Cancer Prevention:



Cancer Prevention

David Boynton DC, CCEP, BA

You get cancer because of the following reasons:

1. What you put in your body

2. What you put on your body

3. What you breath into your body

4. Genetics

What you put in your body:

Alcohol-

• Your body converts alcohol to ethanol in the liver which is toxic in chronic doses

• Folate deficiency

• Causes B Vitamin Deficiencies

• In the colon and rectum, bacteria can convert alcohol into large amounts of acetaldehyde.

• Alcohol damages and scars the liver limiting the liver ability to detoxify the body.

Cancer/CancerCauses/DietandPhysicalActivity/alcohol-use-and-cancer

GMO foods-

• People who eat large amounts of GMO foods have elevated levels of certain toxins in their body, (Cry1Ab, a specific type of Bt toxin from GM crops)

93 percent of blood samples of pregnant women

80 percent of fetal blood samples

69 percent of non-pregnant women blood samples

• GMO foods have been show to damage DNA. Damaged DNA replicates and can lead to the proliferation of cancer.

• GMO foods are banned in Europe because of this.

RI Vazquez Padron et al (1999) Intragastric and intraperitoneal administration of Cry1Ac protoxin from Bacillus thuringiensis induces systemic and mucosal antibody responses in mice. Life Sciences, 64, 1897-1912.

New French research proves GMO corn causes cancer mainly in women. Guess where GMO corn is. Almost every processed product at the grocery store contains GMO food. What foods. The government says that food manufactures says the food manufactures don't have to tell us.



Milk-

• Harvard Research study reveals- pasteurized milk product from factory farms is linked to causing hormone-dependent cancers. It turns out that the concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) model of raising cows on factory farms churns out milk with dangerously high levels of estrone sulfate, an estrogen compound linked to testicular, prostate, and breast cancers.



Tap Water-

• Most common chemicals found in drinking water, medication, arsenic, asbestos, radon, agricultural chemicals, fluoride and hazardous waste.

• The by-products of chlorination are associated with increased risk of bladder and rectal cancer, possibly accounting for 5,000 cases of bladder cancer and 8,000 cases of rectal cancer per year in the United States.



• Cincinnati has .03 ppb

• Which is amongst the highest in the country.



• Low levels of pharmaceuticals in the water supply have been a concern for a decade or longer, says Sarah Janssen, MD, PHD, MPH, a science fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental action group.



• Arsenic: This is a powerful cancer-causing agent. In 2001, the EPA lowered the maximum level permitted in drinking water from 50 ug/L to 10 ug/L due to the well-established carcinogenic risk. The Natural Resources Defense Council estimates that as many as 56 million Americans living in 25 states drink water with unsafe arsenic levels.

• Aluminum: This toxic heavy metal is linked with neurological, gastrointestinal and liver damage. Most city water has elevated levels of aluminum. Aluminum competes with calcium for skeletal absorption but does not mimic calcium's effects in the body. High aluminum reduces skeletal mineralization. It also retards the absorption of phosphorus, zinc, and selenium. Zinc and selenium are key immune system modulators. Aluminum causes deficiencies in these critical minerals and malcoordinates the immune system.

• Fluoride: This halogen molecule is a highly potent free radical in the body that damages neurological tissue, injures the immune system and hampers thyroid function among many other problems. In a 2006 report by the National Research Council of The National Academies it states, "Fluoride is an endocrine disruptor in the broad sense of altering normal endocrine function."

• DisInfectant ByProducts (DBP's): These are used along with chlorine to destroy any form of life in the water. These chemicals include trihalomethanes, halogenic acetic acids, haloacetonitrils and haloketons among others. DBP's are considered to be far more dangerous for consumption than chlorine. They are powerful carcinogenic molecules that destroy the liver, kidneys and nervous system.

• The Maine Department of Environmental Protection tested their water and found a number of different drugs to be present. The most common ones included:

• OTC pain relievers such as ibuprofen and acetaminophen

• Antidepressants

• Birth control pills

• Blood pressure and cholesterol medications

Medication-

• All immunosuppressive drugs have the potential to cause immunodeficiency. Immunodeficiency may manifest as increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections and decreased cancer immunosurveillance.



Preservatives-

• The FDA says it's safe because the amount used to preserve foods is very low, but don't ever combine it with vitamin C or E, as this causes benzene to be formed.

• Benzene is a known carcinogen.

• Glutamate levels were shown to be high in cancer patients. MSG reduces glutathione production which detoxifies the body.

