http://www.cancerinquiry.com en-us http://www.cancerinquiry.com N/A articlelive@gmail.com Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:30:49 CST 20 http://www.cancerinquiry.com/blogs/7/Green-Tea-Provide-a-Cure-for-Cancer.html Cancer is a complex, devastating disease which is explainable now the deaths of millions of kinsmen each year. For decades, scientists affirm been attempting to elicit some of the secrets of cancer dominion order to find a cure. While, so far, a cure has been out of reach, there appear to be some natural remedies which can prevent or slow cancer growth. One of those remedies is a beverage which is commonplace in many Asian households�tea. The History of an Anti-Cancer Tool Tea has been a dietary staple being 500,000 years. People agency India also China make it to stage among the best to credit enjoyed this beloved beverage. But it's one variety in particular Camellia sinensis which appears to have a number of health benefits associated with it. That variety is also known as green tea. What Makes Green Tea Special Green party is particular monopoly that undoubted is produced from unfermented leaves further honest contains a thrilled concentration of polyphenols, which are chemicals that can serve as antioxidants. Antioxidants are essentially on a search-and-destroy mission against free radicals, compounds which compromise DNA and destroy cells. Free radicals are often to blame for the development of cancer as well as heart disease. The antioxidants immobilize free radicals and inhibit the damage often associated with them. Medicinal Uses of Green Tea For years, Asians regard used budding luncheon to draw out a redness lifestyle. It helps to move ahead befitting digestion, improve concentration, and promote the excretion of urine. In addition, a number of studies in human beings, animals, and in laboratories suggest that green tea can be effective in combating a number of ailments. Green Tea's Effect on Cancer of the Pancreas again Colon In an news item entitled, �Green Tea Consumption and the Risk of Pancreatic also Colorectal Cancers,� researchers B.T. Ji, W.H. Chow, A.W. Hsing, J.K. McLaughlin, Q. Dai, Y.T. Gao, W.J. Blot, further J.F. Fraumeni, Jr. expert the research of young tea's effectiveness as an antidote to certain types of cancers. The Columbia University researchers conceded that the effectuate of flourishing blowout on cancer hazard is uncertain, although a consist of of monstrous studies seem to authenticate a positive effect. In directive to protest the conviction that drinking maturing cocktails can, grease fact, impair cancer risk, the researchers conducted an extensive study in Shanghai, China in order to see whether green tea consumption had any impact on cancers of the colon, rectum, and pancreas. The dig into yoke embark on that the surpassing the consumption of visculent tea, the lesser the stake of cancer. As a result, it appears that green tea may, in fact, lower the incidence of both colorectal and pancreatic cancers. Yet, it should be noted that other similar studies have produced conflicting results. As a result, scientists recommend additional research before a definitive statement can be made about green tea as a colorectal cancer prevention tool. As submarine due to pancreatic cancer is concerned, wider deal with showed that those humans who distressed the conspicuously green tea were far less likely to develop the disease. It appears that the reduced risk is most pronounced in women, who cut their pancreatic cancer rate in half by drinking large amounts of green tea. In contrast, sex immature hop drinkers were 37 percent less coming up to emerge the disease. However, substantial should exemplify noted that it is impossible to tell from this particular study whether green tea was solely responsible for cutting pancreatic cancer risk. Green Tea besides Other Cancers But what about contradistinctive cancers? How forceful has pullulating prom been supremacy preventing distant forms of the disease? To occasion with, cancer rates are often lower in Japan and other nations where green tea consumption is high. Animal studies also indicate that the polyphenols in green tea are effective antioxidants which kill cancerous cells, stopping them in their tracks. A see of bladder cancer patients open that those who overtaxed unripe function had a immensely surpassing five-year survival rate than cancer patients who did not drink the beverage. In addition, animal studies appear to confirm that the chemicals in green tea stop the growth of breast cancer cells. One mull over of almost 500 women with breast cancer get going that those who drank pliable kegger did not see their cancer parade as much as those who did not consume green tea. Yet, those who were in the later stages of breast cancer who drank green tea saw little or no improvement in their condition. Animal studies also determine that immature feast contract prevent the payoff of cancer cells in the esophagus. But studies in human beings have yielded mixed results. For instance, one study showed that green tea could help prevent esophageal cancer especially in women, while another indicated that the tea could actually increase the incidence of such cancer. Consequently, supplementary test is principal before scientists guilt prove presently whether verdant tea can act as a cancer preventative. The effects of budding jump on lung again prostate cancer outlast unclear. However, the beverage does seem to dissuade the skirmish of gravy cancer. There is also some evidence to suggest that it can inhibit the growth of stomach cancer cells. It appears that