Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Inositol May Prevent Lung Cancer in Cigarette Smokers

Airway PI3K Pathway Activation Is an Early and Reversible Event in Lung Cancer Development

1 posted on 04/09/2010 3:08:19 PM PDT by neverdem
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


To: neverdem

awesome

Lung Cancer usually is not discovered until it is way too late. And If it spreads to other organs, turn out the lights.. its over.


2 posted on 04/09/2010 3:10:49 PM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative (God save America)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: neverdem

“Cigarette smoking is responsible for 90% of all lung cancer cases in the United States.

Still, only 10 to 20% of smokers actually develop lung cancer, begging the question: Why do some smokers succumb to the disease and others don’t.”

This doesn’t make sense to me. 10-20% of smokers develop lung cancer, and apparently smoking isn’t related to 10% (100 minus 90), so how are they certain that smoking causes 90% of lung cancer. Not saying that they are wrong, it just seems... off.


6 posted on 04/09/2010 3:16:06 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the chariot wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: neverdem

Four year lung cancer survivor here!

I have Asthma, emphysema and then got lung cancer on top of that. But Dr. Ross of Ohio State University Cancer Hospital used a new microscopic way of operating and took 14Th of my left lung where the cancer was.

The normal way was to cut you all the way from the back to the front. But Dr. Ross’s new procedure only left me a 3 inch scar on my side and a scar about the size of a quarter where the drainage tube was.

If not for God’s blessing me, the Ohio State University Cancer Hospital and Dr. Ross, I would have died back in 2006.

So far so good. Dr. Ross did tell me that the biopsy of the part of my lung that he removed showed 3 cancer cells right next to where he cut and that even one cancer cell on the other side, the side in me, could spread the cancer again. But after four years I think I’m safe.

It will be the Asthma or Emphysema that get’s my butt.


12 posted on 04/09/2010 3:31:49 PM PDT by GloriaJane (Pro-Choice = Pro-Death........ Pro-Life = Pro-LIFE!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: neverdem

Will this test be allowed under Obamacare for the average older citizen?


14 posted on 04/09/2010 3:33:19 PM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: neverdem

So, we fix smoking problems, everyone smokes again and the government gets more tax revenue.


15 posted on 04/09/2010 3:33:19 PM PDT by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: neverdem

Good news.

Not sure I care for the idea of them calling inositol a “drug”, though.

What’s next? Will we need a prescription for that dangerous dextrose stuff?


18 posted on 04/09/2010 3:34:57 PM PDT by djf
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: neverdem

“This project will be led by a team of principal investigators, including David Schwartz, MD, at National Jewish Health, Mark Geraci, MD, at the University of Colorado Denver’s School of Medicine; Naftali Kaminski, MD, and Frank Sciurba, MD, at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; John Quackenbush, PhD, at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; and Avrum Spira, MD, at Boston University School of Medicine.”

Source: National Jewish Health

Another gift from the Jewish People to the People of the world—how much did we lose when hitler murdered 6 MM Jews? They are truly the Light of the World.


22 posted on 04/09/2010 3:49:42 PM PDT by richardtavor
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: neverdem

Copied from somewhere...more sources would be good to find out about:
Major sources of inositol include beans, citrus fruit, nuts, rice, veal, pork, and wheat germ.


26 posted on 04/09/2010 4:14:53 PM PDT by spankalib
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Pebcak

Interesting, thought you might think so too.


29 posted on 04/09/2010 4:37:07 PM PDT by MizSterious ("Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -JFK)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: neverdem
Still, only 10 to 20% of smokers actually develop lung cancer, ...

According to WHO/CDC studies it is 8%.

Smoking Does Not Cause Lung Cancer (According to WHO/CDC Data)*

Would you believe that the real number is < 10% (see Appendix A)? Yes, a US white male (USWM) cigarette smoker has an 8% lifetime chance of dying from lung cancer but the USWM nonsmoker also has a 1% chance of dying from lung cancer (see Appendix A). In fact, the data used is biased in the way that it was collected and the actual risk for a smoker is probably less.


30 posted on 04/09/2010 4:43:06 PM PDT by TigersEye (Duncan Hunter, Jim DeMint, Michelle Bachman, ...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson