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"Although almost all cases of cervical cancer are caused by HPV, HPV is ubiquitous and it is uncommon for HPV to progress to cervical cancer. cervical cancer kills four thousand women per year, only one tenth the death rate of breast cancer, for example. That means that about 0.002% of women infected with HPV die each year from HPV-induced cervical cancer—not a very impressive number." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "The risk of cervical cancer doubles after ten years of oral-contraceptive therapy in women with a history of human papillomavirus infection (HPV). It is not clear if the risk is from the OCP or the increased risk of being infected with HPV for women on OCPs who may not use barrier protection. However, since the risk of getting cervical cancer is 0.008%, in any given year a doubling of risk means increasing your risk by another 0.008% per year. OCPs increase the risk of liver cancer, but this risk is rare. OCPs increase the risk of breast cancer by 10% to 20%." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"The only cancer screening test that has been shown unequivocally to decrease mortality is the venerable Pap smear for cervical cancer. Yet even that is not a fail-safe talisman for warding off premature death. Howard Brody, a primary care physician at the University of Texas Medical Branch, in Galveston, recalls a tragic case of a young woman who put her faith in the Pap test: One of the saddest cases I ever took care of was a woman in her late thirties who died of cervical cancer. She'd had an abnormal Pap smear four or five years earlier. A [biopsy] found some abnormal cells." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"The peak incidence of cervical cancer is from 35 to 39 and 60 to 64 years of age. Vaginal bleeding after vaginal sexual activity is the most common symptom occurring in cancer of the cervix. In women with advanced disease, a foul-smelling discharge may be present. Endometrial hyperplasia is an increased growth of the lining of the uterus (endometrium) and a subsequent thickening. Most cases of endometrial hyperplasia revert to normal, either spontaneously or with hormonal treatment. Some may persist, and others can progress to endometrial cancer." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"And one nutrient may be more important than others in the war on cervical cancer. It's folic acid, one of the B vitamins. When researchers at the University of Illinois compared a group of women with cervical cancer to a group without cervical cancer, they found the noncancerous group had a higher level of folic acid in their diets. Their conclusion ?more folic acid may mean less cervical cancer. The recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for folic acid is 400 micrograms (meg) a day. You can meet your day's quota with just one cup of cooked lentils and a fresh spinach salad." - Frank K. Wood, Natural Cures and Gentle Medicines: That Work Better Than Dangerous Drugs or Risky Surgery (Get the book.)

"In 1998, in vitro tests found that maitake was highly inhibitory against a line of human cervical cancer and T4 leukemic cells. These researchers noted the potency of the maitake extract warranted further study. At Gunma University School of Health Sciences, Gunma, Japan, researchers compared maitake with shiitake and oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus). Mice given maitake in their feed showed much lower rates of urinary-bladder cancer when compared to the control group, as well as those mice receiving the other mushrooms." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Howard Brody, a primary care physician at the University of Texas Medical Branch, in Galveston, recalls a tragic case of a young woman who put her faith in the Pap test: One of the saddest cases I ever took care of was a woman in her late thirties who died of cervical cancer. She'd had an abnormal Pap smear four or five years earlier. A [biopsy] found some abnormal cells. Everybody thought we'd gotten it all. She had a normal Pap smear every year after that, year in, year out." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Women who lack insurance don't get regular Pap smears to check for cervical cancer. Children who are uninsured go without routine vaccinations; those with asthma don't get preventive treatment. In early 2007, a twelve-year-old boy named Deamonte Driver died in a hospital in Washington, D.C., from a brain infection that began as a rotten tooth. His single mother had been trying for weeks to find a dentist willing to take Medicaid payments to care for her two sons. Then the family lost its Medicaid coverage and Deamonte died, because his mother couldn't afford to pay for an $80 extraction." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Although he could not test his theory on a live human being, he settled for a sample of cervical cancer cells, and enlisted Matthew Manning, a gifted British healer. Manning sent negative intentions either by touching the beaker of cells or from a distance, inside an electromagnetically shielded room. Kmetz then used special equipment to count how many cancer cells were in the culture medium. Ordinarily, a cancer cell, which has a positive charge, will grasp the side of a plastic beaker, attracted to its negative electrostatic charge." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Urinary tract infections can be tested with urinalysis and urine cultures. cervical cancer can be screened for with Pap smears. Breast cancer can be screened for with mammograms. OVERVIEW OF ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS The fundamental goals of an alternative approach to menopause are to provide relief from common menopausal symptoms and to prevent and/or treat osteoporosis, heart disease, and other diseases of aging. The goal is to do this with methods that do not increase the risk of life-threatening diseases such as breast cancer, blood clots, and strokes." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Prostate cancer is at the stage where cervical cancer was some twenty years ago. We knew then that cervical cancer was correlated with the number of sexual partners a women had, and now we know it is caused by a virus (and can be reduced substantially by a vaccine). We may eventually discover that there's a virus associated with prostate cancer as well. Conversely (and to boost survival of the species, we think), mutually monogamous sex three times a week is reported to be associated with a 50 percent reduced risk of prostate cancer. Prostate Cancer." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"Infection with human papillomavirus, the cause of genital warts, is now known to be the major cause of cervical cancer. Epstein-Barr virus, in addition to being a culprit in lupus and multiple sclerosis, is now fingered in certain cancers such as Burkitt's lymphoma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Hepatitis B is thought to be associated with an increased risk of some liver cancers. Even some psychiatric conditions, such as schizophrenia and certain types of obsessive-compulsive disorder, are believed to be directly or indirectly the result of infections." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Some types of genital wart virus (particularly HPV types 16 and 18) are linked with an increased risk of developing cervical cancer. These high-risk wart viruses do not cause visible warts, however, and the types of wart virus that do cause visible genital warts do not appear to increase the risk of cervical cancer." - Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.)

