Cancer

[twalalyn]

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i think it depends on what d cause of it some are hereditary & some are just secondary from other illness...women have lower number of lung cancer from smoking compare to men because men smoke more plus w/ drinking habits they are more at risk...

[slakker]

if you smoke, expect lung cancer in the near future.

[somar]

A lot of factors, 1 probable cause could be the genes like history of cancer.

2nd factor could be the environment where you live or work where you are exposed to unclean or polluted air. (ex. if you live along a busy road (abog/smoke) , if you live/work near a factory producing smoke)

3rd factor, though you don't smoke, but exposed to people who smokes, you get double the damage (free radical damage)
you are more at risk of cancer.

I do believe that prevention is still best than cure, eat your 5 to 10 servings of fruits or veggies per day (preferably raw or half cooked) to neutralize your free radical damage.

[somar]

I've heard of the news that cebu has the highest number of breast and prostate cancer incidents nationwide.

1 out of 4 women when they reach 40 are prone to breast cancer. 1 out of 6 men are prone to prostate cancer when they reach 40.

Hmm.. im not surprised really. The quality of food in Cebu i guess really affects, the Grills (paborito gyud), fast foods(tapsilogans kay barato man daw) and burgers. Puno ug carcinogens atong cebuano diet, plus the stress and lifestyle factors.

I guess it's time to increase the awareness of health, and looking and choosing the food we eat. Cebu, what do you think?

[twalalyn]

prevention and early detection is always the key and educating people...i think just doing monthly breast self-exam & testicular exam would help detecting them early... more awareness is really needed bcoz a lot of people will detect cancer when they're already in the late stage...

[dredd41v576]

mao ba?

[WinFlo]

almost everything na lang causes cancer or will make us sick. unsaon na lang lisod man sad nga kita2x ang motanom ug mobuhi para sa atong kaonon.

[--Makoy--]

thats the price we pay for technology

[chomp2x]

What are preventions of having cancer?

[salbahis]

To avoid colon cancer, eat more fruit, study finds

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People who eat a diet high in fruit and low in meat reduce their risk of developing colon cancer, researchers reported on Wednesday.

Their study supports other research showing that meat can raise the risk of getting cancer, especially colon cancer, and offers details about what other factors in the diet might be important.

The team at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill interviewed 725 people who had just had colonoscopies about their diet, smoking and other habits.

Of these, 203 had learned they had adenomas, polyps that often turn into tumors and are removed during a colonoscopy.

Gregory Austin and colleagues analyzed the answers and found there were three groups -- people who ate a lot of fruit but little meat, people who ate a lot of vegetables and a moderate amount of meat, and people who simply ate a lot of meat.

The people who recalled eating large or moderate amounts of meat were 70 percent more likely to have had a polyp than those who said they ate a lot of fruit but little meat.

Writing in the Journal of Nutrition, the researchers said they wanted to know if eating plenty of greens might counteract the bad effects of meat.

"Several studies have found a protective effect of fruit and vegetable consumption, but multiple other studies have found no association between fruit and vegetable consumption and the risk of having or developing a colorectal neoplasm (tumor or pre-tumor)," they wrote.

Colon cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States after lung cancer, with a projected 52,000 deaths in 2007.

"The high meat cluster (345 people) was the largest of the three clusters and represented a more typical American diet," the researchers wrote.

These people ate fewer whole grains than recommended, far fewer fruits and vegetables than they should and more fat and sugar than others.

Just 18 percent of the people who said they ate a lot of fruit but little meat had a polyp, compared to 30 percent of the moderate meat-eaters and 32 percent of people in the high meat-eating group.

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