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Steve Jobs of Apple is dead. Steve jobs pancreatic cancer
Is it possible that one of the greatest geniuses, inventors and innovators the world has seen - Steve Jobs could have been alive today if only he had been bit more smart when it came to his health? There are currently talks that Steve Jobs relied more on natural and herbal medicines to treat his cancer rather than surgery. Question arises whether it is really true.

Firstly we have to understand the type of cancer Steve Jobs was suffering from. He was suffering from a rare form of pancreatic cancer known as islet-cell neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer does not show any visible symptoms for as much as 12 years in most cases. By the time it is diagnosed the malignancy would have already grown and spread beyond manageable levels. This is the reason why it has such a high mortality rates. The first year survival rate - the year after which it is diagnosed is 24 percent. The 5 year survival rate is as low as 3%. That means that of 100 persons diagnosed of pancreatic cancer as many as 75 will die at the end of first year and as many as 97 out of 100 persons will die by the fifth year. Pancreatic cancer is the fourth most leading cause of cancer deaths in America. It has highest mortality rates of all the cancers. To aggravate this mortality rate further Steve jobs was suffering from a rare form of pancreatic cancer which has even higher mortality rates.

Steve Jobs' pancreatic cancer was diagnosed in 2003 and he died in 2011. . There only a 3% chance for him to survive beyond 2008. Going by the statistics he definitely lived much longer and gave the world few more great products. Steve Jobs took a number of herbal medicines along with conventional treatment. The news that Steve Jobs relied upon herbal medicines and hence he did not take conventional medical treatment or undergo surgery is totally wrong. No one least of all Steve Jobs would have ever done such a thing. Surgery for cancer is something that is truly daunting and outright scary.

Being such a busy man with the entire world looking towards him in 2003 it was quite possible that he in consultation with his doctors opted for Chemotherapy or radiation and delayed surgery. It is also very common for doctors to administer radiotherapy and chemotherapy on pancreatic cancer patients for a couple of months before doing surgery. This is considered a more effective practice as the chances of relapses are reduced.

Herbal extracts, diet etcetra do have proven anti cancer properties. In fact they are known to be very effective in reducing the risks of cancer. Just as tobacco increases risk of cancer certain herbal extracts can reduce the risk of various types of cancer. But it has to be born in mind that only a doctor and modern medical science can treat cancer effectively. No herb or supplement can treat or cure cancer.

There is increasing evidence that for the healing process of such chronic and longtime diseases like cancer natural herbal medicines are far superior. Modern drug treatments are effective only in masking or suppressing the symptoms. Natural herbal therapies offer significant benefit over conventional treatment. Our body has wonderful powers to heal itself. Our body has been curing itself of the cancers all along. It can be again noted that around  350 cancerous cells are formed in our body daily and our body's natural defense and healing mechanism manages to kill these deviant cells and flush it out without any harm being caused. Only when the load of these cancerous cells become become too high clinical malignant cancer is contracted. Herbs like Turmeric - Curcumin can give a tremendous boost to or body's natural healing mechanism. While for trauma management and crisis care modern medical technology alone has the answer for other lifestyle diseases like cancer herbal medicine is far superior.
You need not become ill. You can surely dodge such diseases like cancer. 

Cancer Of Mouth and Tounge

Cancer of tongue and mouth forms almost 1% of all the cancers and as much as 1.5% of all the cancer deaths. Men are 3 times as likely as women to be affected by Cancer Of Mouth and Tongue.

Cancers of the tongue, mouth, and pharynx (other than nasopharynx) are all related to smoking (of pipes, cigars, and cigarettes) and to the consumption of alcohol. The two factors act synergistically and cancers in these sites are extremely rare in non-smokers who do not drink alcohol. Cancer of the tongue is much less common in Britain than it was early this century, but the reason for the sharp decline in incidence is unknown. One explanation
could be the decrease in syphilis, which was commonly believed to be a predisposing factor because of the clinical association with syphilitic leucoplakia. Recentincreases in oral and pharangeal cancer in men are partly due to increased consumption of alcohol and possibly, in the case of pharyngeal cancer, to human papilloma virus infection.
Cancers that occur low in the hypopharynx are distinguished by a tendency to affect women who have suffered from iron-deficiency anaemia and dysphagia.
Cancers of the mouth and pharynx (excluding nasopharynx) are particularly common in South-East and Central Asia where tobacco smoking is largely replaced by chewing tobacco, betel nut or leaf, and lime (calcium hydroxide). A close association with such chewing habits has been established by studies that have shown that the cancers tend to originate in the part of the mouth in which the quid is usually held—a characteristic that varies both between individuals and between areas. The materials chewed differ in different places and, although the disease is commonly described as 'betel chewer's cancer', betel is not invariably a component of the quid
and the most characteristic constituent seems to be a small amount of lime and, in most cases, some form of tobacco. In parts of Asia, the disease is so common that it accounts for 20 per cent of all cancers and in those populations the abandonment of chewing would be the single most effective means of reducing the total incidence of cancer—so long as the habit was not replaced by an increase in tobacco smoking. Among habitual quid chewers, the risks are particularly elevated in those who both chew and smoke—indeed, in parts of India the majority of deaths from 'betel chewer's cancer' could have been avoided if those affected had not also smoked. The incidence might also be reduced by improved nutrition, as the disease in Southern Asia tends to be associated with vitamin A deficiency.

