Chemical found in deodorants, face cream and food products is discovered in tumours of ALL breast cancer patients
-Parabens are a chemical compound found in everyday toiletry products
'-The fact that parabens were present in so many of the breast tissue samples does justify further investigation,’ say study leaders
UK Daily Mail
A chemical widely used as a preservative in cosmetics, food products and pharmaceuticals has been found in tissue samples from 40 women with breast cancer.
A number of studies since 1998 have raised concerns about the potential role of these parabens in breast cancer as they possess oestrogenic properties.
Oestrogen is known to play a central role in the development, growth and progression of breast cancer.
Parabens are a chemical compound found in everyday toiletry products including moisturisers, make-up, shaving foam, tanning lotions and toothpaste.
They are also found in numerous brands of underarm deodorant. However, a causal link has never been found between them and breast cancer.
They are present in processed meats such as sausages, pies and pastries along with other savoury snacks.
A chemical widely used as a preservative in cosmetics, food products and pharmaceuticals has been found in tissue samples from 40 women with breast cancer.
A number of studies since 1998 have raised concerns about the potential role of these parabens in breast cancer as they possess oestrogenic properties.
Oestrogen is known to play a central role in the development, growth and progression of breast cancer.
Parabens are a chemical compound found in everyday toiletry products including moisturisers, make-up, shaving foam, tanning lotions and toothpaste.
They are also found in numerous brands of underarm deodorant. However, a causal link has never been found between them and breast cancer.
They are present in processed meats such as sausages, pies and pastries along with other savoury snacks...[Full Article]
Showing posts with label breast cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label breast cancer. Show all posts
Saturday, January 22, 2011
4-Year Old Gets Mastectomy, Survives Breast Cancer
Mastectomy for a preschooler
CNN
Toddler Aleisha Hunter Among Youngest to Survive Breast Cancer
Two years ago, Aleisha Hunter got breast cancer, making her one of the nearly 300,000 new annual cases to surface.
The difference? Aleisha was a 2-and-a-half-year-old toddler when the small lump developed in her chest. Doctors diagnosed her with juvenile breast carcinoma when she was only 3.
Surgical oncologist Nancy Down of North York General Hospital in Ontario, Canada, who operated on the little girl, tells the "Today" show that Aleisha's cancer was a form usually found in children -- and highly uncommon...
[Full Article]
3-YEAR-OLD GIRL SURVIVED BREAST CANCER {ALEISHA HUNTER}
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uObkZQUoCFM
'Precocious Puberty' Is on the Rise
AlterNet
Hormone-mimicking chemicals found in food, water, and many consumer goods may well be the cause of why children as young as eight are showing signs of sexual development.
January 6, 2007 | Kids these days are growing up too fast -- in more ways than one. American girls are reaching puberty up to a year earlier than in previous generations, with some children showing signs of sexual development as young as age 3. In extreme cases, girls are budding breasts before they've even learned to read.
Do You Know That Your Child Is Drinking Milk Containing Hormones and Steroids That Make a Cow Look like Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Terminator Film?
CNN
Aleisha Hunter is not your average 4-year-old. In fact, she's the youngest breast cancer survivor in Canada.
Not exactly the news her mother Melanie was expecting when she noticed a small lump in her daughter's right breast while bathing her when she was 2. Finally after trying to figure out what was causing Aleisha so much pain, at the age of 3, doctors diagnosed juvenile breast carcinoma, a very rare form of cancer...
[Full Article]Toddler Aleisha Hunter Among Youngest to Survive Breast Cancer
Two years ago, Aleisha Hunter got breast cancer, making her one of the nearly 300,000 new annual cases to surface.
The difference? Aleisha was a 2-and-a-half-year-old toddler when the small lump developed in her chest. Doctors diagnosed her with juvenile breast carcinoma when she was only 3.
Surgical oncologist Nancy Down of North York General Hospital in Ontario, Canada, who operated on the little girl, tells the "Today" show that Aleisha's cancer was a form usually found in children -- and highly uncommon...
