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Pancreatic cancer is notorious for being aggressive and hard to treat. Learn about some of the risk factors and symptoms to watch out for.
Pancreatic cancer, sometimes dubbed the “King of Cancer“ due to its malignancy, poses challenges in both early detection and late-stage treatment. Understanding its causes and warning signs enables people to take preventive measures. Continue reading
Medicinal herbs and their phytocompounds are being increasingly considered to be helpful in alternative cancer treatments. Many clinical studies have reported the benefits of herbal medicines on cancer patients’ survival, immune modulation, and quality of life.
Some clinical trials used these herbal medicines in combination with conventional therapeutics. These studies investigated the use of herbal medicines for various cancers and the development of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Continue reading
A middle school student from Chicago has helped discover a surprising ingredient that could safeguard against cancer.
Camarria Williams collected goose droppings near a pond in Chicago’s Garfield Park as part of a science project in collaboration with the University of Illinois Chicago. Continue reading
Fructose — which is added to thousands of US food and drinks — was found to speed up the growth of certain kinds of skin, breast and cervical tumors. The study showed this type of sugar gets converted by the liver into components that tumors need to build new cells and grow.
The more quickly a tumor grows, the more aggressive the cancer may become – able to take over a person’s body before they can fight back. Continue reading
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The prostate is a walnut-sized gland located just beneath the urinary bladder. It is part of the urinary system and the reproductive system. There are passages through the prostate that carry either urine or semen. In fact, the prostate also helps produce semen, the thick fluid that carries sperm cells produced in the testicles. The prostate surrounds the upper part of the urethra, which is the tube that carries urine from the bladder.
Prostate function is regulated by testosterone, the male sex hormone, which is produced primarily in the testicles. Prostate cancer is a cancer that starts in the prostate gland, but may spread to other organs and tissues of the body.
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men worldwide. In 2012, for example, there were 1.1 million cases of prostate cancer and over 300,000 men died from the disease. Continue reading
The diagnosis of prostate cancer relies heavily on the results of a prostate biopsy. A pathologist will analyze the biopsy and assignment a Gleason score or grade. Gleason scores reflect how likely it is that it tumor will spread. The score can vary between 2 and 10 where 2 indicates a small likelihood of spread and 10 indicates a high likelihood of spread. The oncologist will also determine the size of the tumor, if there are cancer cells in nearby lymph nodes or if there is any cancer present in distant tissues (metastasis). The choice of conventional treatment is based on PSA level, Gleason scores, and other information about the prostate tumor. Unfortunately, a negative biopsy (no disease seen) does not exclude the diagnosis of prostate cancer (i.e., a false negative result). Continue reading
The researchers found that exposure to PM2.5 pollution – or particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns – increases the risk of head and neck cancers (HNC).
Common types of HNC include throat cancer and mouth cancer, which an estimated 71,100 Americans will be diagnosed with in 2024. Continue reading
The former Bond Girl, 72, who rose to fame alongside Roger Moore in 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me, refused traditional treatment options to battle the grade 3, stage 2 disease back in 2007 (pictured in the film)
The former Bond Girl, 72, who rose to fame alongside Roger Moore in 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me, refused traditional treatment options to battle the grade 3, stage 2 disease back in 2007.
Susie told of how she beat the aggressive breast cancer, which had spread to her lymph nodes, with alternative therapies, after having surgery to removed the tumour.
Speaking to The Express, she revealed: ‘They wanted me to have the chemo, the drugs, the radiation, the Herceptin.
‘But I started reading all these books and I thought that the chemotherapy would be a disaster because it kills everything in your body.’ Continue reading
Larry Boyer was told he had just six months to live after being diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer.
Not only is this type of cancer one of the world’s deadliest — just three percent of patients survive it — the initial tumor had spread to other organs and triggered the growth of 16 additional tumors.
As a retired data scientist, he knew the odds were against him.
But 18 months later, the father-of-two from Connecticut is alive and, miraculously, cancer-free. Continue reading
I have believed for a long time that the American Medical Complex and the Consumer Food and Beverage Industrial Complex have little interest in the prevention of disease. It makes far better business sense to let the population eat, drink and smoke to their heart’s content and then offer seemingly high tech and expensive methods for cleaning up the aftermath. In the United States, the food industry alone generates 500 billion dollars in sales: Bacon, eggs, milk, fast food franchises, soft drinks, fried food, dead food, overcooked food, sweets, treats and canned goods.
We have gotten away from simple diets and become human garbage disposals. Sixty percent of the American public is overweight. Clearly the large food conglomerates are successfully marketing to an oblivious public. After feeding your body with dead and processed foods for 20, 30, 40 or more years, things begin to run less perfectly. We have overlooked the processing energy required to digest bacon and eggs each morning, that steak in the evening and the cocktails in between. The result is the current health crisis where one in three will have cancer in their lifetimes — not to mention heart disease. ~ Greg Stirling, Vancouver, British Columbia
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Cancer is becoming more prevalent and is also affecting more younger adults. The major risk factors for cancer include high-stress levels, depression, exposure to environmental toxins like microplastics, and unhealthy dietary habits. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) offers effective methods for cancer prevention and relief.