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lip cancer causes : what causes lip cancer?

Lip cancer as such is not a common type of cancer. The incidence of lip cancer is about 0.1 per cent of all cancers and it causes 0.02 per cent of cancer deaths.
Carcinoma of the lip was one of the first types of cancer to be related to an extrinsic cause when, more than 200 years ago, it was noted to occur characteristically in pipe smokers. Many years later it was realized that the disease could also be produced by smoking cigarettes, although much less readily, so that it must be produced by the chemicals in smoke rather than by the non-specific effect of local heat. It is also much more common in outdoor than in indoor workers and is induced by ultraviolet light in the same way as other cancers of the exposed skin. Ultraviolet light and tobacco account, between them, for the great majority of all cases in Britain, probably multiplying each other's effects. The disease is much less common than it used to be, because of the decrease in both pipe smoking and outdoor work.

Eating Meat Can Cause Cancer - the Meat Cancer Link

Meat and fat
Figures for food consumption and cancer incidence and mortality rates in different countries show fairly close correlations between the consumption of fat and, to a less extent, the consumption of meat and the incidence of several types of cancer. The correlations are closest for breast cancer and cancer of the large bowel and are less strong for cancers of the endometrium, pancreas, and prostate. When, however, attempts are made to associate the consumption of either type of food with the disease in individuals within a country the evidence is commonly conflicting. This could be because the international correlations are misleading, indicating only that the risks are correlated with something that is correlated with fat and meat consumption (for example some other aspect of a high gross national product), but it
could be partly because of the inaccuracy of dietary histories and partly because people in developed countries, and particularly in North America, eat such similar diets. Overviews of the published data, however, do suggest that a high consumption of fat is associated with a high risk of colorectal cancer, but the claim that a high consumption of fat (or of particular types of fat) is associated with high risks of breast and endometrial cancer after the menopause, other than by providing a high calorie diet leading to obesity, is controversial.

Overnutrition
That overnutrition could affect the incidence of cancer was first suggested by Tannenbaum's experiments on mice during the Second World War. These showed that the incidence of spontaneous tumours of the lung and breast and of a variety of tumours produced experimentally could be halved by moderately restricting the intake of food without modifying the proportions of the individual constituents. This protective effect has subsequently been demonstrated repeatedly, but has attracted little attention (perhaps because reports of such results emphasized the benefits of restriction rather than the harm of overeating). It is now clear, however, that what is considered normal nutrition in developed countries increases the risk of breast cancer (by bringing forward menarche and increasing body size) and possibly also that
of testis cancer. With greater consumption obesity (that is a BMI greater than 25 kg/m 2) has been estimated to be responsible for 5 per cent of all incident cases in Europe and 10 per cent of all cancer deaths in non-smokers in the United States (Peto, 2001): most notably cancer of the breast in women after the menopause and cancers of the endometrium, large bowel, pancreas, gallbladder, prostate, and kidney and myelomatosis. For some of these increases, the explanation is obvious: namely, those of the two female cancers, which in postmenopausal women are attributable to the formation of oestrogen from androstenedione in adipose tissue while the increased risk of gallbladder cancer may be due to a greater secretion of bile salts. For others, the explanation is obscure.

All cancers have certain pathological and clinical characteristics in common, but those arising in different organs often have very different causes. The epidemiology of cancer- the study of the incidence of the disease in people under different conditions of life, is, therefore the epidemiology of specific types of cancer, usually, but not always, defined as cancers of specific organs.

In this sense, the subject has a history dating back nearly 300 years to Ramazzini's observation that cancer of the breast occurred more often in nuns than in other women of similar age and to Pott's observation, 200 years ago, that scrotal cancer in young men occurred characteristically in chimney sweeps. The high risk in nuns (which largely reflected the protective effect of multiple pregnancies in the general population) helped the realization that hormonal factors can substantially affect the incidence of several types of cancer, while the latter led to the recognition that the combustion products of coal to which sweeps had been exposed could cause cancer on any part of the skin with which they came into repeated contact and to the isolation of the first specific chemical carcinogen.

