Cancerarchy

FRUCTOSE FEEDS CANCEROUS TUMORS

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:34:13 -0700

Sugar, especially fructose (in high fructose corn syrup), is extremely toxic to your health and is linked to all major diseases including: cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and hypertension. If a person has cancer and eats or drinks fructose, it will go directly to their tumor and help it to grow bigger. Heart disease and hypertension are also now being linked to sugar, not fat and salt as previously thought.

Here is an article by Dr. Mercola and a 60 Minutes video on the evils of fructose and sugar.

Dr. Mercola article:
Cancer's Favorite Food

60 Minutes video:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video

BISPHOSPHONATES (FOSAMAX) CAUSE LEG FRACTURES

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:31:06 -0700

From: Dr. Mercola (www.mercola.com)
Date: April 17th, 2010

Summary: When cancer metastasizes (moves from the original site to other areas of the body) and spreads to the bone, most cancer patients are prescribed bisphosphonates. Bisphosphonates are supposed to strengthen the bones and prevent breakage, but it turns out that the opposite is true; they actually kill bone cells, weaken bones, cause thigh fractures, and rot a person's jaw bone. They also cause serious leg pain.

Read article: Osteoporosis Drug Found to Cause Leg Fractures

VITAMIN D PREVENTS CANCER

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 03:04:59 -0700

By: Dr. Mercola
Date: September 6th, 2010
From: www.mercola.com

The Sun Prevents Cancer

Summary: There are currently over 800 studies showing vitamin D�s effectiveness against cancer. Optimizing your vitamin D levels can literally cut your risk of several cancers by 50 percent! Further, middle aged and elderly people with high levels of vitamin D could reduce their chances of developing heart disease or diabetes by 43 percent. It also cures seasonal affective disorder.

The best way to get Vitamin D is by getting sun for 10-20 minutes each day between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Read article: Could This Simple Habit Actually Reduce Cancer and Diabetes by 50%?

RFA'S TIME HAS COME

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 00:54:46 -0700

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From: Cancer Decisions Newsletter
By: Ralph Moss
Date: August 22, 2010

The stock price of BSD Medical Corp. nearly tripled this week, after the Utah company (mainly known for its hyperthermia equipment) gained FDA approval for its MicroThermX radiofrequency ablation (RFA) device. RFA is a minimally invasive technique for removing or ablating tumors. RFA induces cell death by what is called "thermal coagulative necrosis of tumor tissues." But normal cellular metabolism still takes place in the transition zones that surround the necrotic area. It is a less invasive substitute for surgery in many situations. It involves insertion of a large needle with tines that open up around a tumor. Radiofrequency waves then generate heat that melts the tumor. This does not involve any cutting (other than formation of a small insertion hole through the skin) and recuperation time is generally much less than with open surgery.

How well established is RFA? There are over 2,500 PubMed-listed articles on the topic as it relates to cancer. Actually, the effects of RFA may go beyond the mere removal of the tumor. There is also some indication that RFA causes the formation of heat shock proteins, such as HSP70, which have an anticancer effect in their own right (Teng 2010). An August 2010 study from Tuebingen University, Germany, has shown that RFA stimulates not just heat shock protein production but tumor-directed T lymphocytes. There was an increase of antibodies (in 4 patients out of 49), CD4(+) T cells, or CD8(+) T cells (in 2 patients out of 49) several weeks to months after the procedure (Widenmeyer 2010).

RFA is hardly "alternative medicine," yet in some quarters patients who request RFA as a treatment are treated as oddballs. Some surgeons want to stick to the tried and true techniques they learned in their residency programs. They may admit that RFA is a possibility for liver metastases from colon cancer, but they fail to realize that around the world it is also being used for primary or secondary lung tumors (Widenmeyer 2010), pancreatic cancer (D'Onofrio 2010), Barrett's esophagus (Lyday 2010) and other cancerous and precancerous conditions. It is time for RFA to finally get the respect and increased usage that it deserves.

KENTUCKY FRIED CANCER

Mon, 3 May 2010 23:59:47 -0700

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KFC is selling pink colored, carcinogenic buckets of chicken to raise money for the Susan G. Komen foundation (breast cancer research).

This is called "pinkwashing," when a company pretends to care about curing cancer, but is actually helping to cause it.

KFC Peddling Cancer-Causing Food in Pink Buckets

Breast Cancer Action's article

WHY EARLY DETECTION IS IMPORTANT

Tue, 9 Jun 2009 11:33:23 -0700

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Even though I had seen the American Cancer Society's posters urging women to perform breast self-exams, I never understood why it was so important to detect breast cancer early. I always figured that it would be better not to discover it and, in doing so, to put off chemo for as long as possible.

The reason why you want to detect breast cancer early is that, if you discover a tumor when it is small, you will have a much better chance of being cured. This means that it will be easier for a surgeon to cut it out of your body and get clean margins. Despite what you hear in the mainstream media, surgery is still the only way that most cancers are cured. You do not have to do chemo or radiation (although the doctors will try to sell it to you) and your breast can look relatively normal afterwards.

Breast cancer tumors grow like spiders. There are "legs" coming off of the main body of the tumor. So it will be hard or impossible for a surgeon to get clean margins if the tumor is very big. And once a cancer is large and has spread to other organs, it is almost impossible to cure.

Another important thing to remember is that, even if you are told you have a fibroadenoma (a benign, harmless tumor) or fibrocystic breasts, you should always get a second opinion. On the website, Young Survival Coalition, the women tell story after story of how they were misdiagnosed because they were in their twenties or thirties when they got breast cancer. This happens all of the time.