"The bad soft-tissue cancer develops in a relatively predictable fashion, over time and through the stages I just alluded to. cervical cancer and prostate cancer (see chapter 7) are examples, as is colorectal cancer. The time that malignant neoplasms spend in a prelethal state is referred to as the "dwell time." There is always variability in the dwell time, between tumor types and from person to person. If the dwell time of a particular tumor type is not too short, screening is feasible and "staging" can be useful." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"As in cervical dysplasia and cervical cancer, endometrial hyperplasia is the precancerous state; its adequate treatment will prevent the development of endometrial cancer. Endometrial cancer is the most common malignancy of the female genital tract and accounts for approximately 7 percent of all cancers in women. The average age of patients with endometrial cancer is 59 years; the highest range for the incidence is age 50 to 59 years in postmenopausal women. The most common symptom associated with endometrial cancer is abnormal uterine bleeding." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"In 1999, for each person afflicted by illness, the government spent twelve dollars on cervical cancer for every dollar spent on bipolar disorder. For every dollar spent on schizophrenia, thirty dollars were spent on HrWAIDS.44 Unlike the psychotics, the neurotics pay cash." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"This genetic defect is associated with generalized atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, and cervical cancer. High homocysteine can steal years from your life. Taking vitamin B supplements, as we describe in the next chapter, helps keep homocysteine in check. Genetic testing is not completely foolproof or widely understood by the public, but it should be considered, especially in challenging cases such as in individuals with high blood pressure, clotting tendencies, and homocysteine levels that just don't respond to regular treatment." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Screening for Cancer The Papanicolaou (Pap) is worthwhile in preventing cervical cancer. A Pap test every third year seems to lower mortality from this invasive cancer by about 91% for sexually active women ages of 20 to 64. The 1996 Task Force recommendation for a screening every third year is an "A." There is no evidence that annual screening, a common practice in the United States, improves mortality. Elderly women do not appear to benefit from the test." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Sonya was twenty-three years old and she had been diagnosed with cervical cancer. Reluctantly, I agreed to meet with Sonya, never anticipating how she was about to throw me for a loop. When I met Sonya and Steve, they began to tell me the facts: Sonya, a beautiful French Canadian woman with long, gorgeous hair and a strong French accent, had seen her gynecologist, a well-respected doctor in Los Angeles. When he told her she had a serious problem—cervical cancer—Sonya was shocked, unable to imagine how this could happen to her." - Timothy Brantley, The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life (Get the book.)

