I believe cancer can usually be easily cured by good nutrition and lifestyle choices.  What do you think?
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I agree with you to a large degree. Personally I believe the tradition treatments, chemo and/or radiation..cause more problems are are ineffective. In alot of cases the patient dies as a result of complications of the treatment, not from the actual disease. Yes, diet...I think an organic diet makes a huge difference, putting more chemicals into a body that is struggling doesnt make a lot of sense. Alot of the meds, even pain meds like morphine, tend to produce angiogenesis in cancer cells and spread the tumors. Im a big believer in the budwig diet and I'm a big believer in meditation and visualisation. I do believe there are alot of other things you can also do to help. For example, biophosponate to stop the spread to bones...blocking the FE+ receptors..cancer cells need iron to divide and multiply, blocking the FE+ receptors deprives them of iron and they cant continue to divide and muliply..there is a chemical in anti-malarial meds that does this. I also strongly believe in Qigong - powerful chinese med to bolster the immune system. Oxidisation treatment, hyperbaric chamber...Dendric cell therapy .. IPT (Insulin Potentiation Therapy), Ultra Violet treatment...there is so much.  Good on you for looking further than the traditional!
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Possibly.  First you need to consult a doctor. But meanwhile, you need to moderate intake of all kinds of PROTEIN.  This is no joke. The doctors never tell you this but protein is very hard for you body to digest when you have any type of cancer.  It makes your body work so much harder and the end result is your immunity goes down.\n\nI know this because I studied about cancer a while back.  One thing you might want to add to your diet is flax seed oil.  Also don't use white bleached sugar.  Horrible for your health in general.
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yes. i like that diet, it's very healthy =] and it works!
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I've seen people who did everything right die quite quickly from cancer. I also knew an old coot with stage 4 lymphoma who drank a quart of bourbon every day and only did minimal treatment for the lymphoma. Considering everything, he did real well for 3 years even with the stage 4 lymphoma until finally he also developed liver cancer and passed away soon after.\n\nAs for secret cures, vitamins, herbs or treatments for cancer - there are none, but is is very easy to find someone who doesn't have cancer willing to sell you some false hope. For example, Hulda Clark author of Cure for all Cancers. sounds good until you critically read her book. Just because you say you have cancer doesn't make it true and just because you claim you cured it doesn't make it true, even if you are able to convince thousands of people to buy your book.
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Complex and contingent on the type of cancer.  NCI.gov and FDA.gov have links to sites with information on just that.  The problem is, the more research that is done, the more the perspective changes.  For example, folic acid was thought to reduce the risk of heart disease in women but a recent study showed probably not, nor did aspirin.  With respect to cancer, eating only what God put on this earth without the preservatives and artificial substances, seems to be the best route.  Certainly the cabbage family, especially broccoli and the beta-kerotenes have been studied extensively as have the omega 3 fatty acids.  The list is extensive.  Basically when on chemotherapy, cold soft food works the best, if taking a platinum drug, lemon flavors help tolerate the metallic taste.  When on radiation a low residue diet without dairy products is best and when recovering from surgery, well, it depends on the type of surgery.  Most people don't get enough protein or iron in their diets and these are critical for cancer patients.
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I think if you eat lots of fruits and vegetables high in vitamins around your small daily meals, and take a multi-vitamin every day you should be good without help of diet products, eat alot of extra things good for you, and a little of fatty foods and it rounds it out.
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My opinion is that everything causes cancer now days.  It seems as if there is nothing healthy out there.  I am going to continue to use my cell phone, smoke cancer sticks, and drink cancer causing sugar substitues in my tea.   I mean really, what can we do.
