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"According to one theory, patrolling cells of the immune system provide continuing bodywide surveillance, spying out and eliminating cells that undergo any malignant transformation. Tumors develop when this surveillance system breaks down or is overwhelmed by the sheer number of cells that have become malignant. APPENDIX D THE HISTORY OF ENZYME THERAPY The history of enzyme therapy is fascinating. At times it is similar to a classic mystery—small clues over many years reveal the true identity and functionality of enzymes." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"They got fat because they had to escape the constant surveillance of how they looked, or because they received so much criticism after putting on weight that they became paralyzed into inaction. Of course, the meal habits of your family did affect your weight as you matured. If you grew up a fat kid, or if early on you learned poor dietary habits, it might be more difficult to lose weight as an adult. There may be much historical truth to support the claim that your early experience contributed to making you an overweight adult: it might even be the main factor." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"They repeatedly watched the videotapes taken by surveillance cameras outside her apartment building, looking for vehicles that had arrived around the time Karen had died. The radio station offered a ten-thousand-dollar reward for information leading to her killers. No one had any idea who would have wanted the pretty young woman dead. The coroner decided to have two other forensic experts review the facts of the case. That was when the truth began to emerge. A year after Karen's body was found, the coroner changed his decision. Karen had not been strangled after all, he said." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"According to surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER), a national cancer monitoring program, the last twenty-five years have witnessed dramatic increases in disease and death from kidney cancer among black and white Americans of both sexes. During the last twenty years, all white men saw increased incidence at 3.1 percent per year, white women at 3.9 percent; and African-American men and women the steepest rate at 3.9 percent and 4.3 percent." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"MATERIAL/METHODS: Evaluations of the Biological surveillance Summaries of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Department of Education datasets, and the CDC's yearly live birth estimates were undertaken RESULTS: It was determined that there was a close correlation between mercury doses from thimerosal—containing childhood vaccines and the prevalence of autism from the late 1980s through the mid-1990s." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Nevertheless, we desperately need a better post-FDA approval surveillance system to track the long-term dangers of drugs. We also need to focus on developing more behavioral therapies for the aggression and depression we sometimes see in persons with late-stage brain aging. Instead of pumping individuals with neuroleptics and antidepressants, we must begin integrating new humanistic therapies into our mainstream armature of care: narrative therapies, music therapies, art therapies, pet therapies, and other forms of therapies that engage people with other human beings and with nature." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program of the National Cancer Institute. 1 I.I Ulllll 9 => = St a >. *1 i\ SS 6! ?8 2 ? 2 si s: z 5 5 o i! B S 1 s in_ ? 2 I I H II ll Figure 3: Age-standardized rates of incidence for breast and prostate cancer Plant continues: We know ... that whatever causes the huge difference in breast and prostate cancer rates between Eastern and Western countries, it isn't genetic." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "In response to a study published in the January 1, 2003, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association {JAMA), which used Behavioral Risk Factor surveillance System (BRFSS) data to show a recent increase in diagnosed diabetes as well as a significant association between overweight and obesity and diabetes, CDC director Dr. Julie L. Gerberding stated: "These increases are disturbing and are likely even underestimated. What's more important, we're seeing a number of serious health effects resulting from overweight and obesity." Dr." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"The American Association of Poison Control Centers Toxic Exposure surveillance System reported 6,442 pesticide exposures in 2003, the majority of which were unintentional. One thousand six hundred ninety-five patients were treated in emergency rooms and 16 fatalities were reported. When patients vomit organophosphate pesticides, ER rooms are instructed to treat the liquid as a "hazardous chemical spill." Organophosphate pesticides are used on 71.6 percent of apples, 59.6 percent of cherries, 37.2 percent of pears and 27.1 percent of grapes." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"A study by the Canadian Intensive Care Unit surveillance found some startling results about the growing problem of superbugs in todays society: • On average, 20%, and as many as 50% of Staphylococcus aureus (Staph A) infections in critically ill patients, are now resistant to commonly used antibiotics. Staph A can cause pneumonia and infections of the skin, blood, heart and bone. • One in 20 E. coli infections in intensive care unit (ICU) patients is now virtually untreatable." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Since then, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), using data from 23 population-based surveillance systems, has estimated an approximate decrease of 26% in the reported prevalence of NTD, comparing data from 1995-1996 with those from 1999-2000, the year following the mandate [26]. The report from the Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities noted that the decrease is less than predicted from research trials [27], which led to the Healthy People 2010 goal of 50%." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"The research covered data from the Cancer Registry in Australia and the surveillance Epidemiology and End Results in the USA for the year 1998. The current 5-year relative adult survival rate for cancer in Australia is over 60%, and no less than that in the USA. In comparison, a mere 2.3% contribution of chemotherapy to cancer survival does not justify the huge expense involved and the tremendous suffering patients experience because of severe, toxic side effects resulting from this treatment. With a meager success rate of 2." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"And even worse, her deep fear and panic may have dulled her immune system's ability to perform essential surveillance and eradication of cancer cells. In retrospect, there were many options she could have taken. Her community was more than sufficiently serviced by free clinics, women's health centers, and support groups. And Ned's loving family who, in fact, had the ample emotional and financial resources to help at an earlier stage, was left hurt, alienated, and afraid. There are very few instances where inaction could kill us." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"As it turns out, hospital surveillance cameras had already recorded him carrying off the compressor, but the photos were too blurred to make a definitive identification. Nonetheless, Vernon confessed the theft to the hospital administrator. No punitive action was taken other than to order him to seek psychiatric treatment. For reasons that seem mysterious, the psychiatrist decided that Dr. Kirklander had attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and furthermore that the ADHD had caused him to commit the theft." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "There a surveillance camera captured his image and Adam's photograph was put on the local television. A member of his girlfriend's family easily identified him as the young man on the TV screen. After the eight robberies, Adam pleaded guilty and received a six-year jail sentence. When he was released on bond for a short period of time prior to serving his sentence, no one imagined that he would use the brief window of opportunity to repeat yet another identical gas station robbery." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "In an in-house executive summary written for the FDA's Division of Epidemiology and surveillance (September 19, 1989), agency official Bob Wise compiled and analyzed all reports sent to the agency concerning Halcion and Xanax as causes of hostility including "anger or rage, aggression, and some actual assaults and murders." The paper was meant for FDA eyes only but was somehow obtained by attorneys involved in Halcion litigation and passed on to me." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Finally in 1991—too late to warn the doctor who prescribed Halcion to Martin Quick—Diane Wysowski and David Barash from the FDA's Division of Epidemiology and surveillance published a report in the scientific literature based on some of the agency's previously in-house data.3 Once again reviewing spontaneous reports to the FDA, the authors compared triazolam and temazepam through 1985, for "confusion, amnesia, bizarre behavior, agitation, and hallucinations." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Li and co-investigators say in an article in the International Journal of Cancer that TGF-(3 plays a prominent role in tumor growth by enhancing angiogenesis and suppression of immune surveillance. The researchers went on to observe that in their study of 80 breast cancer patients, high levels of TGF-(5 were significantly elevated in women with positive lymph nodes compared to those without node metastasis." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"While 1300 people were being added to the division of the FDA that approves new drugs (to decrease new drug approval time), 1000 were being taken off other FDA surveillance duties, including inspection of drug manufacturing sites. And the real truth about counterfeit drugs from Canada? Jirina Vlk, spokesperson for Health Canada, the equivalent of the FDA, told me on January 28, 2004, that she was not aware of any counterfeit drug's ever having been sent from a registered Canadian pharmacy or pharmacist to the United States." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Program of the National Cancer Institute). Figure 15 illustrates that the lowest rates of breast and prostate cancer are consistently in China and Japan, where dairy and animal meat are rarely consumed. As Jane Plant, PhD, remarks in The No Dairy Breast Cancer Prevention Program: The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have similar rates of breast cancer: and remember, both cities were attacked with nuclear weapons, so in addition to the usual pollution-related cancers, one would also expect to find some radiation-related cases." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"In an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, one physician concludes: Whether the resulting reduction in the risk of breast cancer, combined with intensive surveillance, is preferable to the more complete protection offered by prophylactic mastectomy is likely to remain a highly personal choice.35 Given what is known and what is yet unknown about these mutations, it seems to us that there should be a third choice: to carefully monitor the situation, but to avoid major surgery—which is not risk free—in the absence of symptoms." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Finally, we were referred to Jay Schmid, team leader of the Postmarket surveillance Team in the Division of Prescription Drug Compliance and surveillance, part of the Office of Compliance at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Researc h for the FDA.10 Jay has a total of six people working with him and "a lot of responsibility." We specifically wanted to know how Jay and his group check all the generic drugs that are on the market. He told us that they select about 50 or 60 different drugs (brand and generic) each year for analysis." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"The pregnancies of women with any major underlying health problem—such as diabetes or heart or respiratory disorders significant enough to require ongoing surveillance in the nonpregnant state—should be managed with input from a licensed provider. So should those of women with kidney disease or autoimmune disorders like lupus or rheumatoid arthritis. All of these conditions can make a pregnancy much riskier for both mother and child. Ultrasound can be invaluable in assessing fetal growth and well-being." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "The Immune Connection Increasingly, we are finding evidence that a lack of proper surveillance by the immune system in the pelvic area is the cause of endometriosis, and alterations in other aspects of the immune system are involved in the progression of the disease.33 In studies on the immunological functions of baboons with spontaneous (noninduced) endometriosis, researchers have found a correlation between suppressed immunity and a higher number and greater area of lesions." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Ongoing surveillance of the pregnancy can alert the woman to any medical problems as early as possible. PREMENSTRUAL chapte \J SYNDROME OVERVIEW When finally we understand premenstrual syndrome (PMS), we will have gone a long way toward understanding the interplay between the cultural, physiologic, and emotional factors that regularly affect women's lives during the premen-struum. A huge piece of work will have been done toward improving women's health. Dr." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The National Cancer Institute, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries all fund surveillance research on who has which cancer by age, sex, race, and locale. So we know, at any given juncture, how many Hispanic women at age forty have breast cancer in New York City. Or how many sixty-five-year-old African-American men have survived prostate cancer in Florida." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "A recent 2006 study—the largest surveillance effort on diabetes in youth conducted in the United States to date—found that 1 in 648 children and young adults under the age of nineteen now has type 1 diabetes—a staggering number. Worldwide studies confirm that even in babies and children aged four and under, rates have been increasing by 6 percent a year. Knowing that, each year, so many children are being born who will develop type 1 diabetes has been a unique motivator for researchers to identify at-risk children in time to stop the disease in its tracks." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Both number and activity of natural killer cells (one of the cell types that plays an important role in immune surveillance) are used as biomarkers in nutrition intervention trials [72, 73]. Cytokines (e.g., the interleukins) are soluble factors released by immune cells, which control and direct the function of other immune effectors. Some of these have been used as markers of immune response in randomized trials of vitamin supplementation [73, 74]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"The National Cancer Institute's surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program's data program is so specific that patient information includes the stage of each patient's cancer tumor at diagnosis, the first course of treatmerit, and follow-up status. This information is available to all through the National Cancer Institute's Web portal, through its SEER Cancer Statistics Review. By comparison, the 23.5 million patients who suffer from autoimmune diseases do not claim megabytes in cyberspace in any national database." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

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