[Full Article]
3-YEAR-OLD GIRL SURVIVED BREAST CANCER {ALEISHA HUNTER}
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uObkZQUoCFM
Little Aleisha Hunter underwent surgery for a double Mastectomy to treat her juvenile strain of breast cancer, making her one of world's youngest survivors of the disease.
3-Year-Old Gets Mastectomy To Beat Breast Cancer
Matt Lauer On Today Show (January 20th 2011)
[Webmaster - Could it be that this was a result of rBGH?]
'Precocious Puberty' Is on the Rise
AlterNet
Hormone-mimicking chemicals found in food, water, and many consumer goods may well be the cause of why children as young as eight are showing signs of sexual development.
January 6, 2007 |
Researchers call this phenomenon "precocious puberty," which some say is on the rise. Forty-eight percent of African-American girls and 15 percent of Caucasian girls show physical signs of puberty by age 8, according to a study of 17,000 U.S. girls published in Pediatrics in 1997. In a subsequent study of more than 2,000 boys, lead author Marcia Herman-Giddens found that 38 percent of African-American boys and 30 percent of Caucasian boys showed signs of sexual development by age 8...
[Full Article]Do You Know That Your Child Is Drinking Milk Containing Hormones and Steroids That Make a Cow Look like Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Terminator Film?
There are two types of dairy products. Those dairy products derived from cows carefully raised on organic dairy farms and those cows who are force-fed GMO corn, confined in pens, knee-deep in urine soaked manure, pumped up on hormones, steroids and antibiotics. We applaud the conscientious organic farmers who are not the subject of this blog.
Bovine growth hormone occurs naturally in dairy cows and is present in all raw milk. However, a synthetic form of this hormone called rBGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone or artificial growth hormone) is produced by Monsanto, the same manufacturer of Napalm, herbicides, pesticides and genetically modified seeds.
Monsanto developed the rBGH artificial growth hormone by inserting a coded gene into the DNA of the E. coli bacterium. Yes, that is the same E. coli bacteria found in eggs, vegetables and fast foods that has caused injury and death throughout the U.S.
When injected into dairy cows, rBGH induces the cows to artificially increase milk production 10 to15% and in some cases as much as 40%. But the rGBH (like steroids in humans) causes the cows to crave more protein. One of the cheapest protein sources is slaughterhouse waste, which is how rBGH became linked to mad cow disease in the first place. The result is that rGBH makes dairy cows more susceptible to disease...
[Full Article]
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Growing up too soon? Puberty strikes 7-year-old girls
Study in 3 major cities finds precocious puberty rising among 2nd graders
The changes in Kiera’s body scared her parents. Though the 8-year-old seemed her usual chipper self, she’d started to develop headaches and acne. More alarming to her mom, Sharon, were the budding breasts on Kiera’s thin little chest.
“I thought, she’s too young,” remembers the Pittsburgh mom. “She’s still fearful about sleeping by herself. An 8-year-old just isn’t mature enough to handle this.”
For Kiera, whose last name is being withheld to protect her privacy, it was all so embarrassing. None of her friends seemed to be experiencing what she was. When they asked about the acne and her expanding chest, Kiera was evasive. “I didn’t want to tell them what was going on,” says the Pittsburgh girl, now age 9. “So I had to kind of lie to them.”
When Kiera’s parents took their daughter to the doctor, he assured them that nothing was wrong with the girl. Kiera was simply starting puberty early.
As it turns out, puberty at age 7 or 8 isn’t so unusual these days. A new study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, shows that more American girls are maturing earlier and earlier. Typically, U.S. girls hit puberty around age 10 or 11.
Exactly what this shift means for girls isn’t clear yet — either on a group or individual level. But there are budding concerns. For instance, studies have linked an early start to menstruation with an elevated risk of breast cancer. And other research has shown that girls who go through puberty early tend to have lower self-esteem and a poor body image. They are also more likely to engage in risky behaviors which can result in unplanned pregnancies, experts say.
The possible link to breast cancer was what sparked the new study. To take a long-term look at the impact of puberty and other factors on breast cancer, researchers enrolled 1,239 girls between the ages of 6 and 8 from three sites in the U.S.: New York’s East Harlem, the greater Cincinnati metropolitan area and the San Francisco Bay area.
