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Mouth
and Throat Cancer May Result from Aging
A cancer of the mouth and throat linked in
middle-aged people to smoking, drinking or
specific genetic mutations is more likely
in the elderly to result from random genetic
errors accumulated over a lifetime -- in plain
language, aging itself -- according to results
of a study at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.
April 25, 1995 |
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The
Other Face of Cancer
Cancer: Myths and Realities of Cause and Cure
Dr. Manu L Kothari and Dr Lopa A Mehta
The leit motif of this book is cancerrealism
- an unblinking survey of cancer that provides
a two-fold revelation; First, that cancer
is not a medical problem to be understood,
managed and ultimately solved by some noble-prize
winners but a biological phenomenon, a time-bound
universal process impartially affecting plants,
insects, animals and us humans. Secondly,
the genuine comprehension of cancer is a democratic
process, for, of, and by the people irrespective
of their layness or learnedness. The specific
features of cancer are - causeless, cureless,
unpreventable, silent for years in the body
before it bothers the person or becomes detectable
by the doctor, not bothered to be the cause
of death, occurring every where, in excess
nowhere, affecting on an average one out of
five human beings, and like God, impartial
to kings and cobblers, rich and poor, doctors
and non-doctors, all ages, both sexes. The
autochthonous, programmed character of cancer
makes it unresearchable. What is cancer, we
cannot research upon; what we have been researching
upon has never been, is not, will never be
cancer. Cancer-experts, or rather doctors,
have a role to play - of providing ease if
and when cancer causes disease. An unconventional
perspective that is well referenced. |
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