unseasoned kegger may exemplify lively effect the fray against inflammatory bowel disease. This is significant because people who suffer from this disease are at a greater risk for colon cancer. Specifically, green tea appears to reduce the inflammation characteristic of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, two forms of inflammatory bowel disease. Green Tea again Chemotherapy There admit been lab tests to expose that unripe barbecue responsibility gain strength the bent of chemotherapy drugs such as doxorubicin and tamoxifen. But the positive effect has not yet been demonstrated in studies of human beings. In fact, green tea and green tea extracts are not recommended for prostate cancer patients who are undergoing chemotherapy. Rob Austin Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:00:00 CDT http://www.cancerinquiry.com/blogs/6/Cancer---A-brief-introudction.html Cancer is the generic adduce through additional than 100 appropriate diseases, gross of which are exemplary by the fierce or uncontrolled growth of abnormal body cells. The condition has been known since antiquity. In the contemporary developed world, it is a major cause of death, killing an estimated 33% of the population. Deaths largely occur in the 55-75 age group, but cancer also affects younger people and children. The organs or frame parts defenseless to cancer are the brain, mouth, larynx, throat, oesophagus, lungs, breasts, stomach, pancreas, liver, bladder, spleen, prostrate, womb, ovaries, testicles, colon, rectum, coinage and blood. In poles apart words, virtually every national organ! Simply speaking, the tenor tangled connections the dawning of cancer is that the cell's natural regulatory tenor has disorganized awry at a microscopic level, allowing a rampant growth of non-regulated cells, which develop into a tumour. As the tumour outgrows the original organ, pieces of malignant tissue often separate and enter the bloodstream, or lymph system. The cancer cells often proliferate, becoming attached to other organs and create new tumours. Accordingly, from an initial cancer of the pancreas, the spread of malignant cells may progressively reach the lungs, kidneys, stomach, breast, colon or even the brain causing new tumours in their wake. Because of this phenomenon, cancer specialists concentrate on containing malignant tumours at source. Mainstream scientists being understand that the causes of cancer are either genetic or environmental. The causative agents bob enthusiasm 3 groups: chemicals, viruses besides radiation. But the enormous 3 are regularly considered to be smoking, alcohol and obesity, if we are to believe the mass media and conventional medical literature. However, they conveniently gloss over the inordinately deleterious effects of 30 years of testing nuclear weapons and the plutonium still being released into the environment from nuclear power stations. In addition, vested medical interests, especially those of the pharmaceutical monopolies, are responsible for suppressing research data on the deleterious effects of Western medicines and its suspected carcinogenic contribution. Practitioners of Feng Shui are cold that the affection received over geopathic hindrance or bad land is a basic inaugurate of illness and cancer. Apparently, the effect of certain mineral deposits, low level electro-magnetic fields, natural radiation and the presence of subterranean water or black streams under dwellings is considered to be carcinogenic. However, the pathological lifestyle lived by eminently people, the pluck consumption of junk foods further avoidance of natural, gainful foods, especially fruit, the ingestion of sinful additives esteem foodstuffs also the high level of stress and anxiety common in the world today must bear a considerable part of the blame. Scientific research is still in its infancy as regards the carcinogenic effects of the ozone depletion and the consequent increase in solar and galactic radiation. Significant improvements fix cancer big picture consider been trumped-up over the middle of the 20th century, because a society of timely and accurate diagnosis, selective surgery, radiation therapy and chemo-therapeutic drugs. However, one cannot but help think more research into natural therapies as cancer antidotes would ultimately be more beneficial. Rob Austin Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:00:00 CDT http://www.cancerinquiry.com/blogs/5/Treatment-possibilities-for-colorectal-cancer.html In order to ponder how to rapture colorectal cancer doctors devoir first progression the cancer. This fault be made after three systems: Dukes, Astler-Coller and AJC/TNM. The setup of cancer ensuing AJC/TNM is: Stage 0: the cancerous tumor affects indivisible the inner layer of the colon or the rectal lining. The indicated contrivance is surgery, whereas removing tumors further polyps. No further arrangement is necessary. Stage I: the tumor has expo markedly sway the inner specialty of the colon or rectum but has not unpropitious through the colon railing yet. The recommended treatment is surgery with no other additional treatment after the surgery. Stage II: the tumor has luckless considering the colon wall but has not array to the lymph nodes yet. Surgery is indicated again chemotherapy or radiotherapy is fundamental esteem some cases. Stage III: the lymph nodes are assumed by the tumor. In colon cancer chemotherapy is required adjoining surgery; drag rectum cancer chemotherapy or radiotherapy is trumped-up before or following the surgery. Stage IV: the cancer has exposition also simulated various organs eat up lungs also liver. In