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People who drink two or more sugary soft drinks per week have an increased risk of pancreatic cancer, a rare and deadly tumor.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota made up to 60,524 men and women in the Chinese Health Study in Singapore for 14 years, time during which 140 volunteers developed the disease.

Those who consumed the amount of soda had 87% higher risk of developing pancreatic tumor. Those who drank more fruit juice than soft drinks did not have the same risk.

It should be that high levels of sugar in soft drinks may increase the level of insulin produced by the body, contributing to the pancreatic cancer cells grow, said Mark Pereira, director of the study.

A can of soda contains approximately 355 milliliters of 130 calories, almost all sugar.

“Singapore is a rich country with an excellent health care system.’s Favorite pastimes are eating and shopping, so the findings should be applicable to other Western countries,” added Pereira.

Other studies have linked pancreatic cancer with red meat, especially the burnt or charred. Read the rest of this entry »

General

* Cancers of the mobile portion of tongue cancers are very visible in the mouth. They are very frequent. The contributing factors are known as alcoholism, smoking, poor dental status. They are developed to the front of the tongue.
* Cancers of the base of the tongue are developed behind the language, and are more rare, more difficult to diagnose.

The signs of the disease

The circumstances of discovery are variables:

* A discrete discomfort during chewing or during movements of the tongue;
* Slight tingling increased by spicy or acidic foods;
* A lesion of the tongue discovered by the patient himself or dentist;
* The discovery of a cervical lymph node.
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The size of a walnut, the prostate is a gland in the male reproductive system located below the bladder, in front of the rectum. The prostate secretes nutrients and semen thinners.

As it surrounds the urethra (the canal from the bladder), a tumor in the prostate can interfere with urination. To function, prostate needs of sex hormones, androgens, which are produced in the testes, especially, and by the adrenal glands. Some prostate cancers are stimulated by these hormones.

In North America, cancer of the prostate is the most common cancer in men. According to autopsy studies, one third of men aged under 80 had traces of cancer prostate39. In the 80 years or more, this proportion rises to two thirds. However, most men in whom it detects prostate cancer die of other causes.

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The skin cancers are becoming more frequent. Worse, the incidence of melanoma, the form of skin cancer the rarest but most severe double every 10 years for people with white skin!

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Preventing cancer peauPourquoi this alarming progression? Because, unlike the previous centuries, where it is carefully protected from the sun, we expose ourselves too much solar radiation since the 1930s. However, the ultraviolet UVA and UVB present in sunlight is harmful to the skin.

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