Blanket term for a class of diseases in which cells lose the function called apoptosis" and continue to grow uncontrolled. Can also refer to the study of this uncontrolled growth, as well as its invasion and/or destruction of other tissues which is known as metastasis. The term "cancer" covers ...
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Can eating the right foods avoid BRCA1 breast cancer?
NaturalNews.com has an article entitled How Angelina Jolie was duped by cancer doctors into self mutilation for breast cancer she never had (emphasis in original)
But the really sad part about all ...
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Are tattoos (particularly Japanese) carcinogenic and do they prevent sweating?
I was reading an interview with Jake Adelstein, a Yakuza expert, who says this:
Also the tattoos. Like, you can see on the cover of this book and the back of this book - see, one of the things ...
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Is laetrile an efficient drug against cancer?
Recently, I encountered a person who asks for money donation. She suffers from non-Hodgkin lymphoma and claims that there is a very promising way to be cured - to use the drug named laetril (or ...
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Does the HPV cause cervical cancer?
I was watching this video featuring Robert Scott Bell. It is about the flu vaccine being ineffective, but he makes this quick statement about the human papillomavirus (HPV):
If we can't vaccinate ...
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Is cancer a trade off to enable faster evolution?
In an interview on pop-sci magazine "The Scientist", Dr. Robert Austin from Princeton is asserting that:
It’s a tradeoff, he says, for the rapid evolution our species has leveraged to become the ...
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Are tomatoes associated with increased risk of cancer?
Recently I read an article from internet.
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A Canadian study has found an association between tomato intake and prostate cancer risk.1 Not only that, vegetable juices and ketchup were also ...
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Do ripe bananas combat abnormal cells and cancer?
According to Japanese Scientific Research, full ripe banana with dark patches on yellow skin produces a substance called TNF (Tumor Necrosis Factor) which has the ability to combat abnormal cells. ...
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Are Instant Noodles bad for people's health?
I have often heard people saying that instant noodles are bad for our bodies, because they contain a wax coating and wax causes Cancer.
First: do noodles contain a wax coating?
Second: Is it true ...
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Did Lance Armstrong Have Cancer?
According to wikipedia:
In October 1996, he was diagnosed with testicular cancer that had
spread to his brain and lungs. His cancer treatments included brain
and testicular surgery and ...
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Do fingerprint scanners cause skin cancer?
Recently, my company started using fingerprint scanners to identify employees for access control and for attendance. Many employees have a concern about developing skin cancer from the IR fingerprint ...
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Does sodium bicarbonate reduce the risk of cancer?
I have heard that sodium bicarbonate reduces the risk of cancer and the risk of metastatic cancer.
In particular, an Italian doctor, Tullio Simoncini is promoting this type of therapy (YouTube link ...
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Do Facebook and email have “wide ranging biological effects” and potentially cause cancer?
From the Daily Mirror:
Social networking sites such as Facebook could raise your risk of serious health problems by reducing levels of face-to-face contact, a doctor claims.
Emailing people ...
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Is coffee anti-cancerous?
http://www.energyfiend.com/caffeinated-coffee-the-anti-cancer-wonder-drug
The above URL claims:
Study after study has been showing the cancer fighting properties of coffee because of the rich ...
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Is bamboo charcoal safely edible?
Bamboo charcoal is made up of pieces of bamboo, which are taken from plants five years or older and burned inside an oven at temperatures over 1000°C.
Bamboo charcoal is well known about its high ...
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328 views
Is aspartame dangerous? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does the artificial sweetener aspartame cause cancer?
According to: http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/dangers-of-aspartame/
The methanol contained in the diet soda ...
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Does sugar “feed” cancer?
I keep seeing this claim in alternative health circles that sugar feeds cancer and if you restrict carbohydrate from your diet, particularly refined sugar, you can prevent cancer or even "starve" ...
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663 views
Does being a strong free market supporter correlate with rejection of scientific claims?
The following research claims that there is a link between one being a strong free market supporter and being more likely to reject scientific claims:
Paralleling previous work, we find that ...
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Does heat from a laptop cause cancer?
There are a lot of rumors that the heat from a laptop causes cancer.
But I haven't found a lot of proper citations in these articles. Would there be be anything else regarding putting your laptop on ...
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Does chemotherapy make cancer worse?
Several sources, among them Huffington Post and Daily Mail claim a recent study showed that chemotherapy, which is used as a cancer cure, actually makes cancer worse.
Chemotherapy can backfire by ...
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Does THC cure/slow cancer?
I see this popping up on my Facebook feed quite a lot (to be fair, it's usually the same 3 people): Claims that evidence has shown that marijuana/cannabis/THC can have a positive effect in cancer ...
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Can orgasm help prevent breast cancer?
There are several claims that sexual orgasm is good for preventing breast cancer.
Example of claim for Women: Happy News Time Blog:
Able to reach orgasm is not just make a woman feel satisfied, ...
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Does mammography cause more cancer than it prevents? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is routine screening for breast cancer for asymptomatic women younger than 50 worthwhile?
Dr. Mercola seems pretty confident that mammography not only doesn't improve ...
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Does “dirty electricity” cause cancer?
Research by Magda Havas, Ph.D., of Trent University in Canada, and U.S. epidemiologist Samuel Milham, M.D., links something called “dirty electricity” with diabetes, malignant melanoma, and cancers ...
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Is “blue scorpion venom” a legitimate treatment for cancer?
I came across this article just recently, in which it states that no data had been collected about the effectiveness of blue scorpion venom as a treatment for cancer. However, this article was written ...
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Does the caramel colouring previously used in Coke and Pepsi in California cause Cancer?
