[Chumley]

Antisocial, Invasive Cells Are Basis Of Cancer, Finding Suggests

[heathmatters]

The one that is going to discover the cure for cancer is going to be rich, filthy rich. In fact, it is great news for all of us as well, if there is a cure for cancer, since chemotherapy and other methods used now to cure cancer are risky and they are not completely sure that it will help remove cancerous cells in our body. If this research turns out to be fruitful, cancer can be prevented and cured. Lifealert

[Brenda]

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and they are not completely sure that it will help remove cancerous cells in our body.

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Link?
Or is this just an assumption?

[raydan]

I think he's just passing through, Brenda.


...at least I hope.

[raydan]

...I'm just waiting for him to post a link to some miracle product that will cure ALL our ills.

[Brenda]

SPAM!!

[raydan]

Not yet.

[Neli_20]

Its stupid...

[Nathaniel03]

Although more and more women are surviving, breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK and it has been on the rise for several years.

In 1999, 42,400 women were diagnosed with the disease. The odds that a woman would develop breast cancer during her lifetime were one in nine.

In 2008, 47,700 women were diagnosed. Taking into account the changing size of the population, this is an increase of around 3.5 per cent in the breast cancer incidence rate. As a result, we’ve now calculated that the lifetime risk of developing the disease is one in eight.

This increase raises the obvious question: why have rates gone up?

Unfortunately there’s no simple answer to this. Breast cancer is a complicated disease with a variety of different causes. Many aspects of our lives swing our risk in one direction or another. Some of these can be controlled, while others are largely out of our hands.

Let’s take a look at some of the possible explanations.

Screening

In recent years, breast cancer rates have risen especially quickly among women aged 65-69. This probably coincides with the inclusion, from 2004, of women in this age group in the national breast screening programme. An increase in the number of women attending screening would be very likely to lead to an increased number of cancers being detected.

In many ways, this is to be expected. Screening programmes are meant to detect cancers at an early stage when they’re too small to cause any symptoms. At this point, they are easier to treat successfully. So you would expect rates to go up when a new group of women is invited for screening.

The screening programme has attracted a lot of recent controversy. Critics say that it picks up a large number of cancers that would never go on to cause a woman any problems. These include a type of cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) – a ‘pre-cancerous’ type of tumour that has not yet started to spread. But our new analysis doesn’t include cases of DCIS, so these non-invasive tumours can’t explain the rising breast cancer rates in women aged 65-69.

[jeff744]

Stop with the grave digging.