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Cancer and Careers.com’s “What You Can Do as a Friend” –This very brief piece is what I needed immediately. I had lost a friend to fatal illness a decade ago, and had at that time learned you don’t talk about certain topics with the newly diagnosed. That is, you don’t discuss other deaths by cancer with your friend who has just found out of her own possibly terminal illness. This cancer information is most helpful from the start….

Along the same lines, a book among books is Pamela N. Brown’s Facing Cancer Together: How to Help Your Friend or Loved One.

For specific cancer information on specific cancers, such websites as follows are most educational and supportive: Mesothelioma-net (which offers cancer information on the specific types of mesothelioma, treatment option discussions, and coping strategy suggestions); The Cancer Information Network (at cancerlinksusa.com); and, of course, The American Cancer Society (at cancer.org), which includes everything from prevention and early detection strategies and treatment decision tools to cancer information by type and research and statistics dating back almost 100 years.

At cancernews.com, you can find cancer information as well as directories pointing you to local cancer support groups (which you can also get at the Cancer Information Network). And numerous organizations have cancer hotlines—The National Cancer Institute (cancer.gov), Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization (y-me,org/hotline), the RA Bloch Cancer Foundation Cancer Hotline (1-800-433-0464), and the Lung Cancer Alliance Toll-free Hotline (1-800-298-2436).

While I have not used them yet, there are also hundreds of online forums and communities, where you can post, read, and respond, and just as many set-ups where you can instant message with fellow cancer patients, cancer survivors, and cancer supporters. Important in all of these is the nature of sharing—cancer information, cancer woes, and cancer success stories…for as I understand it, hope and humor make the individual survive/outlive the disease as much as do positive thinking and plenty of company—friends and loved ones who do not let the person give up or give in.

What cancer resource have you made use of? There are truly oodles of information on this dreadful disease now days. One of the more efficient cancer resources being the Internet. We should all take the time to learn a little, and possible work to prevent cancer from affecting us. Did you know that everyone has cancer genes? It's true; while most individuals lack this crucial knowledge, they nevertheless are susceptible to cancer like the rest of us. The trick is not letting these cancer genes get the best of us. Whether we believe it or not, our diets play a significant role. This is why it is imperative to live and eat well. When you subject yourself to poor eating habits and gaining extra pounds, you in turn better your chances of acquiring some kind of illness. It's our job to protect our bodies, and keep them in prime condition. How is your diet these days? You can certainly resort to a cancer resource such as the World-Wide-Web to find out more regarding eating right and avoiding processed foods. Another major factor when it comes to avoiding cancer concerns smoking. By now, virtually all of us should know and understand the negative effects of smoking and what it does to our lungs. If you are a heavy smoker, then you may want to get online and browse a few websites that deal with lung cancer.

In this day and age it's definitely not difficult to find a cancer resource. We all need to grasp a better understanding when it comes to disease prevention. There are numerous types of cancer that can affect different areas of the body. Although we can't completely prevent cancer, we can avoid simple things such as eating poorly, smoking, and the sun, which are all factors regarding this deadly disease. It's time to resort to a reliable cancer resource, folks, and learn more about this wide-spread disease.

The good news about colon cancer is that it’s actually a very preventable disease. Colon cancer prevention has traditionally been focused on maintaining a healthy diet, and this is still recommended today. Diets high in fiber, and low in fatty foods and red meat are linked to a reduced risk of developing colon cancer. Fish and poultry are not linked to an increase risk, and some supplements such as calcium and selenium have been shown to lower your risk. There have also been some studies suggesting that aspirin may help lower your risk of colon cancer.

These are all colon cancer prevention tips that may be useful to some, but for others you are going to develop the disease no matter how hard you try to avoid it. Many cases of colon cancer are linked to an inherited condition that leads to the growth of hundreds of what are called ‘polyps’ along your colon and rectum. Polyps are normally benign, but if you are a polyp grower there is an extremely high likelihood that one or more will become cancerous in your lifetime. If you have had close relatives that have developed colon cancer, there is a good chance you may be a poly grower.

The best colon cancer prevention is therefore focused on catching it early. You can’t always prevent a polyp from becoming cancerous, but if you catch it early there is a very high survival rate (over 90%). Getting a regular colonoscopy exam is probably the best form of colon cancer prevention you could ever do for yourself. Even if you are not a ‘polyp’ grower, getting a colonoscopy once every five years vastly reduces your odds of dying from colon cancer. The exams are of course uncomfortable to say the least, but colon cancer is a lot more uncomfortable.

