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Colon Cancer Causes and Prevention Author: Remy Vixamar

If curing colon cancer is very difficult, it is quite contrary to prevent it. In fact, the majority of cancers of the rectum and colon could be prevented through regular checkup (examination or inspection), healthy lifestyle (eating healthy foods, regular colon cleansing, exercise, etc.), and chemoprevention.

Annual Check-up – annual health checkups is recommended to help detect health problems in their early stages. Early medical visit is the best preventive method to save your life from bowel cancer. Bowel cancer tends to develop in the polyps. Most polyps are present no symptoms at early stage, they are usually discovered at the time of colon cancer screening (digital rectal exam, flexible sigmoidoscopy, Barium enema, colonoscopy or virtual colonoscopy). Being present microscopically, benign colon polyps tend to transform with time into colon cancer. These abnormalities can be detected and removed early during a colonoscopy (a visual examination of examination of the large colon and the distal part of the small bowel) to avoid complications. It is estimated that this procedure could be reduced by 80% the risk of occurrence of intestinal cancer when you begin these tests at around 45, then every 5 or 10 years.

Diet and Lifestyle – it is no doubt that your lifestyle can increase the risk of cancer. The incidence of colorectal cancer (colon cancer or large bowel cancer) is very frequent in places where people practice the following: physical inactivity, excess calories intake (especially of saturated fat, protein, and sugar), alcohol abuse, consumption of a diet rich in red meat, sausages and hot dogs. Conversely, physical activity and a eating a diet rich in fruit and cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, kale, cabbage, watercress, bok choy, etc.) containing antioxidant micronutrients would reduce the risk of cancer or its reoccurrence. In fact, these foods can be used as preventive and curative methods; a diet composed mostly of fruits, cruciferous veggies and fish may reduce the risk or cure certain bowel cancers at their genesis.

Chemoprevention – this method consist of the use of natural or synthetic substances in order to prevent, reverse, or delay the development of cancer cells. Micronutrients such as iron, cobalt, chromium, copper, iodine, manganese, selenium, zinc and molybdenum, as well as other nutrients like calcium, folic acid (Vitamin B9), and certain medications such as aspirin may inhibit cancerogenesis, according to some studies in animals. Others studies show significant inhibition of spontaneous intestinal polyps in mice and rats.

Other substances used in chemoprevention include Cyclooxygenase-2-Selective Inhibitors (COX2), a form of Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) that directly targets COX-2, an enzyme responsible for inflammation and peptic ulceration. When it comes to your health, prevention is always better than treatment, which does always lead to cure; make your first step today to prevent or eradicate colon cancer; visit cancerofolon.com, or click on the in the resource box below.

Link between Obesity and Breast Cancer Author: Jen Page

The apparent likelihood of a connection between breast cancer and being overweight is an issue of growing concern. Statistical evidence has shown that women with excessive upper body and abdominal fat account for a large percentage of breast cancer patients. No conclusive results have been made on the subject but numerical evidence has shown quite significant data alluding to this possible correlation. The possible explanation for this possible relation is the fact that overweight individuals store xenestrogens in extra fatty cells. These xenestrogens are dangerous compounds that come about as a result of environmental pollution. Xenestrogens are known to promote cancerous tumors especially around the breast area. The more of it that is spread in fatty tissues, the more likely one is to develop a cancerous tumor. Development of breast cancer, therefore, is primarily said to be as a result of the effect and actions of certain hormones in the body.

Weight gain immediately before and after menopause, has shown likelihood of increasing the risk of breast cancer. During this period, the ovaries stop the production of estrogen, which is sourced from body fat in women. A woman who has excess body fat during this transitional menopause stage will have a large amount of estrogen in the postmenopausal stage, which may contribute to increased breast cancer risk. Surprisingly, other studies have shown that obesity in some cases can actually reduce the risk of breast cancer. These studies show that being overweight usually causes irregularities in menstrual cycles that may limit ovulation. With less ovulation, it means there will be lower levels of hormones such as progesterone and estradiol, which promote breast cancer.

