24-12-2009, 10:41 AM
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Not sure if it is the right forum.I get frustrated at hearing stuff like this on the news before it is fully researched. It's akin to confusing messages about what we should eat - ie this is good, that is bad, then a couple of months later the opposite is true.
24-12-2009, 10:45 AM
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I don't regard it as any compensation tha Alzheimers's apparently confers some protection against cancer. Great - you're liable to live longer in a state of fear and confusion and your family can have even more time to grieve your living death
I always said, and still maintain, that at least cancer gives you a fighting chance of cure or living long enough to die of something else, and if you aren't one of the lucky ones, at least it has the good grace to allow you to exit the world.
24-12-2009, 11:21 AM
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Alzheimer's disease and cancer are both characterised by abnormal, but opposing, cellular behaviour.
"In Alzheimer's disease, excessive cell death occurs, whereas cancer is characterised by excessive cell growth
We know from the outbreak of the human form of BSE that certain 'types' of people were more likely to go on to develop this condition.
So to reiterate I would say your genetic make up may predispose you to one condition or another and in the case of some cancers you may be able to prevent the condition developing by avoiding certain things .
It wouldn't help the perpetuation of the species if we were all genetically predisposed to the same condition, the variations will ensure we don't all pass on and die of the same thing
24-12-2009, 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by PPHammer
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Not sure if it is the right forum.I get frustrated at hearing stuff like this on the news before it is fully researched. It's akin to confusing messages about what we should eat - ie this is good, that is bad, then a couple of months later the opposite is true.
I don't take notice of anything anymore,
Hail the New World Order ,,,,, Not
25-12-2009, 03:42 AM
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I definitely think we need more research. There are bound to be triggers for such things, what if it was as simple as something as cookware choice? Aluminium is often linked to Alzheimer's for example - could steel or iron be linked to cancer?Of course things don't ever seem that simple - but what if there were simple links that are just staring us in the face...
25-12-2009, 12:56 PM
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I listened to this yesterday too, . . what load of BS, . . this is the work of statisticians again, . . when those clowns get a pen and paper and some data from wherever they go crazy.The survey only involved 3000 people, how on earth can they come to the conclusion they have come to.
25-12-2009, 05:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Meg
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I guess that some of us are predisposed by our genetic makeup to get one disease or the other (or neither) particularly if you add a 'trigger' (eg cigarette smoke for cancer in some people, this is why others smoke all their lives and never get cancer). We know from the outbreak of the human form of BSE that certain 'types' of people were more likely to go on to develop this condition.
So to reiterate I would say your genetic make up may predispose you to one condition or another and in the case of some cancers you may be able to prevent the condition developing by avoiding certain things .
It wouldn't help the perpetuation of the species if we were all genetically predisposed to the same condition, the variations will ensure we don't all pass on and die of the same thing
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