The biggest reason why colon cancer kills so many people every year isn’t because it is such a deadly form of cancer, but rather because people aren’t aware of colon cancer prevention measures like colonoscopys. Or they may be aware of preventative measures, but just don’t believe that they’ll ever get the disease themselves. Another good colon cancer prevention technique is therefore educating yourself and the people you know about it!

Some of the most famous dramatic cases of cancer of the mouth occurred in professional baseball players during the period in which chewing tobacco was popularly used by athletes. Tobacco use is responsible for some 80% of all cancer of the mouth. While it is finally realized that chewing tobacco greatly increases your chances of developing cancer of the mouth, many people don’t fully realize that smoking, cigars, pipes and even snuff also boost your risk a lot as well.

The good news is, that means if you don’t smoke or use any kind of tobacco product your odds of getting cancer of the mouth are not very good. If you do use tobacco, quitting now will go a long ways in lower your risks. Also, any kind of habit that causes irritation to your mouth may also boost your risk. If you chew tobacco or smoke, take a look at some photos of the famous athletes that had parts of their face removed due to cancer of the mouth. It’s a good motivator to help you want to quit! Hey, it worked for me.

Of course, 20% of the time cancer of the mouth happens in people that don’t smoke or use tobacco at all, so there is still some natural risk of getting the disease. Like all cancers, there is some evidence of genetic linkage, and having people in your immediate family that have had mouth cancer may mean you are at a higher risk. It is most common in men over the age of 40, and especially in those over 60. There is some evidence showing that having bad oral hygiene can boost your risk of getting cancer of the mouth. Not only will your dental hygienist stop bugging you so much, but if you floss and brush regularly you’ll also be lowering your chances of getting cancer!

If you are especially concerned about developing cancer of the mouth, talk to your doctor about it next time you go in for a physical. He or she will probably have some tips and insights into the disease for you that may help you prevent it, or at least settle some of your fears about it.

Cancer is one of those health afflictions that every human dreads. There's simply no cure. We use treatments such as chemotherapy, which hopefully kills off any sign of the illness. With many diseases we often know what we're grappling with, and how to defeat it, however cancer can be sneaky. When I was 13, my uncle was diagnosed with brain cancer. I unfortunately didn't know what this really meant. After doing some research at the school library, and locating valid cancer information to better help me digest the dilemma, I still didn't know what to say to him. What was going to happen? Was he going to die? After a much needed surgery, my uncle fortunately began getting better. I was amazed that they actually performed an operation concerning his brain. That's scary!

In this day and age it is much simpler to attain cancer information. We can hop on our home computers and quickly locate any and all data on most kinds of cancer. Even though we can't predict our health down the road, there are certainly measures to take in order to prevent this frightening disease. Most of us know that smoking is a major cause of lung cancer. This one is quite simple to prevent. Eating healthy and living well are great defenses against cancer, as well as other illnesses and health problems. If you're interested in acquiring cancer information or any other information concerning diseases, jump on the Internet and punch in a few key words. You'll be amazed at all there is available. Although we live in an unpredictable world, we don't have to face it unprepared. Get a better understanding of your health by researching cancer information and facts on other illnesses. This way you can start the fight today.

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By Claudia Kalb and Karen Springen
Newsweek

April 24, 2006 issue - Amelia Togba-Addy, a nurse at Emory Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta, had always been in good health. But last October her gynecologist called with disturbing news: Togba-Addy's latest Pap smear showed abnormal cells on her cervix. First, doctors removed the suspicious tissue and examined it under a microscope—then they diagnosed Togba-Addy with cervical cancer. In January, she had a hysterectomy. "Even though the doctor says she believes I'm cured and my faith tells me I'm cured, there's still a little part of me that worries," says Togba-Addy, 39. "Before all of this, I didn't even think about cervical cancer."

Few American women ever do. Until the Pap smear was introduced in the 1940s, cervical cancer was the No. 1 cancer killer among women. Since then, routine screenings—which detect damaged cells before they become cancerous —have made enormous strides. Over the last 50 years, deaths in the United States have plummeted by more than 70 percent to less than 5,000 a year. But the disease is far from eradicated. In developing countries, where good health care is either inaccessible or unavailable, cervical cancer is rampant. Every year, half a million women are diagnosed with the cancer and close to 250,000 die.

