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Old February 23rd, 2010 #1
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Woodpecker 40 percent of Cancers could be prevented

40 percent of Cancers could be prevented

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35199608/ns/health-cancer/

Tues., Feb. 2, 2010

LONDON - Forty percent of the 12 million people diagnosed with cancer worldwide each year could avert the killer disease by protecting themselves against infections and changing their lifestyles, experts said Tuesday.

A report by the Geneva-based International Union Against Cancer (UICC) highlighted nine infections that can lead to cancer and urged health officials to drive home the importance of vaccines and lifestyle changes in fighting the disease.

"If there was an announcement that somebody had discovered a cure for 40 percent of the world's cancers, there would quite justifiably be huge jubilation," UICC president David Hill told Reuters in a telephone interview.

"But the fact is that we have, now, the knowledge to prevent 40 percent of cancers. The tragedy is, we're not using it."

Cervical and liver cancer, both caused by infections which can be prevented with vaccines, should be top priorities, the report said, not only in rich nations, but also in developing countries where 80 percent of global cervical cancer occur.

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide and the total number of cases globally is increasing, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

The number of global cancer deaths is projected to rise by 45 percent from 2007 to 2030 from 7.9 million to 11.5 million deaths, driven partly by a growing and aging global population.

The UICC said it wanted to focus policymakers' attention on cancer-preventing vaccines — like ones made by GlaxoSmithKline and Merck & Co against the human papillomavirus (HPV) which causes cervical cancer, and others against hepatitis B, which causes liver disease and cancer.

"Policymakers around the world have the opportunity and obligation to use these vaccines to save people's lives and educate their communities toward lifestyle choices and control measures that reduce their risk of cancer," Cary Adams, UICC's chief executive, said in a commentary on the report.

Other cancer-causing infections include hepatitis C, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Epstein Barr, a herpes-type virus transmitted by saliva.

The experts said the risk of developing cancer could potentially be reduced by up to 40 percent if full immunization and prevention measures were deployed and combined with simple lifestyle changes like quitting smoking, eating healthily, limiting alcohol intake and reducing sun exposure.

Hill said national health authorities should also work to dispel widespread myths about cancer, in particular a sense of fatalism felt by many people in the face of the disease.

As part of this, the UICC is launching a campaign called "Cancer can be prevented too" on World Cancer Day on February 4 to encourage people to face up to the fact that smoking, poor diet and some infections carry high cancer risks.

European cancer experts issued a report last year warning that a wave of cancer now threatens developing countries, estimating that around half of the 12.4 million new cases in 2008 occurred in low and middle income countries.

Despite the availability of so much scientific knowledge about the disease's causes, Hill said there was great concern among health experts that "the opportunity to prevent this huge escalation of cancer may be missed."
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Old February 27th, 2010 #2
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My pet theory regarding cancer is that it's caused by enzyme-depletion in the body, which makes us more vulnerable to carcinogens in our environment. This is why consuming so-called Vitamin B17 later in life could help prevent it, and why laetrile (concentrated B17) might help treat it, since these act the same as enzymes in some respects. This is discussed in G. Edward Griffin's book on B17.

I've also heard it suggested that having a deficiency in healthy fats, like those found in butter and virgin olive oil, in the diet could play a role in cancer. Maybe that's why there's so much breast cancer, since breasts are mostly made of fat and since women have been told for the last 30 or 40 years to avoid eating it (and when they do eat it, it's usually unhealthy hydrogenated oils, a.k.a., "trans fats").

I'm currently reading a book that claims that certain dwellings seem to be more prone than probability would account for to their inhabitants developing cancer. I'm not sure how well-founded the idea is, though some of the examples the author gives are startling. Has anyone ever heard of this?
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Old February 27th, 2010 #3
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...reducing sun exposure.
There's nothing wrong with sun exposure as long as you're not getting burnt. You avoid getting burnt by gradually building up a tan.
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I'm currently reading a book that claims that certain dwellings seem to be more prone than probability would account for to their inhabitants developing cancer. I'm not sure how well-founded the idea is, though some of the examples the author gives are startling. Has anyone ever heard of this?
Really old article from the Journal of the American Medical Association on cancer houses:

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" CANCER HOUSES " AND CANCER AREAS.

JAMA. 1897;XXVIII(5):232-233.

Among other interesting topics connected with the alleged contagion of cancer is the one of "cancer houses " and cancer areas. By the former is meant houses which in a series of years will have several deaths from cancer among their tenants. The term cancer areas refers to large tracts of country where this disease is more than usually prevalent. The Old World offers a better field for observing these phenomena, as might be expected from the less migratory nature of its population.

Mr. LAW WEBB, known for his investigations into the immunity of colliers from cancer, has brought forward some interesting data on the subject of cancer houses (Birmingham Medical Review, 1892, p. 342). He states that in a certain village of Shropshire, of twenty houses, occupying not over an acre of ground, nine cases of cancer were treated in fifteen years. None of the patients were blood relations, but . . .

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content...y/XXVIII/5/232
Unfortunately, you have to pay to get access to it.
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You want to get rid of that tobacco habit (including chew), eat more fruits and vegetables, preferably organic. Take multi-vitamin supplements, drink lots of water, and wear sun screen. Also avoid living in a building with absestos and get checked for breast and testicular cancer once a year.
 
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Igor:

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There's nothing wrong with sun exposure as long as you're not getting burnt
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Not only is there nothing wrong, it's essential.
 
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