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Cancer Update Email -- It's a Hoax!

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STATEMENT: EMAIL HOAX REGARDING CANCER

Information falsely attributed to Johns Hopkins called, "CANCER UPDATE FROM JOHN HOPKINS" describes properties of cancer cells and suggests ways of preventing cancer.  Johns Hopkins did not publish the information, which often is an email attachment, nor do we endorse its contents.  The email also contains an incorrect spelling of our institution as "John" Hopkins; whereas, the correct spelling is "Johns" Hopkins. For more information about cancer, please read the information on our web site or visit the National Cancer Institute.  Please help combat the spread of this hoax by letting others know of this statement.

Another hoax email that has been circulating since 2004 regarding plastic containers, bottles, wrap claiming that heat releases dioxins which cause cancer also was not published by Johns Hopkins.  More information from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Mythbusters:  Please help curb the spread of this hoax by sending a link to this page to individuals that forward you this email. 

The Truth about the "Cancer Update" Email Hoax

Emails offering easy remedies for avoiding and curing cancer are the latest Web-influenced trend. To gain credibility, the anonymous authors falsely attribute their work to respected research institutions like Johns Hopkins. This is the case with the so-called “Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins.”

The gist of this viral email is that cancer therapies of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy do not work against the disease and people should instead choose a variety of dietary strategies. 

Traditional therapies, such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy, work. The evidence is the millions of cancer survivors in the United States today who are alive because of these therapies.   We recognize that treatments don’t work in every patient, or sometimes work for awhile and then stop working, and there are some cancers that are more difficult to cure than others. These problems are the focus of ongoing cancer research. 

We’ll go through each statement in the email hoax and provide real responses from Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center experts.

Statements:

The Hoax: Everyone Has Cancer Cells
The Hoax: A Strong Immune System Destroys Cancer
The Hoax: Cancer is Caused by Nutritional Deficiencies and Supplements Will Correct Them
The Hoax: Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy Harms Normal Cells. Surgery Causes Cancer to Spread
The Hoax: Cancers Feed on Certain Foods
The Hoax: Cancer is a Disease of Mind, Body and Spirit
The Hoax: Oxygen Kills Cancer Cells

The Hoax: Everyone Has Cancer Cells

The Truth:  Cancer is a genetic disease resulting from a variety of mutations and alterations either inherited from our parents or, more commonly, acquired over time due to environmental exposures and behaviors, such as smoking and poor diet. These alterations turn off important cell growth regulators allowing cells to continually divide unchecked, explains Luis Diaz, a clinician-scientist in Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins. This type of cell is called a malignant or cancer cell.  Among the trillions of cells in the human body, inevitably everyone has some abnormal or atypical cells that possess some of the characteristics of cancer cells, most resolve themselves and never result in cancer, says Diaz. 

There is no single or standard test for cancer. There are ways to screen for certain cancers with tests such as colonoscopy for colon cancer, mammography for breast cancer, PSA for prostate cancer, and the Pap smear for cervical cancer, and these tests can detect cancers in a very early and curable stage.  For many cancers, there currently are no screening tests, and they are diagnosed when they begin to cause symptoms.

Diaz and other Kimmel Cancer Center researchers are working on new tests that detect abnormal DNA shed by cancer cells into blood and body fluids and have the ability to find cancers before they cause any symptoms.  Approaches like this could lead to a broad-based screening test for cancer.

Tests like these also are being used to detect cancer recurrences and malignant cells left behind following surgery, and can find cancers that are not detectable under the microscope or in x-rays.

Other researchers are studying cancer stem cells.  They are stealth cells that make up just a tiny fraction of a tumor.  While small in number, investigators believe they may be the cells that drive certain cancers and lead to cancer recurrence. Therapies that target these cells are now being tested in clinical trials.

A team of our breast cancer researchers has developed a method that could make it possible to detect breast cancer from the DNA contained in a single drop of blood.

But, while evasive cancer cells are a challenge and the focus of ongoing research, it does not mean, as the email contends, that all patients, even those treated successfully for cancer, have cancers-in-waiting—undetectable but still there.  People are treated and completely cured of cancer everyday.