Many other similar observations were made over the next 150 years, mostly as a result of the acumen of individual doctors who were struck by the observation that clusters of cases of a particular type of cancer occurred in patients with a similar occupational or cultural background. Lip and tongue cancers were found in pipe smokers, bladder cancer in certain aniline dye workers, buccal cancer in those who habitually chewed mixtures of tobacco and betel in India, lung cancer in miners of particular ores (who, it was subsequently realized, were heavily exposed to radon and its daughter products), and skin cancer in the early radiologists and radiographers who were heavily exposed to X-rays and in farmers and seamen heavily exposed to sunlight. Gradually, however, clinical anecdotes were replaced by statistics as the epidemiological methods that are described below began to be applied to the study of cancer and other non-infectious disease.

As a result, many other causes were identified with sufficient certainty to justify preventive action and data were obtained to suggest hypotheses that could be tested in the laboratory.

Mutations—inheritable changes in the DNA—are central to the transformation of a normal cell into a cancer cell, to the development of malignant properties of cancer cells, and to cancer cells adaptation to their environment. The rate of genetic change is especially great when a cancer cell is faced with obstacles to its survival. Since mutations, along with proliferation, are so important to thesurvival of a cancer.

Cancer cells are easy to kill using drug therapy; however,
they are hard to kill without damaging normal
cells. This is because cancer cells rely on processes that
are fundamentally similar to the processes used by normal
cells. Their differences are in activity, not function.

Any treatment that harms the structure of cancer cells   would harm normal cells too. the best way to inhibit a cancer cell (and to spare normal cells) is not to destroy its structural properties but to normalize the signals
that drive it. These signals derive from its genetic instability, abnormal expression of genes, abnormal signal transduction, and abnormal communication with healthy cells—the first four clusters of procancer events.

Preventing Cancer
Study after study after study proves that Vitamin C can help protect you against cancer. People with high levels of Vitamin C and other antioxidants are markedly less likely to get cancer of the lung, cervix, colon, pancreas, esophagus, mouth, and stomach. Why? We're still not sure, but it's very
likely that the antioxidants gobble up free radicals and damaging toxins before they can damage your cells and trigger cancer.

In the case of stomach cancer, Vitamin C blocks the formation of
cancer-causing nitrosamines from the nitrates and nitrites found in bacon, hot dogs, and other cured meats.
A study by Dr. Linus Pauling in 1976 showed that some terminally ill cancer patients lived as much as a year longer if they took megadoses (over 10,000 mg) of Vitamin C. A later study backed this up. In both studies, though, all the patients eventually died—none was cured. No study since then
has ever shown that megadoses of Vitamin C (or any other vitamin, for that matter) cure cancer.

If you're being treated for cancer, there's no question that Vitamin C can really help you get through this difficult time. As mentioned previously, Vitamin C could help you bounce back from surgery more quickly. Many people getting radiation treatment or chemotherapy have low Vitamin C levels. Part of the reason is that the treatment can make you tired and nauseous, as well as giving you diarrhea.

The other part is that the treatment is making you produce huge amounts of free radicals, so any Vitamin C you get from your food is going to mop them up. Unless you take supplements, you won't have any left over for other things, like keeping your immune system active. Cancer
treatment lowers your immunity, making you more likely to get sick or pick up an infection.
Discuss nutrition and supplements, especially Vitamin C, with your doctor before you start your cancer treatment. They could make a big difference in how well you do.

Many young women state that their biggest health fear when growing older
is breast cancer. Even though lung cancer has a higher mortality rate and
heart disease is a greater health risk (see respective sections in this chapter),
breast cancer is still what many women worry most about. On the flip side,
many women don’t worry about breast cancer because it doesn’t run in their
families. This false sense of security can be a costly mistake if it keeps you
from having preventative testing.
Consider the following breast cancer facts:
 Globally, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among
women and is the second leading cause of cancer death for women.
 About 1.2 million people worldwide are diagnosed with the disease each
year with approximately 502,000 global deaths.
 Breast cancer also affects about 1,600 men worldwide each year.
 Breast cancer is more common among women over the age of 40 and is
rare in women under age 25.
 Fifty percent of diagnosed breast cancer is in women over age 65.

You can’t completely prevent breast cancer — everyone is at risk. Great
strides have been made in breast cancer awareness in recent years, with
more women aware of the symptoms and utilizing self-exam and diagnostic
techniques regularly.
Differentiating types of breast cancer
Breast cancer is classified in different ways according to its location and
whether it’s metastasized.

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