My sister died because she was misdiagnosed. She went to the hospital and they performed an ultrasound, physical exam, mammogram, and fine needle aspiration (biopsy of the tumor). And it turns out that every one of these exams failed to detect her cancer, which was already a cherry sized tumor. Later we found out that the pathologist never even bothered to look at the slides (which clearly showed cancerous cells), probably because my sister was only 29 and considered too young to have breast cancer. She was reassured by the advice nurses multiple times that, although it was growing, it was a benign tumor. And by the time she insisted on getting a second opinion, ten months later, the tumor was too big to cut out.

In summary, you should check your breasts for lumps and have your gynecologist do the same (a physical exam). If you find a lump, have it tested and then tested again.

Thank you.

THE CANCER WARD: BOOK REVIEW

Tue, 9 Jun 2009 11:02:23 -0700

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The Cancer Ward is a novel by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn that was first published in 1968. It tells the story of Kostoglotov, a Russian exile who enters a hospital to be treated for a growth on his neck, which turns out to be cancer. He is assigned to the cancer ward, a run down hospital wing where patients live together and sleep side-by-side.

It is interesting to note that all of the issues these characters face are the same ones faced by cancer patients today. Kostoglotov is given radiation and he knows the treatment is not working, it is actually killing him, but he is afraid to resist because the doctors tell him he will be banished from the hospital and further care. He and the other patients discuss alternative cures that they have heard about, but these cures are hard to obtain, impossibly expensive, and have questionable results. They also complain about the food, fall in love with the doctors and nurses, discuss atheism versus religion, and the idea of having a positive versus realistic outlook on their conditions.

Flawless writing, succinct and moving, The Cancer Ward is a novel that all people with cancer and their caregivers will love.

Read an excerpt.

IMMUNE THERAPIES FINALLY WORKING AGAINST CANCER

Sun, 31 May 2009 19:29:44 -0700

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The Huffington Post
July 22, 2009
Marilynn Marchione

Summary: Scientists have developed a new vaccine that uses the immune system to fight cancer. It has kept lymphoma contained for more than a year and is also showing positive results with other cancers. This is significant because if you can keep cancer contained, and prevent it from spreading to other organs, it is possible for a person to live long-term with this condition.

Read article.

TERMS OF ENDEARMENT: MOVIE REVIEW

Fri, 29 May 2009 18:49:58 -0700

Terms of Endearment is the only film about cancer that I've ever heard of, so even though it was made in the 80's and stars Shirley MacLaine, I decided to rent it. It was only available on videotape.

The two main characters are a mother and her daughter, and the first half of the film focuses on their love lives. Shirley MacLaine plays a bitter and lonely older woman who is bickering with her neighbor, Jack Nicholson (They eventually ball.), while Deborah Winger plays her daughter, who is struggling as a young mother trying to raise a bunch of kids, and who becomes disillusioned in her marriage and has an affair.

There was no mention of cancer for two-thirds of the movie and I was beginning to wonder if I had misunderstood the story, until, an hour and a half into it, the daughter finds a lump under her arm. She dismisses it at first, but after urging from her family, decides to go to the doctor. When she does, she is diagnosed with breast cancer.

While most cancer patients come to see their doctors once a month, and spend the rest of the time at home, going to work, and living "normal" lives, she almost immediately winds up in the hospital, lying Victorian-like on a hospital bed, never to rise again.

She does not lose her hair (from chemo), need oxygen, vomit all of her food, cry in pain when the opiates don't do anything, or get pissed off at the world and Shirley. She lies in bed, pleasantly chats, and raises one arm to lovingly mess up her kid's hair. It seems the only thing that she can't do is lift her head or talk in a strong voice.

There are only about 15 minutes from her diagnosis to her death, which, of course, is also a farce. Shirley and Deborah's husband are sitting in the hospital room (way too homey, beautifully decorated, and private), when the nurse comes in, feels her pulse and says, "She's passed." Then they have a funeral and get over it.

This movie has nothing to do with the real experiences of people with cancer and their caregivers. Don't bother.

HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY CAUSES BREAST CANCER

Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:10:00 -0700

HRT Fuels Aggressive Breast Cancer
Health Day News
August 2003

Not only does hormone replacement therapy (HRT) increase the risk of breast cancer for women taking the supplements, but those tumours appear to be especially deadly.

That's the conclusion of a major, five-year study of more than 1 million British women, and it represents the third strike this week against HRT.

The researchers found that those taking combination HRT had a higher risk of developing breast cancer and a greater risk of dying from the disease than did women not using the therapy.

Previous studies, including the Women's Health Initiative in the United States, have identified the link between breast tumours and HRT. But the British research is the first to suggest that the tumours caused by hormone supplements are more aggressive.

The new work, reported in the August 9th issue of The Lancet, found that the breast cancer risks are magnified the longer women take hormone treatments -- but it also found that they fade with time after the therapy is stopped. Over the last decade, the researchers estimate that use of HRT in the U.K. has led to 20,000 extra cases of breast cancer among women ages 50 to 64.

In an editorial accompanying the journal article, three doctors from the Netherlands and Canada advised most women taking HRT to stop doing so immediately. "Now there's some urgency to get these people off hormone therapy," says Dr. Walter Rosser, head of family medicine at Queens University, in Kingston, Ontario, and a co-author of the commentary.

Between 20 percent and 50 percent of women in the Western world who are between the ages of 45 and 70 have taken or are now taking HRT, according to Rosser.

Read NPR article: Hormone Replacement Therapy Raises Risk Of Death From Breast Cancer.