Cancer - Jus a lil sharing.
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1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These
cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have
multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there
are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means
the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not
reached the detectable size.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in
a person's lifetime.
3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer
cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has
multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic,
environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies,
changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing
cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone
marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc and can cause organ damage, like
liver, kidneys, heart, lungs & etc.
7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns,
scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will
often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and
radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from
chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or
destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and
complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to
mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also
cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer
cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.
CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
a) Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off
sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar
substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal Spoonful & etc, are made with Aspartame
and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or
molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added
to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg's amino or sea
salt.
b) Milk causes the body to produce mucus,
especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By
cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened Soya milk cancer cells
are being starved.
c) Cancer cells thrive in an acid
environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish and a
little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock
antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful,
especially to people with cancer.
d) A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and
juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body
into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including
beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily
absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish
and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building
healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables
including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day.
Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
e) Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which
have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has
cancer-fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or
filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled
water is acidic, avoid it.
12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of
digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become
putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By
refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the
protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to
destroy the cancer cells.
14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6,
Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to
enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other
supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed
cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or
unneeded cells.
15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A
proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor.
Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and
acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn
to relax and enjoy life.
16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment.
Exercising daily and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the
cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy
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So what shall we eat?
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some of the abovementioned sounds dubious to me. but i've only just attended 6 lectures on tumor biology, so i can't say for sure.
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alcohol can ma
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I doubt that the enzymes that break down meat proteins are the same as maintenance enzymes, but who knows..Originally posted by alfagal:13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By
refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the
protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to
destroy the cancer cells.
Hmm, I didn't know Vitamin E causes apoptosis. Maybe if I take lots of it I'll melt into a pool of cellular contents on the floor.Originally posted by alfagal:14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6,
Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to
enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other
supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed
cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or
unneeded cells.
Supplements are always a good idea.
Exercise more, get more oxygen, produce more free radicals, and get cancer faster.Originally posted by alfagal:16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment.
Exercising daily and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the
cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy
cancer cells.
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i read halfway i decided to just scroll down
coz the more u read
the more paronoid u get -
haha..this is scaring me
but it is a fact 
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nothing to be scared of. We will die one day and it could be cancer or any causes. We can't spend time thinking about all the various causes of death and getting paranoid over them. Might as well as live life to the fullest and spend time achieving your goals in your life. At least when the time comes, you won't have to regret about what you should have done in your life.
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yes i agree..but wanted to share anyway.Originally posted by starblue:some of the abovementioned sounds dubious to me. but i've only just attended 6 lectures on tumor biology, so i can't say for sure.
anyone here who's pretty sur that any of e abv mentioned is a myth, feel free to point out, a lil learning session for everybody -
3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer
this is inaccurate. a cell has to accumulate 4-6 minimum relevant mutations in order to become cancerous. usually, once a cell acquires the first mutation, its innate cell cycle checkpoints will be activated to prevent it from multiplying, and other processes then might lead to the cell's destruction. however, once a cell becomes trully cancerous, the immune system can, at best, only slow down the rate of multiplication of the tumour cells.
cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has
ermzzz... cancer indicates nutritional deficiency?? ermzzz... not exactly. cancer can indicate a lot of things, nutritional deficiency being the least of them.
multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic,
environmental, food and lifestyle factors.5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies,
like i said, the immune system and nutritional deficiency are, at best, indirectly linked to cancer. strengthening the immune system and improving nutrition isnt likely to help if you already have cancer cells.
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That's partly true, although it's more complex than that. The immune system has lots of checks and balances. For example, too much immunological reaction is bad...it leads to autoimmune diseases like SLE when the body's immune system attacks itself. A type of lymphoid cell known as regulatory T cells regulate and suppress the immune system to prevent the immunological reaction from going overboard. If there is excessive amounts of these regulatory T cells, however, cancer cells tend to spread further and become more aggressive, because the immune system is not able to fght the cancer cells. The excess numbers of regulatory T cells promote tumour tolerance.Originally posted by alfagal:
When doctors tell cancer patients that there
are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means
the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not
reached the detectable size[/quote]
Every diagnostic tests have limitations, that's true. If the biopsy is negative for tumour after treatment, it means the pathologist cannot detect it by looking down the microscope. Special investigations can be done to improve the accuracy of detection, eg. detecting abnormal cancer-associated proteins in cells that 'look' normal by immunohistochemistry/western blot or protein chip technology; detecting genetic changes in cancer cells that appear normal by fluorescence insitu hybridisation (FISH) and using PCR to detect minute amounts of cancer associated genetic changes. These additional tests are obviously more expensive and may not be routinely performed or available in many hospitals.Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.
Not sure what this is talking about. Mutations occur in cells very commonly, some of which may cause cancers. It is a wonder that it does not occur more frequently. The body has mechanisms to repair genetic errors eg. mismatch repair enzymes that cut out erroneous nucleotide sequences and replace them; as well as immune mechanisms to destroy 'mutant' cells that could lead to cancer.
Most men above the age of 80 will have small amounts of prostate cancer in autopsy studies of men who died of other reasons.
[quote]Originally posted by alfagal:When the person's immune system is strong the cancer
cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.
