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Being rich isn’t a factor against prostate cancer. After Steve Jobs succumbed to pancreatic cancer, here’s another mogul stricken with cancer who has no problem making a house down payment.
Warren Buffet dubbed the “Oracle of Omaha” and labeled as the “greatest stock market investor” is undoubtedly an expert in his field. Nevertheless, when it comes to cancer he sure is betting every dime on what his doctor recommended him. He has stage 1 prostate cancer. more…
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Breast cancer develops a long time like 20 to 30 years. Research, on the other hand, had discovered that a high level of estrogen in the blood is linked to an increased risk of breast cancer. This is a crucial step to understand how hormones and breast cancer are related. What can be done to lower estrogen in our body? This would be a key in our fight against breast cancer.
Cancer research has identified a gene implicated in breast cancer. The gene known as CYP3A is responsible in the catalysis of many reactions involved in drug metabolism and the synthesis of cholesterol, steroids and other lipids. Mutation of this gene reduces our risk of developing breast cancer. Mutation somehow slows the activity of the enzyme produced from the CYP3A gene. Consequently, once the gene’s activity slows down our breast cancer risk goes down along with it too. Enlightening, isn’t it? However, the problem is – not all of us have this mutation. more…
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Let’s look at cancer in a totally new light. This way we can understand how it operates. Instead of asking, “Why does cancer grow?” We can ask the question, “How does cancer grow?” It can be a key to winning our fight with cancer! more…
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Information is a key element to fight an enemy and increase our chances to win big! In our fight against cancer, most of the information comes from researches of scientists. They are usually published in scientific journals. But like majority of specialists, they mostly talk shop and use a language or terminology that’s alien to most of us to understand. This makes us lose interest in the matter.
In spite of this, a collection or compilation of several studies and the valuable information they offer can greatly help us. more…