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Studies have shown that a person's genes can cause an increased risk in breast and ovarian cancer. This infographic shows the chromosomal mutations and the risk they can pose.
According to the National Cancer Institute, studies have shown that inherited mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes account for 5-10 percent of all breast cancers and 15 percent of all ovarian cancers. While genetic testing is encouraged only for those who have a family history of breast or ovarian cancer, education and awareness are important to early detection and treatment.
How can a better understanding of the cause of these genetic mutations help further the cause of finding a cure for cancer?
Sources:
* Infographic: Understanding the inherited risk of breast and ovarian cancer, gbtribune, section/212/article/73688
More Information:
* Features of Inherited Cancer, Stanford Medicine, geneticsAndCancer/inherited
* BRCA1 and BRCA2: Cancer Risk and Genetic Testing, NCI, factsheet/Risk/BRCA
* Hereditary Breast Ovarian Cancer Syndrome (BRCA1 / BRCA2), Stanford Medicine, geneticsAndCancer/types/herbocs
Finding and aggressively treating non-symptomatic disease that would never have made people sick, inventing new conditions and re-defining the thresholds for old ones : will there be anyone healthy left at all?
* Sources: statistically-funny by Hilda Bastian.
* Our posts about comics and overdiagnosis.
Growing Burden in LMICs vs Countries with Plans
This infographic - to download here - was developed to highlight some key figures from the World Cancer Report.
Sign Now the declaration for a cancer free world !
Sources: World Cancer Day 2014 resources.
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Photographed at Zilker Rose Garden in Austin Texas.
4/29/10 A wonderful friend I met here on flickr Lisa/ZoomInTight lost her battle with breast cancer today. My heart is filled with sadness as are many others. Please pray with me that they find a cure for this terrible disease.
" Cholera, diarrhea, tuberculosis – some of the most deadly diseases to plague the human race throughout history are all preventable in some way. Cancer, perhaps the biggest stymie to modern medicine, is also preventable in most cases. This is good news depending on how you look at it." ...
... continue reading The Good News about Cancer
by Erich Scholl, dailyinfographic, March 19, 2014.
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21 June – 22 July
Keyword – “I Feel”
Element – “Water”
Ruler – “Moon”
"Unstable" is one of the negative traits that go under the Zodiac sign "Cancer".
I researched and interviewed people which are Cancers. I've been given an example that if a Cancer fell in love, he would either fall madly in love OR dislike the person. So, it's either black OR white. It's where grey does not exist.
The model's face was actually painted in black and white, the hallow created at the back, was to give the photo some depth and not let the face mold with the background.
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I have my October blood test results and I’m pleased to report that my cancer levels are lower this month.
M Protein (g/L)
Oct = 2.3
Sept = 2.8
Aug = value missing
July = value missing
June = 1.9
May = 1.7
Apr = 2.5
Mar = 3
The M Protein is a complete and accurate measure of the cancer/myeloma in my body, it consists 100% of abnormal protein. A zero value means no cancer is detected in my blood. The Beta 2 and igG measures I’ve previously discussed, contain good and abnormal protein and therefore aren’t as accurate.
I’m maintaining a positive outlook on life!
To recap: On Sunday, October 9th, I completed Cycle 22 Week 3. I have Multiple Myeloma and anemia, a rare blood cancer. It is incurable, but treatable. From February to November 2013, I received Velcade chemo through weekly in-hospital injections as an outpatient. Since February 9th 2015, I have been on Pomalyst and dexamethasone chemo treatment (Pom/dex).
Self-portrait: Lynn Headwaters Regional Park, North Vancouver
Conclusion: Fasting and chemotherapy can work miracles. If you are on chemotherapy, fast three days before chemotherapy and one day after. I am not a doctor.
I recently wrote about one possible reason for the evolution of cancer, as a way to euthanase old-age palaeolithic persons who do not undergo periods of starvation, and are likely therefore to have been free-loading on the charity of their peers. In short I hypothesised that cancer may be a natural granny dumping mechanism.
But that got me to thinking about an even more puzzling evolutionary phenomena: why are there old people at all?
The average lifespan of palaeolithic peoples was about 33 years, which is just as it should be from a straightforward evolutionary perspective. If they started breeding at puberty then your average palaeolith would have had time to raise a few children and then die.
