Cancer Risks

  Here are some shocking facts about cancer risks. The incidence of cancer has been growing since the mid 1800s, when the industrial revolution began poisoning us. One person in four in Britain is expected to die of cancer. A century ago, it was one in 20. It's expected to be one in two by mid-century. What risks are causing this increase in cancer?  

There is a growing belief that aluminium salts are a cancer risk. Many antiperspirants contain aluminium. Aluminium has been found in breast cancer tumours and the brains of Alzheimer's victims. Should you be applying it to your skin, especially near the breast?   

According to Fragile Science by Robin Baker in 1935 the chances of a Briton contracting malignant melanona, the deadliest form of skin cancer, were one in 1,500. In 2000 it was one in 75. What happened in the intervening 65 years to cause this cancer risk increase? We started using more and more sun screen lotions. We cover our skin with chemicals such as psoralen and padimate-O. A European study found that fair-skinned people were four times more likely to develop malignant melanomas after using psoralen-based screens than others. Padimate-O is believed to generate free radicals which damage the skin and underlying fat tissues. Should you risk cancer by using sunscreen? Better to stay in the shade.  

Talc is closely related to the potent carcinogen (cancer-causing) asbestos. Talc particles have been shown to cause tumours in the ovaries and lungs of cancer victims (“Toxicology and carcinogenesis studies of talc in rats and mice (Inhalation studies)” Technical Report Series N0 421. September 1993). It is easily absorbed through the vagina and lungs, and is believed to be the main cause of ovarian cancer, and maybe of most breathing difficulties in children because of overuse by mothers. Talc is a cancer risk.  

Many researchers such as Phillip Day, author of Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth, say that cancer treatment is all wrong. Doctors treat the tumour, not the disease. He argues that a tumour is simply a symptom. If you get cancer and you are a smoker, you get a lung or throat tumour; if you have stomach damage such as an ulcer you get a stomach tumour, or with damaged skin you get skin cancer etc. Cutting out the tumour doesn't work if you don't cure the cancer: it just spreads somewhere else.   

Smoking is acknowledged to be a cancer risk. I am living proof that smoking does not cause cancer. I smoked twenty cigarettes daily for twenty years in my youth, but luckily lived for much of that time in an under-developed tropical country. I ate lots of fresh garden produce, much of it from my own garden. I am sure that if I had developed cancer, it would have been in the lungs. Twenty years ago I returned to the UK and couldn’t easily afford their cigarette prices, so quit that particular cancer risk.  

Much cancer and other illness, even ageing, is believed to be caused by free radicals. These are particles, caused by chemical reactions, which seek out electrons and can strip them from other molecules. They cause iron to rust and cut apples to go brown by oxidation. In the body, they can damage DNA. You cannot avoid this cancer risk, but antioxidants can help reduce it. There may be many cancer risks, but surely it makes sense to avoid poisons and seek out healthy alternatives.

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