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In Remembrance of Dr Hulda Regehr Clark 1928 - 2009

September 29, 2009 – 3:36 am

Dr. Hulda Regehr Clark was born on October 18th, 1928 in Rosthern , Saskatchewan Canada.
She began her studies in biology at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, where she was awarded the Bachelor of Arts in 1950 , Magna Cum Laude. Dr. Clark was awarded a Master of Arts degree, with High Honors from the University [...]

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Link Found Between Allergies and Lower Cancer Risk

September 2, 2009 – 3:49 pm

Physical symptoms like runny nose and fever can be very uncomfortable, and most people just want to get rid of them as quickly as possible. Such reactions and symptoms, however, play a very important role in the body’s healing processes. A runny nose, for example, allows the body to flush out unwanted agents, while a [...]

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Organ Transplant Recipients Have Higher Cancer Risk

September 2, 2009 – 3:32 pm

Some relatively recent studies have shown organ transplant recipients, whose immune systems have to be suppressed to prevent them from rejecting the new organs, are at higher risk of getting cancer.
These studies are briefly described in the following article. While this information sounds rather ominous for organ transplant recipients, it could also serve as motivation [...]

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Overweight Prostate Cancer Sufferers More Likely to Die of the Disease

June 14, 2009 – 2:54 am

If one is obese, one has a much higher probability of contracting a host of various degenerative diseases, as well as to live a much shorter life.
Logically speaking, with a weaker body and a compromised immune system, an overweight person would also be less able to fend off and recover from various health conditions. [...]

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Pancreatic Cancer Risk Heightened By Two Alcoholic Drinks Each Day

June 5, 2009 – 12:42 pm

Alcohol, drunk in large amounts, certainly does great damage to one’s health, especially on the liver. It probably raises cancer risk, too, as other studies have suggested. But how about moderate drinking?
It is arguable if two alcoholic drinks every day can be considered moderate drinking. In any case, a study has found that even that [...]

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Low Alcohol Consumption May Also Increase Women’s Cancer Risk

June 5, 2009 – 12:27 pm

Does alcohol increase cancer risk, or does it not? Most people say yes. Others say it depends on the type of alcohol; supporters of red wine, for example, insist that antioxidants in it help to boost health and lower risk of disease.
The study described in the following article, though not perfect, gives us some insight [...]

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Impact of Diet and Lifestyle on Cancer Risk - Many Are Not Informed

June 3, 2009 – 10:12 am

A good diet can help to prevent cancer, and even help you to overcome the disease, right? Bad foods cause cancer, right? Bad lifestyle habits like alcohol drinking, lack of exercise and being overweight increase cancer risk, right?
These sound like common and commonsensical knowledge, which you would think the majority of people would be aware [...]

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Vegetables and Fruits May Help Prevent Breast Cancer Recurrence

June 3, 2009 – 9:59 am

Fruits and vegetables are an absolutely critical part of any health-promoting diet, and even more so when it comes to cancer prevention or anti-cancer dietary protocols.
They are high in vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, antioxidants, enzymes and other nutrients, contain lots of fiber which helps to keep the intestines and colon clean, as well as contain countless [...]

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Woman Beats Breast Cancer Using Healing Diet and Plan from Solomon Wickey

April 17, 2009 – 6:23 am

Many people diagnosed with cancer have walked away from conventional cancer treatment, sought out “alternatives” and gotten well. This is a story of a lady from Indiana who got breast cancer, found an alternative protocol, followed it, and got well.
The protocol she followed was largely dietary and herbal in nature. But it also entailed other [...]

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Help Prevent Breast Cancer By Having Sufficient Sleep

April 17, 2009 – 4:11 am

Do you suffer from insomnia? Do you have interrupted sleep? Or is your lifestyle or some factors in your life keeping you from having sufficient sleep and rest at night?
Lack of sleep does not just make you feel a little more tired or sleepier the next day - it in fact raises your risk of [...]

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Ovarian Cancer - Study Finds Talcum Powder Link

April 17, 2009 – 1:36 am

Every day, besides our food, we use dozens of different cosmetics, powders, lotions, pastes, soaps, shampoos, etc on our bodies. Yet many of us are not aware, or simply cannot be bothered, of the fact that there are hundreds, even thousands of harmful chemicals in these daily products.
Most of these chemicals have not even been [...]

