High risk for cance for patients suffering from High Blood Sugar Levels
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Results of a study involving nearly 65,000 people point to an association between cancer and abnormally high blood sugar levels. These results “have obvious implications for lifestyle guidance, as it is well known what factors cause blood glucose increases,” Dr Par Stattin from Umea University Medical Center, Sweden noted. By avoiding excessive fat and other dietary risk factors, and by getting regular exercise, “you can decrease your risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes — and cancer” he added. Type 2 diabetes is associated with an increased risk of liver, pancreas, colon cancer, as well as other cancers, Stattin and colleagues note in the journal Diabetes Care. However, less is known about the effect on cancer risk associated with moderately elevated blood sugar levels among non-diabetic subjects.
To investigate further, the researchers examined data from 31,304 men and 33,293 women who participated in a larger study and had glucose (blood sugar) measurements available. In total 2,478 cases of cancer were identified in this group. In women, the total cancer risk increased with rising blood sugar levels. The relative risk of cancer was 26 percent higher for women with the highest fasting blood sugar compared with women with the lowest fasting blood sugar.
Adjustment for errors in measurement further increased the relative risk of cancer for women with abnormally high blood sugar levels. Overall, there was no significant association between total cancer risk and blood sugar measurements in men. However, for men and women, high fasting glucose was significantly associated with an increased risk of cancer of the pancreas, endometrium, urinary tract and malignant melanoma.
These associations were independent of body weight. These findings, the authors say, provide “further evidence for an association between abnormal glucose metabolism and cancer.”
Cancer Facts Lymphoma
Thursday, February 08, 2007
The American Cancer Socity has published in its journal some facts about Lymohoma, a form of cancer. Lets have a look over this.
New Cases: An estimated 66,670 new cases of lymphoma occured in 2006, including 7,800 cases of Hodgkin lymphoma and 58,870 cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). Since the early 1970s, incidence rates for NHL have nearly doubled, in part because of AIDS-related NHL. More recently, increasing incidence is confined to women. Overall, incidence rates for Hodgkin lymphoma have stabilized over the past 20 years.
Deaths: An estimated 20,330 deaths will occur in 2006 (Hodgkin lymphoma, 1,490; non-Hodgkin lymphoma, 18,840).
Signs and Symptoms: Symptoms may include enlarged lymph nodes, itching, nights sweats, fatigue, weight loss and intermittent fever.
Risk Factor: A variety of risk factors have been identified, most of them associated with severely reduced immune function, but the causes of the majority risk is elevated in persons with organ transplants who receive immune suppressants to prevent transplant rejection, in people with auto-immune conditions, and in people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), human T-cell leukemia/lymphoma virus-I (HTLV-I), and probably hepatitis C virus (HCV), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) causes Burkett and some non-Hodgkin lymphomas and may be related to other lymphomas. H-pylori infection increases the risk of gastric lymphoma. Occupational exposures to herbicides, chlorinated organic compounds, and certain other chemicals appear to increase risk. A family history of lymphoma is linked to higher risk.
Treatment: Hodgkin lymphoma: Chemotherapy alone or with radiation is useful for most patients. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma: Patients may be treated with radiation, chemotherapy or with chemotherapy plus radiation, depending on the specific type and stage of the disease. Highly specific monoclonal antibodies (such as rituximab, Rituxan®) directed at lymphoma cells are used fro initial treatment and recurrence of some type of non-Hodgkin lymphomas. High-does chemotherapy with stem cell transplantation or low-does, chemotherapy with stem cell transplantation or low-dose chemotherapy with stem cell transplantation (called non-myeloablative) are options if non-Hodgkin lymphoma persists or recurs after standard treatment.
Survival: Survival varies widely by cell type and stage of disease. The 1-year relative survival for Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma is 93% and 78%, respectively; the 5-year survival is 85% and 60%. Ten years after diagnosis, survival for Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma declines to 80% and 49%, respectively.
New Cases: An estimated 66,670 new cases of lymphoma occured in 2006, including 7,800 cases of Hodgkin lymphoma and 58,870 cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). Since the early 1970s, incidence rates for NHL have nearly doubled, in part because of AIDS-related NHL. More recently, increasing incidence is confined to women. Overall, incidence rates for Hodgkin lymphoma have stabilized over the past 20 years.
Deaths: An estimated 20,330 deaths will occur in 2006 (Hodgkin lymphoma, 1,490; non-Hodgkin lymphoma, 18,840).
Signs and Symptoms: Symptoms may include enlarged lymph nodes, itching, nights sweats, fatigue, weight loss and intermittent fever.
Risk Factor: A variety of risk factors have been identified, most of them associated with severely reduced immune function, but the causes of the majority risk is elevated in persons with organ transplants who receive immune suppressants to prevent transplant rejection, in people with auto-immune conditions, and in people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), human T-cell leukemia/lymphoma virus-I (HTLV-I), and probably hepatitis C virus (HCV), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) causes Burkett and some non-Hodgkin lymphomas and may be related to other lymphomas. H-pylori infection increases the risk of gastric lymphoma. Occupational exposures to herbicides, chlorinated organic compounds, and certain other chemicals appear to increase risk. A family history of lymphoma is linked to higher risk.
Treatment: Hodgkin lymphoma: Chemotherapy alone or with radiation is useful for most patients. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma: Patients may be treated with radiation, chemotherapy or with chemotherapy plus radiation, depending on the specific type and stage of the disease. Highly specific monoclonal antibodies (such as rituximab, Rituxan®) directed at lymphoma cells are used fro initial treatment and recurrence of some type of non-Hodgkin lymphomas. High-does chemotherapy with stem cell transplantation or low-does, chemotherapy with stem cell transplantation or low-dose chemotherapy with stem cell transplantation (called non-myeloablative) are options if non-Hodgkin lymphoma persists or recurs after standard treatment.