• T4+ cell numbers are correlated with plasma glutamate and cystine levels: association of hyperglutamataemia with immunodeficiency in diseases with different aetiologies.

Abstracts of the European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists XXII International Congress



Processed Foods (Nitrates/Nitrites)-

• Consumption of foods containing nitrates or nitrites (chemicals commonly used in processed foods as preservatives) will increase stomach cancer risk. Salty, pickled, barbecued, or smoked foods are believed to pose the highest risk. Along with low consumption of vegetables and fruits may also raise risk.



Charred foods-

• Consumption of charred foods increases your risk of pancreatic cancer by 60%.



Sugar-

• Sugar feeds cancer indirectly by increasing the insulin in the body.

Patrick Quillin, Ph.D., R.D., C.N.S., is director of nutrition for Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Tulsa, Okla., and author of Beating Cancer With Nutrition (Nutrition Times Press, 1998).

• A study conducted by Harvard Medical School found that women who ate the most foods with high glycemic load – the glycemic index, or GI, of a food gives an idea of how quickly sugar (more specifically, glucose) levels in the blood rise after eating it – had almost three times the risk of getting colorectal cancer in the future, compared with women who ate lesser amounts of such foods.



• Harvard University study found that middled aged men whose diets tended to increase blood sugar levels quicker, i.e. those who ate more high GI foods, had a 32% higher chance of getting colorectal cancer over a period of 20 years.

The study, which involved more than 50,000 men, also found that this effect seemed to be more pronounced in heavier men.



• The study found that those with the highest fasting glucose levels were more likely to die from all types of cancer combined. For the men, the strongest link was found for pancreatic cancer, while significant links were also reported for oesophagus, liver and colorectal cancers. For the women, the strongest associations were for liver and cervical cancers.



• Sugar does not feed cancer like many people think. Insulin causes all cells to grow and an excess of insulin in the blood can cause cancer to proliferate more than it should.

Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Cancer: a global perspective. Washington, DC: American Institute for Cancer Research; 1997.

French Fries-

• The substance, called acrylamide, forms when carbohydrates are heated such as by baking bread or frying potatoes, researchers claimed.

• The National Food Administration studied more than 100 foods and determined that "fried, oven-baked and deep-fried potato and cereal products may contain high levels of acrylamide."

• The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) stated that the levels of acrylamide in foods pose a “major concern” and that more research is needed to determine the risk of dietary acrylamide exposure

• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. World

• Health Organization. Summary report of the sixty-fourth meeting of the Joint



• Studies in rodent models have found that acrylamide exposure poses a risk for several types of cancer (11, 12, 13). However, the evidence from human studies is still incomplete. The National Toxicology Program (NTP) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer consider acrylamide to be a “probable human carcinogen”.



Soda-

• Drinking as little as two soft drinks a week appears to nearly double the risk of getting pancreatic cancer. 87% increased risk.

Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

• Center for Science in the Public Interest are calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to immediately review the study, which found increases in lymphomas, leukemias,and breast cancers in rats.

Center for Science in the Public Interest

• The cancer-causing chemical in question is 4-methylimidazole, or 4-MI, a byproduct formed during the production of caramel color, an additive commonly used in processed cola beverages. According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), caramel color produced using ammonia or ammonia-sulfites creates both 4-MI and 2-MI (2-methylimidazole), which have been shown to be carcinogenic.



What you put on your body:

Cosmetics-

• A recent study by the non-profit Environmental Working Group showed that many cosmetic products -- including more than half of all baby soaps -- contained a carcinogenic chemical. Internal studies in the cosmetics industry show that many of their products can be contaminated by a carcinogenic impurity called 1,4-dioxane, and the EWG's independent study showed that 1,4-dioxane is fairly widespread among cosmetic products.



• To avoid 1,4-dioxane, read ingredient labels and avoid any of the 56 cosmetic ingredients that can contain the contaminant, including "sodium laureth sulfate" and ingredients that include the clauses "PEG," "xynol," "ceteareth," and "oleth."



Sun Screen-

• The sun is good for you and your body needs the Vit D3.

• Too much sun is bad for you. Getting sun burned is bad.

• The radiation damages the skin which can cause skin cancer.

• The winter sun is just as powerful as the summer sun so you need to protect yourself.



• Chemical block-

• Chemicals that alter the suns UV rays affects on the skin. Research have shown that the use of chemical sunscreen is linked to the higher incidence of skin cancer due to its free radical generating and DNA/hormone discrupting properties.

