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(Best Syndication News) Pain is a cancer warning sign, Dr Oz told his TV audience on Thursday’s show. The doctor described 5 pains that could be signs of cancer. He also helped the audience learn to distinguish between cancer pain and pain from other causes.

We all get aches and pains and most of the time it is pulled muscle or from something we ate. But what if the pain was a warning sign of something more serious? Pain is a significant symptom in 30 percent of all cancer cases. The pain could be caused by a tumor pressing against a nerve.

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. One in three women will develop cancer in their lifetime, Oz said. Men have a 50 percent chance of developing cancer.

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(Best Syndication News) Citing recent studies, Doctor Mehmet Öz warned Americans about the “toxic pollution in our food supply.” On Tuesday Dr. Oz revealed what his scientists found in food.

Our planet’s ecological crisis is becoming our own crisis, the doctor warns. Pollution in the air and water are now “making their way inside us,” through our food. Mercury, pesticides and Bisphenol A (BPA) are just a few of the lethal toxins that can reap havoc on our body.

High levels of mercury can lead to developmental problems in babies and can damage the heart, kidneys and brains of adults. Eight percent of women have dangerous levels of mercury in their blood, with 90 percent of that coming from fish.

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(Best Syndication News) There may be an inverse relationship between cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, according to research published in the journal Neorology. This exciting discovery could lead to treatments for both diseases because cancer is less likely to develop in Alzheimer’s patients and Alzheimer’s is less likely to develop in cancer patients (details below).

According to American Academy of Neurology member, Catherine M. Roe, PhD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, this is thrilling research. “Discovering the links between these two conditions may help us better understand both diseases and open up avenues for possible treatments”, Roe said. She is also the author of the study.

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(Best Syndication News) Ladies, Pick Your Cancer. Many women receiving menopausal treatments today are too young to remember the old American folk tune, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly even though the song could be written about them.

The old lady swallows a spider to catch the fly--then a bird to catch the spider, then a cat to catch the bird ad infinitum--until she is a walking Noah's Ark and iatrogenic casualty.

For forty years women obligingly swallowed the "fly" of Premarin, a horse urine menopause drug manufactured by Wyeth (now Pfizer) until it was revealed to increase endometrial cancer in the 1970s.

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A novel class of cancer therapies called live biologics is offering new hope for patients affected by hard-to-treat cancers, according to two different studies testing the therapies in patients with sarcomas and head and neck cancers.

Traditional cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy come with a serious disadvantage: they cannot distinguish cancer cells from normal cells. Since normal cells can be stunted by chemotherapy and destroyed by radiation along with abnormal cells, patients may experience serious health issues during a course of extended treatment.

Calgary-based Oncolytics Biotech Inc. has developed an innovative approach to cancer therapy that might help patients avoid such serious side effects. Their strategy relies on one of the human body’s traditional foes: viruses. Specifically, Oncolytics is testing a live cancer biologic called REOLYSIN®, which is derived from the human reovirus.