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The Hoax: A Strong Immune System Destroys Cancer

The Truth: When it comes to cancer and the immune system, it is not a matter of strong or weak as the fictional report contends, but rather an issue of recognition.  "The immune system simply does not recognize cancer. In its complexity, the cancer cell has learned to disguise itself to the immune system as a normal, healthy cell.  Cells infected with viruses or bacteria send out danger signals setting the immune system in action.  But cancer cells do not, explains Elizabeth Jaffee, co-director of cancer immunology and leading expert on cancer and the immune system."   By deciphering the methods cancer cells use to make them invisible to the immune system, Jaffee and team have developed cancer vaccines that have successfully triggered immune reactions against prostate cancerpancreatic cancerleukemia, and multiple myeloma.

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The Hoax: Cancer is caused by Nutritional Deficiencies and Supplements Will Correct Them

The Truth: Dietary habits and lifestyle choices, such as smoking, contribute to the development of many human cancers, says Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson. Our experts recommend a balanced diet as a way of reducing cancer risk.  In terms of supplements, Nelson points out that while they may help mediate vitamin deficiencies, taking doses above what the body needs provides no added benefit.

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The Hoax: Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy Harms Normal Cells. Surgery Causes Cancer to Spread

The Truth: Chemotherapy and radiation therapy kills cancer cells with remarkable selectivity, says Nelson.  There are some temporary and reversible side effects common to cancer therapies, including hair loss and low blood counts.  Limiting and managing these side effects is an integral part of treatment.

Surgery is the first line of treatment for many types of cancer. It does not cause cancer to spread. Cancers spread to other tissues and organs as a tumor progresses and cancer cells break away from the original tumor and travel through the bloodstream to other body sites.

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The Hoax: Cancers Feed on Certain Foods

The Truth: The premise is that cancer cells feed on certain foods, and if a person refrains from eating these foods, the cancer will die. According to our experts, a poor diet and obesity associated with a poor diet is a risk factor for the development of cancer.  However, there is no evidence that certain foods alter the environment of an existing cancer, at the cellular level, and cause it to either die or grow.

While there is such a thing as tumors that produce mucus, the mucus made by a tumor does not result from drinking milk.  And, eating less meat, while a good choice for cancer prevention, does not free up enzymes to attack cancer cells, explains cancer prevention and control expert Elizabeth Platz.

Moderation is key, says Platz. As part of a balanced diet, sugar, salt, milk, coffee, tea, meat, and chocolate—the foods the “Update” calls into question—are all safe choices, she says.  The real concern with many of these, particularly sugar, is that it adds calories to a diet and can lead to obesity, and obesity is a major risk factor for cancer. A balanced nutritious diet, healthy weight, physical activity, and avoiding alcoholic drinks may prevent as many as 1/3 of all cancers. Platz recommends eating at least five servings of fruits and vegetables per day and limiting red and processed meats, like hot dogs.

Several Johns Hopkins experts participated in the World Cancer Research Fund - American Institute for Cancer Research report Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective, published in November 2007, which is considered by cancer prevention experts to be an authoritative source of information on diet, physical activity and cancer. Their recommendations for cancer prevention and for good health in general are:

  1. Be as lean as possible without becoming underweight.
  2. Be physically active for at least 30 minutes every day.
  3. Avoid sugary drinks. Limit consumption of energy-dense foods (particularly processed foods high in added sugar, or low in fiber, or high in fat).
  4. Eat more of a variety of vegetables, fruits, whole grains and legumes such as beans.
  5. Limit consumption of red meats (such as beef, pork and lamb) and avoid processed meats.
  6. If consumed at all, limit alcoholic drinks to 2 for men and 1 for women a day.
  7. Limit consumption of salty foods and foods processed with salt (sodium).
  8. Don't use supplements to protect against cancer.

Our experts recommend that people meet their nutritional needs through their food choices. While vitamin supplements can be helpful in people with nutritional deficiencies, evidence suggests that supplementation above what the body can use provides no added health benefit. 