The study revealed a surprisingly large bump in the number of girls going through puberty between the ages of 7 and 8. For example, the researches found that 10 percent of 7-year-old white girls had some breast development as compared to 5 percent in a study published in 1997. Similarly, 23 percent of the 7-year-old black girls had started puberty as compared to 15 percent in the 1997 study.
Nobody’s sure what is driving the declining age of puberty. But the rise in obesity could be at least partly to blame, says the study’s lead author, Dr. Frank Biro, director of adolescent medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
That makes a lot of sense to Dr. Luigi Garibaldi, a professor of pediatrics and clinical director of pediatric endocrinology at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Back in the 1700s, girls didn’t start to menstruate till they were 17 or 18, Garibaldi says. That had a lot to do with malnutrition. The assumption is that the steady decline in age since then has to do with more abundant food.
There may be other environmental factors at work, too, says Dr. Stanley Korenman, an endocrinologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
For example, Korenman says, environmental exposure to estrogens in plastics, chemicals and foods has been going up. “And estrogens do stimulate breast development,” he adds...
[Full Article]
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Beef Hormones Linked to Premature Onset of Puberty & Breast Cancer
Ottawa - Consumption of hormone-treated beef may be causing girls to
reach puberty earlier than they used to and making them more susceptible
to breast cancer, say researchers attending a world conference on breast
cancer.
It is "very likely" that hormone residues in North American beef is a
factor in the early onset of puberty among girls in recent decades, said
Carlos Sonnenschein of the Tufts University School of Medicine at
Boston.
"There is no other reason to explain it," Sonnenschein said in an
interview Friday.
Pediatricians say the onset of menstruation has steadily decreased in
recent decades. The average age for a first period is now 12½, up from
age 14 in 1900.
Early onset of puberty with its raging hormones translates into higher
risk of breast cancer, said Sonnenschein.
"The length and amount of exposure to estrogens (a class of hormones) is
one of the most significant risk factors in breast carcinogenesis.
"Unless you are exposed to estrogens you don't get breast cancer. The
longer the exposure is, the higher the incidence. Therefore if you
decrease the age of menarche (first menstruation) . . . you
are at higher risk."...
[Full Article]
Study in 3 major cities finds precocious puberty rising among 2nd graders
The changes in Kiera’s body scared her parents. Though the 8-year-old seemed her usual chipper self, she’d started to develop headaches and acne. More alarming to her mom, Sharon, were the budding breasts on Kiera’s thin little chest.
“I thought, she’s too young,” remembers the Pittsburgh mom. “She’s still fearful about sleeping by herself. An 8-year-old just isn’t mature enough to handle this.”
For Kiera, whose last name is being withheld to protect her privacy, it was all so embarrassing. None of her friends seemed to be experiencing what she was. When they asked about the acne and her expanding chest, Kiera was evasive. “I didn’t want to tell them what was going on,” says the Pittsburgh girl, now age 9. “So I had to kind of lie to them.”
When Kiera’s parents took their daughter to the doctor, he assured them that nothing was wrong with the girl. Kiera was simply starting puberty early.
As it turns out, puberty at age 7 or 8 isn’t so unusual these days. A new study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, shows that more American girls are maturing earlier and earlier. Typically, U.S. girls hit puberty around age 10 or 11.
Exactly what this shift means for girls isn’t clear yet — either on a group or individual level. But there are budding concerns. For instance, studies have linked an early start to menstruation with an elevated risk of breast cancer. And other research has shown that girls who go through puberty early tend to have lower self-esteem and a poor body image. They are also more likely to engage in risky behaviors which can result in unplanned pregnancies, experts say.
The possible link to breast cancer was what sparked the new study. To take a long-term look at the impact of puberty and other factors on breast cancer, researchers enrolled 1,239 girls between the ages of 6 and 8 from three sites in the U.S.: New York’s East Harlem, the greater Cincinnati metropolitan area and the San Francisco Bay area.
