Many men are afraid of the dreaded colonoscopy, but that is just one of several tried-and-true techniques for performing a colon cancer screening. Here are the basic methods of screening for colon cancer:

Colonoscopy Colon Cancer Screening

The silver standard. A bit of anesthesia will relax you (and the muscles of your anal sphincter), and make you a little sleepy. The doctor will then insert thin, flexible line with an attached video camera into your rectum and look around at your entire colon. Sometimes, the doctor can remove polyps or tumors using the same tool as part of the exam. The process is rarely painful, but is uncomfortable and for some men can be embarrassing.

Flexible Sigmoidoscopy Colon Cancer Screening

Flexible sigmoidoscopy is much like a traditional colonoscopy, but rather than a thin, flexible line, a thicker, not-as-flexible instrument capable of taking much better pictures of the body is used. This less-flexible tool can only view the sigmoid – the last third of the colon – and so isn’t as useful in detecting all forms of colon cancer. On the other hand, it can catch sigmoidal colon cancer much earlier than even a colonoscopy. Oftentimes the two are used in conjunction, along with a fecal occult blood test.

Rigid Sigmoidoscopy Colon Cancer Screening

Rigid Sigmoidoscopy is like its flexible counterpart, but uses a rigid tool in place of a flexible one. It’s much less comfortable, and thankfully rarer.

Fecal Occult Blood Test Colon Cancer Screening

In a fecal occult blood test, no insertion of machinery into your rectum is necessary. Essentially, this test checks your stool for microscopic amounts of blood. You simply take a stool sample – at home, and put into a special kit and bring it to your medical provider. They will examine it for blood, and if they find any…well, there’s more insertion of machinery in your future.

It’s possible to get a false positive on a fecal occult blood test, so before you go in for this type of colon cancer screening, you must go for 48 hours without eating red meat, horseradish, aspirin, and most vegetables.

Double-Contrast Barium Enema Colon Cancer Screening

Not technically machinery, the barium enema still involves an insertion – but this time the doctor is injecting a barium-laced fluid into your rectum. The liquid shows up easily on an X-ray, and allows the shapes and contours around it to show up as well. This will give your doctors a chance to see any unusual growths quickly. If they do show up, it’s time for the colonoscopy!

If you have even the slightest notion that you might have colon cancer, immediately schedule an appointment to have a colon cancer screening – remember, the longer you give it to grow, the more deadly it becomes.

Further Reading:

• Colon Cancer Alternative Treatment

Several lung cancer symptoms that might not be considered cancer-related if you don’t know about them can give you an early lead on potential lung cancer.

Lung Cancer Symptom #1 – Back, Chest, or Shoulder Pain

Unexplained chronic pain in the back, chest, or shoulders can be caused by a tumor pressing on the lung lining. If you have chest pain, it can be mistaken for heartburn in some occasions – and if you have back or shoulder pain that doesn’t go away with massage or chiropractic work, it’s worth mentioning to do your doctor.

Lung Cancer Symptom #2 – Swelling on your Face or Neck

Pressure from a tumor in a certain part of the lung can block the veins that take blood from the head and neck, leading to swelling and redness in that area. Lymphatic drainage can also be affected, so if a minor injury on the head or neck becomes unexpectedly infected or fails to heal, lung cancer can be at fault.

Lung Cancer Symptom #3 – Chronic Pneumonia and/or Bronchitis

Tumor cells can trap bacteria and viruses inside the lung, which frequently leads to pneumonia or bronchitis. Because smoking cigarettes can also lead to these diseases, it can be easy for a doctor to miss this symptom in smokers.

Lung Cancer Symptom #4 – Gynomastia

In laymen’s terms – man-boobs. Some forms of lung cancer produce significant amounts of an estrogen-like hormone that can cause the development of breasts in males.

Lung Cancer Symptom #5 – Hoarseness

Particularly upwardly situated tumors can press on the voice box, resulting in hoarse speech. Rarely, a tumor can also interfere with the nerves that control the vocal cords, with a similar result.

Later in the progress of lung cancer, more symptoms surface that doctors have an easier time recognizing.

