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CHANGE ‘Breast Cancer Awareness Month’ to ‘Breast Cancer PREVENTION Month’ It’s time. The tools are at hand. It just takes our combined efforts. Drs Cedric Garland, UCSD School of Medicine and Tracey O’Connor, Roswell Park Cancer Institute will present information on how prevention can work with vitamin D and, what a cancer treatment protocol would look like.… continue reading

Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Centsible remedies exist.www.correctivehealth.org http://weeksmd.com/?p=1951 No one talks about them because they are inexpensive and the industry which is “health care delivery in America in 2009″ likes profitable options. Sadly, in the American health care system, if there is no profit to be made in the solution, then, well, there is no problem and equally, if the solution is inexpensive, the FDA (controlled by Big Pharma and special interests) will ban it..… continue reading

Melanoma “epidemic” may simply represent diagnostic drift Will Boggs, MD Reuters Health http://cancer.med.upenn.edu/resources/article.cfm?c=3&s=8&ss=23&Year=2009&Month=09&id=16452   (Reuters Health) NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The widely reported melanoma epidemic may simply represent a drift in the diagnostic criteria for the malignancy, according to a report in the September British Journal of Dermatology.… continue reading

N.J. Levell, C.C. Beattie*, S. Shuster and D.C. Greenberg* Dermatology Department, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich Eastern Cancer Registration and Information Centre (ECRIC), Cambridge CB22 3AD, U.K. Correspondence to Nick J. Levell. E-mail: nick.levell@nnuh.nhs.uk Conflicts of interest None declared. KEYWORDS aetiology • incidence • melanoma • stage • ultraviolet ABSTRACT Background The reported incidence of melanoma has greatly increased and this has been attributed to ultraviolet exposure.… continue reading

Health Unit’s view on tanning beds is misleading Friday August 14 2009 Recently the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified tanning beds as a Group 1 carcinogenic. Also in this Group 1 classification were arsenic, salted fish, birth control pills, plutonium, red wine and mustard gas.… continue reading