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There are cures out there right now -- sometimes it is surgical and sometimes it is medical.  I don't there will ever be a single cure for cancer -- it is a complex family of diseases. Some cancers hve very good five year survival rates.  Others do not.  Early detection is almost always key.\n\nWe also know that certain things cause cancer in humans.  Not everytime and not with every person.  But if you compare 1,000 cigarette smokers to 1,000 non-smokers (all other factors being equal) you will see a large difference in lung cancer rates.  That is not to say that all smokers get cancer -- but it is to say that if smoking goes down, so do lung cancer rates.  Radon is a similar factor.  Even viruses (certain STDs) are linked with an increased rate of reproductive cancers.  Sun exposure.  Certain foods.\n\nNone of that is secret.  The government suggests avoiding tobacco, eating a health diet, etc.  Early detection also helps a lot.  Breast cancer and prostate cancer especially benefit from early detection.  That is why the government suggest regular screening for these diseases (pab, mammogram, colonoscopy) at certain ages/intervals.\n\nThere is no question that pharma has a large financial stake in the current health care system.  That said, if a company did have the miracle drug they would produce it! \n\nWhy?  That company would have an almost invaluable asset -- one subject to intellectual property protections.  Set on a shelf that is worth nothing to the company.  On the market, it would probably make a company with only that product the most valuable pharma company in the world.\n\nOne has to only look at several recent examples to see how pharma benefits from introducig new drugs -- look at the Cox2 inhibitors.  Or new PPIs that are little different from what will soon enough be available as generic.  They spend buckets of money on R&D and advertising.  That only generates revenue when they have a product to sell.\n\nThe only way the conspiracy theory works is if there is some non-patentable treatment out there that pharma discovered long ago.  And I don't believe that for a second!  Cancer is too complicated for a single cure. And I can't imagine something that couldn't get some intellectual protection.  Information leaks.  These people have families who suffer from these same illnesses.\n\nIn terms of the FDA, federal law does prohibit marketing medicine that has not been proven safe and effective.  One can argue about where we are at in that balancing act.  But the idea is that I can't make my own variety of snake oil (mabe even one containing a carcinogen) and then claiming it cures cancer 100% of the time.\n\nIn terms of presidents, I think Grant died of cancer.\n\nLast point:  if such a product existed, it would likely save the government lots of money.  The federal governmant pays for medicare (including chemo drugs).  The state and federal governments split the costs of medicaid (low income).\n\nSo, this is really nothing more than an urban legend -- a cruel one that makes little sense to me.
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I think you mean this: I am 17 and have been smoking for 3 years and have cancer,if I stop smoking will I stop having cancer? If that is what you mean then no,stopping smoking will improve your overall health and will make cancer treatments easier on your body but once you have cancer the only treatment is radiation and chemotherapy. But I do advise you to stop smoking.
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All kind of things can cause cancer. To avoid to it would be best to have good genes and live in a sealed bubble.
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There are over 100 cures already available.\n\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/cancer.html
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amen to that.  people everywhere around the world need to realize that instead of picking up that bigmac or w/e is the best fast food or the best car, and getting on a bike and eating more healthy food.\n\nyes, there are ways to diet w/o excersise and all that, but really once you have a surgery or go on a huge diet, there's usually the person that will go right back to the diet of Twinkies and Cream Puffs.\n\nLung cancer, also, as you probably know is also caused by people smoking and from others taking in 2nd Hand smoke.  Air pollution, in our day and age, needs to be dealt with along the line with becoming less dependent on gases and becoming more dependent with renewable energy sources that can also make or air cleaner.
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see Beating Cancer With Nutrition by Patrick  Quillen for the big scoop on all diets and their effect on cancer. A wonderful book!\nAlso see How to Prevent and Treat Cancer with Natural Medicine by Michael Murray for more discussion and helpful advice.\nGood luck!
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Do you mean personally, or as a society?\n\nPersonally speaking, you should avoid high-risk activities. For example, extended days unprotected in the sun can lead to skin cancer. Or eating too many sugary foods without any exercise can lead to the development of diabetes.\n\nIf you are talking about ridding society of these diseases, it will be some time. There have been many promising leads in scientific research, more with diabetes than cancer. Cancer is especially complicated because there are so many types of cancer. It can be caused by a number of different factors, so finding one cure for all cancer is highly unlikely.
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Vitamins are good for you.
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Any cancer is usually going to last for ever.It will make your life shortened.But complete resection with axillary lymph nodes combined with Radiotherapy and chemotherapy there is a chance to recover.It all depend on you and your physician.Best advise for others is to look after own health not to get cancer.Health which is gone can not be taken back.\nDr K.S.A.Kumarasiri(MD)
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Five years is the 'norm' but with today's treatments I think the outlook is much better. I am in my third year of remission - I don't consider myself cancer-free but I am optimistic that I am probably healthier than a lot of people out there who have never even been diagnosed, lol. I think one's state of mind goes a long way toward recovery.