Lung Cancer Symptom #6 – Persistent Cough That Gets Worse Over Time

While there are many potential causes for a persistent cough, coughs that consistently become nastier and nastier are a major warning sign of lung cancer.

Lung Cancer Symptom #7 – Coughing Up Blood

Similarly, coughing up blood is merely indicative of internal bleeding into the lungs. When paired with a few of the early warning signs above, however, it can point toward a tumor.

Lung Cancer Symptom #8 – Unexplained Weight Loss

Unexplained weight loss is a warning sign that points toward cancer, especially if your appetite is still healthy. Again, if you find that this is affecting you, it’s time to look for the earlier warning signs and inform your doctor.

After cancer has taken a firm hold – and most hope of treatment has passed – more common symptoms come up.

• Bone pain
• Aching joints
• Blood clots
• Bone fractures not related to injuries
• Inability to walk steadily
• Intermittent memory loss

All of these symptoms come from the various tissues and internal structures that the tumor(s) commonly impact as they develop.

Your doctor has many options to screen for lung cancer, and it is always wise to remain optimistic until a diagnosis can be proven. If you read through this list and you notice several of these symptoms that apply to you, don’t worry yourself until a diagnosis has been given.

Further Reading:

• Fight Cancer with Papaya – Treats Every Type of Tumor
• Lung Cancer Alternative Treatment
• Anti-Angiogenesis Foods – Agents That Fight Cancer Naturally
• Skin Cancer Alternative Treatment
• 13 Foods Full of Pesticides – Avoid or Buy Organic
• Latest Cancer Treatment Methods

There are three major forms of skin cancer. Each of these has been proven to be caused by exposure to sunlight (though many other causes can be at root). When caused by sunlight, the microscopic view shows this: ultraviolet radiation causes a disruption in the cell’s normal genetic operations, which break down and, under the right circumstances, change the cell into a precancerous or cancerous cell. The three forms of skin cancer are basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma. Melanoma is by far the most dangerous of the three.

What is Melanoma?

All three forms of skin cancer begin in the epidermis, where sunlight’s ultraviolet rays most easily penetrate. Melanoma has symptoms that are unique, easily distinguishing it from its brethren.

The first indication of melanoma is usually a change in color of a mole or a small patch of skin. Melanoma is named as such because it produces brown or black pigments — thus “melan” (Greek for black) and “oma” (a tumor). As such, it is wise for anyone who spends an appreciable amount of time in the sun to keep an eye on their skin for dark spots, patchy skin, or moles. Specifically, bleeding moles, new moles, and rapidly-changing dark spots are always worth reporting to your doctor right away.

Melanoma’s Principal Causes

Reportedly, those people who have lighter skin — and oddly lighter eyes — burn more easily than others. As such, they are also considered to be at a higher risk for skin cancer. Over the years, regular exposure to sunlight can progressively increase your risk for skin cancer. Sunbathing is the most common way to get melanoma from sun exposure, though prolonged outdoor work in a zero-shade environment — such as farming — is thought to be almost as bad. A sunbather that burns to the point of blistering is at a markedly higher risk than otherwise.

Other Causes of Melanoma Cancer, Explained.

Of course, sun exposure is not the only cause of melanoma — in fact, many melanomas are discovered at the bottom of the feet! Other known causes are mutagens, which can alter your DNA structure and cause a cell to become cancerous; long-term injuries, in which cells try to heal an injury but for whatever reason fail — sometimes the new cells created on the site of such an injury simply malfunction and become cancerous; and a variety of birth defects such as xeroderma pigmentosum that make the skin very fragile and sensitive to environmental changes, effectively mimicking the effects of a mutagen.

Melanoma Cancer Prognosis

Melanoma is the most deadly of the skin cancers, because is spreads much more quickly than its brothers. Detected and treated early enough, almost seventy-five percent of patients treated with traditional medicine survive. Several known alternative treatments are particularly effective against melanoma as well — and there are even stories of people who conquered melanoma entirely on their own, with no treatment at all. Personally, I’d really like to see that aspect of melanoma cancer explained.

