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Cancer

According to a Life Extension report:

Just a few years ago, the federal government released an optimistic report stating that the rate of cancer was leveling off or declining. In late 2002, the National Cancer Institute disclosed that the data used to prepare this report was seriously flawed. According to the National Cancer Institute, the incidences of some of the most deadly cancers are actually sharply increasing.

The American Cancer Association responded to these startling statistics by urging that more research be devoted to ascertain why prevention programs are failing. It has become strikingly apparent that the most respected cancer institutions have no explanation for why more Americans than ever before are contracting this devastating disease.

Regrettably, most cancer cases occur needlessly. Thousands of published scientific findings provide a clear road map as to what one can do to reduce their risk of developing cancer. The problem is that people are overwhelmed by the volume of cancer prevention data and have largely failed to take the necessary steps to reduce their personal risk.

Click here to read the full Life Extension cancer prevention report.

• Helping prevent lung, colon, and adult cancer -- Another use for cranberry in the prevention of some cancers.

• Latest research on foods that help prevent cancer. Eating cabbage, cooking meat with garlic and smearing your skin with extract of broccoli can all help reduce the risk of cancer, scientists have found

• Life Extension offers this comprehensive breast cancer overview, wherein a new study sheds light on how exercise reduces breast cancer risk:

"Canadian researchers have discovered a possible explanation for exercise's positive effect on reducing breast cancer risk. In a report published in the December 1 2005 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology, Dr. Julia Knight and her colleagues at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute discovered that increased levels of melatonin may be behind exercise’s protective benefit. The findings of a number of previous studies suggest that melatonin may be protective against breast cancer. Obtaining regular exercise has also been shown to be protective against the disease, but the mechanism behind this phenomenon has not been agreed upon."