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Celiac.com 04/10/2023 - The association between celiac disease and the development of small bowel lymphoproliferative disorders and esophageal adenocarcinoma is well-established, but there is limited evidence of an increased risk of colorectal cancer in these patients. Cross-sectional Population-based Study To evaluate the risk of developing colorectal cancer in patients with celiac disease a team of researchers recently conducted a cross-sectional population-based study using a commercial database that contains the electronic health records from 26 major integrated US healthcare systems. The team included patients aged 18-65 years of age, and excluded those with inflammatory bowel disease. They used multivariate analysis to calculate the risk of developing colorectal cancer, adjusting for potential confounders. The Researchers The research team included Somtochukwu Onwuzo; Antoine Boustany; Mustafa Saleh; Riya Gupta; Chidera Onwuzo; Jessy Mascarenhas Monteiro; Favour Lawrence; Chinenye Emeshiobi; Juliana Odu; and Imad Asaad. They are variously affiliated with the departments of Internal Medicine and Department of Gastroenterology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland; the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Lebanese University in Beirut, LBN; the Faculty of Medicine in Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore in Mangalore, IND; the department of Internal Medicine and the General Hospital Lagos Island in Lagos, Nigeria; the department of Internal Medicine at the Ross University School of Medicine in Bridgetown, Barbados; the department of Internal Medicine at Mercy Hospital in Fort Smith, USA; and the department of Public Health at the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio, USA. Their Findings: Patients with Celiac Disease Face an Increased Risk of Developing Colorectal Cancer The team's cross-sectional population-based study showed that patients with celiac disease face an increased risk of developing colorectal cancer, even after adjusting for common risk factors. Their findings suggest that patients with celiac disease are frequently diagnosed with colorectal cancer, indicating that the disease may involve other parts of the gastrointestinal tract besides the small bowel. The results highlight the importance of screening patients with celiac disease for colorectal cancer, even in the absence of traditional risk factors. These findings could help to improve the management and follow-up of patients with celiac disease, especially with regard to diagnosis and prevention of colorectal cancer. Read more at Cureus.com
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Celiac.com 12/18/2020 - This understanding of viruses is actually the culmination of my study—and the reason why my book has not been written—yet. I have been waiting for the “punch line” and this is it—how we actually reap what we sow in our physical lives. All it takes is a brief review of virology and what these little guys do in nature—which is vital to the creation and its moment-by-moment operation—and then we can see the truth about why it has all gone wrong. Am I over-dramatizing? I don’t think so. Simply put, viruses were made to adapt. They also are integral in the variation we see in nature. The other essential piece of information you need is how they incorporate their genetic information into ours. Once again, it is a scientific FACT that we have more viral information in our double stranded DNA than we do genes. Wow—does that answer a lot! So, do the genes that code for your eye color or the fact that you have two rams, two legs, one liver, and one nose suddenly mutate and give you a “genetic” disease? No, it is the viruses embedded in that DNA that do this. They have been there for generations and new ones are added with each generation. The acquisition of viruses was meant for good—to help us to adapt to our ever-changing environment. So, we should really thank someone who gives you a virus, shouldn’t we? If we were optimally healthy, we would acquire the guy and get on with our healthy lives. BUT, because of what we have done to ourselves, the environment, and the animals that harbor many of these viruses, some of the viruses have become “virulent”. Yes, they have been FORCED into adapting into something stronger because of what we have done. Once again, we reap what we sow. Then, as we become more and more unhealthy while continuing to challenge our viral inhabitants with lectins, chemicals, pollution and “carcinogens”, we reach critical mass. Our immune system IS the governor of this situation and is constantly trying to control this situation. We have all heard it said that we are fighting cancer at every moment of every day. Yep. So, what happens when we “assassinate our governor” by doing what we do? Yes, the poor nutrition, malabsorption syndromes caused by the “big 4” food intolerances, the lack of sleep, the chemicals, and more are ALL bullets that were firing away at our governor. Once again, we reap what we sow. With an ineffective, bullet-riddled governor and the continuation of the virus-challenging process, we lose our grip while the viruses are forced to adapt into something more powerful just to survive (which again is what