Further Reading:

• Skin Cancer Alternative Treatment
• Latest Cancer Treatment Methods
• Fight Cancer with Papaya – Treats Every Type of Tumor
• Anti-Angiogenesis Foods – Agents That Fight Cancer Naturally
• 13 Foods Full of Pesticides – Avoid or Buy Organic
• Colon Cancer Alternative Treatment

Pancreatic cancer is very hard to detect early. The symptoms of early-stage pancreatic cancer are very generic: fatigue, nausea, vomiting, lack of energy, and sometimes fever. Doctors hear those symptoms a dozen times a day, and it’s almost never pancreatic cancer. By the time it’s been established as the cause of symptoms, it’s often too late for modern medicine to deal with it.

That said, there are a few symptoms to keep a close eye on. Dark urine, pale stool, and yellowing of the skin — combined with the above flu-like symptoms — are signs that your doctor needs to hear about immediately.

Only if your cancer is caught early enough — before it spreads to any other nearby organ — can a massive surgery, called a Whipple operation, have any chance of removing it from your body. In a Whipple surgery, the doctor removes the entire pancreas, adjoining sections of the intestine, and all local lymph nodes. It’s a hideously invasive and extensive operation that nonetheless is the only known way that modern medicine has found to provide a life expectancy beyond a few years.

Sounds like a technicality. If I have it already, is pancreatic cancer always fatal?

Only if you try to fight it with modern medicine. There are a few dietary pancreatic treatments that have had much more success. Most are quite hard to adapt to, but very worth it.

Diet is the single most important overriding factor in determining the survival rate of a patient with pancreatic cancer. Not only does your diet power your every organ, but the pancreas is the organ that produces the enzymes necessary for food digestion — so changing your diet has a more profound effect on your pancreas than it does on almost any other organ in your body.

The anti-cancer diet that I have personal experience with is called the Kelly Cancer Diet, and it is easy to research. My mother-in-law had a profound experience with melanoma and the Kelly diet, and swears by it today. That said, there are a few programs in use right now that utilize the Kelly diet as one element of an overall program for overcoming pancreatic cancer. Perhaps the most widely accepted (and successful) is the Gonzalez Program, which has just completed a set of clinical trials with the FDA.

The Gonzalez Program adds two more elements to the Kelly Cancer Diet that make it specifically applicable to pancreatic cancer. The first element is the addition of massive supplementation with pancreatic and other enzymes, to take the load off of the pancreas and to attack the cancer directly (cancer cells protect themselves with a protein ‘shell’ that several different enzymes can attack and break down, making the cancer vulnerable to the immune system). The second element is a daily detoxification regimen including, among other things, daily enemas of coffee. Coffee enemas bring huge amounts of caffeine directly into the bloodstream, which stimulates the immune system and provokes the body to eliminate toxic buildup of dead or dying cancer cells which can otherwise have a dire impact on health.

The Gonzalez Program is quite likely to be the most effective single treatment regimen for pancreatic cancer. In one study, patients who actually followed the difficult diet, swallowed the literally hundreds of pills-per-day required to get all of the enzyme and other supplementation, and performed two hour-plus coffee enemas every day increased their average survival rate to an unprecedented nine years — and some of those patients had Stage IV pancreatic cancer when they began the program.

So the answer to the question ‘is pancreatic cancer always fatal’ is ‘absolutely not — so long as you’re willing to take extreme measures to ensure your survival.’

Further Reading:

• Pancreatic Cancer – Alternative Treatment with Diet
• Recommended Cancer Diet
• Fight Cancer with Papaya – Treats Every Type of Tumor
• Cancer Survival Rates
• Alternative Prostate Cancer Treatment
• Alternative Lung Cancer Treatment Options

For example, depending on where you look, you could find out that up to sixteen percent of lung cancer patients survive for at least five years… or as little as five percent do. In order to get cancer survival rate numbers we can all agree on, we would have to all first agree to use a specific abstract to use to get those numbers.

Even with an agreement as to how to collect and process cancer survival rates information, the usefulness of the statistics may be questionable. Particularly for insidious cancers such as lung cancer and pancreatic cancer that are difficult to detect early, the survival rate isn’t a measure of how effective our countermeasures are — it’s a measure of how little we as a culture engage in preventative medicine. That doesn’t really help anybody who is already looking up the cancer survival rates statistics; they want to know how to get better, not what they should have done but didn’t.

What people really want when they look up cancer survival rates is information on survival rates brought on by specific treatments. For example, they want to know “how long will I survive if I get acupuncture therapy vs. nutritional therapy for my esophageal cancer?” (Statistics say use acupuncture, but go to China to get it.)

Unfortunately, few people — and even fewer unbiased sources who aren’t vested in the final numbers — actually keep track of things like this. The most common scenario is that a pharmacist who is testing a new treatment will keep careful track of the survival rates for that treatment; again, he is vested in the final outcome because he wants his treatment to work. That kind of thing leads to a bias that can skew the final numbers in a variety of ways.

Conversely, there is no way for any major corporation to profit significantly from unpatentable cures such as acupuncture or nutritive therapy — and as such, there is no profit to be found in tracking their efficacy, either. So finding cancer survival rates for treatments such as those are next to impossible.

Realistically, even if they were available, these rates are meant for scientific use only. They are statistics, which means that no one person should ever expect that the number should apply to them. Just because only twenty-three out of one hundred people survived esophageal cancer for five years doesn’t mean you should necessarily expect to die sooner. That just creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. A patient that expects to die is much more likely to do so.

These cancer survival rate numbers were never intended to be used by patients as a diagnostic tool or a psychological crutch. A much better way to assess your actual, individual prognosis is to talk to an expert — such as an oncologist — and to do your own research and find a treatment that you can put your trust in and stick to. Cancer survival rates should be treated as an interesting numerological phenomenon, and nothing more.

Further Reading:

• Fight Cancer with Papaya – Treats Every Type of Tumor
• Alternative Lung Cancer Treatment Options
• Prostate Cancer Alternative Treatment – Latest Therapies
• Latest Cancer Treatment Methods
• Lung Cancer Alternative Treatment
• Lung Cancer Symptoms

Since different people have different needs, it makes sense that the same cancer insurance plan won’t be appropriate for everyone. Here are a few questions you should always ask as you investigate:

• Where on the National Underwriter’s List is the company offering the plan listed?
• Does A.M. Best give the company at least an “A” ranking?
• How have their rates increased in the recent past?
• Does the representative of this company seem trustworthy?

Why are these questions important?

The first two questions are designed to establish an insurance company’s financial strength. In today’s economy, with even major, long-lasting business crumbling, this is a much more important factor than it was a decade ago.

The National Underwriter’s ranking is a comparison of the company’s income and outgo: the premiums paid in minus the claims paid out. A company’s base assets are also taken into consideration. The result is a good estimate of how long the company can stay in business if business proceeds as it has recently been going. A company that can’t stay in business as-is will either collapse or have to put out major rate hikes to stay solvent.

A.M. Best also examines a variety of financial factors and distills them into a simple letter grade. Their formula is complex, but the result is simple: if a company doesn’t get an “A” or “A+” from A.M. Best, you don’t want to risk dealing with them.

Examining the rate-hike history of a cancer insurance company can give you warning about their potential future behavior. Many companies have the right to increase rates on a class of policyholders, but few can do so to an individual. Regardless, there are companies out there who have literally never raised the rates of current policyholders — so you can count on whatever rate you receive being your rate for life barring a major economic disaster. Other companies hike rates so regularly that you can practically time the point at which you would be better switching to a different company.

Finally, you should personally feel like you can trust the representative the cancer insurance company sends you. This will be the person with whom you will share personal information about your health, finances, and more. If you can’t trust him, you’ll never feel comfortable doing the business that you need to do.

Like every aspect of modern consumerism, purchasing cancer insurance is an area that benefits immensely from a bit of research and a bit of knowledge — use the above as a starting point, but be smart on your own feet, and you’ll be able to make a decision you’ll never regret.

Further Reading:

• Fight Cancer with Papaya – Treats Every Type of Tumor
• Anti-Angiogenesis Foods – Agents That Fight Cancer Naturally
• Prostate Cancer Alternative Treatment – Latest Therapies
• Skin Cancer Alternative Treatment
• 13 Foods Full of Pesticides – Avoid or Buy Organic
• Latest Cancer Treatment Methods

Cancer Growth and Spreading

As you remember from What is Cancer lecture, cancer starts with one cell the genetic structure of which gets altered due to mutations. The progress of gene’s mutations could develop into uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells resulting in formation of a tumor. In order to better understand cancer staging and grading, we must first take a closer look at three stages of tumor development and progress:

Growth of Tumor
Cancer cells multiply at a high rate. Overtime, they form into a lump that is caller “a tumor”. Tumor is literally a mass of tissue made up entirely from cancer cells. As the tumor grows, cancer cells within release chemicals that cause imbalances in surrounding blood vessels until they branch off to supply tumor with blood. This is referred to as angiogenesis. This newly obtained blood supply delivers oxygen and nourishment to the cancer cells, allowing the tumor to grow. Without this ability, a tumor would not grow larger than the size of a pin head, but with supply of blood, cancer cells will continue to divide and push through surrounding tissue which causes damage to these (normal/healthy) cells.

Spread of Tumor to Lymph Nodes
As a tumor continues to grow, some of the cancer cells may enter lymph nodes – glands found all over the body where pathogens and germs are filtered. Lymph nodes are an important part of overall immunity as they also contain white blood cells. Cancer cells may enter lymph nodes through a network of lymph channels and start multiplying there, developing into a secondary tumor. Test results from lymph nodes are therefore an important factor in determining cancer staging.

Metastasis
When cancer cells get into blood vessels, they get carried to other parts of the body and may start multiplying there, creating secondary tumor at the new location. This process is called metastasis.

Cancer Staging

Further Reading:

• Fight Cancer with Papaya – Treats Every Type of Tumor
• Anti-Angiogenesis Foods – Agents That Fight Cancer Naturally
• Skin Cancer Alternative Treatment
• 13 Foods Full of Pesticides – Avoid or Buy Organic
• Latest Cancer Treatment Methods
• Colon Cancer Alternative Treatment

Researching Cancer Types and Stages

If you’ve been diagnosed with cancer, make sure you clarify the following with your doctor:

• What’s the cancer type I have (what’s its name)?
• What is the stage of my cancer?

If you can, try to also find out the following:

• What’s the grade of my cancer?
• Are there any other prognostic factors?

To initiate a successful research on your cancer, you need to get answers to the above mentioned questions from your doctor. Ask him what the medical name of your cancer is and what stage of your tumor is. The stage will likely be a Roman numeral between I and IV (Roman numeral one to Roman numeral four), of your stage could be “recurrent”. If the grade of your cancer is known, ask to learn about that. If there were any special tests done on your tumor, ask about results of those as well.

It’s also helpful to obtain copies of biopsy and pathology reports as well as any operative reports there might be. These will be particularly helpful if you get serious about studying your type of cancer and get yourself more technical literature.

Cancer Types

Cancer treatment methods vary and depend on cancer type you have. What cancer type you have will be determined by which organ this cancer starts in, which cells it derives from and what appearance this cancer cell takes. As you have learned from article that explains what cancer is and what causes it, cancer starts with one cell which begins to divide uncontrollably. As an abnormal cell multiplies at high speed, eventually this form of abnormal cells develops into a tumor.

Tumor which forms around the cell which started this uncontrolled division is called the “primary” tumor. Cells from the primary tumor can break off and travel to other parts of the body and start the growth of secondary tumors there. This is called “metastasis”. However, metastasis does not change the cancer type. That means that if your cancer type is “colon cancer” (cancer which started in the colon) which has spread through metastasis to form a secondary tumor on your liver, the cancer type of that tumor will not be “liver cancer”. It will be a metastatic colon cancer. Similarly, if your cancer type is breast cancer and it spreads to your bones, cancer type will not change to “bone cancer”, it will be “metastatic breast cancer”.