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Simple Lifestyle and Dietary Changes Stopped Aggressive Prostate Cancer; 36% Did Not Need Further Treatment

March 30, 2009 – 3:08 am

A study conducted at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridgeshire found that, for almost 40% of aggressive prostate cancer sufferers, surgery and radiotherapy treatments which were planned were not needed after the men made simple changes to their lifestyle and dietary habits.
Not only did the changes slow the growth of the cancers, they even stopped it altogether [...]

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Breast Cancer Recovery Negatively Hit by Unhappy Marriages

March 27, 2009 – 8:02 am

As further proof that one’s mental and emotional state of health plays a great part in preventing and combating disease, a study has shown a link between marital problems and poorer survival for breast cancer sufferers.
Some healing modalities, such as German New Medicine, advocate that emotional trauma and stress is the root cause of disease. [...]

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Mental and Emotional Health Help Prevent Breast Cancer; Traumatic Events Raise Risk

March 27, 2009 – 6:58 am

When you are happy, optimistic and positive, your body’s immune system responds happily and healthily, too. On the other hand, when you are sad, depressed, angry or pessimistic, your immune system also gets depressed, and your body produces all sorts of harmful chemicals.
It is therefore not surprising at all that being happy and optimistic is [...]

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Skin Cream Linked to Skin Cancer

March 17, 2009 – 1:47 pm

Toxins, chemicals and poisons abound in modern life and the world today. It is a truly frightening reality. And they are not just in the food we eat, but also in the air we breathe, the water we drink, and all kinds of products and agents we use in the house or on our [...]

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Cancer Fund Raising and Donations - An Event Severely Lacking in Common Sense

March 17, 2009 – 12:22 pm

There is so much about conventional cancer treatment which is instinctively, intuitively and intellectually wrong.
Poisons and chemicals cause cancer. Radiation causes cancer. Stress causes cancer. Yet, conventional medicine’s diagnostic and treatment protocols are full of poisons, chemicals, radiation and stress; they cause cancer! This article highlights to us that even cancer fund-raising activities severely lack [...]

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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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Prostate Cancer Risk Elevated by Gonorrhea and Promiscuous Sex Life

February 19, 2009 – 11:39 am

A study conducted at the University of Michigan has found that men who had previously suffered from gonorrhea have a higher risk of getting prostate cancer.
Another risk factor is having multiple sex partners - having had more than 25 sexual partners in a man’s lifetime also raises his risk of prostate cancer to over 2.5 [...]

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Pregnant Women Who Smoke Are Increasing Their Children’s Future Risk of Cancer

January 15, 2009 – 4:40 am

Pregnant woman who smoke are increasing the risk of their children getting serious cancer later in life.
This was revealed in a study commissioned by the newspaper “The Australian” and carried out by the Cancer Institute in New South Wales.

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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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Breast Cancer Risk May Be Increased By Moisturizers Which Contain Oestrogens

January 13, 2009 – 5:49 am

Breast cancer patients who use moisturizers, please take note – you may be putting oestrogen into your bodies without even realizing it. In fact, ladies who do not have the disease should take note too.
Dr Adrienne Olson of Breastlink in Hawthorne, California, had analyzed 16 widely available moisturizers and found that, although none of the [...]

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Increased Lung Cancer Risk with Exposure to Diesel and Other Vehicle Exhaust

January 13, 2009 – 4:59 am

According to the California Air Resources Board (CARB), a long-term study has revealed that workers in the trucking industry who have been regularly exposed to diesel as well as other kinds of vehicle exhaust had heightened risk of getting lung cancer with more years of work.
The study was led by E. Garshick and published in [...]

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Breast Cancer Survival Rates Boosted by Psychological Counseling

January 13, 2009 – 3:27 am

A recent study has suggested that psychological counseling may boost breast cancer patients’ likelihood of survival.
By undergoing sessions which focused on improving mood, effective coping and altering health behaviors, it seemed the patients’ stress levels were reduced and this helped them to live longer.