they were charged with from the beginning—to adapt at all costs—even to our detriment if it came to that). Think of them as little robots. Well hey—look at them. Most of them LOOK like little robots. Have you seen them? They have a head that looks like the geodesic dome of the Epcot center. They have legs like a lunar lander and are very mechanical looking. So, the analogy is most accurate. Are they living or not? A great debate rages on about this. I think they have to be, just not by the standards that we normally use for “living”. Think of them as androids. Yeah, that’s it. And yes, once backed into a corner, they play their ultimate card—to induce a tumor that protects them and the cells in which they reside—a fortress that walls itself off from these continued challenges. I used to think they were trying to escape the immune system—now I know better. And, does a single tumor in a lung lobe or lymph node kill anyone? Hmmm—how about the drugs and radiation designed to kill that tumor? Hmmm—again. Oh oh. And what’s more, what does a virus get forced into doing if its new cocoon is threatened? MOVE, right? Yes, that is called metastasis. So simple, so clear—right? Question: Would cancer resolve IF we did enough right by stopping what we are doing that is driving these viruses crazy? We know we can prevent cancer by doing these things, right (Unfortunately, it is more appropriately put that we can accelerate cancer by doing enough bad things)? But could we take a person who has cancer (or any chronic viral disease), move them to a pristine location, feed them perfectly, give them unpolluted water, and alter their lifestyle so that they sleep well and get plenty of exercise and have that cancer or condition resolve? I believe the answer is a resounding YES, YES, YES. There is plenty of evidence of this. We hear stories of people curing themselves of cancer, MS, and other serious conditions and dismiss them because we simply don’t believe that we can recover from such things. What an attitude, eh? Where did that come from anyway? When did we lose faith in this miraculous body? And when did we start the process of literally handcuffing its attempts to heal itself by taking all of this symptomatic medication (e.g., NSAIDS to reduce fevers caused by viruses)? I know when and it fits like a glove into man’s history. I no longer put any limitations on what this body can do, only one what WE can do for our body. Does that pristine environment exist? Can we eat perfectly with what we have done to our food supply? The good news is that we don’t necessarily have to be perfect. The absolute worst of the worst do, unfortunately. But everything I have learned about medicine in the past six years screams at me that we are made to recover. We just start too late and rarely do enough—right? But once we see that disease is a “spectrum disorder”, with its victims ranging from the “best of the best” to the “worst of the worst”, we can easily see why some people get better with “holistic” treatment and others do not. Have those that don’t done enough right? So, what IS the cure for cancer? Does the answer lie in the laboratory? Is it hidden in the jungles of South America? OR does it lie within us all? I think we all really know the answer to this one now, don’t we? And once again—how cool is that?
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Celiac.com 09/24/2012 - With all the problems that go along with celiac disease, it can be hard to see any benefits to having the disease. However, it would seem that such benefits do exist: a recent study in Sweden shows that women suffering from celiac disease are actually at a decreased risk of developing breast, endometrial and ovarian cancer. Data was collected from 28 Swedish pathology departments, identifying 17,852 biopsy-diagnosed women diagnosed with celiac disease between the years of 1969 and 2007. Women in the celiac group were age-matched and compared with a control group of 88,400 women. Risk of breast, endometrial and ovarian cancer were all estimated using the Cox regression model in both groups. Results showed an inverse relationship between celiac disease and all three forms of cancer. With breast cancer rates, women with celiac disease had a hazard ratio of 0.89 (meaning for every 100 women in the control group, only 89 in the celiac disease group developed breast cancer). Women with celiac disease also had a hazard ratio of 0.89 for ovarian cancer. For endometrial cancer, the decreased risk was even more pronounced with a hazard ratio of 0.6. All calculations carried a confidence interval of 95%. These numbers became even more pronounced after omitting the first year of followup after diagnosis (presumably the gluten-free diet 'adjustment period'). Breast cancer's hazard ratio fell to 0.82, ovarian cancer's hazard ratio fell to .72 and endometrial cancer's hazard ratio fell to 0.58. The study suggests that this negative correlation could be a result of shared risk factors or early menopause associated with celiac disease. Looking at the numbers though, particularly the 'adjustment period' drop off, one has to wonder if the gluten-free diet has some part to play in this as well. Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21953605
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