Friday, March 30, 2012. Imagine a world where half the cases of cancer that now exist are suddenly nonexistent.
According to a review published on March 28, 2012 in the journal Science Translational Medicine.......... http://stm.sciencemag.org/
.............the idea is not at all far-fetched.
Graham A. Colditz, MD, DrPH and coauthors K. Y. Wolin and Sarah J. Gehlert of the Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University in St Louis conclude that we now have the knowledge to bring about wide scale prevention of a disease estimated to kill 577,190 men and women this year in the United States alone. "We actually have an enormous amount of data about the causes and preventability of cancer," stated Dr Colditz, who is the Siteman Cancer Center's associate director of prevention and control. "It's time we made an investment in implementing what we know."
Dr Colditz and colleagues observe that lifestyle choices play a major role in the development of cancer. Smoking is responsible for a third of all U.S. cancer diagnoses and excess body weight for 20 percent. Diet, exercise levels, alcohol intake and other controllable factors are also involved.
Hi Chris - without reading the article first, I am surprised that only half of all cancers are preventable!
If sources of toxins are removed and a well balanced diet is adopted that provides adequate nutrition.
Commercial society has provided itself with its own limitation on both counts of toxicity and nutrition.
I believe that if a person really makes the effort to live and eat healthily, including removal and avoidance of toxins and stress, then cancer is up to 90% or more preventable. I likewise believe that cancer is 90% or more beatable even if you do get it.
I agree strongly. In 1940, there was a 1 in 16 chance of getting cancer even with smoking,lead and mercury in paints, and asbestos, now it is between 1 in 3 and 1 in 2. To see where this increase is coming from, we only need to look at the difference in how we live.
When you and I were growing up, we ate mostly fresh store bought or fresh from the farm foods, fast food was almost non-existant, there was no HFCS, Aspartame, Acesulfame, and very few vaccinations. Mammagrams were unheard of as were CT-scans. There were very few hormones or antibiotics in our food and we did not use teflon cookware. We were not irradiated with microwaves from cell-phones or wireless networks. We did not sit and play games or watch TV all day, but played outdoors in the sun breathing air that was cleaner and fresher than it is today. There was rarely any fluoride in the water or toothpaste and it was warned against. We did not use roundup in our yards or on our food.
This is only a part of the differences that you and I have noticed but many others ignore.
I do agree with you DQ in that up to 90% of cancers are preventable, but at least a Science Journal has made the admission (albeit a progressively slow admission) that cancer is mostly preventable.
"There is no doubt that a cell has to mutate in order to become cancerous. Yet an inherited mutation isn't the same as an acquired mutation, one that develops during the lifetime of the patient. Let's simplify the case and divide acquired mutations into two types: those that result from accident and errors on the part of a person's DNA, and those that are linked to lifestyle. The revolution that is looming in cancer is based on believing that the "lifestyle link" is so strong that it accounts for 90 percent or more of cancer occurrences....................
"What medicine refers to as environmental and lifestyle factors include some familiar culprits: overweight, lack of exercise, poor diet, smoking, overuse of alcohol and overexposure to UV and other forms of radiation. Of all cancer-related deaths, it's thought that 25-30 percent are due to tobacco; 30-35 percent are linked to diet; and about 15-20 percent are due to infections, many of them preventable".......................
Deepak Chopra. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/cancer-information_b_1219678.html
Where I would differ is the concept that inherited mutations are the cause of any large percentage of cancers. With rare exception, we are not born with cancer. In the vast majority of instances inherited mutations which have been linked to cancer merely mean that a person may be more likely to develop cancer. Along with tobacco and radiation, It still comes down to cellular terrain and toxins (and I consider tobacco and radiation to be toxins). Properly nourished, cleansed and hydrated cells are very unlikely to develop cancer regardless of inherited mutations..
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