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They've seen their friends and relatives die young of accidents, of violence, of cancers that should have been diagnosed at an earlier stage.
They've only worked in cancers caused by viruses, like cervical cancer or liver cancer.
And the reason the immune system has trouble with most cancers is that it doesn't invade from the outside; it evolves from its own cells.
The US government alone has spent over 100 billion on cancer research since the 1970s, with limited progress in regards to patient survival, especially for certain types of very aggressive cancers.
Microbes we acquire or do not acquire affect our likelihood of developing diseases like obesity, diabetes and even some cancers.
We can prevent most cancers.
The wild thing about that trial also, was that it reduced new primaries, so new cancers, by 30 percent also.
And we're beginning to find these little things for malaria, for sickle cell, for cancers.
But cancers don't start out like this, and in fact, cancers don't start out with a blood supply.
In fact, we're probably forming these microscopic cancers all the time in our body.
Autopsy studies from people who died in car accidents have shown that about 40 percent of women between the ages of 40 and 50 actually have microscopic cancers in their breasts.
About 50 percent of men in their 50s and 60s have microscopic prostate cancers, and virtually 100 percent of us, by the time we reach our 70s, will have microscopic cancers growing in our thyroid.
Yet, without a blood supply, most of these cancers will never become dangerous.
So the body's ability to balance angiogenesis, when it's working properly, prevents blood vessels from feeding cancers.
But once angiogenesis occurs, cancers can grow exponentially.
We call this antiangiogenic therapy, and it's completely different from chemotherapy, because it selectively aims at the blood vessels that are feeding the cancers.
So a few years ago, I asked myself, "Can we take this one step further and treat other cancers, even in other species?"
This is 20-year-old dolphin living in Florida, and she had these lesions in her mouth that, over the course of three years, developed into invasive squamous cell cancers.
And over the course of seven months, the cancers completely disappeared, and the biopsies came back as normal.
Now obviously, antiangiogenic therapy could be used for a wide range of cancers.
So I went back to the biology of angiogenesis, and started thinking: Could the answer to cancer be preventing angiogenesis, beating cancer at its own game, so the cancers could never become dangerous?
And what really intrigued me, was when I saw that diet accounts for 30 to 35 percent of environmentally-caused cancers.
But I actually took a completely opposite approach, and began asking: What could we be adding to our diet that's naturally antiangiogenic, and that could boost the body's defense system, and beat back those blood vessels that are feeding cancers?
Number one was asthma, number two was developmental delays, number three was 400-fold increases in rare childhood cancers in the last eight to 10, 15 years.
This movie got a sad fame, when it was rumored both the two main actors (Wayne and Hayward) and the director initiated their cancers from the work in the New Mexico Desert Fall Out area.
Specifically, we now know that the sun's ultraviolet radiation is the primary cause of most skin cancers.
In addition, scientific research on this most accessible of human organs will continue to identify innovative treatments and modes of prevention, which may well become applicable to other cancers.
Food may never cure any particular disease, but diets rich in fruits and vegetables, cereals and plant-sourced oils offer protection from many cancers, cardiovascular disease, and other illnesses associated with old age.
Meanwhile, people in developing countries lack access to simple and effective tools for preventing several of the most common cancers.
Today, some of the world’s most common killers – such as cardiovascular illnesses and certain cancers – are preventable; as technology advances, doctors will be able to diagnose and treat these diseases even faster.
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