Times of India - Breast cancer treatment affects memory

Times of India | Dec 12, 2011

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health/Breast-cancer-treatment-affects-memory/articleshow/11082553.cms

Experts have revealed that breast cancer survivors may experience problems with certain mental abilities several years after treatment, regardless of whether they were treated with chemotherapy plus radiation or radiation only.

The study indicated that there might be common and treatment-specific ways that cancer therapies negatively affect cancer survivors' mental abilities.

Previous research had suggested that chemotherapy could cause problems with memory and concentration in breast cancer survivors.

To compare the effects of different types of cancer treatment on such mental abilities, Paul Jacobsen, PhD, of the Moffitt Cancer Centre and Research Institute in Tampa, and his colleagues examined 62 breast cancer patients treated with chemotherapy plus radiation, 67 patients treated with radiation only, and 184 women with no history of cancer.

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Joel Fuhrman - Fighting breast cancer with flaxseeds

http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/breast-cancer-fighting-breast-cancer-with-flaxseeds.html

Joel Fuhrman, DiseaseProof.com  November 30, 2011

What are lignans?

Plant lignans are one of the four classes of phytoestrogens (isoflavones, lignans, stilbenes, coumestans), phenolic compounds that are structurally similar to the main mammalian estrogen, estradiol.1 Plant lignans are modified by bacteria in the human digestive tract into enteroligans. It is important to recognize the role of healthy bacteria in this process, because antibiotics can destroy beneficial bacteria in the gut resulting in long-term reduction in enteroligans.2 Eating commercial meats exposes us to antibiotics, as does the overuse and inappropriate prescribing by physicians.

Which foods are good sources of plant lignans?

Flaxseeds are the richest source of plant lignans, having about 8 times the lignan content of sesame seeds [note that flaxseed oil does not contain lignans – they bind to the fiber]. The other plant foods on the list have about one-tenth or less the amount of lignans as sesame seeds per serving.2,3 Chia seeds are also a rich source of lignans, however the exact amount is still debatable, so that number will be made available at a later date.

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Alliance for Natural Health - TSA Attempts to Cover Up Cancer Threat From Its Airport X-ray Machines

Alliance for Natural Health On November 29, 2011

http://www.anh-usa.org/tsa-cancer-cover-up/

Forget the embarrassment of your private parts being seen by strangers. The scanners can cause cancer—and TSA is trying to keep you from knowing about it.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) uses two types of body scanners. The backscatter machines are of particular concern because these X-ray scanners emit low levels of radiation and can cause cancer. The European Union has even put a moratorium on the scanners in light of the cancer threats—member states have been told not to install scanners until scientific assessment of risks has been carried out [1], and they will be banned completely in April if experts find them dangerous—but the US has so far swept the safety issues under the carpet.

According to a ProPublica/PBS NewsHour investigation, up to 100 US airplane passengers could get cancer from the machines each year. As reported by Natural News over a year ago [2], some noted scientists think that the risk is actually far higher than this because of the particular way that these machines operate, and they wrote TSA with their concerns. They described how the majority of the machine’s energy is delivered to the skin and the underlying tissue—not distributed throughout the volume of the entire body—so the dose to the skin may be dangerously high. This means that the ionizing radiation from the naked body scanners may pose a much higher risk of cancer than one might be assumed from the total radiation emissions, an observation that has so far been totally ignored.

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Malcolm Ritter and Mari Yamaguchi - Future Cancers from Fukushima Plant May Be Hidden

Published on Sunday, November 20, 2011 by the Associated Press

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/20-1

Japanese people don't trust reassurances from government scientists

by Malcolm Ritter and Mari Yamaguchi

FUKUSHIMA, Japan  — Even if the worst nuclear accident in 25 years leads to many people developing cancer, we may never find out.

Looking back on those early days of radiation horror, that may sound implausible.

But the ordinary rate of cancer is so high, and our understanding of the effects of radiation exposure so limited, that any increase in cases from the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster may be undetectable.

Several experts inside and outside Japan told The Associated Press that cancers caused by the radiation may be too few to show up in large population studies, like the long-term survey just getting under way in Fukushima.

That could mean thousands of cancers under the radar in a study of millions of people, or it could be virtually none. Some of the dozen experts the AP interviewed said they believe radiation doses most Japanese people have gotten fall in a "low-dose" range, where the effect on cancer remains unclear.

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ANI - Milk thistle halts spread of lung cancer

ANI | Nov 16, 2011

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health/Milk-thistle-halts-spread-of-lung-cancer/articleshow/10754789.cms

An Indian origin scientist has suggested that silibinin, a major component of milk thistle, may be a promising therapeutic compound in the treatment of lung cancer.

Alpna Tyagi, PhD, of the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy, and her team found that treatment with silibinin stopped the spread of these lung cancers in mouse.

Tissue with wound-like conditions allows tumours to grow and spread.