On the other extreme, patients after allogeneic bone marrow transplant may develop graft versus host disease because the lymphoid cells of the donor marrow attack the tissues of the recipient. This can result in damage to the skin, oesophagus in particular and can be very debilitating. However, patients with graft versus host disease after a bone marrow transplant for a cancer like leukaemia tend not to get the cancer again. That's because the donor lymphoid cells that attack the skin to give graft versus host disease also attacks any remaining cancer cell in the body and destroy it.
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DO U HAVE CANCER
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Everyone of us has an invisible expiry date stamped somewhere on our bodies. When it's time to go, it's time to go........... Moral of the story is Live life to the fullest while you have it! Don't procrastinate doing the things that are important to you! If we can achieve doing these, we'll have no fear when Death comes a-knocking........
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never had the chance to ask, but what branch of medicine do you specialise in?Originally posted by oxford mushroom:That's partly true, although it's more complex than that. The immune system has lots of checks and balances. For example, too much immunological reaction is bad...it leads to autoimmune diseases like SLE when the body's immune system attacks itself. A type of lymphoid cell known as regulatory T cells regulate and suppress the immune system to prevent the immunological reaction from going overboard. If there is excessive amounts of these regulatory T cells, however, cancer cells tend to spread further and become more aggressive, because the immune system is not able to fght the cancer cells. The excess numbers of regulatory T cells promote tumour tolerance.
On the other extreme, patients after allogeneic bone marrow transplant may develop graft versus host disease because the lymphoid cells of the donor marrow attack the tissues of the recipient. This can result in damage to the skin, oesophagus in particular and can be very debilitating. However, patients with graft versus host disease after a bone marrow transplant for a cancer like leukaemia tend not to get the cancer again. That's because the donor lymphoid cells that attack the skin to give graft versus host disease also attacks any remaining cancer cell in the body and destroy it.
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OMG!! mushroom is back!!!!
omg...
/itching to ask some *cough*alotof*cough* questions.
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let's just say it's cancer medicineOriginally posted by SingaporeMacross:never had the chance to ask, but what branch of medicine do you specialise in? -
siao liao...
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wtf
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Me tooOriginally posted by pierre^^:i read halfway i decided to just scroll down
coz the more u read
the more paronoid u get -
Sigh, seems like now, every 1 in 3 person will get cancer. I've seen how cancer patients suffer. Sometimes really wonder if they have changed their diet or lifestyle, would it be different?
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my father has liver cancer , he is in his 60s and just retired few months ago from in public service as a SBS driver few months ago.
he has tumor which is 12cm big and the specialist at NCSS has already told us there is no more options for him for western medicine , in short , he is dying.
He has no responded from chemotherapy and his body is too fragile for radiation or more chemo. The tumor is too big and close to the liver for surgery and the chances he will die on surgery bed if he goes for it is extremely high.
There is no more options but to pray and use TCM as in ..dragging effort...
But this morning i heard my parents started arguing abt his meals...my mum been very stressed and tired over taking care of his daily needs..becoz of his sickness he has become very picky and perhaps very moody over his pain n suffering..
And for the first time in my life i seen my father cry...and i went over n console him...he says he feel helpless , a 'fei ren" and cant even do anything without anyone help...and he feels my mum doesnt understand him...its not him being picky abt the food n stuffs , but his sickness makes him smell and taste good-food become like crap...
sigh..my father is now nothing but skin and bones , ravaged by the gradual failure of his body systems .. and it really pains me and our family to see him like this and nothing we can do about it to ease his pain.
fyi : my father is not a smoker nor a alcoholic drinker in his entire life.
But that doesnt mean we should all go ahead and start smoking n drinking , its still means we have to live our lifes the best way we know how.
Its not how long you really live that matters , but how much you really lived?
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Sorry to hear that...presume he is Hepatitis B carrier? If he is, the rest of your family should be screened for it as well.
Liver cancer tends to be undetectable until it has grown pretty large. If the tumour has not spread, liver transplant is done in some places, although it is unlikely in Singapore given the shortage of organs available.
Since it is not surgically treatable and not responsive to chemotherapy (quite typical of liver cancer), some form of palliation may be possible. I was involved in the initial research studies to use biosilicon for treatment of advanced liver cancer. A phase II trial was being conducted in SGH. You can ask your father's oncologist about the possibility of entering him into the trial if the study is still open.
(http://www.psivida.com/news/download/ASX/pSivida%20ASX%20Release_PhaseIIb.pdf
http://www.pharmaceutical-business-review.com/article_news.asp?guid=1E2505ED-4D29-4781-8403-CB78720E3052)
Otherwise, your dad will need good palliative care and perhaps hospice care in time to come. Even though a cure is not possible, doctors can provide good pain relief and a fairly good quality of life in his last days. You can contact the hospice care hotline for further information:
http://www.lienfoundation.org/press/Sep4_SHCLien_hospice_release_final.pdf -
Thanks for sharing these information.
By the way, may I have the link to your source? -
Huh? You mean you couldn't open these links?Originally posted by DeadPoet:Thanks for sharing these information.
By the way, may I have the link to your source?
http://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/projects/psivida/
http://www.nsti.org/press/PRshow.html?id=484
http://www.lienfoundation.org/press/Sep4_SHCLien_hospice_release_final.pdf -
Can we "operate" a bit more on Oxford Mushroom and torture him for further medical information?