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The Hoax: Cancer is a Disease of Mind, Body, and Spirit

The Truth: Cancer is a disease caused by genetic alterations.  Many times, these alterations occur through our own behaviors—cigarette smoking, a poor and unbalanced diet, virus exposures, and sunburns, says cancer prevention and control expert John Groopman

How stress, faith, and other factors influence this is largely unknown.  We would like people to be happy, loving, and stress free, simply because it is a nice way to live and can contribute to an overall feeling of well being, says Platz.  There is no evidence, however, that a person prevents or causes cancer based on his or her state of mind.

Still, we understand that a cancer diagnosis can make patients and families feel stressed and anxious, and these are not pleasant feelings.  So, we offer extensive patient and family services, including a cancer counseling centerpain and palliative care programchaplain services and a meditation chapel, an image recovery center, and the Art of Healing art and music program.

Read more about Cancer Genetics in "A Genetic Revolution"

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The Hoax: Oxygen Kills Cancer Cells

The Truth: Platz recommends regular exercise as a part of any healthy lifestyle, but says there is no evidence that breathing deeply or receiving oxygen therapy prevents cancer.

On its Web site, the American Cancer Society includes the following statement about oxygen therapy, “Available scientific evidence does not support claims that putting oxygen-releasing chemicals into a person's body is effective in treating cancer. It may even be dangerous. There have been reports of patient deaths from this method.”  Read more

Please pass this information on to family and friends.

Questions?

Contact:
Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center
Office of Public Affairs
410-955-1287

 

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[如何餓死身體癌細胞]

如何“餓死”身體中的癌細胞?全球聞名的約翰.霍普金斯大學最新之癌症研究報導.

請將這份文件分享給任何你認為對你很重要的人,希望大家耐心看完,祝分享者與受益者身體健康!

癌症病人60%是嚇死的,20%是亂用藥而死,20%有好的心態和科學治療而生存。望大家無論遇到什麼病都不要恐懼,要以科學的態度對待!據相關報導,八十歲以上的老人因其它原因死亡後解剖屍體,發現約四分之一的老人體內有腫瘤,但他們生前並不知曉,腫瘤也未對他們生前的健康構成傷害,所以帶癌生存的現像是一直客觀存在著的,沒有必要大動干戈,一味地追求殺癌的力度和強度,非要把癌細胞斬盡殺絕不可。一定要把癌症與其它慢性病一樣對待。癌細胞是正常細胞在體內氧氣不足的情況下脫變而來的,也就是說癌症是“人民內部矛盾”,需要的是協調、理順、讓癌細胞與正常細胞和平共處,這才是解決癌症最聰明的做法。

✿ 約翰霍普金斯最新之癌症研究報導 :

一,每一個人身上都帶有癌細胞,除非癌細胞擴增至幾十億個數量時癌細胞是無法在一般檢查時被檢查出來的。所以每當病患治療到一個階段後醫生會告訴病患其體內已無癌細胞時,醫生所指的是其體內癌細胞數量已縮小到儀器無法偵測出來的數量。

二,在每個人的生命期裡,癌細胞都會出現6至10次。

三,當人體免疫系統強時,癌細胞是會被摧滅的,同時免疫系統強是能抑制腫瘤形成及擴增。

四,當人被發現有癌症時,它意味這個病患是有大量營養缺乏;這可能是由於基因、環境、食物及生活方式等因素造成的。

五,如何克服營養缺乏,那就是要改變飲食及多進用增強免疫系統之食物。

六,化療不祇能毒殺快速增長之癌細胞,亦會一併消滅骨髓及胃腸道內之健康細胞,同時造成器官衰竭;如肝臟、腎臟、心臟及肺臟等等。

七,放射治療在摧毀癌細胞時,亦會灼傷健康細胞、組織及器官。

八,初期化療及放射線治療是很容易將腫瘤面積縮小到某一程度,然再延長上述療法並不能造成腫瘤完全消除。

九,化療及放射線治療會讓體內存有大量毒素而危及或摧毀免疫系統,因而導致病患易於感染及並發症。

十,化療及放射線治療會造成病患癌細胞突變及產生抗體而變得難以摧毀,而手術則易使癌細胞擴散至其它部位。

十一,一個有效的擊潰癌細胞之方式是不供給癌細胞繁殖所需之食物,即是餓死癌細胞。

十二,癌細胞以何為食物:

1,糖是癌的食物,若不食糖即刪除癌細胞很重要的一項食物供給。代糖如Nutra sweet, Equal spoonful等均是由Aspartame 組合而成的,是有害的。較好之天然代糖是Manuka糖漿或Molasses糖蜜,但祇能取用少許。食鹽為使顏色變白而摻有化學添加物,較妥之選擇是海鹽。

2,牛奶會使人體產生黏液,尤其是在胃腸道內,而黏液正是癌症之食物。因而阻絕牛奶及採用不甜之豆漿作替代,癌症就會在無食物情況下萎縮的。

3,癌細胞是在酸性環境中繁衍的,以肉為基本飲食的體質是酸性的,因而食用魚類及少量雞肉是較食用牛、豬為妥的。且肉品均含有家畜抗生素、生長荷爾蒙及寄生蟲等,而這些均是對人體的有害物質,尤其是對癌症病患。

4,以80%新鮮蔬菜及青菜汁之飲食;含全穀類、種子、堅果及少量的水果是有益於體質轉變為鹼性的,剩餘20%可進食煮熟的豆類。新鮮蔬菜汁可在5分鐘內被細胞組織吸收進而滋養增強健康細胞,為取得活性酵素強壯健康細胞應多飲用新鮮果菜汁(多樣蔬菜含豆芽),同時每天進食生青菜(未煮過之)兩至三次,按活性酵素在40度C時會被摧毀。

5,飲料必須避免飲用咖啡、巧克力因上述飲料含咖啡因,綠茶是較佳之選擇因為其有抗癌特性。而平常應飲用淨化水或過濾水,然應避免飲用有毒的或重金屬的水。

十三,肉類的蛋白質是不易消化的,因為肉類的蛋白質需要大量消化酵素消化,未消化的肉質會留殘在腸內淨化,而引發有毒物質形成。

癌細胞壁有很硬之蛋白質包裹,因而節制食用肉類可讓多出之酵素去攻擊癌細胞之蛋白質,而體內殺手細胞則有空間摧毀癌細胞

十四,部份營養品是能增強免疫系統(如抗氧化劑、維他命、礦物質等保健食品)去驅使自體殺手細胞去摧毀癌細胞,其它營養品如維他命E會使細胞萎縮,或漸使細胞死亡,而非原體內一般處置損壞、無用及不需要細胞之模式。

十五,癌症是一種心態、肉體和心靈上之疾病,因而能有前衛及積極的心靈是可造就癌症戰士變為勝利天使,怨尤和苦痛會讓體質變為緊張及酸性,加重病情。

十六,癌細胞是無法在充滿氧氣的環境中繁衍的,所以每日必須運動,同時多作深呼吸以利氧氣進入細胞層,氧氣療法是另一種擊潰癌細胞之工具。

約翰霍普金斯已將這篇研究報告用新聞稿方式發布,同時Walter Reed 陸軍醫學中心亦將這篇報告傳播。 

✿另外請注意:

1,不要將塑料盒放入微波爐加熱

2,不要將塑料水瓶放入冷藏室

3,不要將塑料袋放入微波爐加熱

因戴奧辛之化學物質會導致癌症,尤其是乳癌。按戴奧辛對體內細胞具很高之毒性,因而千萬別將裝有水之塑料罐放入冰箱,因為它亦會將戴奧辛釋出。

前不久Dr. Edward Fujimoto在電視節目中談到健康之風險,他就強調戴奧辛對健康是多麼有害,因而請千萬不要用塑料容器放入微波爐加熱食物。這尤其是指含有脂肪之食物,當脂肪與高溫與塑料結合時,塑料即會釋放出戴奧辛並進入食物中,最終就進入體內之細胞。因而他建議使用玻璃器皿作為加熱食物用,因為它一樣可使食物變熱,然卻少了戴奧辛。

紙是不錯的容器,然你無法了解紙裡到底含有什麼物質,因而較安全之容器是冶煉過的玻璃器皿。同時他亦指出塑料袋如Saran耐熱塑料袋用於包裝食物,在微波爐加熱時亦是非常危險的,因為當食物用微波爐加熱時,高溫會讓毒素由塑料袋溶解出來進入食物內,所以應用紙包裹食物作替代。

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