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The Mycoplasma hyorhinis-generated prostate cancer is one instance where bacteria infecting animals cause havoc in human genetic materials. This cross-infection is something that health authorities need to look into because its potential impact on humans. SINCE the late 20th century, investigators in medical science increasingly built up evidence that much of cancer came from infections, be it bacterial or viral (rarely, fungal though). In fact, in 2007, the American Cancer Society estimated that around 30 percent of all cancers worldwide had been results of infection. These infection agents are capable of inducing the birth of tumors through their protein products that exert long-term and growing inflammatory reaction in the human body where the infection resides. Barely two years ago, the Namiki Study reported the first infection with Mycoplasma hyorhinis (Mh), a species of tiny, wall-free microorganisms that resides in the human cell or on its cell membrane. This genus comprise

PROLIFIC historical novelist Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet of Scotland, wrote: “A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.” In cancer medicine, a toenail rich in selenium, a purplish-gray element, may make an important difference in protecting us from bladder cancer... (Read more ) This article appears in SunStar Cebu newspaper on 19 May 2010.

One great danger about the renowned prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test is its established history of overdiagnosing prostate cancer, a recent study found out. A study conducted by H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy, revealed that of the 3.7 million diagnoses of prostate cancer in the US alone from 1986 to 2005, 1.3 million were overdiagnosed. The sad fact is, one million of that 1.3 million have been recommended for radiotherapy or surgery to remove the prostate when that should not have been necessary as the growths it detects are not harmful at all. In fact, according to Welch, the test cannot discriminate the smally minority of cancers that spreads rapidly from the large, slow-growing ones that are not harmful. Click here for details.