...it has been known to cause cancer for a long time. This is the WHO providing this warning. I look forward to the WHO issuing warnings about tobacco and high fat diets.
Carcinogenesis. 2003 Oct; 24(10): 1683–1690.
Published online 2003 Aug 1.
High intake of red meat, but not of white meat, is associated with an increased risk of colon cancer. However, red meat does not promote cancer in rodents. Haemin, added to low-calcium diets, increases colonic proliferation, and haemoglobin, added to high-fat diets, increases the colon tumour incidence in rats, an effect possibly due to peroxyl radicals. We thus speculated that haem might be the promoting agent in meat, and that prevention strategies could use calcium and antioxidants. These hypotheses were tested in rats at the aberrant crypt foci (ACF) stage at 100 days. F344 rats (n=124) were given an injection of azoxymethane and were then randomised to 11 groups fed with low-calcium (20μmol/g) AIN76-based diets, containing 5% safflower oil. Haemin (0.25, 0.5 and 1.5μmol/g) or haemoglobin (1.5 and 3 μmol haem/g) was added to five experimental diets, compared to a control diet without haem....
Regular check ups are a good idea and have proven to work in saving lives.
...In 1998, (click here) Darryl Strawberry listened to his wife and went to the doctors to get checked out. What was revealed was a grapefruit sized tumor on his colon. Immediately thinking the worst, Darryl nearly expected death.
Surgery was immediately required and thus Strawberry’s season for the Yankees came to an abrupt halt. The doctors got to work and did their best to remove all of the tumor. Following surgery, Darryl struggled with six months of chemo-therapy. Doctors told Strawberry that if he could stay clear of cancer for five years that he would be in the clear. Just as all seemed to be going well with his recovery, the cancer returned in 2000. Darryl was nauseated with the thought of needing surgery again and going through more chemo. It was ultimately the thought of having his kids grow up without a father, that kept him fighting and wanting to live.
Darryl Strawberry is alive today and doing well. He has been cancer free since 2000 and is having his chance to see his children grow up and become young adults themselves. Doctors credited the fact that he was a professional athlete to him still being alive....
In case the WHO is looking for a spokesperson to help drive detection and treatment. In the USA this is a regular procedure to treat and save lives.
New York Yankee outfielder Darryl Strawberry, (click here) who was diagnosed with
colon cancer in 1998 and underwent chemotherapy, said Friday his cancer
has resurfaced.
Carcinogenesis. 2003 Oct; 24(10): 1683–1690.
Published online 2003 Aug 1.
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Meat and cancer: (click here) haemoglobin and haemin in a low-calcium diet promote colorectal carcinogenesis at the aberrant crypt stage in rats
High intake of red meat, but not of white meat, is associated with an increased risk of colon cancer. However, red meat does not promote cancer in rodents. Haemin, added to low-calcium diets, increases colonic proliferation, and haemoglobin, added to high-fat diets, increases the colon tumour incidence in rats, an effect possibly due to peroxyl radicals. We thus speculated that haem might be the promoting agent in meat, and that prevention strategies could use calcium and antioxidants. These hypotheses were tested in rats at the aberrant crypt foci (ACF) stage at 100 days. F344 rats (n=124) were given an injection of azoxymethane and were then randomised to 11 groups fed with low-calcium (20μmol/g) AIN76-based diets, containing 5% safflower oil. Haemin (0.25, 0.5 and 1.5μmol/g) or haemoglobin (1.5 and 3 μmol haem/g) was added to five experimental diets, compared to a control diet without haem....
Regular check ups are a good idea and have proven to work in saving lives.
...In 1998, (click here) Darryl Strawberry listened to his wife and went to the doctors to get checked out. What was revealed was a grapefruit sized tumor on his colon. Immediately thinking the worst, Darryl nearly expected death.
Surgery was immediately required and thus Strawberry’s season for the Yankees came to an abrupt halt. The doctors got to work and did their best to remove all of the tumor. Following surgery, Darryl struggled with six months of chemo-therapy. Doctors told Strawberry that if he could stay clear of cancer for five years that he would be in the clear. Just as all seemed to be going well with his recovery, the cancer returned in 2000. Darryl was nauseated with the thought of needing surgery again and going through more chemo. It was ultimately the thought of having his kids grow up without a father, that kept him fighting and wanting to live.
Darryl Strawberry is alive today and doing well. He has been cancer free since 2000 and is having his chance to see his children grow up and become young adults themselves. Doctors credited the fact that he was a professional athlete to him still being alive....
In case the WHO is looking for a spokesperson to help drive detection and treatment. In the USA this is a regular procedure to treat and save lives.
“Right now, I have some physical issues that I have to deal with,”
Strawberry told reporters when leaving a meeting with his probation
officer in Florida. When asked whether he meant his cancer had returned,
Strawberry said, “Yes.”
Strawberry was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1998 and underwent
surgery and chemotherapy. In January, he said a test showed his
colon was free of cancer.
Now a CT scan suggests the cancer has spread to lymph nodes, and
Strawberry will undergo more tests next week, said his agent, Eric
Grossman....
