FS's preamble ramble
Whats the first thing "westerners" do when they feel afraid? Well they go off to kill innocent people for the rich or take some 'preemptive measure' to neutralize the threat, all the while devouring everything in their path to ensure total security in every aspect of their lives 'saving' everything in sight for some later date when they will decide to finally live. So... what do your cells do when they are afraid of the toxins and pollution accrued throughout your selfish lonely quest to be like your neighbors, they get afraid, and they react how you react. Cancer rates are a reflection of socioeconomic/ environmental injustice. The only cure for cancer is to cure oppression and fear of one another, and even if in a medical sense a cure was released, the system will have necessarily been destroyed, because the current one would never permit such a quick fix, but as I am starting to see... there is no quick fix to something caused by our ongoing activities, in fact to want a quick cure is what got us into the mess in the first place.
Scientists suggest that cancer is purely man-made October 14, 2010
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer is a modern, man-made disease caused by environmental factors such as pollution and diet, a study by University of Manchester scientists has strongly suggested.
The study of remains and literature from ancient Egypt and Greece and earlier periods – carried out at Manchester’s KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology and published in Nature Reviews Cancer – includes the first histological diagnosis of cancer in an Egyptian mummy.
Finding only one case of the disease in the investigation of hundreds of Egyptian mummies, with few references to cancer in literary evidence, proves that cancer was extremely rare in antiquity. The disease rate has risen massively since the Industrial Revolution, in particular childhood cancer – proving that the rise is not simply due to people living longer.
Professor Rosalie David, at the Faculty of Life Sciences, said: “In industrialised societies, cancer is second only to cardiovascular disease as a cause of death. But in ancient times, it was extremely rare. There is nothing in the natural environment that can cause cancer. So it has to be a man-made disease, down to pollution and changes to our diet and lifestyle.”
She added: “The important thing about our study is that it gives a historical perspective to this disease. We can make very clear statements on the cancer rates in societies because we have a full overview. We have looked at millennia, not one hundred years, and have masses of data.”
The data includes the first ever histological diagnosis of cancer in an Egyptian mummy by Professor Michael Zimmerman, a visiting Professor at the KNH Centre, who is based at the Villanova University in the US. He diagnosed rectal cancer in an unnamed mummy, an ‘ordinary’ person who had lived in the Dakhleh Oasis during the Ptolemaic period (200-400 CE).
Professor Zimmerman said: “In an ancient society lacking surgical intervention, evidence of cancer should remain in all cases. The virtual absence of malignancies in mummies must be interpreted as indicating their rarity in antiquity, indicating that cancer causing factors are limited to societies affected by modern industrialization”.
Whats the first thing "westerners" do when they feel afraid? Well they go off to kill innocent people for the rich or take some 'preemptive measure' to neutralize the threat, all the while devouring everything in their path to ensure total security in every aspect of their lives 'saving' everything in sight for some later date when they will decide to finally live. So... what do your cells do when they are afraid of the toxins and pollution accrued throughout your selfish lonely quest to be like your neighbors, they get afraid, and they react how you react. Cancer rates are a reflection of socioeconomic/ environmental injustice. The only cure for cancer is to cure oppression and fear of one another, and even if in a medical sense a cure was released, the system will have necessarily been destroyed, because the current one would never permit such a quick fix, but as I am starting to see... there is no quick fix to something caused by our ongoing activities, in fact to want a quick cure is what got us into the mess in the first place.
Scientists suggest that cancer is purely man-made October 14, 2010
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer is a modern, man-made disease caused by environmental factors such as pollution and diet, a study by University of Manchester scientists has strongly suggested.
The study of remains and literature from ancient Egypt and Greece and earlier periods – carried out at Manchester’s KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology and published in Nature Reviews Cancer – includes the first histological diagnosis of cancer in an Egyptian mummy.
Finding only one case of the disease in the investigation of hundreds of Egyptian mummies, with few references to cancer in literary evidence, proves that cancer was extremely rare in antiquity. The disease rate has risen massively since the Industrial Revolution, in particular childhood cancer – proving that the rise is not simply due to people living longer.
Professor Rosalie David, at the Faculty of Life Sciences, said: “In industrialised societies, cancer is second only to cardiovascular disease as a cause of death. But in ancient times, it was extremely rare. There is nothing in the natural environment that can cause cancer. So it has to be a man-made disease, down to pollution and changes to our diet and lifestyle.”
She added: “The important thing about our study is that it gives a historical perspective to this disease. We can make very clear statements on the cancer rates in societies because we have a full overview. We have looked at millennia, not one hundred years, and have masses of data.”
The data includes the first ever histological diagnosis of cancer in an Egyptian mummy by Professor Michael Zimmerman, a visiting Professor at the KNH Centre, who is based at the Villanova University in the US. He diagnosed rectal cancer in an unnamed mummy, an ‘ordinary’ person who had lived in the Dakhleh Oasis during the Ptolemaic period (200-400 CE).
Professor Zimmerman said: “In an ancient society lacking surgical intervention, evidence of cancer should remain in all cases. The virtual absence of malignancies in mummies must be interpreted as indicating their rarity in antiquity, indicating that cancer causing factors are limited to societies affected by modern industrialization”.
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