The disease, however, has a unique and fortuitous biological characteristic that scientists have exploited in their battle against it: cervical cancer is caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted infection. In June, the FDA is expected to approve a new vaccine that prevents key strains of HPV; if enough women receive the inoculation, tens of thousands of lives might one day be saved. "This is the first vaccine designed to strike at the root of a cancer," says Dr. Martin Murphy, executive editor of The Oncologist. "Boy, is this a new era."

HPV is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections on the planet—as many as 80 percent of women will be exposed to it at some point in their lives. More often than not, the virus causes no symptoms, is harmless and goes away on its own. Most people don't even know they have it. But certain varieties of HPV (there are about 100 altogether) are particularly aggressive, and two of them—HPV 16 and 18—cause 70 percent of all cervical cancers. Caught early, the disease can be treated with surgery and, if necessary, chemotherapy. But untreated in its advanced stages, it is a painful, gruesome and formidable enemy. In the end, "women bleed to death," says Dr. Diane Harper, of Dartmouth Medical School, and a leading HPV-vaccine investigator.

Under the microscope, HPV looks like a tiny molecular golf ball, with a tough outer shell surrounding a core of infectious viral material. It is a critical ingredient in the shell, a protein called L1, that makes vaccine production possible. Isolated on its own in a petri dish, L1 has acrobatic talent, automatically assembling itself into what scientists call a "viruslike particle" that looks just like HPV, but has "none of the bad stuff inside," says Dr. Eliav Barr, head of the HPV-vaccine program at Merck. Injected into the body, the particles act as decoys, tricking the immune system into recognizing them as HPV. Later, if the real virus hits, the body sees trouble, then assaults and neutralizes the invaders.

Two vaccines, manufactured by Merck and competitor GlaxoSmithKline, have shown remarkable results in clinical trials: close to 100 percent protection against HPV 16 and 18. In rare instances, the strains can cause penile and anal cancer in men; Merck's vaccine also protects against two other types of HPV that cause genital warts in both males and females. Nobody knows exactly how long the vaccines will be effective and when, or if, boosters will be needed. But Merck plans to release five-year data soon and, just this month, Glaxo reported that four and half years after receiving the vaccine, trial participants continued to show high levels of antibodies against the virus. "We're very encouraged," says Dr. Gary Dubin, Glaxo's head of clinical development.

So is Sarina Araujo, 40, of the National Cervical Cancer Coalition. After a DNA test came back positive for HPV in 2001, doctors removed several precancerous lesions from Araujo's cervix and she's being closely monitored today. "This is a very strong, persistent virus and my body can't seem to fight it off," she says. The CDC's vaccine advisory committee will make a recommendation on Merck's vaccine after the FDA decision in June, and Glaxo says they'll file for approval in the United States by the end of the year. The precise guidelines in terms of age—the vaccine has been tested in 9- to 26-year-old females—haven't been finalized, says the CDC's Lauri Markowitz. (Tests are still ongoing in males and in females older than 26.) But the committee is considering recommending it for 11- to 12-year-old girls so they can be protected before they become sexually active. Abstinence groups like the Family Research Council will be watching closely. While not opposed to the vaccine, the council believes it should be voluntary and include a warning about the risks of sexual activity. Araujo just wants her three teenage daughters safe: "If you can prevent cancer, how could you not want your children vaccinated?"

Vaccination cannot, however, save the lives of women who have already developed cervical cancer, which strikes particularly hard in South Asia, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, Dr. Lyn Denny treats 200 women a year with the disease, most of them in advanced stages. Pap smears are available, says Denny, but the test is not widely used, especially in poorer populations where the HIV epidemic diverts attention and resources. Because the cancer is slow-growing—it can take more than a decade to develop—women are hit in the prime of life, says Jackie Sherris, of PATH, a nonprofit global health organization. They're leaders in their communities, raising children, caring for family members. "There are countries where Ob-Gyn wards are filled with women with cervical cancer and they're dying," says Sherris. "It's very important to protect them."
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To improve the odds, PATH has been testing one-stop screening and treatment programs overseas. Clinicians look for precancerous lesions, then freeze and obliterate the abnormal cells on the spot. PATH is working with partners to produce a cheaper version of the existing DNA test for HPV, which is used in combination with Pap smears in the United States. And they are assessing the logistical and economic challenges of vaccination in developing countries.

