Citing Natural News, the piece promotes BEC5, a cream of eggplant phytonutrients sold online, as an alternative to surgery and chemotherapy for basal cell and squamous cell skin cancers. Its makers do not claim it cures melanoma, though one person said a homemade version did.
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Stunning New Way to Flush Away Skin Cancer
Dr. Mercola describes BEC5, a cream of solasodine glycosides drawn from eggplant and related plants, which he says research shows clears most non-melanoma skin cancers in weeks without scarring, causing only itching and burning. He also offers skin cancer prevention tips.
Food
Coffee drinking linked to lower risk of skin cancer
Across 113,000 people followed more than 20 years, women drinking over three cups of coffee a day were 20% less likely to develop basal cell carcinoma and men 9% less. No link appeared for melanoma or squamous cell carcinoma, and the study cannot show cause.
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More evidence that caffeine lowers risk of skin cancer
Rutgers researchers genetically reduced the ATR enzyme in mice and found those animals developed UV-induced tumors more slowly, with 69 percent fewer tumors and four times fewer invasive ones. Caffeine inhibits ATR, which researchers say may explain its protective effect.
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Vitamin D levels appear to be associated with risk of skin cancer, although relationship is complex (PR)
Among 3,223 white HMO members studied at Henry Ford Hospital, higher vitamin D levels appeared to accompany higher risk of nonmelanoma skin cancer. The authors caution that UV exposure, which both creates vitamin D and causes skin cancer, complicates the relationship.
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High selenium linked to lower risk of bladder cancer
A meta-analysis of studies from the US, Belgium, Finland and the Netherlands linked higher selenium in serum and toenails to as much as 39 percent lower bladder cancer risk. The effect showed up mainly in women, which researchers attribute to sex differences in how selenium accumulates.
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Enzyme that Reverses Sun Damage Discovered
Researchers synthesized DNA, damaged it with ultraviolet light, then used ultrafast light pulses to watch the enzyme photolyase inject a single electron and proton that repaired the strand within billionths of a second. Humans lack the enzyme.
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HPV viruses may cause skin cancer
Among 1,561 people with squamous or basal cell skin cancer and controls, those with skin cancer had been infected with more types of HPV, and people on long-term steroids were more often diagnosed. The study was not a trial and does not establish that HPV causes skin cancer.
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Selenium strikes powerful blow to skin cancer
A study of 458 Australians in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention linked higher blood selenium to fewer cases of basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma, a roughly 60 percent reduction, while finding no link between vitamin E levels and reduced carcinoma risk.
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