The study revealed a surprisingly large bump in the number of girls going through puberty between the ages of 7 and 8. For example, the researches found that 10 percent of 7-year-old white girls had some breast development as compared to 5 percent in a study published in 1997. Similarly, 23 percent of the 7-year-old black girls had started puberty as compared to 15 percent in the 1997 study.
Nobody’s sure what is driving the declining age of puberty. But the rise in obesity could be at least partly to blame, says the study’s lead author, Dr. Frank Biro, director of adolescent medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
That makes a lot of sense to Dr. Luigi Garibaldi, a professor of pediatrics and clinical director of pediatric endocrinology at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Back in the 1700s, girls didn’t start to menstruate till they were 17 or 18, Garibaldi says. That had a lot to do with malnutrition. The assumption is that the steady decline in age since then has to do with more abundant food.
There may be other environmental factors at work, too, says Dr. Stanley Korenman, an endocrinologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
For example, Korenman says, environmental exposure to estrogens in plastics, chemicals and foods has been going up. “And estrogens do stimulate breast development,” he adds...
[Full Article]
-------------------------------------------------------------
Beef Hormones Linked to Premature Onset of Puberty & Breast Cancer
Ottawa - Consumption of hormone-treated beef may be causing girls to
reach puberty earlier than they used to and making them more susceptible
to breast cancer, say researchers attending a world conference on breast
cancer.
It is "very likely" that hormone residues in North American beef is a
factor in the early onset of puberty among girls in recent decades, said
Carlos Sonnenschein of the Tufts University School of Medicine at
Boston.
"There is no other reason to explain it," Sonnenschein said in an
interview Friday.
Pediatricians say the onset of menstruation has steadily decreased in
recent decades. The average age for a first period is now 12½, up from
age 14 in 1900.
Early onset of puberty with its raging hormones translates into higher
risk of breast cancer, said Sonnenschein.
"The length and amount of exposure to estrogens (a class of hormones) is
one of the most significant risk factors in breast carcinogenesis.
"Unless you are exposed to estrogens you don't get breast cancer. The
longer the exposure is, the higher the incidence. Therefore if you
decrease the age of menarche (first menstruation) . . . you
are at higher risk."
[Full Article]
Sunday, August 1, 2010
After Stroke Scans, Patients Face Serious Health Risks
When Alain Reyes’s hair suddenly fell out in a freakish band circling his head, he was not the only one worried about his health. His co-workers at a shipping company avoided him, and his boss sent him home, fearing he had a contagious disease.
When Alain Reyes’s hair suddenly fell out in a freakish band circling his head, he was not the only one worried about his health. His co-workers at a shipping company avoided him, and his boss sent him home, fearing he had a contagious disease.
Only later would Mr. Reyes learn what had caused him so much physical and emotional grief: he had received a radiation overdose during a test for a stroke at a hospital in Glendale, Calif.
Other patients getting the procedure, called a CT brain perfusion scan, were being overdosed, too — 37 of them just up the freeway at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, 269 more at the renowned Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and dozens more at a hospital in Huntsville, Ala.
The overdoses, which began to emerge late last summer, set off an investigation by the Food and Drug Administration into why patients tested with this complex yet lightly regulated technology were bombarded with excessive radiation. After 10 months, the agency has yet to provide a final report on what it found.
But an examination by The New York Times has found that radiation overdoses were larger and more widespread than previously known, that patients have reported symptoms considerably more serious than losing their hair, and that experts say they may face long-term risks of cancer and brain damage...
[Full Article]
Monday, April 12, 2010
Breast Cancer Drug Often Given For Fertility
Three in 10 women take the common breast cancer drug Femara to treat infertility, even though it could increase risks to the baby, U.S. researchers said on Friday.
Three in 10 women take the common breast cancer drug Femara to treat infertility, even though it could increase risks to the baby, U.S. researchers said on Friday.
They said the drug is often prescribed "off-label" to treat infertility, even though it is classified by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as posing a pregnancy risk.
And a study of health claims suggests policies by health insurers to only pay for the drug's approved uses could improve both the care and safety of the women who take it.
Novartis's Femara or letrozole is approved to treat post-menopausal women who have hormone-receptor positive breast cancers, in which a hormone is driving the cancer...
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