And then there's the futuristic effort led by Dr. Robert Garcea at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Last summer Garcea and his team won a $3.5 million Grand Challenges in Global Health award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The challenge: to develop an inexpensive vaccine that would protect against HPV and eradicate the virus in women who are already infected. And they hope to make the vaccine out of powder so that it doesn't require refrigeration and can be easily transported to remote villages. "It's never been done before," says Garcea. "If it works, it'll be great."

It is tempting to imagine a world without cervical cancer. "I think we should always be asking the question, Can we get rid of a scourge for future generations?" says Dr. Bill Foege, the global health pioneer who helped stamp out smallpox and is now a senior fellow at the Gates Foundation. "If we can, then it's worth all the heartache and the difficulties." With tens of thousands of women still dying, it's too early to talk about eradication, says Foege. But it's not too soon to dream.

It’s not unusual matter if you are asked to consume fresh fruit and vegetables to prevent cancer. Once you took those foods rich with antioxidants, you are preventing various kinds of diseases from your body.

Okay, so what’s the correlation between cancer and antioxidant? Have you got information on those two subjects? Of course you know that cancer is very dangerous, and that it may take your life away if it’s not treated well or earlier. One of the ways of preventing cancer is by taking antioxidant. Now let us see further details about antioxidant and how it’s going to make our body healthy.

Our body naturally produces chemical elements (reactive molecules) called free radicals. They can cause permanent damage to our cells. Cancer, aging, and cardiovascular disease are the causes of this damage. To protect us from these diseases, antioxidant plays a great role.

Antioxidant protects body cells from the bad impacts of free radicals, such as pollution, exhaust fumes, radiation, certain drugs, chemical exposure, and even processed food. How can you get this antioxidant then? Actually, our body has built natural methods of antioxidant in order to neutralize the free radicals. However, today’s environment is hazardous and has increased more free radicals which our body may not maintain anymore. Luckily, we have the nature to help us live longer.

Yes, the nature produces many important substances that function as good antioxidant. Food nutrients and botanicals they produce have great roles in improving body’s health. To be exact, fresh foods like fruits and vegetables provide antioxidants other than those you can get from pills. Thus, eating them will prevent you from cancer and many other diseases caused by free radicals. Talking about fresh foods, oranges, peas, and cauliflower contain a very high capacity of antioxidant.

What you might not now is that antioxidant may prevent prostate cancer, which is mostly found in men. There is a study that finds a good, protective effect in selenium. High blood levels of selenium decrease the risk of advanced prostate cancer. Thus, men who consume high levels of selenium significantly decrease prostate cancer risk. Selenium is mostly found in most plant foods and in some meats and shellfish. If you are nuts lovers, you are very lucky, as they are good sources of selenium.

So now you have gathered information about the correlation of antioxidant and cancer. Will you start a healthier lifestyle now? Yes? Great!

About The Author: Novi White writes health articles on various publications. She has been working with doctors for their research publications. You can visit her Website MyAntioxidantGuide.com at http://www.myantioxydantguide.com

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It is an incredible feat that organisms can begin from one cell and then differentiate and compartmentalize into the millions of diverse tissue and organ niches that represent a mature body. Why brain, fingernail, liver, intestine and bone cells ever become what they are is mystery enough. Why they stay what they have become while still retaining the full genetic information to produce an entire new body, compounds the miracle even more.

Cancer is a condition in which cells lose their orientation and proliferate uncontrollably. Any cell can become cancerous. A lot of them do, but are squelched by cell death (apoptosis), the immune system or nipped in the bud by DNA repair mechanisms. Successful cancer cells escape these impediments, disregard normal cellular checks and balances and become an island unto themselves with only their own survival and self-interests at heart.

The cause of cancer is no mystery. It is our aberrant modern living context that has put us at cancer risk. When cells are forced to bathe in a milieu (the tissue soup we create with modern foods, drugs and lifestyle) entirely unlike what they are genetically programmed to expect, they revert to their most primitive directive – multiply, multiply, multiply – without regard for neighbors. It’s a sort of payback for our disregard for “neighbors” when we pollute and repudiate nature. Why should our cells be polite to their neighbors if we don’t have regard for ours? Since the immune system is compromised from the chronic stresses created by modern living, defenses are down. Couple this with the nutritionally depleted and perverted modern processed diet and you have the incubator for cancer.

