Health impact of soft drinks is proved again. A recent study showed excessive soda drinking increased the risk of pancreatic cancer nearly doubled.

Research carried out the Cancer Control Program at Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC, United States show for those who drank soda at least two times a week, 87 per cent more at risk of experiencing a fatal pancreatic cancer than those who rarely consume sodas.

“People who drink two times or more soft drinks per week had an increased risk of 87 percent or almost twice the risk of pancreatic cancer compared with individuals who do not consume soft drinks,” said the study’s lead author, Noel T Mueller MPH, a researcher at The Cancer Control Program at Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC, United States, as quoted by WebMD.

The study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a scientific journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Soft drinks companies respond immediately about these results. They stated that research directly disclose defects and other research that found that there was no link between soda consumption and pancreatic cancer.

In this study, Mueller and his colleagues conduct ongoing evaluation for 14 years on 60,524 men and women enrolled in the Singapore Chinese Health Study. The study began in 1993 when researchers noted what they eat and whether it will suffer from cancer.
The researchers asked the participants to tell him what he ate, including soft drinks and fruit juices. However, Mueller said, researchers did not ask specifically about their dietary consumption, but most of them drank regular soda.

In Singapore at that time, Mueller explained, looking very little intake of soda in the community. “We followed the participants for 14 years. And each time a different record the cancer, “he said. The result, researchers recorded 140 cases occurred pancreatic cancer and began to look back to see if anything to do with the consumption of soda or fruit juice.

The researchers divided consumption of soda and juice into three categories, they are, do not drink at all, less than two times per week and two times or more a week. In conclusion, those who drank soda two times or more in a week the average number of five-year-old has a 87 percent increased risk of pancreatic cancer.

However, it was found that there was no relationship between fruit juice consumption and the risk of pancreatic cancer. So why soda can relate? He admitted it needs to be studied further. “However, what we believe is the sugar in soft drinks can increase insulin levels in the body, which we consider to contribute to the growth of pancreatic cancer cells. Increased insulin may lead to cancer development, “said Mueller.

Even so, the researchers believe the risk of pancreatic cancer increases if other factors, such as advanced age, smoking, diabetes, and body mass index is associated with obesity. Pancreatic cancer risk increases as your age.

With this result, the soft drinks industry immediately launched a protest. “This study has many weaknesses in it,” said Richard Adamson, PhD, scientific consultant of the American Beverage Association in Washington, DC, United States. For example, according to Adamson, his little case of pancreatic cancer experienced by participants. He showed the 140 cases, 110 of these people do not drink soda at all, while the other 12 people eat less than twice a week and another 18 two times or more servings a week.

“This means that only a small number of cases of pancreatic cancer compared with the population studied,” he said. Other studies also, he added, did not find the relationship between soda and pancreatic cancer. The American Beverage Association points to a study in 2008 which found no such relationship. The study also only focused on the consumption of soft drinks, but did not see the overall dietary pattern. “You can be a healthy person and enjoy soft drinks without feeling anxious,” Adamson added.

Susan Mayne, PhD, Director of Yale Cancer Center and professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, say, the results of the study is “interesting” because of small cases that found that does not prove direct causality. In fact, he included members of the editorial board of the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. This study itself was funded the National Cancer Institute.

Colonel Laurence N MD, PhD, a researcher at the Cancer Research Center and professor of public health at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, said although the new study has limitations, but these findings relate to previous research. He and his colleagues say there is a relationship between added sugars in foods and the risk of pancreatic cancer. The results of this study was published in 2007. “In our study, found a positive relationship between high intake of fructose and pancreatic cancer,” he said. “Since high fructose corn syrup is the main sweetener of non-diet soft drinks, our findings and the latest study is quite consistent,” he said.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the 11 types of cancer most common in the UK. In the United States, according to the American Cancer Society, in 2009 about 42,000 people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and 35,240 of them died. This cancer claimed claimed 7700 lives every year.

The life expectancy of people with only 19 per cent per year. Of 100 people, patients who lived only 19 people. Meanwhile, who has a life expectancy over 5 years is only 4 percent. Hollywood actor Patrick Swayze and tenor Luciano Pavarotti is famous patient who died of pancreatic cancer.

