Monday, December 21, 2009

Cancer Prevention - Nothing To Lose

Cancer prevention is often confused with early diagnosis. Early diagnosis is helpful because treatments are more effective but total prevention is ideal. Prevention saves the pain, anguish and money. Prevention should be everyone goal.A much is known about the cancer process and the variety of things that can affect it. There are three important steps in development. They often occur during long periods of time, even decades, but can occur simultaneously on a body part. The steps are mutations, cancer PROMOTION AND CANCER PROGRESSION.The possibility of any such transactions taking place in our body can be significantly reduced through the understanding and knowledge. The search has come a long way to show how each of the three phases can be eliminated or minimized. This is still a work in progress, but there are a great one can do now. Intelligent people are able to understand these processes and the adoption of a prevention strategy. The details are explained in my e-book "Know your enemy to become stronger against cancer." We know that the rate of most cancers are increasing, particularly breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men. It is clear that these tumors is due to the modern Western-style diet and lifestyle. The mortality rate decreased in these tumors, but suffering is not. Most research funding goes toward treatment rather than prevention. Maybe there's a new wonder drug on the market for a new discovery about how to handle the radiation. This research is obviously very useful when we are sick - and perhaps should be done before - but because not emphasize strategies for prevention? We need to get sick in the first place? There are several fairly obvious reasons why more money, effort and advertising is placed in the care rather than prevention. It's easy to understand, but this trend is difficult to justify. First, many of us live in a capitalist economy. Companies must make money and therefore need to sell products. Pharmaceutical companies invest a lot in all medicines being developed, and many never reach the market for that drug companies must sell their products very strong in order to recover money for shareholders. Secondly, prevention does not sell newspapers and it is difficult to prove. The lack of something that is not as interesting or surprising as the theater. Prevention does not engage the public in the same way as spectacular cures. Being saved by trauma is much more interesting than the absence of trauma in the first place. Drama sells newspapers, books, radio, television and film. Thirdly, there is interest in many products that cause cancer. In 1939 there was no definitive proof that smoking causes lung cancer. Serious efforts to reduce consumption in some countries occurred only recently. In others, has not yet begun. We have a long way to go before restricting other cancer-causing agents. Fourth, politicians do not win votes in prevention. Prevention is slow. The results are seen only in the long run. Politicians are generally uninterested in the things that can not be achieved within office.Cancer is a word that strikes fear into the hearts of individuals and families. When it hits close to us we sit helplessly as we watch our loved one suffer. The victim is usually offered surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy and going through a terrible illness and suffering, not knowing if they are winning. Tumors vary. Some are more aggressive than others. Some have a reasonable chance of survival. Other cancers are murderers absolute. A death from cancer is always a bad thing, usually painful and often degrading.

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  1. I agree with you that we should aim for prevention. My Dad has been diagnosed with lung cancer last summer of 2009. He quit smoking when he was 35, he is turning 82 next week. If he didn't stop, he would have had lung cancer sooner but because he did, he was able to prevent it from developing during his productive years. I always believe that healthy eating, supplementation and regular physical activity are the keys to prevention.

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