New Reprt out on Vitamin D for Cancer Prevention

A new epidemiology report on Vitamin D suggests that raising the amount of Vitamin D could result in prevention of 58,000 new cases of Breast Cancer in the USA.

Here is an abstract of the report:

Vitamin D for Cancer Prevention: Global Perspective
Ann Epidemiol. 2009 Jul 1;19(7):468-483, CF Garland, ED Gorham, AR Mohr, FC Garland


PURPOSE: Higher serum levels of the main circulating form of vitamin D, 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D), are associated with substantially lower incidence rates of colon, breast, ovarian, renal, pancreatic, aggressive prostate and other cancers.



METHODS: Epidemiological findings combined with newly discovered mechanisms suggest a new model of cancer etiology that accounts for these actions of 25(OH)D and calcium. Its seven phases are disjunction, initiation, natural selection, overgrowth, metastasis, involution, and transition (abbreviated DINOMIT). Vitamin D metabolites prevent disjunction of cells and are beneficial in other phases.


RESULTS/CONCLUSIONS: It is projected that raising the minimum year- round serum 25(OH)D level to 40 to 60 ng/mL (100–150 nmol/L) would prevent approximately 58,000 new cases of breast cancer and 49,000 new cases of colorectal cancer each year, and three fourths of deaths from these diseases in the United States and Canada, based on observational studies combined with a randomized trial. Such intakes also are expected to reduce case-fatality rates of patients who have breast, colorectal, or prostate cancer by half. There are no unreasonable risks from intake of 2000 IU per day of vitamin D3, or from a population serum 25(OH)D level of 40 to 60 ng/mL. The time has arrived for nationally coordinated action to substantially increase intake of vitamin D and calcium.

Vitamin D Benefits

You've heard the good news about vitamin D for years: It's a "miracle" medicine that reduces cancer rates by 77% according to previous research (http://www.naturalnews.com/021892_c...). It also happens to be a powerful anti-cancer medicine that can both prevent and help reverse breast cancer. It is also FREE from the sun.

Here is a compilation of expert quotations on vitamin D and breast cancer, cited from some of the most authoritative books and authors in the world. Feel free to share what you learn here with others who may also be suffering from breast cancer.

http://n-h-d.com/news.php?news_item_id=123

Nipple Discharge

Nipple discharge – the release of fluid from the nipple – is very common. This is the third most common reported breast problem after lumps and tenderness.

There are 15–20 milk ducts opening onto each nipple. Discharge can come from one or more of these ducts. Nipple discharge can:

• be spontaneous (fluid is secreted from the nipple without any squeezing of the nipple or pressure on the breast), or

• be on expression (fluid is secreted from the nipple when the nipple is squeezed or there is pressure on the breast)

• come from one breast (unilateral) or both breasts (bilateral)

• be clear, yellow, milky, brown, green, or bloodstained in appearance

• originate from one duct (one opening on the nipple) or more than one duct

Physiological nipple discharge

Discharge of fluid from a normal breast is referred to as ‘physiological discharge’. It is usually yellow, milky, or green in appearance, does not occur spontaneously, and often originates from more than one duct. Physiological nipple discharge is no cause for concern. Milky nipple discharge is also normal during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

When is nipple discharge abnormal?

Spontaneous nipple discharge unrelated to pregnancy or breastfeeding is considered abnormal. In most cases it has a benign (ie. noncancerous) cause, and is more likely to be unilateral, confined to one duct, and clear or bloodstained in appearance. Nipple discharge associated with other breast symptoms such as a lump, ulceration, or inversion of the nipple requires prompt investigation.

Breast cancer

Breast cancer is an uncommon cause of nipple discharge. Few women with breast cancer have nipple discharge, and most have other symptoms, eg. a lump or newly inverted nipple. Breast cancer that causes nipple discharge is likely to be benign or early invasive breast cancer rather than advanced breast cancer.

Breast Cancer Growth Rates

Breast cancer is the growth of abnormal cells in breast tissue. These abnormal cells not only grow at an increased rate compared to normal cells but may also spread, invading other body tissues.

Like a lot of cancers, breast cancer grows by simple cell division. It begins as one malignant cell, which then divides and becomes 2 bad cells, which divide again and become 4 bad cells, and so on. By the time you can feel it, a breast tumour is usually a little more than ½ inch in size – about a third the size of a golf ball. It has also been in your body long enough to have had a chance to spread.

Breast cancer doubles 30 times before it can be discovered. The average doubling time is 100 days, so it can take 8 years of growth until a tumour is visible on a mammogram. Very fast tumours can have a doubling time of 25 days, and very slow breast cancers can have a doubling time of 1000 days. Research shows that tumours may vary their rate of growth over their lifetime.

Depending on breast tissue density and structure, mammography is usually capable of finding breast tumours at approximately 1 cubic centimetre. This is 30 doubling times and about 1 billion cells.

With such a long lead time before becoming clinically evident, there is ample time to put in place effective imaging and health strategies to monitor and reduce risk.

Think before you pink

Pink Promotions Everywhere

Breast cancer is the poster child of corporate cause-marketing campaigns, as companies try to boost their image and their profits by connecting themselves to a good cause.

Breast Cancer Action urges you to ask some critical questions before opening your wallet for pink-ribbon campaigns:

* How much money from your purchase actually goes to the cause?
* What is the maximum amount that will be donated?
* How much money was spent marketing the product?
* How are the funds being raised?
* To what breast cancer organization does the money go, and what types of programs does it support?
* What is the company doing to assure that its products are not contributing to the breast cancer epidemic?

In other words, Think Before You Pink. If shopping could cure breast cancer it would be cured by now. The breast cancer movement needs action from people like you to create real change, the kind that will create a better future for women with, and at risk for, breast cancer.

From www.thinkbeforeyoupink.org

Perth family taken to court for refusing Chemo

Perth family taken to court to force 10 year old daughter to have chemotherapy

A father has been warned by a Perth hospital that if his daughter did not show up for chemotherapy, legal action against the family would commence. Tamar, 10, has had liver and stomach cancer for several months. The family had refused chemotherapy in the belief the natural therapy being used was more effective. The father, an anaesthetic technician at St John of God Hospital in Murdoch, told the court the natural therapy was working and that it would continue in El Salvador, where his wife was from. Chief Justice Martin refused to grant the order to the lawyers, clearing the way for the parents to treat their daughter as they choose.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/5910714/why-my-daughter-doesnt-need-chemotherapy/

What do you think? Should we have the right to decide our own course of action and that of our family?

Reduce your risk of breast cancer now

The latest review from the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), links breast cancer to excessive alcohol intake, lack of exercise and being overweight. Breastfeeding babies also emerges from the study as an important means of reducing the chance of developing breast cancer.

Making small changes to our diet, exercise habits and lifestyle can have a major impact on reducing our risk of all disease.

Monitoring breast health safely is also another option to reduce our risk by picking up early pathology before there are symptoms.

At last! Sensible research that indicates we can take control of our own health.