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Lung Cancer: Gene Leaves Non-Smokers at Risk


Ivanhoe Newswire
Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:04 UTC
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About 30 percent of lung cancer patients who never smoked had the same uncommon variant, or allele, residing in a gene known as GPC5.

A five-center collaborative study that scanned the genomes of thousands of "never smokers" diagnosed with lung cancer, as well as healthy never smokers, has found a gene they say could be responsible for a significant number of those cancers.

"This is the first gene that has been found that is specifically associated with lung cancer in people who have never smoked," study lead investigator, Ping Yang, M.D., Ph.D., Mayo Clinic genetic epidemiologist, was quoted as saying.

The research was co-led by scientists at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, Harvard University, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and MD Anderson Cancer Center. Researchers found that this allele leads to greatly reduced GPC5 expression, compared to normal lung tissue. The finding suggests that the GPC5 gene has an important tumor suppressor-like function and that insufficient function can promote lung cancer development.

Comment: Perhaps these "never smokers" are people whose genetic profile means they actually need to smoke in order to supplement their immune systems, but have been scared away from doing so by the anti-smoking propaganda, leaving them exposed to developing cancers?

Smoking does NOT cause lung cancer, in fact it just might protect you from nuclear fallout

Smoking Helps Protect Against Lung Cancer

Let's All Light Up!

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Smoking

Smoking does NOT cause lung cancer, in fact it just might protect you from nuclear fallout

Lauren A. Colby
lcolby.com
Sat, 10 Apr 1999 08:43 UTC
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The cruel, cruel things people will do to reinforce their lies.
The following excerpt is taken from Lauren A. Colby's book In Defense of Smokers.

Chapter 9: Smoking Animals

Remember the smoking beagles? Movietone News, the old newsreel company, featured a piece on these cute little dogs, shot some time in the 1950's or 60's. It's sometimes re-run on late night TV, even today.

Actually, the experiment was rather cruel (although not nearly so much so as later ones). The beagles were strapped side-by-side to a long bench, in a rather unnatural upright position. They were fitted with face masks, which forced them to inhale and exhale smoke from lighted cigarettes. A mechanical device lit a new cigarette and dropped it into the air line, as soon as an old one was used up. Although the Surgeon General later claimed that the smoking machines did not force animals to inhale and exhale deeply, the newsreel footage sure made it look as if the dogs were inhaling and exhaling very deeply.

It was, perhaps, the smoking Beagles that were referred to in the 1964 SG's Report, when the Committee made the observation that with the "possible exception of dogs", the animal experiments had all failed to induce lung cancers. Whatever the case, in the 1971 Report, the Surgeon General conceded that the experiments with dogs, using smoking machines, had failed. However, also in the 1971 Report, the SG described a new experiment, conducted by a government physician, Oscar Auerbach, and others, in which the Beagles were forced to smoke in what the SG described as a "more natural" manner.
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Nuke

Best of the Web: Smoking Helps Protect Against Lung Cancer

Joe Vialls
Web Archive
Wed, 16 Jul 2003 05:38 UTC
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© UnknownThe Fukushima nuclear plant
Every year, thousands of medical doctors and other members of the "Anti-Smoking Inquisition" spend billions of dollars perpetuating what has unquestionably become the most misleading though successful social engineering scam in history. With the encouragement of most western governments, these Orwellian lobbyists pursue smokers with a fanatical zeal that completely overshadows the ridiculous American alcohol prohibition debacle, which started in 1919 and lasted until 1933.

Nowadays we look back on American prohibition with justifiable astonishment. Is it really true that an entire nation allowed itself to be denied a beer or scotch by a tiny group of tambourine-bashing fanatics? Sadly, yes it is, despite a total lack of evidence that alcohol causes any harm to humans, unless consumed in truly astronomical quantities.
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Light Saber

Boost mitochondrial function naturally

Dr. David Jockers
Natural News
Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:28 UTC
Every cell within our body has unique organelles within it that play a vital role in the overall function and health of the cell. The mitochondria is a unique intracellular structure that produces 95% of the cellular energy and plays a critical role in protecting the cell from oxidative stress. Lifestyle and environmental stressors can alter mitochondrial function and cause the onset of disease processes within the body.

The mitochondria are a very unique structure within the cell. They are the powerhouse of the cell and are the only intracellular organelle that has its own DNA and is able to divide and replicate on its own. The general consensus among researchers is that mitochondrial dysfunction plays a central role in nearly every degenerative disease.

The major factors involved in poor mitochondrial function include deficiencies in critical cellular nutrients, proprioceptive deficiencies, and environmental toxicity. The standard American diet, sedentary lifestyle, and ubiquitous amount of toxins in our society make today's generation far more susceptible for mitochondrial dysfunction than ever before.
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Ambulance

Facts you might not know about gluten

Cindy Jones-Shoeman
Natural News
Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:13 UTC
Many people are growing interested in following a gluten-free diet. Whether a person suffers from gluten sensitivity or has full-blown celiac disease, following a gluten-free diet can be beneficial to people for numerous reasons already discussed on Natural News.

