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Rate of new cases in both men and women is declining

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Mark Probert - 26 Nov 2008 11:08 GMT
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6133003.html

The United States has passed an important milestone in the fight
against cancer, researchers reported Tuesday: For the first time, the
recorded rate of new cancer cases has fallen for both men and women.

At the same time, a 15-year decline in cancer death rates has
accelerated, meaning people in whom the disease has been diagnosed are
living longer.

The report, published online Tuesday in the Journal of the National
Cancer Institute, found the leading cancer scourges — including lung
cancer, colon cancer and breast cancer — are on the wane, prompting
experts to conclude that aggressive cancer-prevention and treatment
efforts are paying off against the nation's No. 2 killer.
trigonometry1972@gmail.com | - 27 Nov 2008 03:59 GMT
> http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6133003.html
>
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
> experts to conclude that aggressive cancer-prevention and treatment
> efforts are paying off against the nation's No. 2 killer.

If the "expert explanation" is correct the incidence of
cancers could be raising just that it is a bit less fatal
with aggressive early diagnosis (which isn't real prevention)
and earlier treatment.

However if it is earlier diagnosis, the values should
vary with the organs, IMO.

Recall  that Wyeth's conjugated estrone replacement therapy is less
popular these days. More people are taking
higher doses of cholecalciferol as well.

So maybe or may not...........Trig
D. C. Sessions - 27 Nov 2008 15:58 GMT
>> http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6133003.html
>>
[quoted text clipped - 16 lines]
> with aggressive early diagnosis (which isn't real prevention)
> and earlier treatment.

That would affect survival rates, which are indeed rising.
That would *not* affect new-case rates.

> However if it is earlier diagnosis, the values should
> vary with the organs, IMO.

Indeed, new-case rates are dropping differentially.  As quoted
above: lung, colon, and breast cancer cases are dropping.  All
three have known lifestyle triggers, including smoking and diet.
Recent research also suggests that exercise helps prevent breast
cancer, so the push for more midlife exercise may be part of that
payoff as well.

| The brighter the stupid burns, the more |
| chance that someone will see the light. |
+- D. C. Sessions <dcs@lumbercartel.com> -+
Jan Drew - 29 Nov 2008 05:00 GMT
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6133003.html

The United States has passed an important milestone in the fight
against cancer, researchers reported Tuesday: For the first time, the
recorded rate of new cancer cases has fallen for both men and women.

At the same time, a 15-year decline in cancer death rates has
accelerated, meaning people in whom the disease has been diagnosed are
living longer.

The report, published online Tuesday in the Journal of the National
Cancer Institute, found the leading cancer scourges — including lung
cancer, colon cancer and breast cancer — are on the wane, prompting
experts to conclude that aggressive cancer-prevention and treatment
efforts are paying off against the nation's No. 2 killer.

*Journal of the National Cancer Institute*
= *Organized medicine*

http://www.naturalnews.com/z011701.html

Systems of medicine explained: Conventional, alternative, integrative,
complementary and more
by Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor

What's the deal with all the different systems of medicine? And what's the
difference between "Western medicine" and "conventional medicine?" Here,
you'll find some honest answers.
"Conventional medicine" refers to the classic medical training offered
through mainstream medical schools. This is a drugs-and-surgery approach to
medicine that largely excludes nutrition, wellness, mind-body medicine,
patient education, and other natural therapies.

"Organized medicine" refers to the collection of organizations that promote
conventional medicine. This encompasses pharmaceutical companies, the FDA,
hospitals, doctors, medical schools, and medical organizations such as the
American Medical Association as well as disease organizations like the
American Cancer Society and the American Diabetes Association. It's called
organized medicine because it is an organized system of profit-minded
players who engage in the marketing, screening, diagnosis and treatment of
diseases, all under the watchful eye of the FDA, using tactics that resemble
organized crime.

"Western medicine" refers to the type of medicine practiced in the West; the
United States, Western Europe, and so on. It's based on the philosophical
foundations of Western thinking, which maintains that a body is only a
collection of its parts, and that by isolating the parts and studying them
separately, you can understand the whole.

This philosophy stands in great contrast to Eastern philosophies, the
practitioners of which believe that the whole can only be understood through
the synergistic functioning of its parts. "Eastern medicine" looks at the
whole patient, the whole body, the whole experience, and never believes that
just treating one organ or using one chemical, drug, or herb is the answer
to any health condition.

"Traditional Chinese medicine," sometimes shortened to TCM, involves the
treatment of patients using the fundamental approaches of healing developed
over the last 4000 years in China. The treatments in Chinese medicine
include acupuncture, Chinese herbs, and Tui-Na, which resembles massage
therapy combined with therapeutic touch. Chinese medicine has the longest
history, and the most practical application, of any system of medicine in
the world, outdating Western medicine by about 3800 years. In China, doctors
were practicing relatively advanced medicine before the birth of Christ.
Western medicine, in response, dismisses everything under Chinese medicine,
ignoring the long history of safe and effective use of Chinese herbs,
acupuncture, and other philosophies espoused by Traditional Chinese
Medicine.

Chinese medicine is not limited to China, by the way. It is practiced
throughout Asia, including Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, and many other
countries. The way it is practiced in the United States is not true Chinese
medicine. Chinese medicine education has become Westernized in the United
States. Just like the Chinese food served in the United States is nothing
like Chinese food purchased in China, Chinese medicine in the United States
doesn't match the Chinese medicine practiced in China.