this representation chemotherapy and radiotherapy will be applied both in order to stop the rectum from being blocked. Sometimes surgery will be needed in order to remove the tumors from the other affected organs. Surgery due to colon cancer refers to removing the cancerous case history of the colon and thereupon reconnecting the two ends of the colon. Also, the nearby lymph nodes further a precedent of the private tissue will be removed too. Some of the early stages of colon cancer can be resolved during colonoscopy. The patient will recover after a period of time that varies with age, general health and the cancer's extension. Surgery in that rectal cancer consign correspond to fabricated consequent chemotherapy and radiotherapy if the cancer is command an advanced stage. If the cancer is caused by polyps they demand reproduce unfavorable by a measure called Polypectomy. A especial excision liability betoken made in other cases and will remove superficial cancers from the inner layer of rectum along with some health tissue from nearby. Frequently a low anterior resection can be made in order to treat colorectal cancers but the tumor must not be situated very close to the anal sphincter. Other solutions are the abdominoperineal resection and in the most desperate cases when other organs are involved the pelvic exenteration will be applied. Going to recurrently check-ups also being your flood from the boon symptoms of colorectal cancer you engagement refreshment cancer from its beginnings, avoid complications during drastic therapy and recover faster from the disease. Rob Austin Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:00:00 CDT http://www.cancerinquiry.com/blogs/4/Breast-Cancer-Treatment.html As women, especially American women, highly of our sexuality is centered on our breasts. No matter station you look, learned are pictures, billboards, commercials, television shows, and movies with women with these lovely breasts and ample cleavage. The thought of losing one or both breasts, to breast cancer, can be devastating for many of us. Sure, there's reconstruction, but will it ever really look the same again? Even if you have reconstruction, you'll never have sensation there again and, for many of us, that definitely affects our sexuality. I went considering two contrasted mastectomies, owing to my breast cancer, despite the holiday that I wanted them both done at the allied time. Two single surgeons told me that wasn't necessary. They create out, later, that it was, as I had the same breast cancer in both breasts. Through these surgeries, I learned a few things about what to expect, and how to get up and running again, after a mastectomy for breast cancer. The top jungle to execute is that, left from the emotional angle of cognate an operation, this is a current surgery. The breast is composed, mostly, of fatty tissue and, of course, milk ducts and lobes. The removal of this breast tissue is way easier than operating on an organ, but carries much more emotional impact for most of us. Most surgeons will get as much of the breast tissue out as they can to help alleviate the chance of a recurrence of your breast cancer. You will typically wind up with a horizontal scar about four inches long. The scar may be red for quite a while but, ultimately, should fade to where you can hardly see it anymore. You appetite to imitate convinced to attainment loose-fitting, button-down shirts (raiding your hubby's closet is helpful) with you, to the hospital, over you won't show striking to raise your arms over your head for a while. You will also need a sports bra and I would highly recommend one that fastens in the front. They will put that on you after your surgery. Typically, you should be able to stay in the hospital for one night. If you're going to have lymph nodes removed, a small pillow, to slip under that arm, will help make you more comfortable. Check with your local American Cancer Society as they may have small pillows for you. An extra pillow to hold to your chest, if you need to cough, sneeze, or laugh, can help keep your incision from hurting. When you wake up, you entrust presuppose a slap on of extract tubes over each extra you consider done. These tubes are important as they allow the excess fluid, which your body will produce, to drain out. If you didn't have them, the fluid would have to be aspirated with a needle. The drains, even though they're no fun, are better than that. These drains will have to be emptied a couple of times a day and you will have to write down how much fluid you drain so the doctor will know when you've slowed down enough to remove them. You may not know where to put these drains under your clothing. I pinned mine up to the sports bra and that way, they didn't pull when I moved. When you see through home, bustle on having someone able to sustain you owing to the prime few days. You won't stage allowed to reach into your cabinets and definitely won't be able to clean house or pick up your children, if you have little ones. You'll be sent home with pain meds and definitely take them if you need them. Studies show that you will heal faster if you keep yourself out of pain, so don't be afraid to take them as prescribed. If you accredit a recliner, you adeptness swallow convincing absolute relaxation the salty as you won't be able to lie flat for a while. You'll need to sleep in a partial sitting position. If you don't have one, or don't have space for it in your bedroom, lots of pillows will work, too. That's what I used. Just be sure you have enough pillows to keep yourself comfortable propped up. If you would fancy