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A health diet for life
A varied wholefood vegan diet will provide all the nutrients required for a healthy body during pregnancy, for breastfeeding and from birth onwards. In fact there is no known...read more
Are toxic synthetic chemicals hiding in your make up?
Most consumers would be surprised to learn that the government does not require health studies or pre-market testing for cosmetics and other personal care products before they are sold. According to the government agency that...read more
Babies poisoned in the womb
Babies in the womb are being exposed to a shocking cocktail of chemicals that can cause cancer in later life and have gender-bending qualities, research has revealed. Tests on blood taken from the ...read more
Breast cancer
The National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program, administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), helps low income, uninsured, and underserved women gain access to lifesaving screening pro...read more
Breast cancer and its occurence
What is breast cancer? A cancerous tumour arises when control is lost of cell division and cells continue to multiply unnecessarily. Breast cancer is not a single disease. Ductal carcinoma (...read more
Breast lumps and surgery
Known causative factors 5-10% of breast cancers are believed to involve a hereditary factor. Women with no children or late first pregnancies (aged 30 years+) are more likely to develop breast cancer. Risk i...read more
Cancer clusters
Definition A cancer cluster is defined as a greater-than-expected number of cancer cases that occurs within a group of people in a geographic area over a period of time. Challenges in identifying The comp...read more
Cancer in disguise
What is cancer? Cancer is an uncontrolled proliferation of certain abnormal cell types in the body that invade surrounding normal tissue. The cell type and location determine the type of cancer. Cancers can ...read more
Cancer of the urinary bladder
Etiology Above all, occupational exposure to chemical compounds (among others from the group of aromatic amines) is considered to be the factor leading to falling ill with cancer of the urinary bladd...read more
Cancer: what you can do
Latest figures show that almost one in two men and one in three women will contract it in their lives (this does not necessarily mean terminal cancer). Whereas the media continue to trumpet endless "breakthroughs", ...read more
Check your breasts
Step 1 Look at your breasts in the mirror with your shoulders straight and your arms on your hips.This is what to look for: breasts that are their usual size, shape, and colour. breasts that are ...read more
Chemotherapy can help older breast cancer patients as well
Chemotherapy has traditionally not been recommended for older women -- roughly those over 65 or 70 -- after breast cancer surgery. "Historically, there have been some biases against olde...read more
Chemotherapy related hair loss
Chemotherapy consists of the administration of drugs that destroy rapidly reproducing cancer cells. Cancer cells are some of the most rapidly reproducing cells in the body, but other cells, such as those whic...read more
Diagnosing and treating lung cancer
A person’s lung cancer diagnosis depends on the type of lung cancer present. The two main types of lung cancer are small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lun...read more
Diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer
None of the following tests is an individually conclusive indicator of prostate cancer. Your doctor is likely to use more than one test to determine whether or not you are affected by prostate cancer.Everyman...read more
Dioxins, some of the most deadly chemicals
Dioxins are some of the most deadly chemicals created. Classified as carcinogenic, (cause cancer) dioxins are found in pesticides, plastics, solvents, detergents and cosmetics. For over a dec...read more
Does water cause cancer?
Cancer, if not the biggest killer of our generation certainly the most feared word in any language in the Western World, has spread with increasing vigor across our culture, seemingly undeterred by the seriou...read more
Ear candling in cancer therapy
Ear candling, an ancient ritual and healing art which formed an integral part of cultures such as Egyptians, Aztecs and North American Indians, has found its way into our culture and alternative medic...read more
Factors that put you at risk of lung cancer
Research has found several risk factors for lung cancer. A "risk factor" is anything that changes risk of getting a disease. Different risk factors change risk by different amounts. The risk factors...read more
Facts about prostate cancer
How common is prostate cancer? 32,000 men in the UK are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year. It has become the most common cancer in men overtaking lung cancer. With PSA testing on the increase and an a...read more
Facts about smoking
22% of all male deaths and 11% of all female deaths are due to smoking. As teenagers it is never too late to give up. Giving up now can reduce the risk of developing many smoking related illnesses...read more
General information about leukemia
Leukemia is a cancer of the white blood cells. Many people perceive this type of cancer as a disease of children, but leukemia affects about ten times as many adults as children. New cases o...read more
Healing cancer: what does it mean ?
Frequently, the interaction between illness and treatment is described as a battle or a war. If we hold with that analogy, then cancer can best be described as a civil war. A cancerous cell operates as if it ...read more
Health effects of smoking
In New Zealand, smoking kills 4,700 New Zealanders every year. This is equal to 17% of all deaths and is more than the combined deaths from alcohol, drugs, murder, suicide, road crashes, air crashes, poisonin...read more
Hysterectomy
What is hysterectomy and when is it necessary? Hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus. It does not necessarily mean that the ovaries or fallopian tubes will be removed. These org...read more
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