Curing Cancer Network - July Monthly Newsletter
Cancer blog
Dr. Pernick has updated the following articles:

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This essay discusses random chronic stress / bad luck, which is a major cause of pancreatic cancer (Pernick 2021a) and lung cancer in nonsmokers (Pernick 2021b).

Key concepts are: (1) random chronic stress is a major cause of cancer at some sites; (2) cancer often develops through rare bursts of activity in cells and their networks, not in a gradual, step-wise manner; (3) cancers that are due to random chronic stress may have better survival and other clinical differences, compared with cancers due to traditional risk factors; and (4) due to the presence of random chronic stress, cancer will always be with us, although we can prevent some cases, detect it earlier and treat it more effectively.

It begins:
This essay summarizes my recommendations on how to substantially reduce cancer deaths. In general, we should view cancer as primarily a disorder of a complex biological system that is composed of interacting networks and not as a modular system with faulty parts (Pernick: What should our national cancer goals be, 2021). I also believe that substantially reducing cancer deaths is primarily a management problem to be solved by identifying and implementing a series of appropriate public policy, medical and scientific tasks (Pernick: Strategic plan to substantially reduce cancer deaths, 2021), and not by trying to discover a miracle treatment (Pernick: What will success look like in the war on cancer, 2021).

Combinations of Therapy
Using combinations of therapy was the key to curing childhood leukemia. How precisely does it work? See a new article at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35842290/

Grants
We offer several research grants of up to $25,000, see https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/ccngrants.html. The next deadline is 30 September 2022. Proposals should be 500 words or less.

Infections
The infections overview page has 2 new topics that are related to cancer, HTLV1 and EBV. The retrovirus HTLV1 causes adult T cell leukemia / lymphoma. EBV, a member of the herpesvirus family, has been a well known cause of Burkitt lymphoma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma since it was discovered in the 1980s.

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Miscellaneous
Listen to Dr. Dennis Burkitt (who did important, early work with Burkitt lymphoma, see https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/lymphomaburkitt.html) discuss his other important work on diet and chronic disease, https://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2013nl/jan/burkitt.htm.

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) held a Virtual Congressional Briefing to present the AACR Cancer Disparities Progress Report 2022. The goal of this report is to increase public awareness and understanding of cancer health disparities, highlight areas of recent progress in reducing cancer health disparities and provide specific recommendations for achieving health equity, see here.

What is your cancer plan?
What ideas do you think are most important to consider in order to substantially reduce cancer deaths? All ideas are welcome - email them to Nat@PathologyOutlines.com.


Latest versions of our documents
(we are working on making these documents easier to navigate):

Strategic plan (updated 27 August 2021)
American Code Against Cancer (how you can prevent cancer)
Nat Pernick, M.D. | nat@pathologyoutlines.com