, Studies Show
Research studies have found many factors which lead to the formation of cancer. A couple of studies that repeatedly showed that eating meat fat is a cause of cancer :
* A 12-year research study, of more than 5,000 vegetarians and over 6,000 meat eaters found that vegetarian diets reduce risk of death from all [...]
Cancer-Fighting Immune Cells Vs. Melanoma
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reported a 52-year-old man with advanced skin cancer who was cured using his own cells which are cloned outside the patient’s body.
Scientists took cancer-fighting immune cells, cloned the cells, multiplied in the laboratory and put back in their billions to see if they could attack [...]
Resisting Cancer Via Nutrition
Nutrition, health experts say, is the most promising means of controlling cancer. We know now that every cell in the body is replaced over a period of seven years. The new cells are made up of the nourishment taken into the body. You are, literally, what you eat. Although, there are natural chemical carcinogens in [...]
New Plant-based Cancer Vaccine Developed To Fight Cancer, Study
Scientists have developed a plant-based cancer vaccine capable of kick-starting a body’s immune response with the hope to treat cancer, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The vaccine has already been tested and successfully cured cancer in mice. This is also the first time a plant-based cancer [...]
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