what are the possibilities to avoid cancer?
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eat garlic, ginger and watch what you eat mostly and get a regular check up. Exercise.
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you cna't prevent cancer 100% So many things cause cancer. Genetics, overexposure to radiation and harmful chemicals etc. \nMy advice would to just live a healthy life by eating right and exercising.
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I had breast cancer and recovered using alternative medicine. There are no sure things however, and anyone, conventional or alternative, who promises you a sure cure is not telling you the truth. If you're willing to do your homework and be really, really proactive you will greatly improve your odds.\n\nYou want to make your body so healthy that cancer can't live in it. I put together some resources to help others with cancer, so they can see how many options they really do have, and make up their own minds about what they want to do. \n\nGod bless you, and take heart. While I wouldn't wish cancer on anyone, perhaps you can look on this as a fantastic opportunity for you to heal your life on many levels.
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Avoid the sun. Vitamins A, C, and E. These are antioxidants. They prevent cell damage which significantly contributes to the aging process. Proper hydration is an absolute necessity to keep skin supple. Exercise and proper diet is also a huge plus.
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Direct application of anti-cancer drugs to cancer cells. Being able to scrape the junk that builds up on arteries and leads to heart attacks.\n\nStuff like that.
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2 - 3 times a week--> increase body immunity, avoid prostate cancer\n\neveryday --> becomes lazy, sleepy, and less imune to disease
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don't do it . . .\n\ntry a nutritious diet and some exercise . . .
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helpful- get rid of diseases such as parkinsons or maybe even genetic cancer\n\nharmful- dont know the side effect...and people may use it for the wrong reasons...
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Get cancer. Not the best approach, IMHO.
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Check out "Beating Cancer With Nutrition" by nutritionist Patrick Quillen (CTCA) or "How to Prevent and Treat Cancer with Natural Medicine" by Michael Murray ND.\nAvailable on Alibris.com; both books are a goldmine of info on diet and other approaches to helping cancer paitients. Good luck and God Bless!
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many chemicals in processed foods are carcinogenic so avoid them if you can. however its all about the amount you eat. particularly dangerous are artificial sweeteners, so dont drink diet fizzy drinks. eating lots of organic fresh fruit and vegetables will protect you from cancer.
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Do you mean personally, or as a society?\n\nPersonally speaking, you should avoid high-risk activities. For example, extended days unprotected in the sun can lead to skin cancer. Or eating too many sugary foods without any exercise can lead to the development of diabetes.\n\nIf you are talking about ridding society of these diseases, it will be some time. There have been many promising leads in scientific research, more with diabetes than cancer. Cancer is especially complicated because there are so many types of cancer. It can be caused by a number of different factors, so finding one cure for all cancer is highly unlikely.
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I think it might depend on what type of cancer it is. Breast cancer and prostrate cancer can run in the family. Not sure skin cancer is that way, though, or lung cancer. Your chances also go up depending on your lifestyle, like if you smoke or overweight. Don't take my word on it though, check with your physician, he/she should be able to give you a fairly good idea of your risk, and probably be able to tell you ways to lower your risk.
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Thi biggest killers of otherwise healthy people are heart attacks and stroke, followed by cancer, then any number of inflammatory diseases and diabetes. Looking at the major risk factors for these, and especially which factors put you at risk for more than one, is a good way to go about deciding what to focus on:\n\nSmoking\nObesity\nHigh blood pressure\nHigh LDL, low HDL (cholesterol)\nPoor diet\nLack of exercise.\n\nTake care of these, and you cut your risk of serious disease over 50%, increase your lifespan, and more importantly, increase the number of years of health.
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There are many weapons in our arsenal against cancer. Some can cure certain cancers. Some can slow the cancer's advance down. No one approach cures all cancers.\n\nTypically once a cancer has metastasized and become cancers in the abdomen, the outlook is much worse, I am sorry to say. \n\n\nHere is a range of some of the types of cancer therapies:\n\nYou can cut it out. \n\nYou can try to kill the fast growing cancer cells with radiation or chemotherapy.\n\nYou can use drugs that target the blood supplies of the cancer (angiogenesis).\n\nYou can use molecular biology to design medications that bind to the receptors on the cancer cells and prevent them from functioning. \n\nThere are a range of other drugs that inhibit certain processes in the cancer cell (see ref).\n\nAntibody treatments like monoclonal antibodies. \n\nBiological response modifiers like immunotherapy, cytokine therapy.
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There are a LOT of things a woman can do to reduce her chances of getting breast cancer.  (Note: regular check-ups are important but they do not prevent cancer, they merely identify it early.)\n\nThe medical research is full of information on the following nutritional factors:\n\n1) High intakes (two servings per day) of brassica vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, etc.) may help modulate detoxification systems (especially detoxification of estrogens) and decrease cancer risks.\n\n2) Avoid all intake of alcohol.\n\n3) Adequate intakes of nutrients needed for an important process in the body called 'methylation' are needed to prevent breast and other cancers.  These include: Vitamin B12, Vitamin B6, the B vitamin called Folate, and Betaine.  These nutrients are commonly deficient in modern foods and are especially important in women who drink alcohol.\n\n4) High intakes of bioflavanoids such as soy isoflavones, epigallo-catechin-gallate (ECGC) in green tea, and resveratrol in dark grapes, may be helful.\n\n5) Regular excercise is associated with decreased breast cancer risks.\n\n6) High Vitamin D levels play many important roles in the body's physiology that help to reduce cancer risks.  Note:  Vitamin D deficiency is now considered to be at Epidemic Levels in western civilization.  RDAs for Vitamin D are way too low and many people are avoiding sunlight (the primary source of Vitamin D production.)  Cod liver oil is an excellent source of Vitamin D.\n\n7) A huge body of scientific evidence supports a role for Vitamin C in the prevention of the cancer process.\n\n8) High intakes of a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables (5-9 servings per day) have repeatedly been associated with reduced risk for many cancers.\n\nMuch of the information I have offered here can be found in great detail in the medical text:  "Nutrition and Cancer Prevention", edited by Awad and Bradford, 2006, publ. by CRC Press.  This is not a book for the 'layperson', and frankly, most doctors would have difficulty following the biochemistry it discusses.\n\nAn excellent book for the layperson on many aspects of prevention of chronic diseases, including cancers, is available by Sherry Rogers, M.D.  The book has a gruesome name: "Detoxify Or Die", but it is an authoratative source of critical information about disease prevention.  I highly recommend it.  It is available at Amazon.com or from the publisher at 1-800-846-6687.\n\nI hope you find this information helpful.  Best wishes.
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I wouldn't worry about it.  If you avoid all of the things that might be bad for you, your immune system will shut down someday when faced with a serious pathogen.  Besides, you drink out of Aluminum cans, Silly.  Also, the baby boomers played with mercury which toxic to even be within 5 feet of and they don't have elevated cancer risks or anything.  Relax.