"Freeze-dried strawberries inhibited growth of two types of cervical cancer cells grown in culture. A study using rats with esophageal cancer found that freeze-dried strawberries inhibited tumor growth and tumor initiation. ANTI-INFLAMMATORY: Strawberries block enzymes (COX-2) responsible for promoting inflammation. OBESITY: Ongoing research is investigating the role of strawberries in weight management. DIABETES: Phytochemicals in strawberries were found to control type 2 diabetes by reducing blood glucose levels after a starchy meal." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "Indole-3-carbinol prevents PTEN loss in cervical cancer in vivo. Mol Med. 2005;11( 1—12):59—63. Cardamom www.cardamom.com al-Zuhair H, el-Sayeh B, Ameen HA, al-Shoora H. Pharmacological studies of cardamom oil in animals. Pharmacol Res. 1996 Jul-Aug;34(l-2):79-82. Jamal A, Javed K, Aslam M, Jafri MA. Gastroprotective effect of cardamom, Elettaria cardamomum Maton. fruits in rats. / Ethnopharmacol. 2006 Jan 16;103(2): 149—153. Mahady GB et al. In vitro susceptibility of Helicobacter pylori to botanical extracts used traditionally for the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders. Phytother Res." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "Retinoic acid and retinoid receptors: potential chemopreventive and therapeutic role in cervical cancer. Lancet Oncol. 2005 Sep;6(9):712-720. Brown L, Rimm EB, Seddon JM, Giovannucci EL, Chasan-Taber L, Spiegelman D, Willett WC, Hankinson SE. A prospective study of carotenoid intake and risk of cataract extraction in US men. Am } Clin Nutr. 1999 Oct;70(4):431-432. Chu YF, Sun J, Wu X, Liu RH. Antioxidant and antiproliferative activities of common vegetables.} Agric Food Chem. 2002 Nov6;50(23):6910-6916. Kelemen et al." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS (HPV): Women who had an increased consumption of beta-cryptoxanthin and lutein/zeaxanthin, and increased intake of vitamin C, had lower rates of infection by HPV, the cervical cancer virus, according to one research study. The researchers concluded that women who consumed at least one papaya (rich in all of the aforementioned nutrients) or more per week had lower risk of contracting the HPV infection than those who didn't. BURN/WOUND-HEALING: Russian scientists have found that the antioxidants and natural enzymes in papaya can accelerate the healing of burns and wounds." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"All women should have a Pap smear every year to monitor HPV (human papilloma virus), which is associated with cervical cancer. During menopause, ask your doctor to take an HPV culture at the time of your Pap smear. If it is negative for high-risk strains of the virus, and you have never had a problem with HPV or abnormal smears, Pap smears can be reduced to every two to three years—as long as you have a stable sex life (that is, a monogamous sex partner whom you trust.) If you have had a hysterectomy and no longer have a cervix, you do not need Pap smears." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"New vaccines that, for example, are said to prevent cervical cancer (connected with the human papillomavirus or HPV) merely force the body to move toxins into other areas. This may give rise to the appearance that the "enemy" is dead and the body is now cured and safe. Not by a long shot! The short-term gain of becoming symptom-free through the use of such magic bullet approaches can have serious repercussions in the long-term." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"One of the most important points I am sure to explain to my clients is that cervical cancer is a sexually transmitted disease, greatly promoted by smoking, but one that usually grows slowly over years from its precursor, dysplasia, and is treatable in all of its earliest forms. Atypia Another possible Pap smear result is atypia—which is really a kind of fence-sitting cell. The cells are not changed enough to warranr being labeled as abnormal, but they are not quite normal either." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"CERVICAL HEALTH • Vitamins for a Healthy Cervix C/hanges in the cellular structure of the cervix, according to research, may contribute to the onset of cervical cancer. Specifically, when older cells aren't sloughed off they disrupt the growth of new cell layers. This condition is known as cervical dysplasia and may raise your risk of cancer. Vitamin therapy can maintain the health of your cervix or heal it." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"The woman took herself to the emergency room, where she was diagnosed with advanced cervical cancer. When the woman brought suit, her managed care company said it could not be held responsible for the behavior of the two doctors. Mary Jane and John Bohnen's son, Daniel, was accidentally shot in the face with shotgun pellets. A few minutes before Mary Jane was to take Daniel to the hospital to have his right eye repaired, she got a phone call from their insurer. The managed care company wanted Daniel to get a second opinion from one of its medical consultants before the surgery." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"She'd had asthma her whole life and diabetes since the age of seventeen, as well as cervical cancer since the age of thirteen. She'd also had frequent bladder infections, migraines and insomnia. After reading about the raw food diet, Raquel made the commitment to eat this way within one day. Within five months, her allergy to animals and asthma disappeared. She went to visit her mother on the Fourth of July and was able to be around her mother's dogs with no allergic reaction." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "She'd had cervical cancer and was told she needed another laser surgery shortly before she switched to a raw diet. She had endured asthma, eczema and Type II (adult onset) diabetes for many years before going raw. She was also overweight enough to qualify as "obese." At the time of this writing [2005], Raquel is 26 and free from all of those maladies. She switched to a raw diet at the age of 20 under the influence of Paul Nison. (See Chapter 12.) She had been a self-proclaimed "junk food vegetarian" before that, just like many people not eating meat but living on unhealthful meat-free food." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

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