Today, about one in three humans will get cancer. In pets it is worse and perhaps the leading cause of death. No evidence exists that the disease was of similar incidence before our modern era. President Nixon's "War on Cancer" (beginning in the early 1970s) is the most failed and embarrassing "military" campaign ever undertaken by any nation at any time in history. One person in 30 got cancer at the beginning of the 20th century, now almost one in two do.

Some will say that the only reason the incidence has increased is because humans and animals live longer due to modern medical measures. So when science fails in their mission to defeat cancer, they cleverly spin the failure as their success. As I have shown previously (Why Modern Medicine is the Greatest Threat to Health http://www.wysong.net/health/post_77_061902.shtml), this is nonsense since modern medical measures are themselves probably the number one threat to life.

The reason for cancer and most chronic degenerative diseases is modern living, pure and simple. We have subjected ourselves to an artificial environment to which we are not adapted. Nature – not exhaust, sugar, pop and plastic – is what we are designed for. Screw with Mother Nature and a price will be paid.

Whatever the inciting cause, it is known that inducement and propogation needs to be relentless and of long-standing duration. Cancer can have a latency period of decades, requiring continuous exposure to the inciting stress. Our departure from our genetic roots certainly qualifies.

If disease does not strike immediately after a bad life choice, then the conclusion is that the choice is just fine. We refuse to take the long view and make intelligent decisions now for consequences that may not emerge until years later. It's a common human failing we see replayed in every aspect of human endeavor. It's the modus operandi in government, economics, agriculture, social issues and health care. Living in the moment is what children and animals do. We should do better with the pounds of gyri and sulci resting on our shoulders.

Nevertheless, this common sense approach (returning to our genetic roots) to preventing cancer and other diseases will be ignored. Instead we will pour billions of dollars into research to discover the cure for cancer. But there will never be a cure other than respecting our genetic heritage and living, eating, breathing and drinking as we were designed to do. A pill or vaccine to save us just isn't going to happen.

Let me give some examples of recent research findings that reveal the obvious. First there is the "discovery" that fresh fruits and vegetables contain anti-cancer nutrients such as antioxidants, vitamins and flavanoids. Why would they not be anti-cancer, they are the natural food of humans? No research is necessary to discover that!

Then there is the "discovery" that cancer preferentially feeds on glucose, diverting it from body use and inefficiently metabolizing it by glycolysis into lactate and a couple ATP energy molecules. (Glucose normally yields 38 ATP.) The body then has to reconvert the lactate back, via the Cori cycle, into glucose (at an energy cost). The net result is that the cancer acts like an energy sink resulting in cachexia, a pathetic condition of severe muscle wasting and debilitation. Modern diets are laden with sugar and starches that not only provide the perfect food for cancer but the perfect acidic medium in tissues. Processed sugar and starch is not a natural human food. No research is needed to discover that!

Research has also shown that a low carbohydrate, high protein, high arginine (meat amino acid), low omega-6 fatty acid and high omega-3 fatty acid diet is useful for both preventing and treating cancer. Tumor cells do not do well on fats or protein. But they love that sugar. The natural, raw diet for humans and their pets is high in fat (the preferred energy source) and protein, high in omega-3 fatty acids (fish, wild meat, some seeds and vegetables) and low in omega-6 fatty acids (grains, grain-fed meats and most oils), and is alkalinizing. This is no scientific discovery. It's common sense.

But companies are clamoring to patent versions of natural diets and crediting their science for discovering the obvious. Examples are new patented, "cancer-fighting" foods featuring high fat, high omega-3 fatty acids, low carbohydrates, and high protein and arginine. Finally, feeding people and pets what they should have been getting all along (as, I hate to say, I have been arguing for decades) is so novel that it is patentable!

It is the edge-of-the-map science that is responsible for this sorry state of affairs. Like the ancient mariners who believed the world ended where their maps left off, science has assumed that calories, regardless of their source, were the edge of their map. Their nutritional world ends with calories and percentages of known nutrients. Science has insisted that if a human or animal requires X calories per pound each day, it matters not whether those calories come from fresh, real foods or Twinkies. That's why hospital patients paying a thousand dollars a night dine on Registered Dietician Jell-O, diet pop and instant potatoes.

