The latest finding shows that the use of hormone replacement therapy (hormone replacement therapy / HRT) does not increase breast cancer risk. This generates confusion, the reason previous studies stating the opposite.

Hormone Therapy

Results of analysis of medical data records of millions of British women aged 50′s and 60′s, bright researchers, showed no relationship between the uses of this controversial therapy with an increased incidence of breast cancer.

Fears about the security of these medicines first appeared in 2002. At that time, a large study from the United States linking the hormone therapy with a host of diseases, including breast cancer and heart disease.

Because of these fears ignoring the hundreds of thousands of British women with hormone treatment, in 2005 the number of users of HRT which is beneficial to overcome symptoms of menopause, was reduced by half.

Last year, a study concluded that the use of this hormone medicines can double risk of breast cancer. This makes women’s anxiety intensified.

Osteoporosis risk

In an effort to resolve this argument, researchers from Bristol University examine whether the disease is changing as the number of women not using hormone medicines due to fear. If HRT increases the risk of breast cancer, the incidence of diseases should have declined since 2002, as the decline in use of HRT.

But the researchers found, the decline in hormone use did not affect the incidence of breast cancer. These bright researchers showed that HRT is not a trigger factor of breast cancer.

In addition, according to a study published in the Journal of Public Health, HRT is also not associated with colon cancer or hip fractures.

HRT use for menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes mood changes and sweating at night. Treatment with the hormone could be done through various methods, including tablets, implants, gels and skin patches. In the long term, these medicines could otherwise reduce the risk of osteoporosis.

Blood pressure-lowering medicines known as beta blockers, according to research findings are also useful to help reduce the spread of breast cancer.

Hypertension

These medicines are believed to work to prevent stress hormones stimulate cancer cells. Beta-blocker medicines to compete with stress hormones and receptors bound to the same target. But unlike the stress hormones, beta blockers do not activate the cancer cells.

Powe and his friends from England and Germany to evaluate 466 cancer patients, a total of 92 patients have received medicines lowering blood pressure. 92 and 43 of these patients beta blocker uses the same time their breast cancer diagnosis.

Results showed that those who use beta blockers decreased the formation of cancer and decrease the formation of cancer returning in the same area. Compared with participants who use other types of hypertension medicines or participants who do not use blood pressure-lowering medicines, they were 71 percent lower risk of dying from breast cancer. In addition, users of beta blockers are also 57 percent lower risk of cancer returning.

Other scientist said the findings were interesting but still includes a preliminary study. The concept of controlling tumor growth by preventing stress or inflammatory response is not new.

For example, other studies have found that women with breast cancer who take aspirin (an anti-inflammatory) on a regular basis, decreased risk of recurrence of cancer returning.

Handful of walnuts a day may help prevent prostate cancer. Researchers found, snack nuts on this one can reduce the size and slow tumor growth.

Walnuts

Although the experiments conducted on rats, researchers believe that the results are also relevant to humans. To optimize the health, researchers recommend consumption of 14 walnuts a day.

Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer that affects men and is the number two cancer killer after lung cancer. In the UK, about 35,000 newly diagnosed cases of prostate cancer per year and 10,000 of them died.

Although the cause of the disease is not yet clearly known, this type of cancer associated with diet. Prostate cancer is more commonly experienced by those who eat fatty food but less fruit and vegetables.

Walnuts, rich in chemicals health boosters, including omega-3 fatty acids, previously has been shown to prevent breast cancer and heart disease. Therefore walnut balanced diet should be made a part along with many fruits and vegetables.

In this latest study, researchers from the University of California studied mice that are genetically designed risk of prostate cancer. Some rats received additional walnuts into their diets for two months.

However, Dr Helen Rippon light from the Prostate Cancer Charity is still too early to claim that walnuts can prevent prostate cancer, both in men and in rats that have been modified.

Smoking is a common thing that we find everywhere in the world. This habit is so widespread in the environment is well educated and less educated. Smoking has become a complex problem concerning the psychological aspects and social phenomena.

Many studies carried out and instead realize that smoking interfere with the body’s health, but to halt this activity very difficult.

Smoking can cause especially cardiovascular disease and cancer, lung cancer, esophagus, larynx, and oral cavity.
Cancer in the oral cavity usually begins with the irritation of cigarette products to be smoked. These irritants cause white lesions that are not sick.
Also smoking can also cause abnormalities in the oral cavity such as the tongue, gums, mouth mucosa, teeth and palate in the form of Nicotine stomatitis and fungal infections.

Cigarette smoke contains components and substances harmful to the body. The count of components on tobacco depending on the type of tobacco, combustion temperatures, long cigarette, paper porosity, tobacco flavor and presence or absence of filters, While substances dangerous form of gases and particles. We smoke suction 90% contain a variety of gases such as N2, O2, CO2, 10% contain certain particles such as tar, nicotine and others. Particles in cigarette smoke can cause cancer (carcinogenic) is too.

INFLUENCE OF SMOKING ON TONGUE

In heavy smokers, smoking causes stimulation in the papilafiliformis (bulge / hanging at the top of the tongue) to become longer (hypertrophied). Here the results of the cigarette burning brownish-black that easily deposited, so that the smoker is difficult to feel a sense of bitter, salty, and sweet, because damage to the tip of the tentacle sensory (taste buds).

INFLUENCE OF SMOKING ON GUMS

Number of tartar in smokers is more prone than non-smokers. Coral teeth are not cleaned can cause a variety of complaints such as gingivitis or bleeding gums. Besides, the burning cigarette can cause circulation of blood circulation to the gums so easy to contract the disease.

MUCOSAL THICKENING AKOBAT SMOKING

Smoking is a risk factor for leukoplakia is a white patches or plaques on the mucosa of the mouth that can not be deleted. This can be found at the age of 30-70 years the majority of sufferers are smokers, especially men. According to Silverman, the study of all cases of leukoplakia 95% were smokers.

Constant irritation from the burning tobacco causes mucosal thickening in the mouth tissue. Before clinical symptoms appear, irritation from tobacco smoke attacks the epithelial cells of the mucosa so that its activity increased. These symptoms only appear when cellular activity increases and becomes thick epithelium, especially looking at the mucosal buckle (facing the cheek mucosa) and on the floor of the mouth. Mouth mucosal changes will see as white patches. White patches may be caused by a thick epithelium saturated with saliva (saliva). Experts say that leukoplakia is a pre-malignant lesion in the mouth. Leukoplakia becomes malignant change of 3-6%.

STAIN FOR TOBACCO

Teeth may change color due to tobacco. At first this stain be caused by nicotine, but in fact is the result of burning tobacco in the form of tar. Nicotine itself is colorless and easily soluble. Shafer and his colleagues say that the brown color usually occurs in smokers, while black color occurs in smokers who use the pipe. The stains are easy to clean because there is only on the plains outside the teeth. But in people who smoked all his life, the stain can be entered into the enamel layer of the superficial and difficult to remove.

Smoking habits greatly affect oral health, especially changes in the mucosa (mucous membranes). Most, cancers of the mouth mucosa begins with changes. These changes do not cause pain (pre-malignant lesions) that is not observed until the situation becomes advanced. Therefore, if there are white patches, as early as possible to come to the dentist.

Get used to check the teeth every 6 months, despite having no complaints. And most important is a strong will to eliminate smoking, if necessary, consult with your doctor.