Cancer (Page 9)

It helps to eat the right foods! – Scientists are about to embark on a human trial to test whether a new cancer treatment will be as effective at eradicating cancer in humans as it has proven to be in mice. The treatment will involve transfusing specific white blood cells, called granulocytes, into patients with advanced forms of cancer. A similar treatment using white blood cells from cancer-resistant mice has previously been highly successful, curing 100% of lab mice with advanced malignancies. The donors will be healthy young people who have been identified as having immune systems that produce white blood cells with high levels of cancer-fighting activity.
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Researchers have found a link between a lack of exposure to sunlight, specifically ultraviolet B (UVB), and breast cancer. UVB exposure helps create vitamin D3 in the body, which can you can also get from your diet and from supplements, if you don’t have enough chances to get out in the sun. But vitamins may be BAD for you.

Science Daily quotes researcher Cedric F. Garland as saying, “In general, breast cancer incidence was highest at the highest latitudes in both hemispheres. Even after controlling for known variables such as meat, vegetable and alcohol intake, cigarette consumption, weight, fertility and others, the inverse association of modeled vitamin D status with breast cancer incidence remained strong.”
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As many of you know, Anne and Whitley recently experienced the death of a friend from colon cancer. It turns out that a married couple who sailed from England to America around 1630 may be the ancestors of hundreds of people alive today who are at risk for a hereditary form of colon cancer that may contribute to a significant percentage of colon cancer cases in the United States.
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