The strange thing is however that then, as till quite modern times, it was the high childhood death rate that suppressed average longevity. If a palaeolithic person reached puberty they lived on average into their mid fifties, way past the menopause and optimal male breeding potential. Further, with the agricultural revolution only a few thousand years ago, biblical and modern humans have palaeolithic bodies -- we have had time to evolve lactose tolerance and little else -- with the potential to live at least three score years and ten and four score if strong (Psalm 90).
Even if older palaeolithic persons were undergoing periods of near starvation and were not free-loading, they would have been consuming food which otherwise may have been gathered by their reproducing peers. So, why did evolution allow such grannies and grandfathers to exist at all? We could easily have evolved to self-destruct at 40. To a palaeolithic society living at the calorific brink of annihilation, the existence of post-breeding-age individuals would seem to be a tremendous calorific waste.
One can think of various 'nice' evolutionary-favoured tasks that post-reproduction-aged palaeolithic people could have performed, such as child minding or as a source of wisdom. I propose a task more tragic: older persons evolved as to function as in vivo experiments, commonly called 'guinea pigs'.
In any hunter gather society -- go out into the woods and try it today -- there would have been a lot of lean times. There would be very few apples, but a vast number of species of berries, bark, and beetles (and that is just the b's) with varying degrees of food value, nutrients, calories and toxicity. When (hunter) gatherers were lucky they found known fruits and roots to fulfil their dietary needs, but they were continually on the brink, regularly going without food, and faced with risky choices of culinary behaviour. "I have not eaten in a week. Do I try these berries or not? Do I give them to my children?"
Herein lies the great evolutionary value of the existence or granny and grandfather aged people like me. "Wait a minute son. Don't eat that. Don't give it to the little one. Let me try it. I will tell you in a day!" (When I think of all my ancestors that surely must have done this it makes me cry.) Societies which contained such individuals would continually increase the variety of gathered food sources and only lose the occasional non-breeding human guinea pig.
I reach this conclusion bearing in mind the miraculous research being carried out NOW on the synergy between chemotherapy and short term starvation in the treatment of cancer. The graph above left (Shi et al., 2012) shows tumour size in mice xenografted with human skin cancer. Cisplatin (CDDP), the most common chemotherapeutic drug, shows negligible effect in reducing tumour size. Short Term Starvation (STS) has a significant but small effect. Short term starvation combined with Cisplatin chemotherapy creates a synergy which seems nothing short of miraculous. 60% percent of the cancerous mice went into remission whereas no or negligible mice went into remission in the other two conditions. The same paper (ibid) also shows similar results, in vitro, with lung cancers.
Dr Valter Longo, the pioneer whose research on fasting lead to the discovery of this chemo-fasting synergy (e.g. Raffaghello, Safdie, Bianchi, Dorff, Fontana, & Longo 2010; Lee, & Longo, 2011), argues that fasting causes ordinary cells to go into hibernation mode, whereas cancer cells keep demanding more food. If in that period of starvation one consumes, or is injected with a toxin, then it is only cancerous cells that are killed. If one keeps fasting for about a day after the consumption or injection of the toxin, until the toxin has left ones system, then the toxin hardly effects normal cells at all.
This synergy between chemotherapy and no-calorie consumption suggests an explanation for both the existence of cancer, and the existence of old people. Old people get cancer. But many of them may be able to cure their own cancer if they undergo regular periods of fasting combined with the consumption of toxins. In modern society this experience is one that perhaps only cancer patients will undergo in the form of chemotherapy but in a (hunter) gathering palaeolithic society it would have experience that would regularly and necessarily have been faced. Going through that starvation plus toxin experience and coming out the other side, or not ("no, don't eat that...urk"), would have been evolutionarily favoured. So evolution worked out a way to create such individuals with that propensity: it created individuals that have a self destruct mechanism that is cured by starvation and toxin consumption. Palaeolithic societies that evolved to have older non-breeding individuals
-- Guinea Pig People (GPPs) -- to do the toxin tasting would have been able to gather and consume more food, breed more and continue the species. And here we are, thanks to all our GPPs.
In conclusion, it seems to me, a non-doctor, from limited research, fasting and chemotherapy can work miracles. If you are on chemotherapy, consult with your oncologist and consider fasting three days before chemotherapy and one day after, because it may cure your cancer, and makes perfect evolutionary sense.
Graph above: Figure 3A and 3B from Shi et al., 2012
Bibliography
Shi, Y., Felley-Bosco, E., Marti, T. M., Orlowski, K., Pruschy, M., & Stahel, R. A. (2012). Starvation-induced activation of ATM/Chk2/p53 signaling sensitizes cancer cells to cisplatin. BMC cancer, 12(1), 1.
bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2407-12...
