[hillsidedigger]

Considering the diet of many in American culture it's a good thing there's temporarily modern medicine.

Fortunately, along with the modern medicine, those diets are not going to last much longer either.

[Narz]

Interesting article.

[ColossalContrarian]

Maybe it's just me but today it seems like there's been a lot of news coverage about cancer. First the cell phones, I thought to myself probably true, holding a computer next to your brain could cause unintended "osmosis". Then on the news tonight they showed how dark skinned people are actually MORE susceptible to deadly forms of skin cancer than fair skinned people. I thought it was the other way around.

Anyway, I got to thinking.....

Maybe cell phones and sunlight are cancerous, but what about Fukushima? Will the long term effects of Fukushima effect people in the US over the next century? Will the MSM try to cover up Fukushima with more "newly found" sources of radiation that are causing more deaths?

Or maybe cell phones are a greater source of radiation to Japanese civilians than Fukushima?

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Groups want styrene off proposed carcinogens list
Dominion Enterprises / May 26, 2011

The U.S. styrene industry this week appealed to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to remove a proposed listing of styrene in the department’s impending report on carcinogens and schedule it for a review in the next edition, the Styrene Information and Research Center said.

In a letter, Jack Snyder, executive director of the research center, and John Schweitzer, senior director of government affairs for the American Composites Manufacturers Association, asked Sebelius for another review using a rigorous, unbiased, transparent process. ...

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Styrene Industry Accuses HHS of ‘Willful Ignorance’ Over Carcinogen Listing
Environmental Leader LLC / May 27, 2011

U.S. styrene industry bodies the Styrene Information and Research Center and the American Composites Manufacturers Association have written a letter urging secretary of health and human services Kathleen Sebelius to reclassify styrene as non-carcinogenic. ...

[Cog]

Styrene should be removed since its not carcinogenic. At last some sanity regarding plastics. Another advance in some rational decision making regarding the overblown cancer risk of practically everything that the tree-hugging hippies hate.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styrene

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')o date, no regulatory body anywhere in the world has classified styrene as a known human carcinogen, although several refer to it in various contexts as a possible or potential human carcinogen.

[dukey]

Cancer happens when your body becomes acidic. The acidity drives the oxygen out of your cells and in order to survive they essentially become anaerobic. Their metabolic waste is lactic acid, which further increases the problem. You can cut and burn cancer all you like, but unless you address the pH issue, it can keep coming back forever. But I guess that's the beauty of modern medicine, you just treat the symptoms and ignore the cause. Eventually the patient will die because you failed to address the causes, but that's okay because you relieved them of all their money. Now they are dead they will have little use for it anyway.

Otto Heinrich Warburg actually won nobel prizes for his discoveries on cancer. But his work was pretty much ignored because it doesn't fit in with the drug surgery approach to cancer treatment.

Here's a photo of what happened when chemo drugs were accidently spilled on a patients hand.


The amazing part is, they actually hook you up to IV and put that stuff straight into your veins. Yet anyone that speaks out against this obvious quackery is marginalised. Even oncologists wont touch chemo.

[Fishman]

OK Dukey, from your logic all a cancer patient should have to do is take a teaspoon of baking soda daily, dramaticly changes the blood ph. Good luck on that plan. Yes, chemo is toxic, thats how it works, rapidly metabolizing cell get whacked first.

Your picture proves nothing, want to see gross stuff, look up alkali burn, then acid burns, both destroy tissue. The alkali burns should cure the cancer by your logic.
Sorry if you feel marginalized, $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 's')peaks out against this obvious quackery is marginalised

[dukey]

What good is it treating the symptoms of cancer when you fail to address the underlying causes?

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dukey', 'C')ancer happens when your body becomes acidic. The acidity drives the oxygen out of your cells and in order to survive they essentially become anaerobic.

[Fishman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hat good is it treating the symptoms of cancer when you fail to address the underlying causes?

[dukey]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '&')quot;Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. Summarized in a few words, the prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar." -- Dr. Otto H. Warburg in Lecture

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dukey', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '&')quot;Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. Summarized in a few words, the prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar." -- Dr. Otto H. Warburg in Lecture

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ColossalContrarian', '
')Maybe cell phones and sunlight are cancerous, but what about Fukushima? Will the long term effects of Fukushima effect people in the US over the next century? Will the MSM try to cover up Fukushima with more "newly found" sources of radiation that are causing more deaths?

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ColossalContrarian', 'M')aybe it's just me but today it seems like there's been a lot of news coverage about cancer.

