COMMON CANCER CAUSES NOT TALKED ABOUT

“In spite of decades of research and millions of dollars spent, the cancer establishment remains myopically fixated on obsolete “blame-the-victim” theories of breast cancer causation, while ignoring growing evidence of the role of environmental contaminants.” Said Dr. Samuel Epstein, an internationally recognized authority on environmental pollution and cancer.

In November 1992 the Greenpeace study was released. They were the first to review existing scientific literature on breast cancer and the environment. Putting them all together and releasing the key findings:

U.S. counties with toxic waste sites were 6.5 times more likely to have elevated breast cancer rates than those without waste sites.

Women with breast cancer tend to have higher levels of organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyl’s (PCBs) in their tissue than women without breast cancer.

Women working in industries with elevated levels of chemical exposure

including exposure to dioxin-have very high rates of breast cancer.

Prior to 1976, levels of chlorinated pesticides and breast cancer rates were higher in Israel than virtually anywhere else in the world. In the decade following a government ban on three of these pesticides, breast cancer rates dropped to levels similar to those of other nations. Joe Thornton who authored the Greenpeace study says; “well under half of all breast cancer cases are actually linked to the ACS risk factors. Ample evidence points to chlorine-based chemicals as significant contributors to this epidemic.”

The American Cancer Society, which keeps record, estimates that in 1998 178,700 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed among women in the United States and 1/3 will die. An estimated 1,600 cases will be diagnosed among men.

As the tide of chemicals born of the Industrial Age has arisen to engulf

our environment, a drastic change has come about in the nature of the most

serious public health problems. For the first time in the history of the

world, every human being is now subject to contact with dangerous

chemicals, from the moment of conception until death. - Rachel Carson,

Silent Spring 1962

Two years after Rachel Carson wrote these words in her groundbreaking book, “Silent Spring,” she died of breast cancer. Three decades later, pollution of the global environment and our bodies has grown more severe. Simultaneously, breast cancer is now the leading cause of death for women between the ages of 40 and 55, second only to Lung cancer.

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER - American Cancer Society 1998 - Breast cancer rates have risen steadily since the dawn of the chemical age. From 1940 to 1982, breast cancer rated increased by 12 percent each year. But more recently, rates have skyrocketed. From 1980 to 1987 alone, the number of breast cancer cases reported in the U.S. rose by 32 percent and continue to do so. Fifty years ago, one in 20 women got breast cancer. Today a woman has a one-in-eight chance of developing breast cancer.

In 1980 the World Health Organization stated that 80 percent of cancers

The Ralph Nader Group did an environmental study - privately funded -

Taken from the Science News Vol. 142 on the Environment - Studies have documented in drinking water of many potentially toxic volatile organic chemicals. (VOCs) - from chloroform and pesticides to carbon tetrachloride.

Such findings have spurred investigations into the INHALATION HAZARDS these

compounds may pose when released into the air during baths and showers… The

most volatile chemical studied in the experiments was a Freon known as

CFC-ll. Little’s worst-case analyses indicate that people showering for 10

minutes in water containing this VOC would inhale 50 percent more of the

potential toxicant than they would ingest by drinking two liters of that

water…

Taking long hot showers is a health risk, according to research

Doubles Risk

cancer, which strikes 40,000, people a year? U.S. News & World Report July 29, 1991

There was a higher incidence of cancer of the esophagus, rectum, breasts

and larynx and of Hodgkin’s Disease among those drinking chlorinated surface waters. U. S. News & World Report, July 29, 1991

Is Your Water Safe-The Dangerous State of Your Water

Worse Than Drinking Water?

Conservative calculations indicate that inhalation exposures can be as significant as exposure from drinking the water; i.e., one can be exposed to just as much by inhalation during a shower as by drinking 2 liters of water a day.

Dr. H. Brown reported in the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH “Showering is suspected as the primary cause of elevated chloroform in nearly every home because of chlorine in the water.” Chloroform acts as a carcinogen in the body. A Professor of Water Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh claims that toxic exposure to vaporized chemical in the water supplies through showering, bathing and inhalation from hot dishwater is 100 times greater than through drinking the water.

When you shower, where does the water strike your body harder and stronger? Our upper body receives the force of the flow and is absorbed through our tissues. Ironically, in the areas where drinking water chlorination is increased, so has cancer! (Found in the Ralph Nader Group environmental study).

