avemar powder for cancer?

Question

Told talc can cause ovary cancer. Baby powder no longer ok. What don't they know about face powder?

Answer 1

Possibly: Although not a replacement for conventional, evidence based cancer treatments, fermented wheat germ extract looks safe and may have real anti-cancer efficacy: http://www.Ncbi.Nlm.Nih.Gov/pmc/articles/pmc3179707/.

Answer 2

Fermented wheat germ: This is a nutritional supplement with some good nutrients that's cheap to make and sell to support cancer patient nutrition in some countries. The websites suggest that this is "clinically proven" to actually affect but for animal and human work, there are only a few preliminary studies in obscure journals. The ads seem misleading and i'd be reluctant to reward people like this with my money.

Answer 3

No: Lupus is not associated with cancer. It is autoimmune disease.

Answer 4

Yes, new data: New data shows an increased risk of several malignancies especially non-hodgkins lymphoma in patients with lupus. However, the skin lesions of lupus do not turn into cancer which is often a concern for patients.

Answer 5

In many cases: Some sub-types of common cancers are hereditary such as brca- breast cancer, lynch syndrome (colon cancer).

Answer 6

Sometimes: There are dozens of well-known hereditary cancer syndromes. The most common ones deal with breast cancer, colon cancer, stomach cancer, ovarian cancer, thyroid cancer and uterine cancer. Common names of syndromes are brca, fap, hnpcc, and men. If you are concerned about your family history, discuss it with your primary care physician.

Answer 7

Sometimes...: Some types of malignancy are inherited but many are sporadic and not associated with any familial tendency toward greater likelihood of cancer in family members. "cancer" is a broad category. Is there a specific type of cancer about which you are concerned?

Answer 8

Name an Organ...: Cancer may develop in just about any organ in the body, with the most frequent sites including the skin, breast, prostate, lung, colon, uterus, thyroid, head and neck, kidney, bladder, brain, bone, blood cells, lymph nodes, stomach, pancreas, liver, esophagus to name but a few.

Answer 9

Many...: For a nice resource provided by the national cancer institute, see: for adults: http://www.Cancer.Gov/cancertopics/pdq/adulttreatment for children: http://www.Cancer.Gov/cancertopics/pdq/pediatrictreatment.

Answer 10

Large or spread: This depends on the cancer diagnosis, but usually means that the cancer is large or has spread beyond the site of origin.

Answer 11

Hope is in horizon: In lost decade remarkable progress has made in cancer therapy, not only in developing remarkable cancer drugs, its biology, detection at chromosomal level, identifying, its cell markers attacking cancer cell not only by chemicals, but our own defense mechanisms, waiting' to win the war on cancer' but not yet.

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