cancer is when cells in parts of the body start to abnormally grow! so really... it's not a foreign object it's your body's cell reproduction malfunctioning. Why does it happen... well... i guess the list of things that may cause cancer is growing. if you ask me... it's always been with us. some are genetic and so we passed them around. some lipukad when we got to some certain age... for majority of humanity's time we never really got to these ages we are living and these numbers and so they show! some have environmental or dietary... has anyone ever seen this list?


I would invite intellectually curious people to examine the case of 'henrietta lacks'. Why does her cells behave the way they do? We have a lot of crap embedded in our dna and some just mutate and causes the body to behave in certain ways when the conditions are right! Do you know all that crap about generational curses? DNA!!

Where can one get the interview with Kiuna?

As any other scientist i still have a microfuge tube with HeLa cells somewhere in the freezer.

@BGL, is there anyone doing research on the effects of Autophagy, fasting/intermittent fasting, zero carb diet on cancer?

In the United States, tens of millions of adults take aspirin to reduce their risk of heart attack or stroke. But studies over the last two decades have suggested that regular use of aspirin may have another important benefit: decreasing the risk of developing or dying from some types of cancer.

Results from some of these studies, in fact, formed the basis for guidance released in April 2016Exit Disclaimer by an influential federal advisory panel on disease prevention. The panel, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), recommended that, for some people, aspirin can be used to help reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease and colorectal cancer.

Several researchers who conducted some of the seminal studies on which the USPSTF based its guidance stressed the importance of the panel’s actions.

Writing in Nature Reviews Cancer, Andrew Chan, M.D., of Harvard Medical School, and several colleagues called the recommendation a "crucial first step in realizing a potential broader population-wide impact of aspirin use" for cancer prevention.

The USPSTF recommendations are far from sweeping, however. And researchers are continuing to investigate critical questions, including just how aspirin may reduce colorectal cancer risk and what other cancers, if any, regular use of this century-old drug may help to prevent.

The findings from these studies should help to fill an important informational void. At least one study suggests that, even before the USPSTF made its recommendations, Americans were buying in to the idea of aspirin's anticancer potential; in that 2015 study, 18% of Americans who were taking aspirin regularly said they were doing so to help prevent cancer.

(CNN)An aspirin a day may keep the doctor away. It may also reduce your chances of dying from cancer, according to a study on long-term regular aspirin use and different kinds of cancer.

Yin Cao, an instructor in the Medicine, Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, presented the information Monday at the American Association for Cancer Research meeting in Washington.
Cao looked at data from over 86,000 women who were part of the Nurses' Health Study between 1980 and 2012 and over 43,000 men who were part of the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study from 1986 to 2012.

Over that 32-year period, over 8,200 women and nearly 4,600 men died of cancer. The risk of death overall was 7% lower for women and 11% for men who took aspirin regularly, compared with those who did not. The risk of dying from cancer was 7% lower for women and 15% lower for men who took aspirin regularly, compared with those who didn't take a regular dose.
The strongest connection was with colorectal cancer: There was a 31% lower risk for women and 30% for men who were among regular aspirin takers, as other studies have showed. But it also lowered women's risk of dying from breast cancer by 11% and men's risk of dying from prostate cancer by 23%. Men's risk of dying from lung cancer was also lower.
Evidence has been accumulating very rapidly showing aspirin works in reducing cancer and cardiovascular disease mortality," Cao said. "It is good to remember, though, if a person wants to take a low-dose aspirin, especially if a person has had cancer, they will want to have an initial conversation with their doctor first."

Not everyone can take aspirin, particularly if you are at high risk for ulcers and gastrointestinal bleeding. Studies have showed an increased risk of both when taking a daily aspirin, but the benefit does outweigh the risk for most other people.