Category Archives: colorectal cancer

colorectal cancer, colon cancer, rectal cancer

Olives May Have Anti-Cancer Effects

June 3, 2009 – 9:30 am

Olives and olive oil are often touted as healthful foods. In the following article, two studies highlighting the possible anti cancer properties of these foods are discussed.

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Cancer and Sugar - Studies Which Show The Link

April 17, 2009 – 2:19 am

One of the most important things a cancer suffererer needs to do is to avoid refined sugar in his or her diet. I’m talking candy bars, cakes, sugary beverages, and the like. Cancer cells love these sugars. It amazes me that, in hospitals, they actually serve items with refined sugar to cancer patients. Don’t they [...]

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Cancer Survivors Struggle With Employment

February 19, 2009 – 1:43 pm

Cancer, without doubt, is a much feared and potentially debilitating disease. Often, cancer sufferers, especially those who undergo conventional cancer treatment, are, sadly, scarred for life.
And a recent study conducted by researchers from the Coronel Institute of Occupational Health, Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam has revealed that survivors of the disease experience more difficulty finding [...]

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Colonoscopies Do NOT Prevent Colon Cancer

January 14, 2009 – 5:19 am

I have been seeing some stories lately about how colonoscopy is only effective for detecting cancer in the left side of the colon (i.e. the descending colon), and not the right side of it (i.e. the ascending colon).
What really alarms me is how I have seen several headlines which go ‘colonoscopies only prevents X% of [...]

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Smoking Raises Colorectal Cancer Risk

January 13, 2009 – 8:19 am

A study carried out in Italy has revealed that smoking increases the risk of getting colorectal cancer by about 18%, as well as of dying from the disease by about 25%.
The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Exercise and Physical Activity Lowers Risk of Colon and Rectal Cancers

December 30, 2008 – 11:47 am

Exercise is critical for good health.
A study published in the November issue of Cancer Causes and Control has indicated that exercise and physical activity helps to reduce one’s risk of getting colon cancer and rectal cancer. On the flip side, lack of physical activity increases the risk.

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More Physical Activity Means Less Cancer Risk

December 28, 2008 – 9:02 pm

Yet another study has linked the level of physical activity in one’s life with one’s risk of getting cancer. Not unexpectedly, there is an inverse correlation. And this piece of research is said to be the first conducted on a non-Western population.
The study was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology and was carried out [...]

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Meat Linked to Small Intestine Cancer

December 26, 2008 – 3:55 pm

Should we, or should we not eat meat? What is the role which meat consumption plays in the development of cancer?
Scientific evidence seems to be growing that a diet high in fruits and vegetables is the foundation of not just cancer prevention, but also good health and vitality. On the flip side, the consumption of [...]

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Study Suggests Vitamin D Improves Survival From Colorectal Cancer

November 23, 2008 – 11:34 am

by Reuben Chow
first published on NaturalNews.com
A study led by Kimmie Ng, M.D., M.P.H., of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has found that colorectal cancer sufferers with high levels of vitamin D had better survival rates during a follow-up period when compared to those with low levels of the vitamin. The study also involved the Harvard School [...]

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