Headline in The Herald Sun
I was startled to find two almost identical articles on cancer in both major Melbourne newspapers on January 3rd – describing most cancers as just ‘bad luck’. Is there a plan to lull the populous into thinking they have they have no say in their health? And that fate (and government) will roll the dice for your personal luck-o-meter.’
The Saturday Age article
The stories were on a paper just published in Science under the title “Variation in cancer risk among tissues can be explained by the number of stem cell divisions”
As reported in The Guardian, in the article ‘Bad luck, bad journalism and cancer rates’ “these headlines, and the stories, are just bollocks. The work, which is very interesting, showed no such thing.”
‘Bad Luck’ Mutations
But from the researcher’s abstract: “These results suggest that only a third of the variation in cancer risk among tissues is attributable to environmental factors or inherited predispositions. The majority is due to “bad luck,” that is, random mutations arising during DNA replication in normal, noncancerous stem cells.”
“Cancer-free longevity in people exposed to cancer-causing agents, such as tobacco, is often attributed to their ‘good genes,’ but the truth is that most of them simply had good luck,” adds Vogelstein, who cautions that poor lifestyles can add to the bad luck factor in the development of cancer.”
Definition of ‘luck’: The success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one’s own actions.
Not sure how ‘luck’ got into the equation. “Bad luck smokers” result in 8 out of 10 cases of lung cancer in the UK. Cancer risk is 15 times higher in smokers than non-smokers (source).
But lets talk basics:
The body is an ingenious system, protected by an immune response mechanism.
Cancer is the result of a compromised immune system – and has been called a ‘disease’ of the immune system.
So you would think we should be encouraged to do everything possible to aid your immune system. We are bombarded with chemicals, pesticides, heavy metals etc. and our bodies have to deal with sugars, EMFs and emotional stress each day. And these factors can be inflammatory and can all ‘whack’ and weaken your immune system.
Take just sugar for example. Sugar is a fuel for cancer cells and they depend on anaerobic metabolism (breaking down sugar) to flourish. A hundred years ago when cancer rates were around 1:30, people consumed about 5 lbs of sugar each year and when people were not living in an EMF soup. These days people are generally eating their weight in sugar each year. And eating sugar has nothing to do with luck.
Australia is now reporting that 1 in 2 Australian men and 1 in 3 Australian women will be diagnosed with cancer by the age of 85.
But there could be so many factors attributing to an astronomical rise in cancer. One study (investigating causal mechanisms) found in Sweden that cancer mortality trends coincide directly with the expansion or disruption of public broadcasting (in Sweden). Estonia also had a steep increase in the cancer mortality in 1991, the year that the FM radio-frequencies were allowed and introduced.
We all understand that hereditary factors possibly increase our risk (like a loaded gun) – but surely our environment, diet and emotional journey is what pulls the trigger (so to speak).
The headlines were deceptive and it makes us feel ‘powerless’ and subservient to our fate. Is it deliberate? We absolutely have the ability to change our health outcomes.
Your ‘Luck-o-meter’ program
Bad Luck program:
Increase your take in of sugars and junk food; eat more GMO products; don’t wash the pesticides and herbicides off your fruit and vegetables; talk on your mobile without an ear piece for hours a day; live closer to a RF tower; keep your WiFi modem under your pillow; drink heaps of acidic soda drinks; go sun bathing as much as possible, and take up smoking.
For the Good Luck program, there is an excellent comprehensive series on cancer – try www.thetruthaboutcancer.com
Mary Maxwell will be posting a series of cures soon.
Radiation from Fukushima is said to be causing thyroid cancer.
I wonder who caused the tsunami in Japan on 3-11? Clearly it was no accident, as there was a movie in 2006 (fiction) that showed scenes almost identical to the wave coming ashore.
Maybe someone could ask that filmmaker where he got his knowledge of tsunamis. I think the name of the DVD is “Is Japan Sinking?”
Very sad that the children being sick and suffering dreadfull birth defects due to radiation in Fulluja and other parts of Iraq from the effects of depleted uranium munitions are just plain unlucky. (As in Fukishama)
With respect for our PM: ‘shit happens’.
Dalia, I have just noticed that The Age story you reported appears also in the New York Times with the title “Cancer’s Random Assault.”