Lee, C., & Longo, V. D. (2011). Fasting vs dietary restriction in cellular protection and cancer treatment: from model organisms to patients. Oncogene, 30(30), 3305-3316.
Nowell, P. C. (1976). The Clonal Evolution of Tumor Cell Populations. Science, 194(4260), 23-28.
Raffaghello, L., Safdie, F., Bianchi, G., Dorff, T., Fontana, L., & Longo, V. D. (2010). Fasting and differential chemotherapy protection in patients. Cell Cycle, 9(22), 4474-4476.
The theory above - post breeding age persons are guinea pigs - is a little similar to the 'disposable soma' theory of the evolution of ageing at a societal rather than cellular level.
rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/205/1161/531.short
"Organisms that do not age are essentially in a steady state in which chronologically young and old individuals are physiologically the same. In this situation the synthesis of macromolecules must be sufficiently accurate to prevent error feedback and the development of lethal 'error catastrophes'. This involves the expenditure of energy, which is required for both kinetic proof-reading and other accuracy promoting devices. It may be selectively advantageous for higher organisms to adopt an energy saving strategy of reduced accuracy in somatic cells." (Kirkwood, Holliday, 1979)
Somatic cells are non-reproductive cells.
These non reproducing cells are argued to be disposable to facilitate greater "proof reading" and prevent "error catastrophes" in the reproducing cells. I am suggesting above that somatic people (non reproducing people) are there, and yet disposable, there to be disposed of, to facilitate "proof reading" (toxin tasting - "reduced accuracy" in diet) and prevent error catastrophes in the non-somatic, reproductive population.
Relatedly
Peto's paradox (there is no correlation between animal size and cancer rate)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3060950/
The assumption that there should be a correlation seems to be based on the assumption that cancer is a random occurrence in cells, so the more of them the greater the chance of cancer, as opposed to a more deliberate, non-random self destruct mechanism proposed here. Cancer is not random. It is a deliberate way of killing old people who do not fast be guinea pigs.
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
.............William Wordsworth.
Three Mile Island accident
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial meltdown of reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI-2) in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg and subsequent radiation leak that occurred on March 28, 1979. It was the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.[2] On the seven-point International Nuclear Event Scale, the incident was rated a five as an "accident with wider consequences".[3][4]
The accident began with failures in the non-nuclear secondary system, followed by a stuck-open pilot-operated relief valve in the primary system, which allowed large amounts of nuclear reactor coolant to escape. The mechanical failures were compounded by the initial failure of plant operators to recognize the situation as a loss-of-coolant accident due to inadequate training and human factors, such as human-computer interaction design oversights relating to ambiguous control room indicators in the power plant's user interface. In particular, a hidden indicator light led to an operator manually overriding the automatic emergency cooling system of the reactor because the operator mistakenly believed that there was too much coolant water present in the reactor and causing the steam pressure release.[5]
The accident crystallized anti-nuclear safety concerns among activists and the general public, and resulted in new regulations for the nuclear industry. It has been cited as a contributor to the decline of a new reactor construction program, a slowdown that was already underway in the 1970s.[6] The partial meltdown resulted in the release of radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment.
