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Women, Death, Breast Cancer, Heart Disease
ByOctober is Breast Cancer Awareness month. The term cancer is scary for all of us and breast cancer causes over 40,000 deaths per year. Only forms of skin cancer are more prevalent in women and most of them do not cause death. For instance melanoma, the most serious form skin cancer causes 15 cases per year per 100,000 women. The STATS for breast cancer are 117.7 cases per year per 100,000 population.
The recent ability of scientists to identify the DNA sequence of one form of Breast cancer will eventually make it possible for them to better treat and cure Breast Cancer in all its forms. There is still much work to be done and that is the purpose of having an “AWARENESS MONTH”.
As terrifying as the thought of cancer is, there is a much bigger killer of women on the loose. Heart disease causes the death of more than 454,000 women per year, all forms of cancer took the lives of 268,890 women. It is reported that Breast Cancer affects one in eight women during their lifetime, but heart disease affects one in THREE. Many more women than men die of heart disease. Deaths in women are 278 per 100,000 women per year.
Cardiovascular disease is more preventable and more treatable but both Clinicians and Women have to be more aware of its presence in women and of the way the symptoms present in women.
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Hi Bruce,
I keep reading that Vitamin D3 (the sunshine vitamin) may play a big part in keeping us healthy, pain-free and perhaps even cancer-free. Too many people have been scared to stay out of the sun. Of course, we don’t want to get burned but sunshine on our skin has so many benefits! Supplementing with D3 is good for us Northerners and others who don’t get enough sunshine on their skin for one reason or another. I have seen D3 related to reduction in breast cancer. Inexpensive supplementation won’t hurt and could definitely help! And apparently a sufficient amount is 2-5,000 units a day. That is much less than the sun produces when it hits our skin on a summer day. 400 units is enough to prevent scurvy but not the “bigger” diseases.
Kathryn Merrow – The Pain Relief Coach
It is important for post-menopausal women to get a vitamin D3 supplement that does not contain any Vitamin A. A common source for Vit D is Cod Liver Oil. It is loaded with
Vitamin A and the label does not have to say so. The label on your vitamin D3 should say either “Contains No Vitamin A” or “Made from Lanolin”. Shhep can make Vitamin D3 in their wool
and it can be extracted from the lanolin. I take Blue Bonnet brand of Vitamin D3 made from lanolin. You are right about the association of low vitamin D3 levels and various cancers.
I now check people who have lots of ache and pains and no good reason to have them for vitamin d3 levels (25OH VitaminD is the test you do) because people often have pain when level are in the 20’s rather than 40 or above.
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