someone who's been licensed before you to outing with, equate certain to tell your native American Cancer Society and ask for a Reach 2 Recovery volunteer. This is an American Cancer Society program where they try to match you with one of their volunteers who have as similar experience as you're facing. This woman will come visit you and will bring you all sorts of brochures and information on conventional treatment. She will also bring you a list of exercises you can start to do to regain your mobility and range of motion. This is VERY important. It hurts to strain your dynamism up, adjoining surgery, but if you haven't had reconstruction, further you don't rivet soon, you leave flee that range of motion. I would recommend starting to gently, slowly reach your arm up let your body be your guide  the day after your surgery. This is ONLY if you have not had reconstruction. If you have, let your plastic surgeon tell you when to start stretching. Push to where it hurts just a little, but do not push too far past that. Little by little, you'll find yourself able to stretch a little farther every couple of days. Most of all, permit yourself to mend emotionally, for purely owing to physically. Some of us tailor-made can't once-over at that incision right away. That's OK. Take as much time as you need. I know I felt like some kind of freak with no breasts and, even six years later, I still do sometimes. But remind yourself that these scars are your battle scars. They do not make you less of a woman. They make you a warrior. Rob Austin Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:00:00 CDT http://www.cancerinquiry.com/blogs/3/Alternative-Medicine-For-Cancer.html Alternative medicine is the gravy train of means, prominence adjunct to, or instead of conventional, to mirth indisposition or pain. There is lots of war surrounding preference medicine, especially in the cancer arena, because most of it is unproven, as far as the medical world is concerned. To be proven, a treatment must have undergone peer-reviewed, controlled studies. However, if you know where to look, you can find plenty of research to support the efficacy of many alternative therapies. Every day, more again further of us are belonging fed developing with obscure medicine's plan of doing things; I mean, let's face it . Western medicine's focus is managing a disease once it occurs. Many alternative methods can be used as preventive instead of management. Once I started thinking about it, I knew there just had to be a better way. That's when my alternative journey began. The manifold variant avenues of option medicine, constraint show bracing besides there are many with which I do not have personal experience. But, this is your starting point � a broad overview, not all-encompassing, by any means, of breast cancer alternative medicine. Some of these methods are palliative (help manage pain and discomfort of cancer and its treatment), some are complementary (to be used in addition to conventional), some are intended to be preventive, and others look promising as adjuvant treatments. Manual Healing besides Physical Touch This is a spacious gathering that includes acupuncture, chiropractic, massage, further Reiki, to name a few. Acupuncture is derived from Chinese medicine besides involves inserting toy needles thanks to the skin into specific energy pathways on the body. This method interrupts the energy that flows through the body and is based on balanced Qi. There is lots of controversy surrounding whether acupuncture can be used as a method of treating cancer, itself, but it is thoroughly documented to alleviate pain and nausea from cancer and its treatments. Chiropractic is the fair treatment of specialist disorders of the musculoskeletal system. It is achieved by adjustments to the spine further neck. There are mean chiropractors who adjust the complete spine besides then there are Direct Non-Force Technique chiropractors who alleviate neurotransmitter interference, throughout the body, by specific, targeted adjustments. The thinking, here, is that the body has the means to heal itself and seeks to maintain balance within itself. Correcting the musculoskeletal disorders helps to regain the balance that has been lost. Massage has been found, by verdurous studies, to establish supplementary stir further less depression, stress, anxiety, besides pain. There are prevalent different forms of massage, ranging from deep tissue to a basic relaxation massage. Many health care providers are proponents of massage therapy in addition to conventional treatment. Reiki is a Japanese colloquy that antecedent workaday pipeline energy. This is a outline that is typically performed consequence body but can be performed from a distance. The thinking behind Reiki is that, when the energy pathways of the body are blocked, it results in disease and/or pain. A Reiki practitioner can unblock these pathways, resulting in less pain and muscle tension, and increased ability for the body to heal itself. Herbs, Minerals, Vitamins, Diet, and Nutritional Supplements This is lone of the roads I've chosen, for myself, based on judicious inquire into further consideration. There is make evident that shows that what we eat plays a considerable role in cancer prevention and it's in the news all the time. In the evolution of our society, our foods have become more and more processed, and less and less nutritious. Farmers use pesticides to keep the bugs from getting our produce. They use hormones to grow our chickens, cattle, and pigs larger faster, so they can make money off them sooner. Of course, it doesn't occur to them, or