California has recently made legislative changes that required Coke and Pepsi to affix cancer warning labels to their soda products. From the news story:
A representative for Coca-Cola, Diana ...
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Is white asbestos dangerous?
In this article in The Daily Telegraph it is claimed that large amounts of money are being spent to deal with white asbestos despite this substance posing no risk to human health.
It was in the ...
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Does second hand smoke cause cancer?
Related: Does smoking cigarettes cause lung cancer?
A friend of mine related today, as shocked as I was to hear it, that he heard that every single study that had ever been conducted on second hand ...
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Do biopsies accelerate cancers?
Once seen on TV, a woman interviewed on why she avoids having a biopsy for her suspected cancer, claiming that a biopsy will only accelerate it, thus more dangerous than beneficial.
Searching for a ...
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Are synthetically produced chemicals not found in nature more likely to be harmful than naturally occurring ones?
Since everything is made from chemicals the often made claim that we should avoid food that doesn't contain chemicals doesn't make any sense. But the underlying idea that synthetic chemicals are ...
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Does smoking cigarettes cause lung cancer?
My friend is a smoker. His dad is a doctor. Both claim there is no firm proof that cigarettes cause lung cancer. This article makes a similar claim -- in particular that smoking cigarettes is not ...
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Does living near a nuclear power plant cause cancer?
One man who believes that nuclear energy is bad for nature told me that living near to a nuclear power plant causes cancer.
I visited one nuclear power plant and they confirmed the words of our ...
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774 views
Do tanning beds cause cancer? Does their risk outweigh the risks of vitamin D deficiency in northern countries?
For a long time I've heard that tanning beds cause cancer. Here a quote from an article on MSNBC in 2009:
International cancer experts have moved tanning beds and other sources of ultraviolet ...
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Are political leaders from Latin America unusually prone to cancer?
Venezuela's entertaining president, Hugo Chavez, was recently reported to have speculated that the USA has developed a secret technology to give cancer to left-wing leaders in Latin America.
I think ...
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Does German New Medicine work?
German New Medicine is a medical treatment developed by Ryke Geerd Hamer. Hamer claims that the cause for every cancer is a "biological-conflict shock".
The German New Medicine is a set of ...
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Is there an epidemic of cancer?
It is nearly 50 years since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was published where she popularised a belief that we are all being poisoned by artificial chemicals.
For the first time in the history of ...
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Does soursop cure cancer?
I was linked a website about the effect soursop has in fighting cancer. The website heavily implies that soursop is an effective cancer treatment similar to chemo.
source
Chemotherapy is a ...
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Does eating meat increase your risk for cancer?
I just read an article in the german magazine "Der Spiegel" about a recent study claiming that 40% of all cancers are preventable. The article states specifically that one of the factors is the ...
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Does eating charred meat cause cancer? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does burning your food increase your risk of getting cancer?
I've been told that I shouldn't eat charred meat (and at least sweep the charring off of a barbequeued ...
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Have there ever been studies of cancer that has been left untreated? [closed]
I'm just wondering what work has been done to look at cancers left untreated and what the survival rates and prolonging time periods are like.
The reason I ask is that I see claims of cancer ...
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Did Steve Jobs fall prey to alternative medicine?
Dr. Ramzi Amri makes a stern case on the other Q/A site.
Let me cut to the chase: Mr. Jobs allegedly chose to undergo all sorts of alternative treatment options before opting for conventional ...
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Does screening for prostate cancer save lives?
The Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) Test is used by doctors in many regions of the world to test for prostate cancer and other prostate disorders.
Some people recommend its use for screening - i.e. ...
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Is skin cancer the leading cause of cancer death of young adult women?
According to a Reuters article California state senator Ted Lieu said:
"If everyone knew the true dangers of tanning beds, they'd be shocked.
Skin cancer is a rising epidemic and the leading ...
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Is routine screening for breast cancer for asymptomatic women worthwhile?
Relatively recently, the United States Preventive Services Task Force made a small change in what its recommendations for routine mammograms, suggesting that they should not be performed on asymptotic ...
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Did nuclear tests on the Marshall Islands cause increased cancer rates?
The Marshall Island have been the site for many nuclear tests by the United States. While it has a small population of around 69,000, they have benefitted by receiving around $759 million dollars in ...
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Are cancer recovery rates the same as they were in 1920?
Related: Have any “cures” been invented since the 1950's or so?
I ran across the movie Cut Poison Burn, who's abstract is as follows:
Cut Poison Burn is a controversial, eye opening, and ...
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Are pap smears obsolete?
Years ago a number of articles in the popular press indicated that the Papanicolaou test (aka pap smear) was obsolete, being replaced by vaccines and genetic tests. For example:
New advanced DNA test ...
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Are women who have had children less likely to get breast cancer?
We had a guest over for dinner who's step-mother had breast cancer some years ago. It was also mentioned that this woman had never had children, and both our guest and my wife related that they had ...
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489 views
Can antioxidants prevent cancer?
Antioxidants are often touted as some kind of miracle cure for all kinds of illnesses. They are supposed to prevent damage caused by reactive oxygen species (ROS) to the cells by scavenging those ROS ...
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Do organic cigarettes, such as American Spirit, contain less radioactive material than other brands?
Many cigarettes contain radioactive polonium from the use of phosphate/apatite fertilizers. The National Institutes of Health lists tobacco as by far the largest source of radiation for the American ...
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Is this new study on cell phone / cancer connection legitimate?
Insanely related: Do mobile phones have anything to do with cancer?
I was just sent THIS article, which claims that a new study does show a link between brain cancer and cell phones:
This new ...
