Cancer does not care if you are poor or rich. If you are unknown or famous. Cancer will strike and strike hard. Here are some of the celebrities who have cancer. Fran Drescher, Edie Falco, Sheryl Crow, Farrah Fawcett, Gene Wilder, Patrick Swayze and Kylie Minogue. Colin Powell, Peter Jennings, Olivia Newton John, Richard Rountree, Charlie Watts and Joe Torre also have cancer. So what is cancer all about and why does it do this?
Cancer is a class of disease in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth beyond the normal limits, intrude and destroy adjacent tissues and spread to other locations in the body via the lymph or the blood. Cancer can affect people of all ages and causes 13% of all deaths. According to the American Cancer Society, there are 7.6 million people who died from cancer in the world during 2007.
All cancer are caused by abnormalities in the genetic material of the transformed cells. These abnormalities are the effects of carcinogens brought about by tobacco, smoke, radiation, chemicals and other infectious agents.
Cancer symptoms are roughly divided into three groups. Local symptoms, symptoms of metastasis and systemic symptoms. Local symptoms include lumps or swelling, tumor, hemorrhage, pain and ulceration. Symptoms of metastasis include enlarged lymph nodes, cough, hemoptysis, hepatomegaly, bone pain, fracture and neurological symptoms. Systemic symptoms include weight loss, poor appetite, fatigue, excessive sweating, and cachexia.
Cancer can also be caused by ionizing radiation such as radon gas and prolonged exposure to ultraviolet radiation, viral or bacterial infection such as human papillomavirus, hepatitis B and hepatitis C, Epstein-Barr virus and human T-lymphotropic virus.
A modern way to treat cancer is Chelation therapy. Chelation therapy is US FDA approved alternative medication that is used for treatment on heavy metal poisoning such as lead, mercury, plutonium poisoning. Chelation therapy EDTA, which stands for ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, is the synthetic amino acid which was firs produced in Germany.
Chelation therapy can also treat other disorders such diabetes, blood vessel diseases, autism, osteoarthritis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, organic poisoning, macular degeneration and improve blood flow to the heart, legs and brain. Chelation therapy can treat cancer because heavy metal toxicity can contribute to cancer. These heavy metals help in the propagation of free radicals and as a result suppress the immune system. By using chelation therapy on cancer, the treatment will improve circulation, reduce misplaced soft-tissues calcification, reduce free-radical pathology and increase oxygen to cells thus enhancing the chance of the body to fight cancer.
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