Survival: Survival varies widely by cell type and stage of disease. The 1-year relative survival for Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma is 93% and 78%, respectively; the 5-year survival is 85% and 60%. Ten years after diagnosis, survival for Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma declines to 80% and 49%, respectively.
Marianne Faithful Diganosed with Breast Cancer
Sunday, January 28, 2007
British singer and actress Marianne Faithfull has been diagnosed with breast cancer but expects to make a full recovery, her publicist said on Thursday.
Doctors in France who diagnosed the disease said the cancer was in its earliest stages.
The 59-year-old Faithfull, a former girlfriend of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, has postponed a world tour she was due to start next month.
The singer with the distinctive gravelly voice said in a statement: "I have absolute faith and confidence in my fantastic medical team and of course I will be well again, if not better than ever.
"Next year's tour, I want to assure fans, will be one big celebration," she added.
Her spokesman Rob Partridge said: "The disease has been quickly discovered by doctors in France -- where Marianne stays when not at home in Ireland -- and the prognosis for a return to full health is excellent.
"Indeed, Marianne Faithfull is looking forward to playing the re-scheduled tour in 2007."
Faithfull, the daughter of an Austro-Hungarian Baroness, began her music career in 1964 after being discovered at a Rolling Stones launch party when just 17 years old
Jagger and fellow Rolling Stone Keith Richards penned her first hit -- "As Tears Go By."
She married artist John Dunbar in 1965 and had a son, but the marriage was short-lived and she began an affair with Jagger that was one of the most notorious and heavily publicized in Swinging Sixties Britain.
Her drug addiction, frankly chronicled later in her autobiography, brought her career grinding to a halt for several years and she ended up living on the streets of London.
Her reputation was firmly re-established in 1979 with the release of the critically acclaimed album "Broken English."
After another bout of addiction, she recovered and re-invented herself in the Eighties as a jazz and blues singer.
Her career was given a further fillip in the Nineties when she performed the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.
She also carved out an acting career in both films and on stage -- from Ophelia in Hamlet to a leather-clad motorcyclist alongside Alain Delon in the French film "Girl On A Motorcycle."
By Paul Majendie souce: http://today.reuters.com
Doctors in France who diagnosed the disease said the cancer was in its earliest stages.
The 59-year-old Faithfull, a former girlfriend of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, has postponed a world tour she was due to start next month.
The singer with the distinctive gravelly voice said in a statement: "I have absolute faith and confidence in my fantastic medical team and of course I will be well again, if not better than ever.
"Next year's tour, I want to assure fans, will be one big celebration," she added.
Her spokesman Rob Partridge said: "The disease has been quickly discovered by doctors in France -- where Marianne stays when not at home in Ireland -- and the prognosis for a return to full health is excellent.
"Indeed, Marianne Faithfull is looking forward to playing the re-scheduled tour in 2007."
Faithfull, the daughter of an Austro-Hungarian Baroness, began her music career in 1964 after being discovered at a Rolling Stones launch party when just 17 years old
Jagger and fellow Rolling Stone Keith Richards penned her first hit -- "As Tears Go By."
She married artist John Dunbar in 1965 and had a son, but the marriage was short-lived and she began an affair with Jagger that was one of the most notorious and heavily publicized in Swinging Sixties Britain.
Her drug addiction, frankly chronicled later in her autobiography, brought her career grinding to a halt for several years and she ended up living on the streets of London.
Her reputation was firmly re-established in 1979 with the release of the critically acclaimed album "Broken English."
After another bout of addiction, she recovered and re-invented herself in the Eighties as a jazz and blues singer.
Her career was given a further fillip in the Nineties when she performed the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.
She also carved out an acting career in both films and on stage -- from Ophelia in Hamlet to a leather-clad motorcyclist alongside Alain Delon in the French film "Girl On A Motorcycle."
By Paul Majendie souce: http://today.reuters.com
8 Ways to Prevent Breast Cancer
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Breast Cancer Prevention
Almost all of you know aoubt this new name of horror "THE CANCER". More than 100 different kinds of cancer have been discovered so far, and perhaps many more to come yet. One of them is Breast Cancer, which mostly affect women. All male breast cancers cases accounts less than 1% of all brest cancer cases diagnosed. More than 2 million women in US is suffering at this very moment. Let us know some ways to prevent this disease.
1. You should be more active. A recent Norwegian study discovered that women who exercised on a regular basis cut their breast cancer risk by 72 percent.
2. You should eat more unrefined seed foods. They all contain phytoestrogens. If you eat foods rich in these elements, you are 4 times less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer. You should consume whole grains, beans, nuts, edible seeds, fruits and vegetables with their seeds.
3. You should eat less vegetable oil and increase the consumption of animal fat and dairy products. Consume yogurt, cheese, milk, butter, and olive oil on a daily basis, and eat meat from time to time.
4. You should eat less tofu and soy beverage. The isoflavone found in soy causes breast cancer cells to grow rapidly. On the other hand, eat more miso and tamari. Studies have found that they are very effective in preventing cancer.
5. You should eat foods rich in antioxidants. At the same time, avoid supplements of vitamins E and C. It was discovered that supplements increase breast cancer risk. Eat five to seven servings of dark green and bright red/orange foods every day.
6. You should sleep in the dark. Recent studies found out that exposure to light at night increases the risk of breast cancer by at least 36 percent.
7. You should drink red clover blossom infusion. Drink a quart of red clover infusion every week.
8. You should eat seaweed as a vegetable. Consume at least a half-cup serving per week. Wakame, kombu, kelp, and alaria are very effective.
If you follow these eight tips you will greatly increase your chances of preventing breast cancer.