It is not uncommon for different types of cancer to start in the same organ. For example there are three different cancer types that start in the kidneys, each of them requiring different method of treatment. Renal cell cancer is the most common kidney cancer, Wilm’s tumor is common in kidneys of children, transitional cell cancer is a kidney cancer type similar to bladder cancer. Just because they all originated in kidneys, it doesn’t make them all the same cancer type. They are each different and each require different therapy. That’s why it is so important to know your cancer type otherwise you could be researching the options which are ineffective for the cancer type you have.

Another common mistake when performing a research on your cancer type is to search for broad class of cancer. For example if you have adenocarcinoma cancer which is the cancer of lining cells derived from cells of glandular origin, research on proper treatment would not return relevant results as there are several classes of this cancer. There is an adenocarcinoma of the lung and there also is an adenocarcinoma of the pancreas. These are both different cancer types, each requiring different treatment.

Further Reading:

• Latest Cancer Treatment Methods
• Alternative Prostate Cancer Treatment
• Fight Cancer with Papaya – Treats Every Type of Tumor
• Anti-Angiogenesis Foods – Agents That Fight Cancer Naturally
• Skin Cancer Alternative Treatment
• 13 Foods Full of Pesticides – Avoid or Buy Organic

What is Cancer?

There is a group of about 100 diseases that medical community refers to as “cancer”. They all have one thing in common – abnormal cells that grow out of control and spread on to other cells. Our bodies are made of billions of cells of different types. The growth and lifespan of our cells is regulated by genes that we are born with. If any of the cells start growing in an uncontrolled way, it can cause cancer.

The cells our bodies are made of don’t live forever. They don’t even live for as long as we are alive. Cells age and die and are replaced by new cells. Some cells live only for a very short time, some live for years, but after a few years, every single cell in our body will have been replaced with a brand new cell. This is normal and preprogrammed by our genes. For as long as our cells die out and get replaced, we don’t have to worry about cancer as growth of new cells and dying of old ones is kept in balance.

If genes that regulate development and behavior of our cells get damaged, affected cells may fail to die when they are supposed to. Those damaged cells will remain in your body while new cells with continue to grow really fast. Overtime this growth of abnormal cells forms a tumor.

Types of Tumors

There are two types of tumors – “malignant” and “benign”. The type of tumor is classified based on whether it spreads or not:

Malignant Tumors have the ability to spread to other parts of the body and as such are considered cancerous. Malignant Tumors are “cancer”.
Benign Tumors do not spread to other body parts and as such are NOT considered cancerous. Benign Tumors are not cancer.

If you have a malignant tumor, you have cancer. As explained above, malignant tumors have the ability to spread to other body parts. There are two ways cancer spreads – invasion or metastasis:

Invasion: cancerous cells spread to adjacent tissues within the same area
Metastasis: cancerous cells enter the bloodstream and lymph system and spread to other parts of the body. These metastasized cells then start growing at the new location and continue spreading to more locations.

What Causes Cancer?

There are several factors that can cause cancer. Medical professionals divide them into two groups – internal factors and external factors:

Internal Factors that Cause Cancer:

• Hereditary Factors
• Weakened Immunity
• High Hormone Levels
• Metabolism Mutations

External Factors that Cause Cancer:

• Tobacco Use
• Alcohol Use
• Bad Diet
• Radiation Exposure
• Chemical Substances
• Cell Phone Use
• Asbestos Exposure
• Sunlight
• Viruses

The above list is not necessarily exhaustive. We may not know all factors that cause cancer. The most likely scenario leading to development of cancer is a combination of several factors – for example if a person who inherited a particular type of gene that predisposes them to developing that type of cancer makes poor lifestyle choices and lives in a bad environment would be exposed to a complex set of interactions between carcinogenic factors which could lead to development of cancer, because they are exposed to several risk factors we do know cause cancer. The more cancer causing factors you are exposed to, the bigger a risk of developing cancer exists.