Scientists are now studying the relationship between obesity and a debilitating form of breast cancer called inflammatory breast cancer. In this form of cancer, the lymph vessels are blocked by cancer cells causing skin around the breast to look swollen and inflamed. Larger samples of the women diagnosed with this form of breast cancer were overweight compared to a smaller number of leaner women affected. It is believed that increased fat tissue could be a major factor that causes the inflammation that characterizes this form of breast cancer. Fat cells are also known to produce hormones and chemicals that promote the existence of cancer.

A factor that leads to higher death rates for obese individuals with breast cancer is that detection is harder for overweight patients. Therefore, the cancer is more likely to be diagnosed at a much later stage than for one who is leaner. If the cancer is not detected early enough, then treatment may not be as effective. Evidence has also shown the prevalence of breast cancer in communities that tend to have a higher average weight. A continent such as Asia where average body mass is lower than other regions of the world has recorded much lower prevalence weights for breast cancer. Though occurrences of breast cancer are mostly considered to be genetic, more evidence is emerging concerning other possible causes of this disease.

Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma- Important Facts for You to Know Author: Bello kamorudeen

Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma is rare form of cancer that affects the peritoneum, which is the lining of the abdomen. Every year, around 100-500 new cases are seen in the United States. It is also known as abdominal mesothelioma as the peritoneum protects and lines the abdominal cavity and the organs situated in the abdominal cavity. There are two layers of the peritoneal membrane called visceral and parietal layers. The visceral refers to the inner layer covering of the organs and the parietal refers to the outer layer covering of the abdominal cavity.

The peritoneal membrane cells attacked by mesothelioma normally secrete lubricating fluids into the peritoneum, this allows for frictionless smooth movements of the organs in the abdominal cavity. However when these cells are transformed into cancerous abnormal cells, they start to over secrete this fluid leading to a gradual fluid build up in the abdomen.

Abdominal Mesothelioma is usually secondary to a primary source of the malignancy, which is Pleural mesothelioma. It is believed that the asbestos fibers may be ingested when swallowed, where they enter digestive tract or that the fibers are inhaled into the lungs and transported via the lymphatic system to the abdominal cavity. Cancer cells from the primary source can also become mobile and spread via the lymphatic system to other areas, this process is called metastasis.

Symptoms of peritoneal mesothelioma include:

- Abdominal pain,

- Swelling of the abdomen which may be caused by fluid retention (ascites)

- Tumor growth into the intestine causing small or large bowel obstruction

- Anemia-low blood level, which causes decreased oxygen levels in the blood, and makes the heart work harder, also causing shortness of breath

- Weight loss, but you may appear larger around the waist

- Fever.

If you have been exposed to asbestos in your lifetime and you are having any of these symptoms, you should see your doctor immediately.

Relatives of the mesothelioma victim are also at risk of developing the cancer. Spouses who handled dirty clothes to launder them are at risk to having asbestos transferred to them via physical contact with the fibers. Now that more is known about asbestos, workers must bathe and change clothes before going home. Special care is taken to limit exposure to the asbestos fibers.

Diagnosis of peritoneal mesothelioma is similar to that of pleural mesothelioma. An x-ray will be taken. Mesothelioma cannot be seen on an x-ray, but a tumor may cause pleural effusion (fluid buildup) which can be seen. The doctor may also order a CT scan or an MRI to back up and add to the findings in the x-ray. Once the scans are done, a biopsy must be done to examine to tissue. The doctor will make a cut through the chest wall; this procedure is called a thorascopy. This will be done in the hospital under local anesthesia.

The doctor may also perform a peritoneoscopy, which involves surgically inserting a scope into the abdomen to visualize the tumor cells and take tissue samples for biopsy. The procedure is similar for both thoracic and abdominal examinations. Samples of tissue obtained will be examined by the pathologist under the microscope.

Mesothelioma is quite rare, so if you are diagnosed with it, you should have your doctor help you find a specialist who is well versed and experienced in the treatment of the disease and there are not too many of such specialists. There is no cure for malignant mesothelioma, but there are treatment options that include surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and others. The life expectancy of someone with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma varies from person to person. The prognosis depends on how vigorously the cancer is treated and how the patient responds. The patient may live for years, or only for a few months.