What has been ignored is that calories are not the edge of the map; ships do not drop off the Earth when they disappear over the horizon. Now the world beyond the edge of conventional medicine and nutrition is slowly being rediscovered. The world is round... and people and animals require their natural, genetically programmed diet that lies beyond the edge of science’s calories. Quality of calories do matter and is a whole new world promising health.

So, to increase the chance of having cancer, or to speed its progression, eating the standard modern fare is the way to go. Get lots of sugar and lots of grain-based foods such as pasta, bread, cereal, bagels, donuts (which convert to sugar after consumed) and lots of vegetable oils. Increase carbohydrates, eat oleo and look for low-fat foods. Drink very little water and instead enjoy acidified pop and municipal acidic water. Tumors thrive on this banquet.

You can wait for “research” to prove that natural foods and natural living (fresh air, exercise, sunlight, loving relationships) prevent and reverse cancer, or you can be a thinking person and apply this obvious wisdom beginning today.

Further Reading:

The Wysong Optimal Health Program™ http://www.wysong.net/optimal_health_page1.shtml

Lipid Nutrition – Understanding Fats and Oils in Health and Disease http://wysong.net/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=WOTTPWS&
Product_Code=ED050-S&Category_Code=EDUAIDS&Product_Count=4

Is the U.S. Healthier than Ever? http://www.wysong.net/health/post_77_061902.shtml

What to Do to Reverse and Prevent Acidemia http://www.wysong.net/health/post_101_011403.shtml

Shorts – Acidosis...I Told You So http://www.wysong.net/health/post_99_123002.shtml

Cancer and Diet http://www.wysong.net/PDFs/mar_apr2000.pdf

Cancer and Sulforaphane from Veggies http://www.wysong.net/healthletter/hl_aug99.shtml

Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Fish Oil for Cancer http://www.wysong.net/healthletter/hl_apr99.shtml

Sugar and Cancer http://www.wysong.net/healthletter/hl_sep98.shtml

Flax Seeds and Cancers http://www.wysong.net/healthletter/chl_dec96.shtml

Dr. Wysong is a former veterinary clinician and surgeon, college instructor in human anatomy, physiology and the origin of life, inventor of numerous medical, surgical, nutritional, athletic and fitness products and devices, research director for the present company by his name and founder of the philanthropic Wysong Institute. He is author of The Creation-Evolution Controversy now in its eleventh printing, a new two volume set on philosophy for living, several books on nutrition, prevention and health for people and animals and over 15 years of monthly health newsletters. He may be contacted at Wysong@Wysong.net and a free subscription to his e-Health Letter is available at http://www.wysong.net

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Wow, as a two time survivor of cancer I found it amazing that I might be able to eat my self free of cancer. Well, that is an over statement but new research is showing that Curcumin to have strong cancer fighting properties. Curcumin also called turmeric is the compound that gives curry its yellow tint. Curcumin has long been known for its antioxidant properties and is being studied now for it benefits in treating several different diseases. Cancer researchers have taken an interest in Curcumin because many countries with curry-rich cuisines have lower cancer rates than Western countries have.

Researchers from the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center found Curcumin, blocks a key biological pathway needed for development of melanoma and other cancers. The study was published in the August 15, 2005 issue of the American Cancer Society journal “Cancer”. The study tested varying doses of Curcumin on three melanoma cell lines. It showed that Curcumin stops laboratory strains of melanoma from proliferating and induced apoptosis (programmed cell suicide). The results were the same for high concentrations of Curcumin over short periods of time and smaller doses over longer periods of time.

In a study published in 2002 in “Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention”, researcher gave three groups of mice different amounts of Curcumin extract for 15 weeks. The results showed that the group of mice given the largest amount of Curcumin found a reduction of 40 percent in benign tumors that were caused the same gene that causes mot types of colon cancer. A similar study was published in “The Prostate” in 2001. Again three groups of mice were used. All three were injected with human prostate cancer cells. One group was a placebo group that received no treatment. One group was given Curcumin when injected with the cancer cells. The other group was given Curcumin two weeks after the cancer injection. After 6 weeks the tumors in the two groups give Curcumin were to percent smaller than in the placebo groups.