It is however important to notice that different risk factors affect different body parts hence may not directly complement each other. For example, consumption of alcohol is a risk factor, but if you are at risk of developing skin cancer, cutting down on alcohol will not lower your chances of skin cancer. It may lower your chances of developing liver cancer, but it will have insignificant impact on condition of your skin cells.

Furthermore, while above listed agents are known as potential causes of cancer, exposure to these factors does not mean that a person would automatically develop cancer. Many aspects affect your body’s ability to deal with exposure to these agents. For example your age, whether you have inherited any genetic mutations, what you eat and drink, etc. – all of those factors can contribute to lowering or increasing your chances of developing cancer.

How long and how often you’re being exposed also matters and of course one of the most crucial factors is whether you’re also exposed to other agents. This is why it’s not uncommon to have cases of several people who were all exposed to an agent known to initiate or promote carcinogenesis, yet only some will get cancer.

Further Reading:

• Fight Cancer with Papaya – Treats Every Type of Tumor
• Anti-Angiogenesis Foods – Agents That Fight Cancer Naturally
• Skin Cancer Alternative Treatment
• 13 Foods Full of Pesticides – Avoid or Buy Organic
• Latest Cancer Treatment Methods
• Colon Cancer Alternative Treatment

We hope that advice on alternative cancer treatment found on this website can aid to lowering numbers cancer patients in the USA, ultimately lowering number of deaths caused by this devastating disease.

Below is the sum up of cancer facts and numbers related to the USA:

• Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the USA, second only to heart disease.
• 1 out of every 4 deaths in the USA is from cancer.
• Cancer cells survive on simple sugars that body supplies. Dietary changes can drop levels of simple sugars and literally starve cancer cells to death.
• Cancer cells are sensitive to heat. Distribution of heat to cancerous cells may aid in shrinking of cancerous tumors.
• Cancer cells multiply rapidly if supplied with large amount of blood. If blood supply to cancerous tumors is reduced, the ability of cancer to spread and grow weakens. Induction of anti-angiogenesis (angiogenesis is the ability to form and develop new blood vessels) can aid in efforts immensely.
• It is important to detoxify the body often to get rid of toxins accumulated as result of dying cancer cells. Body has the ability to get rid of toxins from the blood stream, but it needs to be helped by increased disposal of bodily fluids. Increased detoxification also helps restore regulatory functions and apoptosis (natural way of cells to kill itself in order to be replaced with new cells).
• When a cell loses its ability to die its programmed way, it starts growing uncontrollably and is unable to become a cell with a function (for example a liver cell). In medical terms, the DNS in cancer cells becomes undifferentiated. Certain alternative cancer therapies involve natural herbal extracts that guard the DNA of healthy cells and protect it from mutations. Some can also revert the differentiation of the DNA in cells, turning them from cancerous cells, into normal, functioning cells that die programmed death as they are meant to.
• Cancer also diminishes the immune system. Alternative cancer cures can boost patient’s immunity and increase body’s ability to fight cancer with its own mechanisms.
• Through proper nutrition and oxygenation of healthy cells, alternative cancer treatments can improve cells’ resistance to spreading tumors.

Map of Cancer Cases in the USA for 2008 by State

Map of Cancer Cases in the USA for 2008 by State. Numbers are estimated and exclude squamous and basal cell skin cancers and in situ carcinomas except urinary bladder. All estimated numbers are offered as rough guide. Source: American Cancer Society

The above facts and number are a collection of pertinent information from authority sources, such as the American Cancer Society. The goal of Alternative Cancer [dot] me is to provide you with information on alternative cancer treatment methods that can support your immune and cellular functions in order to reinforce body’s natural abilities to protect and heal itself. We make no claims expressed or implied about curing cancer.

Further Reading:

• Skin Cancer Alternative Treatment
• Fight Cancer with Papaya – Treats Every Type of Tumor
• Anti-Angiogenesis Foods – Agents That Fight Cancer Naturally
• 13 Foods Full of Pesticides – Avoid or Buy Organic
• Latest Cancer Treatment Methods
• Colon Cancer Alternative Treatment