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CANCER
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Leading authorities in oncology have always maintained that 'there will never be a cure for cancer". This means that the most effective strategy must be prevention. To understand the processes involved in cancer is to create an awareness, which will enable the individual to make an informed decision.
CANCER - THE PROCESS
The development of cancer is a multi-step process requiring:
Initiation
(irreversible genetic changes)
Promotion (development
of a pre-malignant lesion)
Progression (development of some of the lesion into a malignant tumour)
ANGIOGENESIS
Also known as neovascularization, Angiogenesis refers to the formation of new
Blood Vessels during an individual's development and growth, or to the
replacement of injured Blood Vessels in existing tissue. The process of
Angiogenesis does not normally occur in healthy, matured adults (except during
ovulation, pregnancy and the healing of fractures and wounds) - but is essential
to the development of the tumors that are integral to the growth of some types
of Cancer. Angiogenesis is an essential aspect of childhood development and is
also essential to the recuperation of Heart Attack patients.
The prevention of Angiogenesis (normally to prevent or treat Cancer) is known as
Antiangiogenesis.
Here is a more formal introduction
Neovascularisation is a crucial step in a tumours transition from a small
harmless cluster of mutated cells to a large malignant
growth, capable of spread to other organs.
Tumour cells are usually unable to stimulate angiogenesis when they first arise in healthy tissue. Unless they become vascularised the mass can only develop into a miniscule tumor.
These tiny tumours may remain in this steady state for many months or years and are detectable in the skin and cervix but not in the breasts, lungs and other sites. They may abruptly become angiogenic by producing angiogenic proteins in nearby tissue, or they may prompt other types of cells, such as macrophages, to replace angiogenic proteins. Vascular endothelial growth factor is the main angiogenic protein.
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor is a type of growth factor, which stimulates (signals) the growth of new blood vessels.
Once neovascularisation occurs, hundreds of tiny new capillaries converge on the tiny tumour and it can now expand rapidly.
When blood appears between menstrual periods, in the urine, stool or sputum this indicates angiogenesis has taken place.
Some metastases contain cells that are angiogenic and will grow rapidly. Nonangiogenic metastatic cells may lie dormant for years, becoming angiogenic after the original tumour has been treated or removed.
ONE OF THE INTERESTING FACETS OF CANCER THERAPY IS THAT IT IS THE ONLY DISEASE PROCESS WHERE THE TREATMENT IS AIMED AT DESTROYING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
Increasing at the rate of 1% per year, breast cancer continues to escalate out of control and is currently the major cause of death in women aged 25 to 54 years of age.
15,000 cancer deaths per year in Australia may be due to preventable causes.
A woman's
chance of getting breast cancer increases with age as follows:
by age 30 1 in 2,525
by age 40 1 in 217
by age 50 1 in 50
by age 60 1 in 24
by age 70 1 in 14
by age 80 1 in 10
OBESITY and lack of exercise is a major cancer cause.
Children who are overweight and exercise too little seem to be at a higher risk for certain cancers and especially breast cancer in the female.
Obesity is a predictor of Prostate cancer in the male with increased mortality related to body weight.
Hyperinsulinemia which precedes Insulin Resistance (Diabetes) causes cancer and increases tumour invasiveness.
IN SHORT, OVERWEIGHT AND INCREASES IN INSULIN LEVELS ARE STRONGLY ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED INCIDENCE OF CANCER REGARDLESS OF GENDER.
Why after at least thirty thousand years are so many forms of cancer on the increase?
The latest and most deadly form being Pancreatic Cancer!
Almost all are preventable!
ARE YOU A STATISTIC? Recall that diabetes has increased 300% in the past twenty years and obesity 45%
Supplements and cancer therapy
Many doctors believe that vitamins and mineral
supplements interfere with radiation and chemotherapy and advise their patients
not to take them during their treatment. Dr. Charles B. Simone, MD, author of
"Cancer & Nutrition" has just released a report providing convincing evidence
that supplements do not interfere with either radiation or chemotherapy and may
actually, in many cases, enhance the tumor-killing effects of these treatments.
Dr Simone has been deregistered for curing cancer with Sodium Bicarbonate!
Many studies have shown that vitamins A, C, and E as well as beta-carotene and selenium protect against adriamycin's toxic effects on the heart and, at the same time, enhance its cancer-killing effects. Vitamin E (1600 IU/day) has been found to significantly reduce hair loss in patients receiving chemotherapy. Vitamin B6 (300 mg/day) has been found to decrease the toxic side effects of radiation therapy while vitamin K has been found to improve the results from chemotherapy.
Drs. Hoffer and Pauling found that cancer patients who supplemented with large doses of vitamins A, C, and E as well as niacin and other vitamins and minerals while undergoing conventional treatments lived far longer than patients not taking supplements. Eating a macrobiotic diet has been found highly effective in increasing survival among patients with cancer of the prostate and pancreas. Supplementation can also decrease the risk of tumor recurrence. A recent experiment involving bladder cancer patients showed that those who took extra daily supplements (40,000 IU vitamin A, 100 mg vitamin B6, 2000 mg vitamin C, 400 IU vitamin E and 90 mg zinc) reduced their risk of recurrence by a factor of two. Dr. Simone concludes that vitamin and mineral supplementation does not interfere with the efficacy of chemotherapy and radiation therapy, but actually, in many cases, increases survival of the patients. He recommends that supplements be taken 30-60 minutes before therapy. (131 references)
The Institute offers proven nutritional approaches to both cancer prevention and support, including Glycosaminoglycan complex (ProResolvin), Transdermal Magnesium Chloride and Sodium Bicarbonate therapy.all with a documented history in tumour regression.
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