• Physical block-

• Physically reflects the suns UV rays so they can’t affect the skin. Zinc Oxide and Titanium Oxide

• We only use physical block sunscreen on my family. I like Blue Lizard-



Hair Dye-

• Over 5,000 different chemicals are used in hair dye products, some of which are reported to be carcinogenic (cancer-causing) in animals (2, 3). Because so many people use hair dyes, scientists have tried to determine whether exposure to the chemicals in hair coloring products is associated with an increased risk of cancer in people.



Cleaning Products-

• Frequent use of household cleaning products may boost breast cancer risk, according to a new study.

• Air fresheners and products to control mold and mildew were particularly linked, says researcher Julia Brody, PhD, executive director of the Silent Spring Institute in Newton, Mass.

Journal of Environmental Health

• Bleach appears to increase you risk of estrogen related cancers.

Odabasi, M., Halogenated Volatile Organic Compounds from the Use of Chlorine-Bleach- Containing Household Products, Slide presentation (2008)

• 300 hazardous ingredients in household cleaning products



Dry Cleaning-

• The cancer-causing potential of perc has been extensively investigated. In laboratory studies, perc has been shown to cause cancer in rats and mice when they swallow or inhale it.

• Human trials have been performed with no evidence of cancer in humans.

• PERC's most dangerous noncancer effect is nerve and brain damage.



What you breathe into your body:

Cigarette Smoke-

• Of the more than 7,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke, at least 250 are known to be harmful, including hydrogen cyanide, carbon monoxide, and ammonia.

• Among the 250 known harmful chemicals in tobacco smoke, at least 69 can cause cancer. These cancer-causing chemicals include the following.

• Arsenic, Benzene, Beryllium (a toxic metal), 1,3Butadiene (a hazardous gas),Cadmium (a toxic metal), Chromium (a metallic element),Ethylene oxide, Nickel (a metallic element), Polonium-210 (a radioactive chemical element), Vinyl chloride, Formaldehyde, Benzo[]pyrene, Toluene



Second Hand Smoke-

• Approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths occur each year among adult nonsmokers in the United States as a result of exposure to secondhand smoke. The U.S. Surgeon General estimates that living with a smoker increases a nonsmoker’s chances of developing lung cancer by 20 to 30 percent.

• Secondhand smoke causes disease and premature death in nonsmoking adults and children. Children exposed to secondhand smoke are at an increased risk of SIDS, ear infections, colds, pneumonia, bronchitis, and more severe asthma. Being exposed to secondhand smoke slows the growth of children’s lungs and can cause them to cough, wheeze, and feel breathless.



Cleaning Solution-

• Asthma, allergies, cancer and a range of maladies from skin irritations to fatigue and behavior problems can be directly linked to chemicals in households.

Dr. Phillip Landrigan, Director of Mt. Sinai’s Center for Children’s Health

• Researchers are finding that some chemicals can cause damage to a child’s developing brain, while others may cause cancer or mimic or block hormones. Children are more vulnerable to chemicals that adults can tolerate. Their bodies are simply not ready to process and remove toxins. Kids receive proportionately larger doses of environmental toxins than adults.

Children’s Health Environmental Coalition

Pollution-

• The agency found that approximately 1 out of every 27,000 Americans would develop cancer because of breathing polluted air -- if those individuals were exposed to 2002 emissions levels 24 hours a day.



Diesel Exhaust

• Diesel exhaust is a know carcinogen



• Lung cancer is the major cancer thought to be linked to diesel exhaust. Several studies of workers exposed to diesel exhaust have shown to have increases in risk of lung cancer. Men with the heaviest and most prolonged exposures, such as railroad workers, heavy equipment operators, miners, and truck drivers, have been found to have higher lung cancer death rates than unexposed workers.



Pesticides-

• A number of studies have evaluated the relationship between pesticide exposure and certain types of childhood cancer, and while the evidence is suggestive of a link, it is still not conclusive. Most studies of the relationship between pesticide exposure and leukemia and brain cancer show increased risks for children whose parents used pesticides at home or work, and for children who may be exposed to pesticides in the home. Evidence is limited but suggestive that non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in children may be linked to parental pesticide exposure and exposure to pesticides in the home. There is some evidence linking pesticide use to Wilms' tumor and Ewing's sarcoma.