Anti-nuclear movement activists expressed worries about regional health effects from the accident.[7] However, epidemiological studies analyzing the rate of cancer in and around the area since the accident, determined there was a small statistically non-significant increase in the rate and thus no causal connection linking the accident with these cancers has been substantiated.[8][9][10][11][12][13] Cleanup started in August 1979, and officially ended in December 1993, with a total cleanup cost of about $1 billion.[14]
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident
Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI) is a nuclear power plant located on Three Mile Island in Londonderry Township, Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River just south of Harrisburg. It has two separate units, TMI-1 (owned by Exelon Generation) and TMI-2 (owned by FirstEnergy Corp).[3] The plant is widely known for having been the site of the most significant accident in United States commercial nuclear energy, on March 28, 1979, when TMI-2 suffered a partial meltdown. As per the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) report, the accident resulted in no deaths or injuries to plant workers or members of nearby communities.[4] Follow-up epidemiology studies have linked no incidents of cancer to the accident.[5][6][7][8] The reactor core of TMI-2 has since been removed from the site, but the site has not been decommissioned.[9] In July 1998, Amergen Energy (now Exelon Generation) agreed to purchase TMI-1 from General Public Utilities for $100 million.[10]
Three Mile Island is so named because it is located three miles downriver from Middletown, Pennsylvania.[11] The plant was originally built by General Public Utilities Corporation, later renamed GPU Incorporated.[12] The plant was operated by Metropolitan Edison Company (Met-Ed), a subsidiary of the GPU Energy division. During 2001 GPU Inc. merged with FirstEnergy Corporation.[13]
The NRC defines two emergency planning zones around nuclear power plants: a plume exposure pathway zone with a radius of 10 miles (16 km), concerned primarily with exposure to, and inhalation of, airborne radioactive contamination, and an ingestion pathway zone of about 50 miles (80 km), concerned primarily with ingestion of food and liquid contaminated by radioactivity.[14]
The 2010 U.S. population within 10 miles (16 km) of Three Mile Island was 211,261, an increase of 10.9 percent in a decade, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data for MSNBC. The 2010 U.S. population within 50 miles (80 km) was 2,803,322, an increase of 10.3 percent since 2000. Cities within 50 miles include Harrisburg (12 miles to city center), York (13 miles to city center), and Lancaster (24 miles to city center).[15]
Exelon has been operating Unit 1 at Three Mile Island at a loss since 2015.[16] On May 30, 2017, the company said it would consider ceasing operations at Unit 1 in 2019 due to high costs of operating the plant unless there was government action.[17][18] On May 8, 2019, Exelon announced that the remaining reactor still operating will be shut down by September 30.[19][20]
Unit 2, which has been dormant since the accident in 1979, is still owned by FirstEnergy, and it is estimated to close in 2036.[21]
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Cancer_
Complicated.... Cancer is ..!
just that — complicated. And for good reason. They tend to be overly emotional, so many times their pessimism gets in the way of looking at the good in life. Make sure if this is you that you're CHOOSING how you feel, and understanding that with every bad thing comes something good.
"Hope you will enjoy it.
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Cancer 1
Outside in the car park
The sky grey, spitting, stark.
Time it passes so slow:
20 minutes to go.
The traffic heavy on the main road,
The clouds darken, dropping their load.
Rain splatters the windscreen:
15 minutes to go.
What will she say to me?
Not too long now: wait and see.
Good? Bad? Definitive?
Absolute? Provisional? Tentative?
8 minutes to go.
I'm ready to hear my fate:
The state of my prostate.
5 minutes to go.
I face the wind and rain.
There will be no surpise or pain.
There's a history of cancer in my kin,
And a history of cancer within.
3 minutes to go.
It will not be a hammer blow.
1 minute to go:
Time no longer passes so slow.
Cancer 3
Main waiting area and
The appointment time nears.
Is this where it happens?
The confirmation of my fears?
Name called: mispronounced,
Weight taken, slightly shaking.
I’m now in waiting room C
And succumb to wanting to pee,
But I’ll hold it in and wait and see.
The nurses chattering and talking,
The corridors echo to the sound of walking,
Is there a cancer beavering away
As dark and quiet as a funeral day?
But whatever the outcome I will fight
And laugh and love and dance;
Embrace the dark and turn
That corrosive darkness into light.
Cancer 4
So now I know.
But the light still glows,
And it will burn brighter
As I determine to fight her.
Cancer 1 was written in October 2010 as I waited to hear my PSA score. It was too high. 6.9. So I was referred to a specialist. A biopsy of my prostate was suggested. Cancer 3 was written as I waited to see the consultant and hear the results of the biopsy. Cancer 4 was written as I sat in my car following hearing the results of the biopsy: that I had prostate cancer. A Gleason score of 6 and T1 tumour. 5% of the sample was "abnormal". That was in late December 2010. An early unwanted Christmas present. The picture itself was taken a few months later, as I waited to see my surgeon, when my PSA almost doubled to 11.5. it is back down to 6.9 almost year on from my intial PSA. I'm following a regime of active surveillance. Following the 11.5 PSA I was "re-staged" and opted for a transperineal biopsy. That will happen late September 2011. My aim is to go through 2011 without radical prostatectomy or radiation therapy. Almost there.
24/10/11 Perhaps I wrote too soon. My biopsy results show that my cancer is more severe than the initial biopsy results suggested. My Gleason score is now 7, with a third of the biopsy samples showing abnormal cells. Currative treatment is now needed. Which form that takes I find out on Thursday.
19/11/11 I'm now having treatment for my prostate cancer. Hormone therapy, which will last for at least 6 months, and during the second half of that treatment, I will receive radiotherapy 5 days a week.