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Smoking and Alcohol Linked to Esophageal and Stomach Cancers

January 13, 2009 – 1:02 am

A long-term study conducted by Dutch researchers has linked smoking and drinking to three subtypes of esophageal and stomach cancer.
The study was conducted on almost 121,000 people and spanned about 16 years. Its findings were presented at the annual cancer prevention conference of the American Academy of Cancer Research, held in Washington DC. [...]

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Vitamin D in Cancer Prevention - Statement Defending and Affirming its Role

January 12, 2009 – 8:43 am

A recent study released last year supposedly found that vitamin D does NOT protect against getting breast cancer.
Unfortunately, this is yet another piece of misleading information revealed to the public. A statement from a vitamin D expert which was published on NewsWire.ca explains why.

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An Example of A Natural Cancer Treatment Protocol

January 11, 2009 – 3:44 pm

If you are familiar with natural cancer protocols, or so-called “alternative” cancer treatments, you would have some overall idea of what it entails - nutrition, detoxing, boosting immunity, etc.
But what would a specific natural cancer healing protocol entail? The following article details some of the main elements of such a method.

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High Blood Insulin Levels Raise Breast Cancer Risk

January 7, 2009 – 3:59 am

A study conducted by researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City has found that women who have high blood insulin levels seem to have a higher risk of getting breast cancer, as compared to those with lower blood insulin levels.
This, according to them, might be the reason behind the link [...]

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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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The Dangers and Futility of Mammograms

December 30, 2008 – 5:00 am

Mammograms help detect breast cancer early, thereby increasing the chances of cure or recovery, right?
Well, that’s what the conventional medical establishment would have you believe. I do not buy it - not one bit. It’s all a financial exercise. Read on about how mammograms not only do not help you, but in fact are doing [...]

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Frequent Cell Phone Use Raises Risk of Salivary Gland Cancer by 50%

December 30, 2008 – 3:17 am

The use of mobile phones is getting more prevalent by the year. And recent research conducted at Tel Aviv University in Israel has found that heavy users of mobiles phones have a 50% higher risk of getting cancer of the salivary glands.
The study was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology and compared the cell [...]

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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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Exercise Is An Excellent Cancer Fighter

December 28, 2008 – 4:09 pm

Exercise is not only a great health booster, it is an excellent cancer fighter, too. Research is mounting that exercise can prevent cancer, slow the progress of the disease, and even boost recovery and lower the likelihood of relapse.
Well, in many ways, it is common sense, isn’t it, that exercise is critical for good health? [...]

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Smoking Increases Risk of Bladder Cancer

December 28, 2008 – 3:05 pm

Smoking plays a huge part in causing lung cancer and other respiratory problems – this is common knowledge. But it also greatly raises the risk of getting bladder cancer, something which most of us are unaware of.
Research at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center looked at information from other studies in the MEDLINE database [...]

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Diet, Stress and Cancer Risk

December 28, 2008 – 11:00 am

Intuitively as well as scientifically, we have a feel of how stress and diet both play large roles in cancer development. A study published in August 2008 in the International Journal of Oncology has given us some clues of how these two factors may interact to affect cancer risk.
The article below summarizes this study. A [...]

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Overweight Women Found to Have Higher Risk of Advanced Breast Cancer

December 26, 2008 – 12:51 pm

Previous studies had linked obesity and excess weight to higher risk of cancer. A recent study, published in the December issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, affirmed those findings.
The study looked at more than 287,000 women and their mammogram habits and discovered that overweight older women had a higher risk of getting [...]

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HIV Sufferers Have Double The Cancer Risk

December 21, 2008 – 1:23 am

A study which was recently conducted at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has found that people who have HIV have a higher risk of getting cancer.
Presented recently at the American Association for Cancer Research, the study, which had looked at 11 previous American and international studies on the subject, found that people [...]

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Exposure to Chemicals Benzene, Xylene and Toluene Increases Cancer Risk

December 21, 2008 – 1:05 am

According to recent research in Italy, being exposed to benzene, an industrial solvent, increases the risk of getting multiple myeloma. It also increased the risk of developing chronic lymphoid leukemia.
The risk of chronic lymphoid leukemia was also increased with exposure to two other oil-derived industrial chemicals, namely xylene and toluene.

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