upi.com— Canadian scientists say they've discovered cancer cells spread by releasing protein "bubbles" -- a finding that might alter our concept of how cancer works.
Apr 22, 2008View in Crawl 4
Cancer diagnosis rate have been up. Too early to tell what exactly the pattern is. It may just be better medicine or public awareness. Remember a whole whack of illnesses used to be "old age" and Cancer is a disease that gets more likely with time. the average life span has been increasing. Enviromental factors are a factor too but you aren't telling the whole story.
I Dugg you up because what you said is ABSOLUTELY true, and needed to be said.It's not down to just hamburgers and cigarettes, because carcinogens are throughout the supply stream and hiding where you least expect them to.The first ingredient in most solid anti-perspirant/deodorant is propylene glycol — that's right, anti-freeze. And you're smearing a tablespoon of the stuff on a part of your body that has very thin skin covering a rich nest of lymph nodes, every day.Clothes are often treated with formaldehyde as part of the sizing to keep them fresh-looking for the store. A lot of clothing we use is made overseas and it takes months to get from the point of manufacture to the point of sale, so they treat it with preservatives. Not a lot, but how often do you buy new clothes? If you change your wardrobe a couple times a year, it's like the deodorant: little increments, a lot.There's formaldehyde in building insulation, pressure-treated wood, and sometimes new carpeting, for the same reason clothes are treated with it.Our drinking, cooking, washwater is delivered to our homes in PVC pipes; polyvinyl chloride is a known cause of breast cancer, they find it in tumours. We could replace it with copper or ceramic pipes; sure, they're pricey, but so is surgery, hospitalization and chemotherapy. Where would you rather spend the money? I'd rather dig up and replace copper and ceramic pipes every 15 years or so than spend three hours getting intravenously poisoned by yew extracts, platinum and oxalic acid, once a week for a year.Some things are hard to change; for instance, razing our cities' pre-1980s architecture and infrastructure is cost-prohibitive, resources-intense, and in some cases dangerous. But quitting smoking, washing your clothes as soon as you get them home from the store, taking an hour to cruise Google and familiarize yourself with the major carcinogens and reading the ingredients on your food and cosmetics, are ways to cut your risk immediately and with some facility. If you have the money or the desire, pull up your house's carpet and replace it with linoleum, tile, hardwood or bamboo. One in three women and one in two men will get some form of cancer sometime in their lives; your best defense against it is to arm yourself with knowledge and make the necessary changes as you need and can.
That really wasn't a citation. Are you saying you're guessing that if people did all of those things, then they wouldn't get cancer, or that you can prove it? You could start by showing me a placebo controlled, double blind study that backs up your statement that there are "proven alternative natural healthy ways to cure the body of cancer."
kingmanicApr 23, 2008
Cancer diagnosis rate have been up. Too early to tell what exactly the pattern is. It may just be better medicine or public awareness. Remember a whole whack of illnesses used to be "old age" and Cancer is a disease that gets more likely with time. the average life span has been increasing. Enviromental factors are a factor too but you aren't telling the whole story.
Closed AccountApr 23, 2008
why is cancer around in the first place then?
gemfinderApr 24, 2008
I Dugg you up because what you said is ABSOLUTELY true, and needed to be said.It's not down to just hamburgers and cigarettes, because carcinogens are throughout the supply stream and hiding where you least expect them to.The first ingredient in most solid anti-perspirant/deodorant is propylene glycol — that's right, anti-freeze. And you're smearing a tablespoon of the stuff on a part of your body that has very thin skin covering a rich nest of lymph nodes, every day.Clothes are often treated with formaldehyde as part of the sizing to keep them fresh-looking for the store. A lot of clothing we use is made overseas and it takes months to get from the point of manufacture to the point of sale, so they treat it with preservatives. Not a lot, but how often do you buy new clothes? If you change your wardrobe a couple times a year, it's like the deodorant: little increments, a lot.There's formaldehyde in building insulation, pressure-treated wood, and sometimes new carpeting, for the same reason clothes are treated with it.Our drinking, cooking, washwater is delivered to our homes in PVC pipes; polyvinyl chloride is a known cause of breast cancer, they find it in tumours. We could replace it with copper or ceramic pipes; sure, they're pricey, but so is surgery, hospitalization and chemotherapy. Where would you rather spend the money? I'd rather dig up and replace copper and ceramic pipes every 15 years or so than spend three hours getting intravenously poisoned by yew extracts, platinum and oxalic acid, once a week for a year.Some things are hard to change; for instance, razing our cities' pre-1980s architecture and infrastructure is cost-prohibitive, resources-intense, and in some cases dangerous. But quitting smoking, washing your clothes as soon as you get them home from the store, taking an hour to cruise Google and familiarize yourself with the major carcinogens and reading the ingredients on your food and cosmetics, are ways to cut your risk immediately and with some facility. If you have the money or the desire, pull up your house's carpet and replace it with linoleum, tile, hardwood or bamboo. One in three women and one in two men will get some form of cancer sometime in their lives; your best defense against it is to arm yourself with knowledge and make the necessary changes as you need and can.
joshfitzApr 24, 2008
Not all cancer is a result of the lifestyle we choose.
gojira87Apr 24, 2008
Wait -- they're just f**king finding out about this NOW?! Oh, humanity... what little faith I have in ye.
eir574Apr 24, 2008
I was in the lab that started folding@home around the time that they launched it. I never would have guessed that it would become this popular!
sabretouApr 24, 2008
Since you have not learned to use the Reply button, we are going to have to assume you meant that at the Canadian scientists who made this discovery.
eir574Apr 24, 2008
That really wasn't a citation. Are you saying you're guessing that if people did all of those things, then they wouldn't get cancer, or that you can prove it? You could start by showing me a placebo controlled, double blind study that backs up your statement that there are "proven alternative natural healthy ways to cure the body of cancer."
ajkrikApr 25, 2008
Then we could try to find a cure for politicians!