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 hundreds of different conditions.
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Do "Rife machines" cure cancer?
The book The Cancer Cure That Worked: 50 Years of Suppression (ISBN 978-0982513866), by Barry Lynes, claims that:
there are Rife instruments which, combined with dedicated practitioners and carefully developed protocols, are accomplishing stunning…
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Was it only Johnson & Johnson which hid the link between its Talcum powder and Cancer risk?
Recently a woman successfully sued Johnson & Johnson for not giving enough warnings about the Cancer causing risks of its baby powder. But why only Johnson & Johnson? Do other Talcum powder product companies give enough warnings about Cancer? Is…
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Does low-dose radiation from X-rays or CT scans cause cancer?
Some researchers claim that, despite wide belief, that exposure to Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation (LDIR) from computed tomography (CT) and X-ray medical imaging scans does not cause cancer.
Jeffrey Siegel and Charles Pennington wrote a 2015 article for…
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Does low-intensity radio-frequency radiation lead to cancer?
A recent review article, Oxidative mechanisms of biological activity of low-intensity radiofrequency radiation reached a surprising conclusion
our analysis demonstrates that low-intensity RFR [Radio Frequency Radiation] is an expressive oxidative…
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Is CancerTutor.com reliable?
CancerTutor.com claims to be a website for "alternative" cancer treatments, denouncing standard treatments like chemotherapy or radiation.
From the first glance, it seems like your typical quackery website, with all the telltale signs like "Big…
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Does eating the apple skin alone help to reduce cancer cells and liver cancer?
The article An Apple a Day May Really Keep the Doctor Away mention:
Using colon cancer cells treated with apple extract, Liu and colleagues found that 50 milligrams of apple extracted from the skins decreased the cancer cell growth by 43%, while…
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Is papillary thyroid cancer benign?
Looking at this story it says that:
According to a study conducted by the Cancer Institute Hospital in Tokyo from 1995 to 2009, a total of 283 papillary thyroid cancer patients chose not to have surgery and opted instead to be monitored on a…
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Can scorpion venom be used to help to identify cancer cells?
Apple Balla reports that Wired reports that scientists report that:
Washington, July 7 (IANS) In what can alter the course of cancer treatment in the near future, researchers have found a compound that appears to pinpoint all of the malignant cells…
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Alkaline diet afect cancer?
I have heard that if you have an alkaline diet it actually prevents/stops cancer.
It is not mandatory to eat all alkaline things but to balance it so that the body does not get to acidic from food.
So in the alkalines we would find:
Water (with a…
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Can wood dust cause cancer?
From https://www.p65warnings.ca.gov/fact-sheets/wood-dust
Wood dust is on the Proposition 65 list because it can cause cancer.
Exposure to wood dust in significant amounts on a recurring basis can causecancers of the nose, throat and sinuses.
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Are artificial football pitches linked to cancer?
There is a lot of weather in the UK and this interacts with normal grass pitches used for sports such as soccer and rugby to cause the pitches to be unplayable. As a response many teams have adopted the use of "artificial" pitches made from…
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Does Aloe Vera cure diseases?
Many sites claim that Aloe Vera can cure diseases and sicknesses such as Arthritis and prevent diseases such as cancer. Is there any scientific merit at all to all those claims?
Example sites:
Natural News
How Stuff Works
A simple Google search…
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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 rather than meeting up with them may have wide-ranging…
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