Cancer - Causes and Treatment Alternatives

It seems that whatever we do or eat today is said to be the cause of cancer. Excessive exposure to sunlight is said to increase the risk of skin cancer. Asbestos and cigarette smoke causes lung cancer, which is the highest contributor to the statistics of deaths due to cancer. What will happen? Radiation, meat / pizza burn, fat, saccharin (artificial sugar) and carcinogens (substances that can cause cancer) such as pesticides and herbicides.

We also believe that genes are the main factors that increase a person's risk of getting cancer. But the research found that 80 to 90% of cancer patients come from families who have no history of cancer.

What else do we not know? Many researchers provide various theories about the cause of cancer. However, no one theory can explain various aspects of cancer and progression of disease in the human body.

Dr. Peter Kovacic wrote a comprehensive review of the medical puzzles in Current Medicinal Chemistry 2001, he says of the many-many theories that have been developed, only the oxidative stress theory is proven true. It can be explained rationally and systematically relate many aspects of carcinogenesis (cancer development).

What is oxidative stress? The simple oxidative stress is the damage caused by free radicals. Oxidative stress that occurs in the body is the underlying cause of most chronic degenerative diseases. For easier for you to see the effects of oxidative stress, trying to see family pictures that contain various generations. Notice their skin, you will see a big difference between skin family members young and old. No visible effect is caused by oxidative stress on the skin. The same situation also occurs in our bodies. So if you want beautiful skin, moisturizing lotion is not the answer. You can improve this situation by taking foods or supplements rich in antioxidants, a substance that can eliminate free radicals and restore the damage caused by it.

Reviews of Dr. Kovacic supporting medical evidence that more and more it-when there is a lot of free radicals near the nucleus of the cell, there would be severe damage to the DNA of the cell. When carcinogens attack, the body will repair damaged DNA. But when too much stress aksidatif, body systems are no longer able to repair the damage that will lead to the occurrence of mutations (changes) DNA. When the cells multiply (split in two), the mutated DNA will also be brought into the newly formed cells. When DNA dimutasi continued exposure to oxidative stress, the more damage will occur. The cells will begin to grow out of control and has a life of its own. It develops the ability to spread from one part of the body to another part (metastasis), and a cancer. In the body of an adult, cancer could take 20 to 30 years to grow from the initial DNA mutations. In the child's body is growing faster because of the faster cell proliferation.

Today we lost the battle against cancer. Is there any doubt that this malignant disease should be fought from the early stages of development before we can see a decrease in the rate of deaths from it? You know we have to hope, to understand the role of oxidative stress in cancer development gives us new possibilities in the prevention and treatment of cancer.