In the new animal study, silibinin help removed the molecular billboards that signal these wound-like conditions inhibiting the spread of these lung cancers,

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Canadian Press - Estrogen from birth-control pill in water linked to rising prostate cancer cases

Canadian Press  11-15-11

http://www.lef.org/news/LefDailyNews.htm?NewsID=11896&Section=Disease

TORONTO - Researchers suggest there may be a link between estrogen from oral contraceptives that has found its way into the environment and rising rates of prostate cancer among men around the world.

In a study in the online publication BMJ Open, researchers at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto looked at the percentage of women using the pill, intrauterine devices, condoms and vaginal barrier contraceptives in 87 countries, then examined the incidence and deaths from prostate cancer.

"Looking at these percentages, we find a strong correlation between female use of oral contraceptives at a population level and both new cases of prostate cancer and mortality from prostate cancer," said lead author Dr. David Margel, a urologist and fellow in uro-oncology.

"This was not found among other contraceptive modes," he said. "We also checked the percentage use of intrauterine devices or condoms or vaginal barriers and the same relation was not found."

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Paul Towers - New Evidence Links Common Herbicide to Cancer and Hormone Disruption

Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) Paul Towers, Pesticide Action Network/ Nov. 14, 2011 http://www.panna.org/

Thousands Urge EPA to Discount Flawed Science on Syngenta’s Atrazine

WASHINGTON - November 14 - As EPA reconsiders the science on atrazine, new findings highlight the link between low-level exposure to the nation’s most widely used herbicide and adverse human health effects, including cancer and altered hormones. At the same time, the chemical’s manufacturer, Syngenta, continues to influence scientific analysis of the chemical, downplaying evidence showing that atrazine is harmful.  

“Syngenta has misrepresented and obscured the science, leading federal officials and the scientific community astray as we look to understand the full scope of the atrazine problem,” said Dr. Margaret Reeves, PhD, senior scientist at Pesticide Action Network. “EPA’s decisionmaking on atrazine should follow the science. That’s the best way to ensure farmers, farmworkers and rural communities are protected.”

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Alliance for Natural Health - Breaking News: Outrageous New Attack on Dr. Burzynski

Alliance for Natural Health  On November 14, 2011

http://www.anh-usa.org/new-attack-on-dr-burzynski/

The pioneering cancer doctor is a target once again.

Stanislaw Burzynski, MD, PhD, is a biochemist practicing in Texas who developed (using his own money) a nontoxic gene-targeted cancer therapy calledantineoplastons [2]. It has been shown to effectively help cure some of the most “incurable” forms of terminal cancer.

Dr. Burzynski had tried to get the FDA to review and approve antineoplastons since 1977, to no avail. To make sure he would not get into trouble for using the experimental therapy in his practice, his legal team confirmed that he was acting within the law and could use antineoplastons in his own practice “to meet the immediate needs of patients.” But in the 1980s the Texas Medical Board (TMB) charged him with breaking a law that didn’t actually exist and tried to revoke his medical license. Numerous investigations later—including an appearance before the Texas Supreme Court—found no violation of any law or standard of care. The TMB came up empty-handed.

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Linda A. Johnson - Johnson & Johnson Baby Shampoo Has Cancer-Causing Chemicals, Group Says

Published on Tuesday, November 1, 2011 by the Associated Press

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/01/johnson-johnson-baby-sham_n_1069123.html

by Linda A. Johnson

TRENTON, N.J. -- Two chemicals considered harmful to babies remain in Johnson & Johnson's baby shampoo sold in the U.S., even though the company already makes versions without them, according to a coalition of health and environmental groups.

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics has unsuccessfully been urging the world's largest health care company for 2 1/2 years to remove the trace amounts of potentially cancer-causing chemicals – dioxane and a substance called quaternium-15 that releases formaldehyde – from Johnson's Baby Shampoo, one of its signature products.

Johnson & Johnson said it is reducing or gradually phasing out the chemicals, but did not respond directly to the campaign's demands.

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Sylvia Booth Hubbard - Take Turmeric to Avoid Pancreatic Cancer that Killed Steve Jobs

Thursday, October 13, 2011 9:33 AM

By Sylvia Booth Hubbard

http://www.newsmaxhealth.com/headline_health/avoid_pancreatic_cancer/2011/10/13/411622.html

The death of Steve Jobs last week added yet another name to the list of celebrities who have died from pancreatic cancer, a stellar group which includes Patrick Swayze, Michael Landon, Luciano Pavarotti, and Jack Benny. Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States and has the highest mortality rate of all cancers, killing 95 percent of its victims, according to the American Cancer Society.

"It's a dismal, deadly disease," surgical oncologist Dr. Robert Wascher, M.D., tells Newsmax Health. "But like other forms of cancer, up to 65 percent can be prevented by relatively modest diet and lifestyle changes," says Wascher, author of "A Cancer Prevention Guide for the Human Race."

Special: These U.S. Doctors Are Quietly Curing Cancer

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