Ozone and Oxygen Therapy Through The Ages – Part One Author: Lynne Gordon

Civil wars and bloody tribal conflicts, economic instability, increasing exploitation of natural resources, mounting population and mounting pollution. There is an epidemic of AIDS and an epidemic of cancer. Tuberculosis is rising again, and new viral infections seem to pop up
weekly, as in the native population in the southwest in recent years, and the flesh eating
staphylococcus bacteria is spreading faster than the Black Plague.

The situation seems to grow worse daily and the modern doctor has tools of little power to
combat these rising health concerns. Antibiotics are losing their effectiveness, prescription
drugs kill at least 150,000 people a year in the US, and the chemical/drug companies lobby
harder than ever to eliminate the competition–vitamins and natural herbs and the naturopaths
that prescribe them. Health care in America costs an estimated two billion dollars each and
every day, yet the population grows sicker every minute.

Into this gloomy scenario has come a breath of fresh air–an old and proven treatment that
American doctors mostly abandoned, but European doctors nurtured and developed. That
treatment is medical ozone and oxygen therapy. Both (H2O2 and H2O3) were first used over one hundred years ago and found to be of great value.

In 1896, the electrical genius Nikola Tesla patented an ozone generator and in 1900 founded
the Tesla Ozone Co. Many doctors treated patients with Tesla’s ozone and got excellent
results. However, the corrosiveness of the gas to rubber equipment made ozone treatment
unpopular with American physicians, and most had dropped it by the thirties under pressure
from the AMA. Tesla developed another type of ozone generator in the twenties, based on a
cold plasma principle, but the materials for handling it still did not exist. Also in the twenties, Tesla developed magnesium dioxide and gave it to Dr. Blass, who used it with good results, marketing it as Homozone.

In Germany, during the First World War, a Dr. A. Wolff used ozone and oxygen on a variety of health problems, from gangrene to trench foot to chlorine gas burns to influenza, with great effect. His work and results were written up in German medical journals of the time.
But it was not until the fifties, through the efforts of Dr. Hansler in Germany, that ozone came into its own. With the aid of modern materials including resistant plastics, and with the
development of modern ozone generators, it became possible to safely handle and administer
medical ozone and oxygen.

Since that time, over ten million patients have been treated with ozone, with many millions of
doses given, by more than 7,000 doctors. It has proven to be the safest medical treatment of all time, with less than ten deaths in fifty years, and with less than 1500 people found to be allergic to ozone in all that time. But you still won’t find it in common use in America.

Medical ozone and oxygen has already proven effective against over 100 diseases, and the list grows daily. Since no anaerobic bacteria, virus, protozoa or fungus can live in a high oxygen atmosphere, all diseases caused by these agents are curable with ozone/oxygen. Patients with cancer, AIDS, tuberculosis, arthritis, heart disease, stroke, etc., are cured by therapeutic applications of ozone and oxygen almost without exception, and without serious side effects.

These are the facts regarding medical ozone and oxygen use in Europe. President Reagan received ozone treatment for cancer when he was in Germany in 1986. Members of the FDA have taken their wives to Germany for treatment of breast cancer.

NATO has adopted ozone for cleaning the blood supply, and the Canadian Armed Forces are about to do the same. Ozone, because of its powerful antiviral / antibacterial / antiprotozoal abilities is the treatment of choice for the water supply in over 3000 municipalities around the world, including almost all the major cities: Paris, Brussels, Moscow, Zurich, Amsterdam, Florence, Singapore, New York, Tampa, Dallas, Los Angeles, etc. It is also employed to treat sewage to such high standards that it is often returned to the input in true recycling.

It is becoming the top option for industry to clean its waste, and in the case of pulp mills, mandatory. H2O2 and H2O3 are replacing chlorine throughout the world, as the carcinogenic dangers of organochlorides are being realized. We are not far away from a worldwide ban on the production of chlorine, which will rid us of a dangerous environmental pollutant. There are over 100 cities using ozone in the U.S. today with many more planned.

But on the medical front, the FDA fights a cynical battle against doctors who are determined
that their patients shall not die of AIDS or cancer or ALS or MS or any of the multitude of
other diseases that ozone and oxygen can cure, but which no chemical drug touches.

But no matter how hard the FDA persecutes these healers, the tide is turning and the outcome is inevitable. <a href=”http://www.leadsleap.com/go/17629″>Medical ozone and oxygen treatments will take their rightful place as the leading therapeutic remedies.</a>