Eating gluten free isn't difficult once a person knows what to look for. Fortunately, there are many alternatives to grains that have glutens. Being familiar with varieties of grains with glutens and reading labels of products that aren't well known are key to one's success.

Comment: While it's true that other grains such as rice and corn are 'gluten' free, it's important to understand that gluten belongs to a family of proteins called 'prolamins', and these other grains contain different kinds of prolamins.

Plants can't fight back when an animal comes along to eat them, so they developed a different method for warding off predators. The proteins they contain are indigestible and can lead to inflammation of the gut, body, skin and wet linings of the animals who eat them, often resulting in chronic disease.

Do your research thoroughly if you are interested in staying fit and well.

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Bug

Scientists issue urgent world-wide warning on bacteria with superbug gene

S. L. Baker
Natural News
Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:55 UTC
Nuclear meltdowns. Oil spills. More strife in Africa and the Middle East. GMO tainted crops. So what else could happen? Unfortunately, another problem has surfaced that has scientists calling for the "urgent need for global action". This time, it's worrisome news about a gene that turns bacteria into not just superbugs -- but SUPER superbugs.

Bottom line: this gene (dubbed the New Delhi metallo-s-lactamase 1 gene, NDM-1, for short) enables bacteria to resist virtually any and perhaps all antibiotics.
These multidrug-resistant bacteria have been found in public water supplies and urban effluent in New Delhi. But this isn't a problem limited to India. While researchers writing in the latest issue of the journal Lancet say the findings in India pose the worrisome possibility that NDM-1 is widespread in the environment of that country, there are plenty of reasons to be concerned the bacteria could be spreading to other parts of the planet.
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Nuke

Don't be Fooled by the Spin: Radiation is Bad

Peter Karamoskos
Sydney Morning Herald
Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:22 UTC
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With the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl looming, the pro-nuclear lobby is in overdrive.

You have to hand it to the nuclear industry and its acolytes. In the middle of the second-worst nuclear power disaster in history at Fukushima, and with still no end in sight, you would think they would respond with contrition, humility and profuse mea culpas. Not on your life. The industry representatives and its acolytes came out swinging in full denial attire.

Ziggy Switkowski, former chair of ANSTO (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation) and a proponent of nuclear power for Australia, claimed "the best place to be whenever there's an earthquake is at the perimeter of a nuclear plant because they are designed so well", and then quickly added: "On the other hand, you know, if the engineers do lose control of the core, then the answer becomes different."

Strident nuclear advocate Professor Barry Brook gave assurances in his running commentary that seemed ironically prescient of what was about to happen, stating ''I don't see the ramifications of this as damaging at all to nuclear power's prospects'' and that ''it will provide a great conversation starter for talking intelligently to people about nuclear safety''.
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Beaker

How to clean the main cleaner of your body

Paul Fassa
Natural News
Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:09 UTC
The liver and the gall bladder don't get enough attention until it's too late. Poor health, bad digestion, and low energy are usually the products of toxic livers and clogged gall bladders. Then surgeons remove gall bladders or put patients in line for liver transplants. But the liver/gall bladder system can be rejuvenated and restored by detoxifying, nurturing with herbs, and improving the diet.
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Vader

The cesium deception: Why the mainstream media is mostly reporting iodine levels, not radioactive cesium

Mike Adams
Natural News
Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:57 UTC
Virtually all the numbers you're seeing about the radioactivity coming out of Fukushima are based on iodine-131 which only has a half-life of 8 days, not the far more dangerous cesium-137 which has a half-life of 30 years. So while the mainstream media reports that "radiation levels are falling rapidly" from the 7.5 million times reading taken a few days ago, what they're not telling you is that the cesium-137 radioactivity will take 30 years just to fall by 50 percent.

It's the great global cover-up in all this: What happens to all the radioactive cesium being dumped into the ocean right now? It doesn't just burn itself out in a few months like iodine-131. This stuff sticks around for centuries.
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Cult

The Fascist US: Oakland officials threaten to shut down urban gardener growing food on her own land

Jonathan Benson
Natural News
Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:42 UTC
The city of Oakland, Calif., which is marked largely by blight and crime, has decided to go after a backyard gardener for growing and occasionally selling the fruits of her labor. According to a recent report in the San Francisco Chronicle (SFC), Oakland city officials are summoning Novella Carpenter to either pay a costly permit fee and penalties for providing locals with backyard produce items like Swiss chard without government approval, or face city sanctions.

The 4,500-square-foot plot of land on which Carpenter has been growing produce and raising some small animals is in a very rough part of Oakland. There are plenty of abandoned, graffiti-laden buildings, and empty plots of land -- not to mention a severe lack of adequate grocery stores and food shops.

After allegedly squatting the land for several years, Carpenter finally decided to buy it several months ago for $30,000, and she now raises food for herself and her neighbors on it. Though she does sell some of it, the primary purpose of the lot is not to run a business. In fact, Carpenter has on numerous occasions allowed locals in need to come and pick food for their own use.
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