Although there is a big marketing campaign underway to increase the public’s awareness of breast cancer, it has been found that lung cancer actually kills more women than breast, ovarian and cervical cancers combined. This is unfortunate news, but the truth has to come out.
What is very surprising about this is that 66% of women who come down with lung cancer either have quit smoking at least 10 years before diagnosis, or they have never been smokers. continue reading…
I found an article that describes a medical student who is suffering from brain cancer. It is a sad article, but it caught my attention. This medical student is 24 years old, and is searching for a cure for his cancer. He is being treated with conventional medical techniques. He is receiving radiation, chemotherapy and surgery to treat his brain cancer.
The laboratory in which he works is located at Northwestern University. His lead researcher, Dr. Markus Bredel’, stated that brain cancer is a genetic disease. This statement did not make sense to me. In a normal gene, the DNA is designed to produce the RNA that is used to produce the enzymes and proteins that are necessary for normal bodily function. How is brain cancer a part of a normal human genome? Or does he mean that DNA damage is responsible for brain cancer? There are a multitude of chemicals that are released by modern industry that can cause damage to DNA, so this may be possible. In short, I didn’t see any evidence that supported the idea that brain cancer is genetic other than the credential of this researcher who made the statement. I’m just not so sure about the truth of that. continue reading…
