Women's Health, Oncology

Endometrial Cancer

Endometrial Cancer: Overview and Risk Factors

The inner lining of the uterus is known as the endometrium. Cancer of the endometrium makes up about 90 percent of uterine cancers. It is the most common gynecologic cancer in the United States, accounting ...

Oncology, Drugs, Treatments, & Supplements

Non-Dietary Factors - The Risk of Hormone Replacement Therapy

The New England Journal of Medicine of June 15, 1995, reported that hormone replacement therapy increases the risk of breast cancer.1 This was not news to most doctors. But many have continued to prescribe hormones because they feel that the benefits to the heart...

Oncology

Thyroid Cancer

Thyroid Cancer: Overview and Risk Factors

Thyroid cancer is fairly uncommon, accounting for less than 1 percent of all cancers. However, it has appeared more often during the past half-century, possibly the result of radiation therapy to the head and neck used to treat childhood...

Oncology, Oncology

What Does Research Indicate About Animal Protein and "Reproductive" Cancers?

Answer to a Reader's Question: "In ecologic data, correlations exist between per capita meat...consumption and prostate cancer mortality rate [1 study cited]. In case control and prospective studies, the major contributors of animal protein, meat, dairy products and eggs have frequently...

Women's Health, Oncology

Ovarian Cancer

Ovarian Cancer: Symptoms and Risk Factors

Ovarian cancer is the second most common gynecologic cancer (after cervical cancer) and the leading cause of death from gynecologic cancer. It generally affects women 40 to 65 years of age. Several types of cancer can occur in the ovaries. The...

Oncology, Oncology

Chemical Carcinogens: How Safe Are You?

 I would like to turn your attention toward a nagging question about foods, namely carcinogens in foods. We hear so much about them but what, really, are they? Mainly we've heard that carcinogens cause cancer and anticarcinogens prevent cancer. This idea was well articulated in an article by...

Oncology, Oncology

China Report - Dietary Fiber: Preventing Cancer in China

The cancer-prevention properties of dietary fiber are hardly a secret. Indeed, in modern times the late Dr. Denis Burkitt (of Burkitt's Lymphoma fame) made the so-called "fiber story" famous in his work among native Africans. This British researcher, with his colleagues Alan Walker and...

Drugs, Treatments, & Supplements, Oncology, Women's Health

Prophylactic Mastectomy

More and more breast cancer patients are choosing to have their healthy breasts removed when their breast with cancer is amputated, according to an article in The Journal of Clinical Oncology (online October 23, 2007).  As many as 8000 to 10,000 women per year are opting for this procedure,...

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Professional Accreditation, Credentials and Licensure

by T. Colin Campbell, PhD

For almost 50 years, I have designed and directed large research projects in the areas of nutrition and health.  As a result of this experience, I have come to realize that most nutrition and health information is very misleading. It is no coincidence that we now have a health care crisis which is very expensive and which compromises the quality of life for millions of Americans and others living on a Western-style diet. . . READ FULL STATEMENT >>

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