[gnwk15]

Epidemiologic studies suggest that diet rich in plant-derived foods plays an important role in the prevention of prostate cancer. Curcumin, the yellow pigment in the spice turmeric, has been shown to exhibit chemopreventive and growth inhibitory activities against multiple tumor cell lines. We have shown previously that curcumin and tumor necrosis factor–related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL)/Apo2L interact to induce cytotoxicity in the LNCaP prostate cancer cell line. In this study, we investigated the mechanism by which curcumin augments TRAIL-induced cytotoxicity in LNCaP cells. Subtoxic concentrations of the curcumin-TRAIL combination induced strong apoptotic response in LNCaP cells as demonstrated by the binding of Annexin V-FITC and cleavage of procaspase-3. Furthermore, LNCaP cells express constitutively active nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB), which is inhibited by curcumin. Because NF-κB has been shown to mediate resistance to TRAIL-induced apoptosis in tumor cells, we investigated whether there is a relationship between NF-κB activation and resistance to TRAIL in LNCaP prostate cancer cells. Pretreatment with curcumin inhibited the activation of NF-κB and sensitized LNCaP cells to TRAIL. A similar increase in the sensitivity of LNCaP cells to TRAIL-induced apoptosis was observed following inhibition of NF-κB by dominant negative mutant IκBα, an inhibitor of NF-κB. Finally, curcumin was found to inhibit NF-κB by blocking phosphorylation of IκBα. We conclude that NF-κB mediates resistance of LNCaP cells to TRAIL and that curcumin enhances the sensitivity of these tumor cells to TRAIL by inhibiting NF-κB activation by blocking phosphorylation of IκBα and its degradation.

[vision-master]

Cannabis and Cancer - light up that spliff!

[PhebaAndThePilgrim]

I have witnessed cancer up close and personal. I was my Mother's caregiver. She passed away in my home weighing about 68#. She had colon cancer with liver metastasis. According to doctors she had had the cancer at least 10 years by the time she was diagnosed.
Her prognosis was terminal from the beginning: stage 4 colon cancer with advanced liver metastasis. yet, the doctors refused to tell her she was dying.
She underwent several rounds of chemotherapy, even going to a cancer clinic several states away to undergo time-modulated chemotherapy.
The side-effects of the chemo were awful, and did not change the outcome.
According to medical literature, chemotherapy for my Mother's cancer was "palliative". Please explain how poisoning my mother is "palliative".
Pain medication is palliative, as is anti-nausea medication. But chemo.
Maybe the "Palliation" benefit is for the medical industry that was charging 900.00 per week for the chemo, or the cancer clinic that was charging 17,000.00 per month.
Three years later I was diagnosed with endometrial uterine cancer. A full hysterectomy saved my life. Considering my Mom's history I was sent to a cancer specialist. They were considering a genetic study because there is a defective gene; P53, linked to endometrial, colon, and pancreatic cancers.
I declined because the test was $2,600.00, and insurance would not pay.
Besides, what difference does it make. No longer have a uterus, am checked for colon, and if I do have the defective gene, am screwed if I get pancreatic cancer anyway.

My husband's cousin was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She had one chemo treatment, and died 9 days after diagnosis. I have a neighbor who was just diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

I have been so very sick the past few years, and did not know why. Docs at local university and some research by the pilgrim are helping me to recover.
The culprit is a bacterial infection in small intestine. Bacteria was growing on sugar I consumed, and was consuming all of my nutrients. I was starving.
Completely and totally gave up sugar and gluten, and am feeling better than I have in years and years.
Mental processes are better, pain is going away, shortness of breath going away, hair growing back, skin ulcers gone, bloating, etc. etc. I have lost 16 pounds without trying, and I feel wonderful.

I am wondering how much of our cancer epidemic is related to what we eat. Have been reading some books on sugar and gluten/grain consumption. Not an Atkins diet thing, but more of a genetic thing. I don't think we are genetically suited to be consuming all of this sugar.

Of course our diet and environment are not only causes of cancer. I am an English history buff, especially the Tudors. People get cancer. Queen Catherine of Aragon died of cancer, as did her daughter Mary. The wife of the Earl of Leicester died of breast cancer, etc.

I think there are many causes of cancer, but from my experience I think stress and a poor diet play a part.
Pheba.

[PhebaAndThePilgrim]

Hi: Just had to post the following: It is a quotation from the book "Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir", by Joe Bageant, a great read:

Bageant is talking in the book about farm dogs:

"All in all, farm dogs had about as much old-age security as modern Americans have today. And certainly a more dignified death--no catheters, feeding tubes, radiation-treatment sickness, or $100,000 medical bills for their final weeks' stay in the intensive-care ward of Conglomerated Medical A$$-Jammers Incorporated"

[careinke]

My father died of cancer at 54. Even though it was diagnosed as terminal, the doctors still had him do radiation therapy and chemo. It may have given him another month. He was diagnosed three days before X-mas and died in June.

At 58, I have beat him by four years so far. I can tell you, if I am diagnosed with terminal cancer, I will not take life extending care. Why wipe out your families finances to give yourself another month? Not going to happen. Pain meds on the other hand....