Cancer, Cancer Treatment

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I received this information in the mail and just wanted to share this with you all. I wish there was no such thing as cancer.

You Should Enjoy:

* Cruciferous vegetables: Cabbage family members, such as broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts and kale, may lower the risk for colorectal and prostate cancer.

* Lycopene-bearing fruits and vegetables: Tomatoes and fruits with this antioxidant, including apricots, pink grapefruit and watermelon, may cut the risk for cancer of the lung, stomach and perhaps prostate.

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Drugs used to control diabetes may lower the risk of prostate cancer, investigators at the University of Tampere in Finland report.

“Recent studies have reported a decreased prostate cancer risk for diabetic men, although the evidence is controversial,” Dr. Teemu J. Murtola and colleagues note in the American Journal of Epidemiology. “It is currently unclear whether use of antidiabetic medication affects the association between diabetes and prostate cancer.”

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Cell Genesys Inc. shares dropped sharply today as the South San Francisco company said it will cut more than 200 jobs, is exploring its sale or liquidation, and stopping the late-stage trial of its prostate cancer drug.

The company (NASDAQ: CEGE) also said it was terminating the employment of Chief Medical Officer Robert Dow.

Cell Genesys shares were down 45 cents — or 73 percent — to 17 cents per share in mid-day trading.

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men at higher-than-average risk of prostate cancer are more likely to seek regular screening if they are married or live with a significant other, a new study finds.

Researchers found that among more than 2,400 men ages 40 to 79, those with a family history of prostate cancer were more likely to be regularly screened for the disease over a decade. However, a closer look at the data showed that this was only true of men who lived with a wife or partner.

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Harvey Diamond, Co-Author of Fit For Life

Date: 05 Sept 2005

Enjoy a live 1.5 hour online interview with Harvey Diamond as we discuss food combining, natural health, dairy products, how to be free from pain and his new book “Living Without Pain”. Harvey discusses how he began food combining, how natural health, food combining and his attention to his lymph system has helped him survive his exposure to agent orange. The Interview is avaiable in three parts for your listening convenience.

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Harvey Diamond, Co-Author of Fit For Life

Date: 05 Sept 2005

Enjoy a live 1.5 hour online interview with Harvey Diamond as we discuss food combining, natural health, dairy products, how to be free from pain and his new book “Living Without Pain”. Harvey discusses how he began food combining, how natural health, food combining and his attention to his lymph system has helped him survive his exposure to agent orange. The Interview is avaiable in three parts for your listening convenience.

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A large government study of whether Vitamin E and selenium protect men against prostate cancer has been suspended, federal health officials announced yesterday, after an independent analysis determined that the nutrients did not reduce the risk for the common malignancy.

The $119 million study, involving more than 35,000 men, also found hints that the nutrients might increase the risk for prostate cancer and diabetes, although officials stressed that those findings may be a coincidence.

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The original Food Guide Pyramid for Older Adults, published by Tufts University researchers in 1999, is widely used as an illustration in textbooks and manuals, featured in newsletters for older Americans and in informational material prepared by the Departments of Elder Affairs in numerous states. Now, almost 10 years later, the pyramid has a new look. The updated Modified MyPyramid for Older Adults, published in the January 2008 issue of the Journal of Nutrition, focuses on the special dietary needs of those over 70.

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Santaris Pharma announced today that SPC3042, a RNA-based antisense oligonucleotide developed using the company’s proprietary Locked Nucleic Acid (LNA) technology, potently blocks survivin, a key survival protein in cancer cells, in both in vitro and in vivo models of prostate cancer. Importantly, SPC3042 works synergistically with the anticancer drug paclitaxel (Taxol) in both model systems.

The data on SPC3042 was published in the September 2008 issue of the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics.

SUNDAY, Nov. 16 — Coming on the heels of two studies discounting the usefulness of vitamin B, folic acid, vitamin D and calcium supplements for cancer prevention, U.S. researchers report that vitamins C and E supplements won’t help prevent cancer, either.

The same team also recently reported that vitamin C and E supplements weren’t helpful in protecting users against heart disease.

“At least in the context of two very common outcomes — cardioprotection and chemoprevention — we see no compelling evidence to take vitamin E or C supplements,” said one of the study’s authors, Dr. Howard Sesso, an assistant professor of medicine in the division of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

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