A study on Curcumin and breast cancer was published in Cancer Research, Vol. 62, July 1, 2002, pp. 3868-75. This study found that the use of Curcumin was as effective in preventing the spread of breast cancer as Taxol in laboratory mice. In the study mice were induced with breast cancer then the tumors were removed such as with a mastectomy in humans. Then the mice were divided into 4 groups. One was a placebo group, one received Curcumin, one received Taxol, and the other Curcumin and Taxol. After 5 weeks the study showed that half the mice in the Curcumin group had the cancer spread to the lungs. Only 22 percent of those in the Curcumin plus Taxol group had seen the cancer spread. 75 percent of the Taxol only group saw the cancer spread. The placebo group saw 95 percent of the mice had the cancer spread to the lungs. These were amazing results.

Human studies are just beginning. But the early signs are that the simple safe spice may offer a safe way of preventing cancer and may also be a great way of aiding in the treatment of Cancer.

It should be noted that a culture study showed that Curcumin reduced the effects of several chemo drugs used for treating cancer.

Rusty Ford

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As a patient with cancer, two of the most important decisions you will make are which treatment you will receive and where.

But diagnosing cancer is a very complex process that involves many health care professionals. In addition, the testing that is done on patients varies between doctors and specialists. And even the best health care professionals make mistakes.

How do newly diagnosed patients know they are getting the best therapy for their cancer?

Unfortunately, most patients don’t get the best treatment because they are diagnosed by a doctor who is not an oncologist. Therefore, that doctor is not likely to direct them to the most up-to-date therapies available.

The first step toward getting what you need is to get a second opinion. The Institute for Advanced Study in Medicine reported that 25% of patients had their treatment changed based on a second opinion.

Comprehensive Cancer Centers are the best places to get second opinions. That’s where the experts are, doctors who think about your type of cancer every day. And that’s what you want.

If you aren’t near a National Cancer Institute-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center or Clinical Cancer Center (you can find their locations online), you can still get a second opinion. Choose a doctor who is not affiliated with your doctor, and who is at a hospital that is not affiliated with your doctor’s hospital.

Another important part of getting the best therapy is to get a second opinion on your cancer by an expert pathologist. This involves getting the biopsy specimen to an outside pathologist.

Pathologists can’t always precisely determine the stage of cancer, and sometimes not even the type of cancer. And, sometimes tests that could be done on your biopsy specimen aren’t, simply because they aren’t commonly used. But that doesn’t mean these tests won’t help you.

You need an expert to examine your biopsy specimens. For example, The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology has an excellent reputation in pathology.

Another important thing to do when you are first diagnosed is to contact the organizations for your type of cancer. They can lead you to experts in that field. Finally, get good nutritional counseling, and if you smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol, try your best to stop.

Copyright 2005 Palkon Publishing Services Corp.

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(If one were to judge by television advertising and news reports, it would seem that the “war on cancer” is all but won. What are the weapons being heralded? Drugs, research, tests and exams. They miss the point.

“Prevention” is promoted as meaning catching the disease early. Really. That also misses the point. Is it “prevention” if you call 911 when you come home and see smoke billowing from all your windows? Do we just live with a carpe diem philosophy and wait for the doctor to tell us we have a lump in our breast or a swollen nodular prostate? Is the cause of cancer a lack of one of the new cancer drugs? Is the cause of cancer really unknown, requiring endless research?

First, let me put to rest the propaganda that the war is being won. Since President Nixon declared the war (1971) and after over 200 billion dollars have been spent on research (remember, one billion is a thousand million), more Americans will die of cancer in the next 14 months than have died in all U.S. wars ever fought combined! (Where are the protest marches?) Soon, cancer will overtake heart disease as the number one killer.

Decades ago, early in the war, there were some dramatic successes such as with Hodgkin's disease and some forms of childhood leukemia. There can be little doubt that debunking (surgical removal) of large cancers brings benefits. But the big killers such as colorectal, lung, prostate and breast cancer remain as threatening as ever. Survival gains are measured primarily in additional months (not years) added to life, not in cures. The placebo effect is by and large ignored. (People getting a sugar pill placebo in cancer studies have been known to lose their hair and some actually cure themselves by simply thinking they will be cured.) A percentage of people can experience remissions spontaneously and from simple lifestyle adjustments, but the cancer therapy is always credited with the cure. (Investigations, "Placebo Learning: The Placebo Effect as a Conditioned Response," 1985; 2(1):23. O'Regan B, et al. 1993. Spontaneous Remission: An Annotated Bibliography. Sausalito, CA. Talbot M. 1991. The Holographic Universe. New York. Harper Collins Publishers. Townsend Letter, 2004; 251:32-3.)

