Treatment of colorectal cancer

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Another medicine from nature - green tea

Tea drinking is an ancient tradition dating back 5,000 years in China and India. Long regarded in those cultures as an aid to good health, researchers now are studying tea for possible use in the prevention and treatment of a variety of cancers

In the laboratory, studies have shown that tea catechins act as powerful inhibitors of cancer growth in several ways: They scavenge oxidants before cell injuries occur, reduce the incidence and size of chemically induced tumors, and inhibit the growth of tumor cells. In studies of liver, skin, and stomach cancer, chemically induced tumors were shown to decrease in size in mice that were fed green and black tea

Two studies in China, where green tea is a mainstay of the diet, resulted in promising findings. One study involving over 18,000 men found that tea drinkers were about half as likely to develop stomach or esophageal cancer as men who drank little tea, even after adjusting for smoking and other health and diet factors (3). A second study at the Beijing Dental Hospital found that consuming 3 grams of tea a day, or about 2 cups, along with the application of a tea extract, reduced the size and proliferation of leukoplakia, a precancerous oral plaque (1).


From U.S National Cancer Institute

Berries Helps to Fight and Prevent Cancer

Life offers relatively few unambiguous win-win situations, but here’s one: berries, those sweet, natural treats that almost everyone loves may provide potent anticancer compounds.


That’s the conclusion of Christine Sardo, who manages clinical trials on berry consumption and cancer prevention for Ohio State University’s College of Medicine. “We are promoting the concept of ‘fruitraceuticals’ as opposed to pharmaceuticals for cancer, and emphasizing prevention vs. treatment,” she told about 300 health practitioners at the Nutrition and Health Conference in New York City in May. The annual conference, sponsored by Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and the University of Arizona’s School of Medicine, brings together the world’s leading nutrition scientists to discuss their latest findings.

Sardo’s revelation was among the conference highlights. She detailed a study published in the March 1, 2006, issue of Cancer Research, in whichOSU Public Health professor Gary Stoner and four co-authors fed rats the cancer-causing chemical N-nitrosomethylbenzylamine three times a week for five weeks. After 20 additional weeks, rats that ate a diet consisting of ten percent black raspberries showed reductions in oral, esophageal and colon cancers of about 50 percent compared to rats that did not eat berries. “The berries prevented the entire spectrum of tumors from being initiated and promoted,” Sardo said

By Brad Lemley


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A Prayer to Conquest Cancer

A spot in China that mum went in 1998 with dad

Doing

She has been busying herself with lots of household chores lately. From cleaning the curtains, changing the sofa/cushion covers etc things she does for spring cleaning every chinese new year... She says that she wants to make sure the house is tidy as it will be a while before she can do those tasks again.

She has devoted her whole life to the house. It cleaniness and tidiness. In fact, she has different "systems" for ensuring its tidiness and also to save money through effective use and recycling of water, plastic bags etc etc. Dad has once said and I agree that if there was a PHD in household chores she will have the honour of it long time again. Compared to a lot of houses I been to, she has indeed done an excellent in maintaining our home for more than 20 over years in a tip top condition. Although it is not designer home, but it is defitnitely clean, airy, spacious, tidy. All that, she did it out of love for the family. The house and the family were evidence of her labor of love.

I remember and in fact a few days ago, I just automatically kept cleaning the house, cos in my mind I wanted her to be reassured that her house will be maintained for her and her illness is not going to take that away from her. Similarly, I have been maintaining myself...as well... not to let myself fall under the pressure of work and be affected negatively by the politics at work that gets to me frequently, as I am also part of her achievement.

I could see that she was struggling emotionally as she goes about her tasks. But all these while she did not say she will never get to do them again. She just say she will be taking a break for a while when chemo prevents her from doing so. It is that fighting spirit in her that sometimes i wished I had inherited from her. It is that fighting spirit that helped her through the financial difficulites, her miscarriages, gossipes etc etc through her life. I remember she once told us that we should never give in to fate. Fight hard mum.

Her backview

As I saw her back turning and making her way back home, I cant help but feel that I want to stay by her side all the time... yes ... its the same feeling of conflicts... of having to run my own errands and be away from her and being able to spend time with her...

She looked so fragile from the back. In my mind, mum was always the same. The beautiful mum I know since young. And even as she aged all these years, I could still find her behind the veils of time on her face. But yet recently, i observed that her lips are more pale than normal. Perhasp all along I had been in denial that mum was getting old. It was only a month ago that I noticed how much she has aged and the amount of white hair she has. At the time, I just shrugged it aside, that all will be well and she will be happy and healthy and pretty much the same even as she is growing old. It only occur to me now how frail she is. As I saw her back today, i had a flashback of her when she had her sugery for her previous episode of cancer. It was the same experience of visiting my grandfather at SGH who ahd cancer when I was really really young, maybe around 4 to 5 years. But the scene and exprience was rather the same. It was seeing somebody that you were closed to but you could not recognize. The appearance and the voice was totally another person, but you somehow feel that it is the same soul behind all the suffering. And in an instant, pain and heartache hits you in the head that that soul and very person you love is trapped behind that mountain of suffering.

I saw her talk to my dad as she walks back facing me... further and firther away.. and as my bus leaves her... what was she talking about? what was on her mind? How i wish i could undo any unhappines for her if she does experience that then. I realized she has come a long way in life as I saw her take the path home. What is on her mind now?