Nowadays genital warts can be prevented with special vaccines. Based on medical research, this disturbing disease is found in those aged 17-33 years. A person is very easy to pass on to others, in which a person has the possibility to directly infected, although only one-time exposure on sexual activity with people who suffer from genital warts are.

In fact, in the United States almost one million people are estimated to suffer from genital warts, and this means that every minute there is one new case of genital warts for the disease. Worldwide, HPV is one of the major causes of illness, sexually transmitted diseases, which according to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are about 6.2 million of new cases of infectious diseases due to HPV infection.

In women, genital warts usually appear in late teens or early 20s. While in men, genital warts usually grow in between the early 20s to late 20s.

For example the United States, allocate funds for USD140.000 million for private health plans American society in relation to the diagnosis and treatment of genital warts. Not to mention the burden of psychological distress for the sufferer, such as a decreased level of confidence, negative self-perception, shame, and anxiety.

The genital warts mostly can be treated with medication ingredients to destruct these warts, there are two drugs type, the first one is should be applied by doctors and the another can be applied by the patient himself.  When it does not work with these drugs, kautera surgery , electric surgical, or laser surgery can be performed.
HPV may experience clearance after 8 months, 1 year, or 2 years. Small part in a settlement, or persistens, can become malignant, causing cervical cancer, vaginal cancer, penile cancer, or rectal cancer.

Like cervical cancer caused by HPV, HPV infection causes genital warts can also be prevented, but you must try to avoid some high risk factors such as direct genital contact and sexual intercourse with more than one partner.

Both diseases can be resisted with the help of quadrivalent HPV vaccine protection that can protect the body from the threat of the four types of HPV as well, namely types 16 & 18 as a cause of cervical cancer and types 6 and 11 as a cause of genital warts. Quadrivalent HPV vaccine was applied three times in the first injection, month 2, and month 6.

CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends three-dose vaccination series for girls from the age of 11 years to adult women aged 26 years. The vaccine can also be applied to the boys from the age of nine years. In addition, the vaccine can also protect against precancerous lesions that often develop into cancer of the vulva and vagina.

As well as infants and toddlers, adults also need immunization for the body’s endurance. Especially those who have chronic disease risk factors, disease history, and the elderly.

This adult immunization awareness among adults is not as high as the enthusiasm of the parents to provide immunization to their children. They assume the benefits of immunization in children has been believed to help prevent spread of infectious diseases.

Meanwhile, the benefits of immunization in adults is not fully known to health workers, especially by the laity. In fact, the American Society of Internal Medicine annual meeting in 2001 in Atlanta, United States reaffirms that immunization of adults may prevent the death of a hundred times more than the children.

So that in 2010 public health programs, the United States launched 60 percent of influenza vaccination in adults. So reiterated that there are great opportunities to prevent death in adults through immunization.

There are many factors that cause reverberations immunization for adults have not heard widely. In addition to its lack of effectiveness of vaccine-related information, it is also because of the less of guidelines as well as vaccination of health care access is still limited.

Many people think immunization is required only babies and children, while adults do not need to be immunized because their immune system has been formed. In fact, adults need immunizations, especially to avoid dangerous infectious diseases and infectious.

Immunization is not just a big impact for the individual and the community further, but also contributes to social and economic development such as reducing the need for medical expenses from the hospital, reducing permanent disability and reduce the incidence of unusual diseases or outbreaks.

In the world, influenza immunization has long been proclaimed. In Korea for example, provided 10 million units of influenza vaccine each year. In fact, about 90 percent of the medical and health personnel there have been injected with the vaccine. In Australia, this activity has become a government program. Similarly in New Zealand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Singapore.

Groups that require immunization are adults who have high risk factors for a disease and its complications, including people aged over 60 years of suffering from influenza vulnerable, people with chronic diseases such as chronic lung, heart, and kidney failure, also officers frequent regular health contact with high-risk patients.

In addition, the food providers at the edges of the street, young women as well as tourists who are visiting a country are also required to undergo immunization. For an example influenza, which is estimated to cause 20,000 deaths per year, can be prevented by vaccination approximately 9800 deaths per year.

The attention to adult immunization must be improved. This can be done by increasing awareness of health workers, health service capacity, and availability of cheap vaccines and easily accessible. Therefore, necessary government and also the role of insurance in providing funding.

Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Tan, a cancer of the womb Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia who were present expressed, cervical cancer vaccination in the country has become the official government program. Since 2007, vaccination programs have been run for young women who have 12-13 years of age.