Statistics can always be massaged to create the result desired. This practice is rampant in cancer research. Animal models (euphemism for real living and feeling caged creatures being tortured by the millions) do not prove effectiveness across species boundaries to humans. Neither do laboratory cell lines. That's why all the "breakthroughs" based on tumor shrinkage never pan out. For-profit drug companies and National Cancer Institute grant-based research ignore metastases (the spreading cells of cancer through the body) in their positive reports. Instead they highlight and focus on more easily obtained lab results, such as "tumor shrinkage,” and on easily manipulated clinical data such as "five-year survival."

Twelve new "improved" drugs introduced in Europe between 1995 and 2000 were no better than the drugs they replaced. But the prices were all higher, in one instance by a factor of 350 times. One new "revolutionary" drug, Erbitux™, found to "shrink" tumors but not extend the lives of patients at all costs $2,400 per week. Avastin™, another costly chemotherapeutic, by the best calculation, extended the lives of 400 colorectal patients by 4.7 months. Tamoxifin™ is proven to be effective in decreasing breast cancer. Risk is decreased by about 15% but what is not equally heralded is the fact that it increased the risk of endometrial uterine cancer by about 15%. (Patient Information: Nolvadex, Zeneca Pharmaceuticals)

Are such results worth the financial devastation and miserable life that chemotherapy, radiation and surgery impose? Is that the way to spend one's remaining days? If such therapy does add a couple of months, are those couple of months really worth the poking, prodding, pain, unrelenting nausea, disfiguring, destruction of the immune system and increased susceptibility to other diseases? "Yes" would be a hard answer to justify.

In the face of a cancer diagnosis most people just throw up their hands in terror and surrender to the conventional cancer therapy death process. The feeling is that something must be done, and, since "doctors know best," one must begin the "fight" by following the advice of the doctor. But fighting does not mean surrendering to the will of another person who has their own personal agenda and narrowed field of view dictated by the club they belong to. That misses the point. You must do something.

Here's the on-point best approach:

1. Prevention means adjusting your life right now so that you are living in tune with your design. Cancer is, quite simply, the reaction of cells subjected long enough to an environment they are not designed for. The genetic apparatus loses its bearings, becomes insane, if you will, and regresses to embryonic infancy and just begins multiplying recklessly. What is the proper environment? It is that food, air, water and lifestyle you are genetically designed for. The proper healthy preventive living context is encapsulated in the Wysong Optimal Health Program™.

2. If you get cancer, don't panic. First thing is follow #1 advice. Learn. Gather as much information as you can from all resources, not just what the medical establishment provides. We try to gather such information for you in The Wysong Directory of Alternative Resources.

3. Think about what has happened in your life that has caused the disease. It is caused, it does not just happen. Correct your life.

4. You take control of your own body and you make the decisions. Determine to set right what is wrong and do it. Taking control is essential to not feeling like a helpless victim and sinking into hopeless despair – a sure mindset to speed the disease along.

5. Think long and hard before submitting to unproven cancer therapies. If the doctor cannot prove effectiveness (at least prove that you will be better off with the therapy than without) and if you are not willing to take the risk of all the contraindications, then don't submit because you think it is "all that can be done." It isn't. See #2 above.

All good things in life are hard. In our modern world, good health takes effort and attention. Preventing and reversing disease also takes effort – your effort. Begin today to take charge of your health and be the best you can be. Most chronic degenerative diseases have long latency periods, the time between when the disease begins and it manifests in overt symptoms. Most everyone reading this has such disease brewing within at this very moment. So take advantage of the window of opportunity and give your body a chance by living the life you were designed to live. That will not only prevent disease from gaining a foothold, but reverse disease that is incubating within.

Dr. Wysong is a former veterinary clinician and surgeon, college instructor in human anatomy, physiology and the origin of life, inventor of numerous medical, surgical, nutritional, athletic and fitness products and devices, research director for the present company by his name and founder of the philanthropic Wysong Institute. He is author of The Creation-Evolution Controversy now in its eleventh printing, a new two volume set on philosophy for living, several books on nutrition, prevention and health for people and animals and over 15 years of monthly health newsletters. He may be contacted at Wysong@Wysong.net and a free subscription to his e-Health Letter is available at http://www.wysong.net