• Many pesticides that have been found to cause cancer are still in use. For example, a 1990 review reported that 24 of the 51 pesticides found by the National Toxicology Program to be carcinogenic in laboratory animals were still in use. By 1997, 8 of 26 pesticides classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer to have "sufficient" evidence to be considered carcinogenic were still registered for use on crops in the US.

Zahm SH, Ward MH. Pesticides and childhood cancer. Environmental Health Perspectives 1998; 106 Suppl 3:893-908.

• Of nearly 120 studies that have investigated the risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma associated with pesticide contact, most showed increased risk America.

• U.S. agriculture has developed a heavy reliance on chemicals to safeguard crops from yield-robbing weeds. However, many of those herbicides can pose substantial health risks to people, pets, and wildlife, which is why laws prescribe how some of these chemicals are handled in fields.

April 2005 Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention

Industrial Exhaust-

• In a recent study conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency of USA, more than 400 toxic chemicals have been found in the human body, out of which 48 were found in the fat tissue, 40 in the breast, 73 in the liver and 250 in blood.

• A study conducted by Dr. Hildegarde L.A. Staninger, an expert in industrial toxicology, has revealed that tissue samples of the prostatic cancer patients contain arsenic, dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) and Chlordane in abnormally higher concentrations.



Other Factors:

Inflammation-

• A key attribute of an effective Immune system is to be able to detect the presence of trouble - this could be dead or damaged cells, tumour cells or infection with viruses, bacteria or eukaryotic parasites. Some aspects of this have already been dealt with; acute inflammation is the major system for sensing trauma.

• However, the Immune system needs to be able to detect more subtle changes and also needs to encourage a two-way communication between the innate and adaptive immune responses.

Plastics-

• Certain types of plastics can leach estrogen mimicking chemicals into beverage bottles and food containers. Scientists are concerned that even at low levels, these environmental estrogens may work together with the body’s own estrogen to increase the risk of breast cancer.

• BPA is a weak synthetic estrogen found in many rigid plastic products, food and formula can linings, dental sealants, and on the shiny side of paper cashier receipts (to stabilize the ink). Its estrogen-like activity makes it a hormone disruptor, like many other chemicals in plastics. Hormone disruptors can affect how estrogen and other hormones act in the body, by blocking them or mimicking them, which throws off the body's hormonal balance. Because estrogen can make hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer develop and grow, many women choose to limit their exposure to these chemicals that can act like estrogen.

• BPA also seems to affect brain development in the womb. In 2011, a study found that pregnant women with high levels of BPA in their urine were more likely to have daughters who showed signs of hyperactivity, anxiety, and depression. The symptoms were seen in girls as young as 3. It’s not clear why boys aren’t affected in the same way.



Low pH-

• Research shows the link between acidic pH and cancer. Cancer thrives in an acidic environment, and doesn't survive in an normal, more alkaline environment. Cancer cells make your body even more acidic as they produce lactic acid.



Obesity-

• Obesity is associated with increased risks of the following cancer types, and possibly others as well: Esophagus, Pancreas, Colon and rectum, Breast (after menopause), Endometrium (lining of the uterus), Kidney, Thyroid, Gallbladder



Overweight vs. Obesity

• Overweight- An adult who has a BMI between 25 and 29.9 is overweight.

• Obesity- An adult who has a BMI of 30 or higher is considered obese.



Candida-

• Italian oncologist, Dr. Tullio Simoncini, points out that at the most basic level cancer and yeast fungus have very similar (if not identical) characteristics.

• Both cancer and Candida feed on sugar. Both grow and reproduce only in anaerobic environments. Both need an acidic environment to survive.

• When you probe cancer cells within the human body, appear white in color and uneven in texture just like yeast.



Chemo Therapy-

• Chemotherapy damages healthy cells, causing them to secrete a protein that accelerates the growth of cancer tumors.

• But chemotherapy causes DNA damage that causes the fibroblasts to produce up to 30 times more of a protein called WNT16B than they should.

• Peter Nelson of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle



Cookware-

• Exposure to TFE, the chemical that can be released in fumes if you cook with non-stick cookware at high temperatures, may increase cancer risk. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the National Toxicology Program (NTP) classify TFE as a possible cause of cancer.



Viruses-

• Viruses are responsible for causing the following types of cancer or cancer related illness. HPV, HIV, Human herpes virus 8, Hep B and Hep C, Epstein Barr virus.