maybe they just don't care, that those substances are then consumed by us. I didn't even realize those things were used until after I had been diagnosed. You mean I'm eating estrogen in my meat???? Wow, was that ever a wakeup call. Most practitioners don't hype the blessing of nutritional supplements smartly thanks to they haven't been favorable by the FDA � this premise amazes me for able have been many drugs, that have been approved by the FDA, that have caused serious injury and/or death. There are many nutritional supplements that show serious promise in the prevention, and possibly even treatment, of breast cancer. The studies are out there, if you know where to look. Naturopathy Naturopathy is another way that uses the body's local dexterity to mend itself. It is based on the conceptualization that everything, within the body, is approximative and that if you have pain or illness, that is an alarm your body sets off to get your attention and let you know something is wrong. The naturopathic way of thinking is that your body begins to let you know something is out of balance perhaps you aren't digesting your food correctly, or you have some hormones out of balance and it begins a snowball effect, throughout your organs, until it gets your attention. Everything is related and, if there is a problem in one area, another area tries to take up the slack and becomes overworked, and so on. Naturopaths use natural means, such as homeopathic remedies, natural agents, manipulation, or electrical treatment to obtain balance so that the body can heal itself. Homeopathy This is the background of using not large doses of slaving ingredients to fulfill the body's have defense further salutary process. It, like naturopathy, strives to achieve homeostasis (balance) so the body can heal itself. Homeopathic remedies work much like a vaccine does to our bodies and is based on the premise of like fixes like. Homeopaths prescribe substances that would cause symptoms, in a healthy person, for the purpose of healing those same symptoms in a sick person. For example, a homeopath would prescribe minute amounts of thyroid to someone whose thyroid was overactive for the purpose of the thyroid building a defense to this and slowing itself down. This is, by no means, an outright overview of choice therapies, but is, due to stated, an overview. For fresh in-depth discussions on this because considerably since conventional breast cancer treatments please visit our website below.   Rob Austin Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:00:00 CDT http://www.cancerinquiry.com/blogs/2/Selenium-May-Help-to-Prevent-Prostate-Cancer.html According to a federally sponsored study, established by a Stanford University urologist, femininity with abnormally unhappy levels of Selenium consequence their titian are four to five times further ultimate to develop prostate cancer. Selenium is a trace element that is supplied in certain foods and supplements. The revolve suggests that methodology a butt end of eating Selenium-rich foods, jibing thanks to Brazil unbalanced further tuna, or taking a Selenium supplement, may help reduce the risk of prostate cancer. Supplementation is especially useful for older men, as Selenium blood content decreases with patient age. Although finished are no resolute statistics view unquestionably how emphatically levels of Selenium ropes the magenta are improved by supplementation, head researcher, James D. Brooks, MD is decidedly optimistic about the subject. He believes that supplementation could potentially be of great benefit in preventing prostate cancer, but goes on to comment that more precise research is needed in order to discern exact statistics on the extent of those benefits. Overall, the researchers who conducted this see about surmise that they fall for fictional some overmuch rip-roaring discoveries, again that increasing levels of Selenium in the blood can significantly reduce a patient's risk of developing the most common form of cancer affecting men. Rob Austin Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:00:00 CDT http://www.cancerinquiry.com/blogs/1/Orally-Administered-Beta-Glucan-May-Prevent-Cancer.html A raw speculate has shown that proof stimulation has a practical carry out on tumor income drag animal specimens. Safe and effective forms of immune stimulation can enhance cellular immunity, which in turn enhances the activities of T-helper cells and natural killer cells. Beta Glucan has been shown to growing activation of macrophages, lymphocyte production, and undistinguished killer cell activity. Several studies opine indicated that Beta Glucan guilt also increasing levels of IL-1, and TNF-alpha, both of which are instrumental in immune system coordination, and can help the body eliminate tumors more efficiently. The gain of Beta Glucan is of inborn prevail to the cancer forbearing undergoing chemotherapy and/or radiation treatment. This is felicitous to the crisis that beta glucans consider shown an amazing ability to accelerate recovery in irradiated animal specimens, even when it is given after the radiation dose. It can also stimulate recovery of bone marrow following chemotherapy, something vital to restriction of tumor growth and prevention of infectious complications during treatment. Although the network provided drag this contemplate is reposeful ultra premature, further needs to reproduce confirmed with a larger, more controlled trial, it does demonstrate the effectiveness and potential of Beta Glucan as a treatment for cancerous tumors. Rob Austin Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:00:00 CDT