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I found the recent publication "
Lifestyle Changes Could Prevent 50% of Common Cancers" interesting. Cancer Reduction
It reminded me to continue to take that asprin a day and tell my doc no more PSA test.
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can you at least post an abstract or citation?
I don't care to sign up for the site to read the article.
as for the title, I believe it.
my own cancer is a lifestyle cancer. Unfortunately not my own lifestyle. Secondhand smoke exposure growing up.
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Posted on: Sep. 07 2012, 9:55 pm |
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Isn't all death attributable to lifestyle?
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Posted on: Sep. 07 2012, 10:47 pm |
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Sorry about More than 50% of cancer could be prevented if people simply implemented what is already known about cancer prevention, according to a researcher here at the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) World Cancer Congress 2012.
Graham Colditz, PD, DrPH, from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, reported that a number of interventions, largely involving lifestyle behaviors, but also involving higher-cost interventions in high-income countries, could prevent a large proportion of cancers in 15 to 20 years if widely applied. Among the "biggest buys" from lifestyle intervention is smoking cessation. "
It goes on to talk about being overweight and obesity, poor diet and lack of exercise. Vaccines including hepatitis B to decrease cancer. Screening for colon cancer etc. Also more high tech methods including tamoxifen to reduce breast cancer, using genetic markers to identify those at high risk for certain cancers and taking preemptive action such as surgery in the case of markers for ovarian or breast cancer,
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Posted on: Sep. 08 2012, 3:03 pm |
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thanks, Roger
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I think it doesn't really matter, you either get it by chance or genitics. Menopausal medications can cause breast cancer, possibly, so try to avoid those. Talk to your doctor on the subject, they'd probably know better than me.
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Posted on: Sep. 21 2012, 2:46 pm |
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(SpiderWave625 @ Sep. 20 2012, 1:15 am)
QUOTE I think it doesn't really matter, you either get it by chance or genitics. Menopausal medications can cause breast cancer, possibly, so try to avoid those. Talk to your doctor on the subject, they'd probably know better than me.
yes, it's an odds game. but different things can affect those odds.
due to my childhood exposure to secondhand smoke, my odds of developing AML went up to at least 1:2,000 (a conservative estimate). those are insane odds when you're talking about cancer risk. 1:1,000,000 is deemed an unacceptably high risk by OSHA for workplace situations. so draw your conclusions from there.
"chance" does not mean "random."
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I'd like to think that keeping a lean body and staying away from animal fats makes a huge difference in your chances for cancer, but I'm going to do that anyway 
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Talus.
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Yeah, I was being general out of pure laziness. I don't really exclude much from my diet. I do however severely limit certain things. Everything in moderation.
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What the animals eat is important from a nutrient profile standpoint but also important from a cancer prevention standpoint is how the food is prepared.Cooking meat and starches(think french fries and potato chips and the like) at high temperatures has been shown to create carcinogens and in the case the meat it is not even the saturated fat that is the culprit but creatine interacting with amino acids.So if you must cook a food it is best to do so at as low a temperature as possible and of course include as many fruits and vegetables as possible as they have been shown to contain cancer prevention agents.
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(WalksWithBlackflies @ Oct. 03 2012, 10:13 am)
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(Roger @ Sep. 07 2012, 10:47 pm)
QUOTE ... using genetic markers to identify those at high risk for certain cancers and taking preemptive action such as surgery in the case of markers for ovarian or breast cancer, That seems extreme, and all too convenient to bias the prevention numbers. I guess if we all had our lungs removed, cases of lung cancer would dramatically decrease. The other actions seem reasonable and obvious. But where is the line drawn between personal freedom and group health care coverage? With the government being more and more involved in healthcare, I see this as being a serious talking point in the future.
I doubt that preventive mastectomies or oophorectomies have a significant effect on prevention numbers - except among women at extreme risk for breast or ovarian cancers.
It's a high stakes game - though "game" isn't a great choice of words.
Kind of like Russian roulette with half or 1/3 of the chambers loaded. No thanks.
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I always ate a fairly routine American diet, but not a lot of snack foods. Made sure I had several servings of veggies or fruits a day, and while no vegetarian, did not eat meat every day.
I was discussing eating with my oncologist a couple of visits ago, and he said that lots of veggies, along with fiber reduces the chance of many cancers, but sometimes it just comes and gets you. He mentioned that two of his current patients had been vegans for many years before they got cancer, and were stunned at their diagnosis. Both believed that their diets made them cancer-proof.
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Roger
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Posted on: Oct. 16 2012, 4:47 pm |
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Genetics play a major role in getting cancer. For example my grandfather and father died of prostate cancer and my brother has been treated for prostate cancer. No matter how good my diet, how much I exercise the risk will still be there.
I have a friend that had ovarian cancer and has the genetic markers for breast cancer. She had prophylactic surgery and had her breast removed. In her case the odds were against her and this was a reasonable approach. Now she feels she has done everything she can and the anxiety about getting breast cancer is greatly reduced.
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