10/12/11
The hormone therapy is kicking in:
leaving me shrivelled, drying my skin.
I'm wasted, but don't drop me in the bin.
A drug induced male menopause,
with sexless thoughts I have to change the laws
and fight my corner and my cause.
A beautiful phrase, a kind word or a sad song
and tears flow down, hard and long,
but my love keeps me positive, happy, strong.
Things aren't going smooth, unfortunately,
I need a TURP before radiotherapy
To help my flow, to ease my pee
I can't say what the consequences will be
I'm going to have to just wait and see
hoping that we can smile when I am free
as we look back drinking our green tea.
The TURP (transurethral resection of the prostate) is scheduled for 20th December 2011.
The mesh is placed on your face & shaped into you face crevices on the very first day of treatment. The blue foam is attached to the table to hold you still; the table moves you. The tape & lines assist the technologist to be able to adjust the radiation machine & pinpoint the cancer areas.
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In Vancouver, signs of an early Spring are all around. Flowers are popping out on the grass, trees branches are no longer bare, and cherry blossoms are beginning to bloom. A perfect time to pause and enjoy the beauty of nature.
To recap: I have multiple myeloma and anemia, a rare cancer of the blood plasma. It is treatable, but incurable. On Sunday, February 21st I completed Cycle 14 Week 2 of my four week treatment cycle. I have 21 days on (Pomalyst chemo pill) and then 7 days off. In addition, I take dexamethasone, an oral steroid, every Monday.
A research team, led by Giulio Genovese, Ph.D., of the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard in Boston, focused on precursors for blood cancers like leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma. Though innovative drug therapies and increasing access to treatments have dramatically improved blood cancer survival, blood cancer remains one of the most common forms of cancer in the United States and worldwide. In 2014, blood cancer accounted for approximately 9.4 percent of the estimated 1,665,540 new cancer cases diagnosed across the country.
Read the study: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1409405#t=article
Credit: Ernesto del Aguila III, NHGRI.
OUT SHOP CANCER EVENT - October 1 - 31
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The United States Congress designated January as Cervical Health Awareness Month.
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Your DNA forms thousands of loops, like those of a shoe lace. Just as you learned to tie your shoes by forming separate "bunny ear" loops of string, your DNA forms many of these loops to create genetic neighborhoods within each bunny ear loop. These neighborhoods bring distant genes and specific gene control switches into close proximity. Genetic neighborhoods can be autonomous and remain separate from other neighborhoods.
Credit: Darryl Leja, NHGRI.
World No-Tobacco Day is observed around the world every year on 31 May. It is intended to encourage a 24-hour period of abstinence from all forms of tobacco consumption around the globe. The day is further intended to draw attention to the widespread prevalence of tobacco use and to negative health effects, which currently lead to nearly 6 million deaths each year worldwide, including 600,000 of which are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke. The member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) created World No Tobacco Day in 1987. In the past twenty years, the day has been met with both enthusiasm and resistance around the globe from governments, public health organizations, smokers, growers, and the tobacco industry.
This poster was created in 1958 and issued by The New Zealand Department of Health. It was printed in New Zealand by permission of The Central Council for Health Education, Tavistock House Tavistock Square London W.C 1. Its striking design measures 725 x 487mm.
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Venus might not be able to check her breasts but you can.
Being breast aware
Whatever your age, size or shape it’s important to take care of your breasts. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK, so it’s important to look after your breasts by being breast aware.
Being breast aware is an important part of caring for your body. It means getting to know how your breasts look and feel, so you know what is normal for you. You can then feel more confident about noticing any unusual changes.
How do I check my breasts?
There’s no right or wrong way to check your breasts. Try to get used to looking at and feeling your breasts regularly. You can do this in the bath or shower, when you use body lotion, or when you get dressed. There’s really no need to change your everyday routine. Just decide what you are comfortable with and what suits you best.
Remember to check all parts of your breast, your armpits and up to your collarbone.
The breast awareness 5-point code
1. Know what is normal for you
2. Know what changes to look and feel for
3. Look and feel
4. Report any changes to your GP without delay
5. Attend routine breast screening if you are aged 50 or over
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VICKI MICHELLE AT THE CHILDREN WITH CANCER UK ANNUAL BALL AT THE GROSVENOR HOTEL PARK LANE LONDON......PICTURE MURRAY SANDERS CHILDREN WITH CANCER UK..