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Posts with tag cancer causes
Posted Aug 23rd 2007 4:45PM by Brian White
Filed under: All Cancers, Research
Do you have high-voltage power lines within eyesight of your home or office building? Some have surmised -- for decades now -- that living in close proximity of these power transmission lines can lead to cancer. The reasoning deals with the radiation output of these lines affecting nearby human tissue -- although the radiation output is fairly minimal.
In a recent Australian study, though, residents there who lives within 300 meters of a high-voltage power line had a
300 percent increase in cancer risk, and that living near these power transmission lines early in life (and then, anytime) could possibly increase one's risk of developing leukemia and lymphoma.
Although this study contradicts several more than state living near power lines is safe, what do you think? Do you have these power transmission lines near you, and do you feel safe?
Posted Jul 31st 2007 4:56PM by Brian White
Filed under: Daily news, Rectal Cancer
As Heather
reported on earlier today, another blow to alcohol consumption has been found. European research released this week shows a connection between alcohol consumption and the possibility of developing bowel cancer.
The research concluded that people who drink one or two glasses of beer or win per day increase their chances of
developing rectal (bowel) cancer by 10 percent. Is that number such a big deal? Absolutely.
Sound like a low amount? It's not -- and the researchers apparently looked at more than 500,000 people in the study, so the results are quite statistically significant. Out of that population, 18,000 people were found to have bowel cancer and the researchers dug in deep until they found out the correlation(s) with certain lifestyle choices.
It's always a good idea to have alcohol in very moderate amounts (although wine has been found to be
healthy and
not healthy), and this research points to more evidence to support that point. Will you abandon alcohol completely, though?
Posted Jul 9th 2007 3:26PM by Brian White
Filed under: All Cancers, Research
Could virus payloads one day be able to attack cancer cells and rid the body of colorectal and liver cancer? Sounds like science fiction to me, bu the virus that causes herpes simplex may be engineered to do just that one day.
New genetic engineering developments have used the herpes virus so that it
actually grows inside cancer cells -- which kills them in the process. The engineered virus has shown to be safe on normal human tissue as well.
The virus, as it is being designed, won't replicate inside normal cells (only cancer cells), which makes it a perfect attack weapon in the fight against cancer. That is, if genetic engineering becomes accepted in the cancer treatment field.
Posted Jun 7th 2007 12:04PM by Brian White
Filed under: Prevention, All Cancers, Radiation, Surgery
If you've battled cancer in your lifetime (or are battling it now), have you agreed with everything you've been shown and told from your physicians and oncologist? Most likely, you have not -- for various reasons. But, should you?
There is new research showing that cancer patients in an advanced state
who disagree with their physicians actually have a higher chance of dying when the subjects of nutrition and physical condition come up. While certain nutrition philosophies are pretty much agreed upon in the cancer prevention field, are these disagreements happening due to denial or some other reason?
Long-term cancer outcomes were found to be affected by patient-doctor agreements, with the a researcher on this study saying that "patients disagreed with their clinicians greater than 50 percent of the time." Why is this? From those who have battled cancer, I'd be very interested to hear reasons why so many disagreements end up happening.
Posted May 25th 2007 11:19AM by Brian White
Filed under: Prevention, All Cancers
Are you a fan of ordinary, household tap water? I'm really not (no matter how much the local water authorities try to convince me) just based on the sources my local water comes from -- which are not the cleanest by any means.
Well, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently stated that a
type of chromium can cause cancer in lab animals when they drink it in water. Surprised? I'm not, oddly. Hexavalent chromium has already showed to be cancerous to the lungs when inhaled -- and now, findings are that it is just as dangerous when consumed in water. Who here does not drink water? No hands went up -- I thought so.
Avoiding the possibility of this in your drinking water means finding a natural (and generally expensive) water source from which to consume. In other words, bottled and shipped to you in many cases.