Heavy Metals-

• The association of mercury to chronic diseases is well documented in the didactic scientific literature. The search for the association between mercury and cardiovascular disease reveals 358 scientific papers exemplifying the relationship; between mercury and cancer we find 643 scientific papers. The association of mercury with neurodegenerative diseases is the most significant, with the references numbering 1,445.” The official position currently is that there is evidence that methylmercury can cause cancer in humans. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified methylmercury as “possibly carcinogenic to humans”.



Vitamin D3 deficiency-

• Evidence of a possible cancer-protective role for vitamin D has also been found in laboratory studies of the effect of vitamin D treatment on cancer cells in culture. In these studies, vitamin D promoted the differentiation and death (apoptosis) of cancer cells, and it slowed their proliferation.

• In the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Study (CPS) II Nutrition Cohort, the diet, medical history, and lifestyle of more than 120,000 men and women were analyzed (11). Men who had the highest intakes of vitamin D through both their diet and supplement use (greater than 13 g, or 525 IU, per day) had a slightly lower risk of colorectal cancer than men who had the lowest vitamin D intakes.



Genetics-

• Rising rates cannot be attributed to genetic factors. Not only do genetic factors alone account for relatively few cancers, the genetics of human populations cannot possibly have changed within the past few decades. And in what may be the largest study ever to compare the role of genes versus environment in cancer, Dr. Paul Lichtenstein and his colleagues reported in The New England Journal of Medicine last July that "the overwhelming contributor to the causation of cancer in the populations of twins that we studied was the environment."

• According to researchers, genes accounted for less than half of the risk of several types of cancer, with the rest of the risk explained by environmental factors, such as smoking, diet, infections and exposure to chemicals and radiation.

• Researchers state that genes probably explain 27% to 42% of the risk of colorectal cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer.

• "We conclude that the overwhelming contributor to the causation of cancer in the populations of twins that we studied was the environment," the authors write.

The New England Journal of Medicine 2000;343:78-85,135-136.

What can you do to avoid Cancer-

• Eat organic food as much as possible

• Always drink filtered water

• Detox at least 1 time per year

• Limit amount of fried foods

• Don't eat products with MSG in them

• Eliminate toxic chemicals for your house

• Possibly use an air purifier for your house

• Always microwave in glass

• Limit alcohol consumption

• Maintain a healthy body weight

• Don't drink copious amounts of cows milk

• Take supplements

• Use only organic cosmetics

• Use organic cleaners

• Limit amount of processed foods you consume

• Limit sugar consumption

• Don't smoke or be around anyone smoking

• Loose weight

• Maintain a healthy pH

• Avoid aluminum and Teflon cookware

• Wash all produce with something

• Avoid living and working in highly industrialized areas.

• Read labels on your foods

• Use sun block not sun screen

• Optimize Vitamin D3 levels

• Keep inflammation down

• Don't dry clean all of your clothes

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What’s your risk?

1. Drink more than 3 alcoholic beverages more than 3x per week. 2 points

2. Eat GMO foods more than 3x per week. 3 points

3. Drink milk more than 3x a week. 3 points

4. Drink tap water daily. 2 points

5. Take immune suppressant medication. 3 points

6. Eat food with preservatives more than 2x per week. 3 points

7. Eat processed foods more than 2x per week 4 points

8. Eat charred food more than 2 x per week 2 points

9. Eat sugar daily 4 points

10. Eat French fries or other heated starches more than 2x weekly 2 points

11. Use non organic cosmetics on a daily basis 3 points

12. Get sun burnt several times per year over a life time 4 points

13. Use a chemical sun block and not a physical sun block 4 points

14. Use non organic house hold chemicals weekly for years 2 points

15. Wear dry cleaning daily for years 1 point

16. Low Vitamin D 3 levels in serum 1 point

17. Smoke cigarettes for more than 10 years 8 points

18. Around second hand cigarette smoke for more than 10 years 6 points

19. Use non organic cleaning solutions mainly aerosol 2 points

20. Work or live by industrial exhaust 2 points

21. Work or live by farms where pesticides are used 3 points

22. Work of live by the high way or drive diesel powered vehicles 3 points

23. Live in highly polluted areas 3 points

24. Low body pH 4 points

25. Chronic inflammation over a life time 4 points

26. Chronic Candida or GI tract problems 3 points

27. Obesity over a life time 4 points

28. Consume food or drink water cooked or heated in plastic 3 points

29. Use cookware what is Teflon coated over a lifetime 2 points

30. Undergone chemotherapy 4 points

31. Chronic heavy metal toxicity in the body 4 points

32. Contract certain types of virus’s 2 points

33. Genetics 1 point

Total Points: /100

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