"Ayurvedic medicine" is a system of holistic medicine practiced widely in
India and throughout Southeast Asia. It is also gaining popularity and
recognition in the United States, Europe, Australia and many other areas of
the world as people come to recognize the inherent wisdom and innate safety
of Ayurvedic medicine. Based on thousands of years of development and use,
Ayurvedic medicine is organized around the energy patterns of individuals
(the way they use their bodies, what they eat, how they digest, levels of
body heat, etc.) and treatment using a wide array of medicinal herbs and
substances (like essential oils, coconut oil, and so on). There is also a
prominent recognition of the mind/body link in Ayurvedic medicine.

Recent scientific studies have shown popular Ayurvedic herbs to exhibit
powerful medicinal effects, even from a Western point of view. Turmeric, for
example, halts the growth of cancer tumors. Cinnamon stabilizes blood sugar,
and gymnema sylvestre helps block dietary sugars while supporting the
regeneration of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. Ayurvedic
medicine has known all this -- and much more -- for centuries. Western
doctors, of course, completely dismiss the entire system of Ayurvedic
medicine as quackery, ignoring its many thousands of years of safe,
effective use on literally billions of people, and overlooking its enormous
knowledge base of wisdom and experience in supporting balanced, holistic
health.

Exotic systems / emerging systems: Many "undiscovered" systems of natural
medicine are slowly making their way to Western societies. "Tibetan
medicine" is beginning to gain momentum, partially thanks to the outstanding
work of the Dalai Lama and the accelerating movement of Tibetan Buddhism in
Western culture. Australian aborigines have their own system of medicine, as
do various native populations in the South Pacific, Africa, and throughout
many areas of South America including Peru, Brazil and Argentina.

"Complementary medicine" is a term that defenders of conventional medicine
like to use to claim intellectual ownership over alternative medicine.
Complementary medicine means combining conventional therapies with
alternative therapies, but the alternative therapies are almost always
dismissed from being the primary treatments as they are routinely relegated
to supportive roles. For example, complementary medicine's supporters might
say that ginger is great for reducing nausea following chemotherapy, but
they would never say ginger or garlic are anticancer herbs in their own
right.

Promoters of "complementary medicine" are usually closet drugs-and-surgery
pushers who use this phrase to avoid appearing totally out of touch with
health trends. The complementary medicine movement is largely an attempt by
conventional medicine promoters to prevent their harmful system of medicine
from appearing completely irrelevant as the public turns to safer, more
effective and natural alternatives. Conventional doctors refer to it as CAM,
or Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

"Alternative medicine" is a somewhat outdated term that refers to everything
outside the realm of conventional medicine. It's outdated because
alternative medicine is now mainstream medicine. Most people use it, and the
only reason more people don't is because health-insurance refuses to cover
most of the therapies in alternative medicine. This term will probably fade
away as the use of natural healing therapies becomes even more popular with
the general public.

"Integrative medicine" is a relatively recent term that typically describes
a more balanced, welcoming approach to using natural therapies alongside
conventional ones. While this system of medicine still uses conventional
medicine therapies such as drugs and surgeries, it usually recommends them
only as a last resort, instead attempting to prevent or treat health
conditions using natural therapies first.

"Advanced medicine" refers to the future of medicine, based on supporting
the patient's health and wellness rather than attacking the patient with
various chemicals or procedures like radiation and surgery. Advanced
medicine is the first step to the new age of understanding about the true
underlying causes of health and wellness. Advanced medicine makes
conventional medicine and Western medicine obsolete, and it includes
therapies like phototherapy, sunlight, nutrition, sound therapy, vibrational
medicine, electromedicine, mind-body medicine, energy healing, and other
similar modalities that were once considered experimental, but are now
well-known to be both safe and effective at supporting the health of the
patient.

The term "junk science" is used by defenders of conventional medicine to
discredit everything outside conventional medicine, regardless of whether or
not it is based on sound scientific ground.

Similarly, the term "quackery" or "quack" is also used by the defenders of
conventional medicine to describe anything outside the realm of conventional
medicine. If it's not something they control, own the intellectual rights
to, or profit from, the defenders of conventional medicine call it quackery,
regardless of its merit as a genuine healing therapy. The real quacks,
though, are the old, out-of-touch zealots of conventional medicine who can
now best serve humanity by either retiring or dying. Scientific revolutions,
you see, only happen when the defenders of old, outdated beliefs pass away,
creating space for the rise of new, more advanced ideas from younger
thinkers who don't have their careers and egos invested in old ways of
thinking. See the book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to learn
more.
Peter Bowditch - 29 Nov 2008 13:33 GMT
>http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6133003.html
>
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>experts to conclude that aggressive cancer-prevention and treatment
>efforts are paying off against the nation's No. 2 killer.

Thank you for repeating this valuable and wonderful piece of news,
Jan.

<weird drivel from some loon called Adams snipped>

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RF - 29 Nov 2008 23:23 GMT
>> http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6133003.html
>>
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>
> <weird drivel from some loon called Adams snipped>

I heard a comment on the radio recently that the
number may be going down because less people are
being tested.
Peter Bowditch - 30 Nov 2008 08:23 GMT
>>> http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6133003.html
>>>
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>number may be going down because less people are
>being tested.

Well, lots of idiotic things get said on the radio.

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aineecumi@gmail.com - 01 Dec 2008 02:11 GMT
nowadays, cancer did not affect woman only, the percentage of man have
cancer also have increase..
so man also must take their health into consideration n the most
important thing less smoke because usually man have the lung cancer..

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