Now, he’s bright, its coverage has reached 86 percent. “We expect, these public programs can reduce cervical cancer incidence rate is decreased 16 types of HPV infection in Australia by 56 percent in 2010 and 92 percent in 2050,” said Tan.

Latest Research involving 4,000 women which are diagnosed with breast cancer showed that aspirin consumption is proven to increase patient survival and reduce recurrence.

“About 50 percent of women with breast cancer who take aspirin, less likely to die than those not taking them,” said lead researcher Dr. Michelle Holmes, who is also professor of epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health, Boston, United States, such as reported by HealthDay. This research is published online on February 16 and in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In general, bright Holmes, for women who consumed more aspirin a week will have a higher life expectancy. This is done by comparing the aspirin users and who do not. For instance recovering patients who take aspirin for 6-7 days a week, they will have a 64 percent reduction in risk of death.

Meanwhile, those who took aspirin for 2-5 days a week, with a variety of different reasons-even would have reduced the risk of death up to 71 percent. However, the most important is the data 50 percent of the overall risk reduction. This study did not include the dose taken, but the only time in a week usage.

The use of aspirin in the same way also able to reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence. “Very surprising, this is a strong effect of aspirin,” said Holmes. Although she admitted this was only the study by way of observation, not a definitive determination of cause and effect.

How aspirin can reduce the recurrence, Holmes did not know exactly. However, recent research is consistent with several previous studies. “We appreciate only too well that cancer is a disease of inflammation and aspirin is anti-inflammatory drugs,” she said. The researchers speculate, aspirin may decrease the hormone estrogen in the blood or prevent the spread of early cancer.

For this study, Holmes and colleagues evaluated the use of aspirin among women at least one year after being diagnosed with breast cancer. The woman, diagnosed with stage 1, 2, or 3 breast cancer between 1976 and 2002. All of these women are participants Nurses Health Study.

During the research process, until the death of a woman in June 2006, 341 women died of breast cancer and 400 people because of recurrence or other metastatic disease. However, Holmes asserted aspirin will never be the recommended drugs for treatment of cancer.

Aspirin also causes negative side effects in some aspects. “It (the consumption of aspirin) can cause GI tract bleeding in patients,” he said. At present it is necessary further studies about the results of this research. But, he added, when a woman with breast cancer and aspirin for other reasons (such as bone pain or pain), she will feel comfortable when she knew could prevent breast cancer does not become worse.

“This is the largest study of aspirin use and a special breast cancer recurrence and patient survival,” said Eric Jacobs, Director of Pharmacoepidemiology in the American Cancer Society. Previous research has produced a more extensive findings and not specific.

“The results of this study interesting, there are some important warning,” said Jacobs. As well as Holmes said, he noted that these findings do not prove cause and effect. “As this study the researchers noted, do not talk about because aspirin during chemotherapy may be inspired by the success of cancer patients who continue to survive. Do not get your hopes too high against the use of aspirin, “said Jacobs.

Both Holmes and Jacobs agree that it is too early to tell breast cancer patients who survived because taking aspirin, with the goal of reducing breast cancer recurrence or avoid death. According to them, patients must communicate with the doctor more about what is best for their treatment process.

Breast cancer is the most common known women. Every year more than 250,000 new cases diagnosed in Europe and more than 175,000 in the United States. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2000 estimated 1.2 million women diagnosed with breast cancer, and more than 700,000 of them died.

The cause of breast cancer itself until now unknown, but there are some risk factors that cause a woman to be more likely to develop breast cancer, including age above 60 years old, had suffered from breast cancer, family history, genetic and hormonal factors, menarche (first time menstruation) before the age of 12 years, menopause after age 55 years, first pregnancy after age 30 years or had never been pregnant, use birth control pills or estrogen replacement therapy, postmenopausal obesity and alcohol.

Based on research, people who smoke while taking oral contraceptives have a higher risk of acquiring cardiovascular diseases. The fertility rate of female smokers is 72% while Male smokers have 50% fertility rate. The chemicals which is contained in tobacco also cause the fluid in the cervix to become toxic, causing the sperm to die faster so that it is difficult to get pregnant.

Did you know that your pulse rate and blood pressure alters when you smoke? It is only after 20 minutes, then it returns to normal.

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