A 2023 study revealed that between 1990 and 2019, the global number of cancer diagnoses in people under 50 increased by 79 percent, while deaths from early-onset cancer rose by 28 percent. While younger people may recover more quickly due to their overall physical resilience, certain cancers may progress more rapidly due to biological factors. Continue reading
The above graph shows the rise of colorectal cancer in Americans under 50 over the last two decades
The study found patients with high blood-sugar levels were up to 65 percent more likely to be diagnosed with the cancer before age 50 than their peers.
Diabetics were at the highest risk, but those with prediabetes – where blood sugar levels are higher than normal but not high enough to be classified as diabetes – were also at an elevated risk.
Experts who analyzed more than 500,000 people’s medical records as part of the study are now calling for ‘tighter glucose control’ to be a priority for young people. Continue reading
September 25, 2024: cancer, Cancer, CANCER!
Across Iowa, people have known for a long time what data is only now beginning to confirm — cancer incidence in the state is outstandingly high.
Iowa became the focus of national attention earlier this year when data showed it had the fastest growing rate of new cancers of any state in America.
That’s more than the Rust Belt states, where lifelong factory work, smoking rates and lack of healthcare puts locals at a higher risk for developing the disease. And more than southern states where rates of obesity, alcohol use and poverty make them more prone to the disease… (Continue to full article)
Table Salt Can Activate Immune Cells Against Cancer
Salt has been used for a myriad of reasons throughout history. Not only did individuals use it to preserve food, but it was also used to garden, to construct new roads, and in religious ceremonies. Salt was even used as a form of currency.
Even today we use salt to flavor food, heal a sore throat, clean metal, remove stains, and relieve bee stings, among others.
While salt is used for all these things, particularly wound healing, scientists are unsure of their systemic impact on immune cells. There is limited research linking immunity with salt, with the exception that large amounts of salt intake are deleterious to the body.
More specifically, scientists were previously unaware of the implications table salt might have on cancer immunotherapy outcomes…. (Continue to full article)
CANCER Has Been Routinely Induced By VACCINES Since 1960
Oh, the insidious cancer industrial complex of America. Do not put anything past it. Vaccines have been dirty, adulterated and contaminated since the onset. You can’t even say the word ‘vaccines’ without some pro-vax-zealot/historian spitting up the name Jonas Salk and that supposed “medical triumph.”
The highly-uncontrolled Polio vaccine experiment, and that’s what it was, of the 1950s and 60s, exposed nearly 100 million Americans to SV40 (Simian Virus 40), a monkey virus that can cause cancer in humans.
Guess what? SV40 catapults turbo cancer. That’s what’s happening now to people who got the mRNA gene-mutating spike-protein injections (Covid jabs). Each dose of an mRNA Covid injection contains millions, if not billions, of copies of SV40 enhancer, as identified in the Pfizer Wuhan Virus stab… (Continue to full article)
New Breast Cancer Screening Requirement Takes Effect: FDA
Women must be informed of their breast density, which is linked to breast cancer risks.
As of Sept. 10, all women undergoing mammography for breast cancer will be informed on the density of their breasts, according to a new update by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
On March 9, 2023, the FDA issued an update requiring all mammography facilities to comply.
Dense breast tissue can make cancer more difficult to detect on a mammogram, the FDA wrote in its statement. Like cancer tumors, fibroglandular tissue appears white on mammograms.
According to the release, approximately half of women over 40 in the United States have dense breast tissue. Dense breasts are also a risk factor for breast cancer development… (Continue to full article)
Signs and Symptoms of Pancreatic Cancer
Some people get cancer of the pancreas, the organ in your abdomen that makes digestive enzymes and hormones such as insulin. The cancerous mass can interfere with the pancreas’ function and lead to symptoms such as stomach or back pain, jaundice (yellowed skin), diarrhea, nausea, weight loss, and diabetes.
Early in the disease, pancreatic cancer is typically asymptomatic (doesn’t cause any symptoms). Symptoms from pancreatic cancer often start gradually and intermittently, so people may dismiss them. Often by the time symptoms are more significant, the cancer is already large, or it has already spread. This makes it more difficult to treat.
But not everyone with pancreatic cancer will have all these symptoms. Most people who have one of these symptoms have a different medical condition and not pancreatic cancer… (Continue to full article)
Illustration of a cancer cell. (Science Photo Library/Canva Pro)
A doctor is speaking up about the surge in cancer cases among young people – revealing ‘every new patient’ that comes to his clinic is under 45 years old.
North Carolina’s Duke University oncologist Dr Nicholas DeVito says he and his colleagues have experienced a complete demographic switch in recent years. Based on what he’s seeing everyday, talking to patients on the ground and analyzing the data, he blames the rise of junk food diets. Continue reading