As chlorine is added to kill pathogenic microorganisms, the highly 

reactive chlorine combines with fatty acids and carbon fragments to form a variety of toxic compounds, which comprise of 30% of the chlorination by-products.

The NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES estimates that 200 to 1,000 people die in the United States each year from cancers caused by ingesting the contaminates in the water. The major health threat posed by these pollutants is far more likely to be from their inhalation as air pollutants. The reason that emissions are high is because water droplets disperse by shower heads have a larger surface-to-volume ration than water steaming into the bath.

“On one hand, chlorination has freed civilization from the constant dangers of waterborne epidemics. On the other hand in the mid - 70s scientists discovered that chlorination could create carcinogens in water.”…”80% of the population drinks chlorinated water.”… “There was a higher incidence of cancer of the esophagus, rectum, breast, and larynx and of Hodgkin’s Disease among those drinking chlorinated surface waters.”…”Volatile organics can evaporate from water in a shower or bath.”…”Conservative calculations indicate that inhalation exposures can be as significant as exposure from drinking the water, that is, one can be exposed to just as much by inhalation during a shower as by drinking 2 liters of water a day.”…”People who shower frequently could be exposed through ingestion, inhalation and/or dermal absorption.”

Is Your Water Safe to Drink?
Consumer Reports Books

“Skin absorption of contaminant has been underestimated and ingestion may not constitute the sole or even primary route of exposure.”

American Journal of Public Health
Dr. Halina Brown

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**DETOXING AND IMPROVING YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM FUNCTION CAN IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF NOT GETTING CANCER!

Whether you eat a balanced diet or not you are probably mal-nourished. This fact has been known for over 60 years but we have not been warned or given information to help us correct the deficiencies. WITH IMPROPER NUTRIENTS AND MINERALS WE HAVE WEAKENED IMMUNE SYSTEMS.

Anna Cocilovo, A Physician assistant in Prescott Arizona, practices natural medicine and acupuncture, writes for the Prescott Courier Newspaper. This is an excerpt from one of her columns. “Stress wastes Magnesium and magnesium relieves stress. When challenged by a stressor, the body releases adrenaline to prepare one for fight or flight. One effect of adrenaline is to block the uptake of magnesium by the cells. This raises the level of magnesium in the blood so it can be used where most needed. But in this day and age of epidemic chronic stress, magnesium becomes depleted from the cell.

When one experiences a defeat or loss (divorce, death, job loss, etc.) the physiological response shifts from adrenaline to cortisone secretion. If one mourns, moves on and learns, the body returns back to balance. But if instead chronic depression sets in, cortisone levels remain elevated causing increased loss of magnesium through the kidneys. People with adequate magnesium stores react with less irritation, irritability, and have diminished adrenaline response.

Interestingly, North Americans develop osteoporosis (softening of the bones) while Africans do not. This is despite the fact that Americans consume more calcium and Vitamin D than Africans, who consume more magnesium. Magnesium enhances calcium absorption, while deficiency of magnesium causes increased loss of calcium in the urine. While adequate calcium intake is important in preventing osteoporosis, calcium supplementation without magnesium will deplete magnesium. In the presence of magnesium, the need for calcium will be decreased.

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a debilitating disease which, oversimplified, is like getting the flu and never getting over it. The Center for Disease Control has made CFS a top priority, at the same level as uncontrolled E-coli and tuberculosis. Many with CFS also suffer from fibromyalgia (FM). FM is a syndrome characterized by widespread chronic musculoskeletal pain. Magnesium is well recognized by experts in the field to be very useful in CFS and FM. In double blind randomized study published in the Lancet in 1991, patents with CFS were found to have lower red blood cell magnesium levels than controls. When treated with injectable magnesium, the treatment group reported significantly improved energy levels, improved emotional state, and less pain compared to placebo group. Probably the primary mechanism of action explains this result is the crucial role magnesium plays in ATP production. ATP, formed from breakdown of food is the cell’s equivalent to fuel for you! It provides the energy necessary for muscles to move. In CFS and FM, the body’s ability to make ATP is compromised. The body responds by breaking down precious muscle tissue to get at stored ATP. Fatigue and pain, and spasms result. A vicious cycle is created as the chronic pain and stress causes further magnesium wasting.

As one would expect, the less expensive magnesium supplements are the more poorly absorbed.”