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The War on Cancer: a Progress Report for Skeptics

tan zone tanning North American’s widest-read natural health expert says vitamin D from regular sun or sunbed exposure is the number one advancement in anti-cancer research that needs to be accepted by the entire medical community.

In 1971 President Nixon and Congress declared war on cancer. So what's happened in the 40 years since? After weeding out the hype and filling in the actual statistics, it turns out, not much.

"These summary statistics show that the war on cancer has not gone well," says the article's author, Reynold Spector. "This is in marked contrast to death rates from stroke and cardiovascular disease (adjusted for the age and size of the population), which have fallen by 74 percent and 64 percent, respectively, from 1950 through 2006; and by 60 percent and 52 percent, respectively, from 1975 through 2006 (Kolata 2009a).

Cancer therapy is clearly decades behind."

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Tanning Protects Against Melanoma?

Tanning Q adn A “The number one risk factor for melanoma is an inability to tan; people who tan easily or have dark pigmentation are far less likely to develop the disease,” says the study’s senior author, David E. Fisher, MD, PhD.

There is a reason for the skin to become dark brown after it’s exposed to the sunshine. Tanning induced by ultraviolet rays plays a role in protecting against the development of skin cancer, namely melanoma, the fastest growing form of cancer in the world, according to a new study.

Early studies have linked exposure to sunshine rays to increased risk of skin cancer. But the new study suggests that when the skin is exposed to sun rays, a protein known as the “master watchman of the genome” is triggered to guard against cancer-causing DNA damage, which would otherwise lead to the development of skin cancer.

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