Dr. Mercola Urges Increases in Vitamin D3 Levels
The Truth About Breast Cancer is ecstatic to learn that a leading holistic MD, Dr. Joseph Mercola, has now joined KnowBreastCancer in urging all women to increase their Vitamin D3 levels ASAP!
Dr. Mercola, with the most popular natural health website on the internet, www.mercola.com, agrees with Dr. Cedric Garland’s DINOMIT Theory of cancer as the fastest way we can turn breast cancer into a rare disease.
If women can get their Vitamin D3 blood levels up to a level of 60-80 ng/ml, mastectomies and reconstruction surgeries may soon become history!
Currently, the American Cancer Society, the Institute of Medicine, and national pink ribbon groups don’t talk to women about this inexpensive and effective option as a way to stop breast cancer before it can start. Unfortunately, their focus is usually limited to finding a cure; with much of these non-profits’ budgets supplied by big pharma and radiology companies that give millions of dollars in donations each year to these for- the- cure groups.
Another helpful site that encourages women to use enough vitamin D3 supplements every day to reach 60 ng/ml – 80-ng/ml, to help stop breast cancer before it can start is Grassroots Health, a national public health organization www.grassrootshealth.net.
Coming up next time on The Truth About Breast Cancer: The relationship between inflammation and breast cancer.
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American Cancer Society Report is Misleading; younger women getting more triple negative, estrogen positive & HER2+ breast cancers
Women of childbearing age, in many states around the U.S. today, face historically high invasive breast cancer levels. The American Cancer Society’s (ACS’) recent study, published Feb 22, in the American Association for Cancer Research, is incorrect when it says breast cancer rates are not changing for younger women.
In Massachusetts, younger women (under 50), saw a 45% increase in invasive breast cancer between 1995-2007; younger women in Colorado saw a 27% increase between 1990-2008, and younger women in Florida saw a 40% increase between 1984-2008.
The American Cancer Society’s February, 2011 report doesn’t count the actual number of women diagnosed in each state; instead, it uses an estimate, based on a formula, based on 9% of the U.S. population.
To know the real story, we need to count every woman who is affected, and we need to have those numbers published for all of us to see and understand.
Contact you state cancer board and ask them how many younger women developed invasive breast cancers last year, compared to the past five or ten years. Also ask them, how many of these younger women were diagnosed with triple negative, HER2+ and estrogen receptor positive breast cancers.
We need this specific information, not estimates. Keeping women in the dark when it comes to these critical numbers, makes it impossible to measure any positive changes, as women try easy and healthy ways to stop breast cancer before it starts.
BPA Baby Bottles & Increasing breast cancer in America’s younger women; What is the connection?
Increasing numbers of younger American women were diagnosed with invasive breast cancer during the past eight years. According to American Cancer Society statistics, pre-menopausal women (under age 54) had a 41% increase in invasive breast cancer from 2002 to 2010.
This sharp increase in triple negative, HER2 positive and estrogen/progesterone positive invasive breast cancers probably means that younger women are absorbing higher levels of chemical and animal hormones, hormone disruptors and/or are getting zapped with ionizing radiation while in the womb and/or during their infancy, childhood, teen and/or younger adult years.
Some laboratory tests have shown that bisphenol A or BPA, a chemical hormone disruptor, used to make baby bottles soft and pliable, can leach into the milk when the bottles are heated. Absorbing enough BPA over time can sometimes cause cell mutation, often a first step in the development of breast cancer or other adverse biological changes in infants. Based on these studies, Canada banned the use of BPA in baby bottles beginning in 2011 and the European Union will ban the sale and import of these same bottles in 2011. “Better to be safe than sorry” is the motive behind these new prevention laws.
Unfortunately, the U.S. government has not yet banned the sale of BPA in baby bottles. Just last week, after being pressured by the chemical industry lobby, GOP Senate leaders again refused to allow a vote that would have banned BPA from baby bottles.
What causes breast cancer?
Breast cancer only seems to happen when an individual absorbs a personalized cocktail of radiation, chemical hormones, animal hormones and/or hormone disruptors from a variety of sources, over a period of years. But often, the younger you are when you are hit by any of these toxic events, the stronger their impact.
Not using baby bottles containing BPA is probably one easy, healthy and important way that women can help protect their daughters and granddaughters from developing breast cancer later in their lives.
To learn 7 other easy, inexpensive and healthy ways to protect your daughter and yourself from this unnecessary epidemic, see: www.knowbreastcancer.net www.thetruthaboutbreastcancer.com
For more information on how BPA can harm babies when it is used to make baby bottles, see the Work Group for Safe Markets report, Baby’s Toxic Bottle: Bisphenol A Leaching from Popular Baby Bottles
www.chej.org/documents/BabysToxicBottleFinal.pdf
U. S. Breast Cancer Epidemic Hitting Young Moms and Other Women of Childbearing Age
In 2009, about 62,520 women of childbearing age in the United States were diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. This is a whopping 41% increase from 2001, when approximately 44, 300 women of childbearing age were reportedly diagnosed with the disease, according to recent American Cancer Society statistics.
These younger American women are being hit with triple negative, HER2 positive and estrogen positive breast cancers; diseases that usually maim, sometimes kill and often bankrupt a woman’s current and future financial situation.
In recent years young media leaders and celebrities have shared their personal breast cancer diagnoses, including Fox News political reporter Jennifer Griffin (triple negative); ABC’s Good Morning America host, Robin Roberts (triple negative); National Public Radio’s Tavis Smiley Show Executive Producer, Sheryl Flowers, who died from triple negative breast cancer in 2009 at the age of 42, folksinger Melissa Ethridge (HER2 positive) and film star, Christina Applegate.
Why is this new epidemic happening to our younger women? How can younger women help stop breast cancer from happening to them ever… or never again?
For more information on why younger women in the U.S. are facing this current breast cancer epidemic, and for specific ways each woman can help lower her risk of developing breast cancer ever… or never again, sign on to The Truth About Breast Cancer blog www.thetruthaboutbreastcancer.com
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Birth Control Pills Now Linked to Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Recent research out of Seattle shows a disturbingly strong link between young women (40 years and younger) who used oral contraceptives and their tendency to develop triple negative breast cancer, a rapidly growing estrogen-negative type of the disease.
Among women (40 years and younger) the relative risk for triple-negative breast cancer associated with oral contraceptive use (of more than one year ) was 4.2. (95%confidence interval, 1.9-9.3)
This study, Risk Factors for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer in Women Under the Age of 45 Years, involving over 1,000 women, led by Jessica M. Dolle, at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, and published in the academic journal, Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention in April of last year, did not find a similar link between other kinds of breast cancer and the use of oral contraceptives in this same group of breast cancer patients.
( one page abstract/summary of study)
cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/18/4/1157.abstract
( full study: ten page PDF)
http://www.jillstanek.com/Abortion%20Breast%20Cancer%20Epid%20Bio%20Prev%202009.pdf
Most types of breast cancer seem to be caused by a cocktail of various ingredients that appear to be unique to each person, that mixed together can create a perfect toxic storm.
Triple Negative breast cancer strikes younger women more often than older women, and strikes black women at double the rate of white women. Younger black women are currently the most at- risk population for developing this type of breast cancer.
Sadly 90+% of the dollars earmarked for triple negative breast cancer research, by Susan G Komen for the Cure, by the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation, by government and other private grant makers are only focused on developing expensive drugs that can “find a cure” for this disease.
Last week a recent market research report predicted that by 2018 a new breast cancer drug, BSI-201 will enjoy $1.7 billion in worldwide sales, with special potential for the triple negative market.
www.drugstorenews.com/story.aspx?id=131607&menuid=345
For women fighting this disease, this is wonderful news as such drugs can be critical. But we also need to figure out how to stop triple negative breast cancer before it starts... even if there is no $1.7 billion drug at the end of the rainbow.
Audre Lorde, poet, lesbian, feminist leader, African American and author of The Cancer Journals, who died in 1992 after a fourteen-year struggle with breast cancer, was one of the first to notice society’s interest in profit making, rather than in trying to stop breast cancer before it starts.
…what would happen if an army of one-breasted women descended upon Congress and demanded that the use of carcinogenic, fat-stored hormones in beef-feed be outlawed?
Each year, about 30,000 women in the U.S. are now being diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer and this number continues to grow. Most of these women are younger than 40 and more than 15% of these young women are black.
We need to ask foundations and government agencies to fund Jessica Dolle and other cancer prevention researchers as they try to understand more about what chemicals, foods and drugs are causing all of this triple negative.
Meanwhile, do not expect your birth control pack to mention Dolle’s recent research linking birth control drugs to triple negative breast cancer; in fact do not expect the American Cancer Society or even most major breast cancer foundations to breathe a word of Dolle’s 2009 study.
Birth control pills and breast cancer drugs are both multi-billion dollar a year markets. The pharmaceutical companies that sell these drugs also give many millions of dollars each year to the American Cancer Society, Komen and other. Few organizations, I suppose, want to bite the hands that feed them.
From a practical, personal point of view, younger women who want to continue using birth control pills should counterbalance their risk of developing triple negative by getting a Vitamin D3 blood test.. and taking 2,000 IUs or more of Vitamin D3 supplements every day until your blood test shows you have a level of 60-80 ng/ml of vitamin D3. New research shows that this level of vitamin D3 should protect a huge majority of all women against developing all types of breast cancer.
For more ideas on how to help lower your risk of developing any type of breast cancer, at any age, see Know Breast Cancer’s 7 Easy Ways at www.knowbreastcancer.net
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