by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 24, 2017 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Malignant melanomas are skin cancers that can spread rapidly through your body and kill you. Each year in the United States an estimated 77,000 people will develop invasive malignant melanoma; about 47,000 in men and 30,000 in women. For many years we have been told...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 9, 2017 | Other Diseases & Conditions
We have known for many years that having a big belly is associated with increased risk for heart attacks, diabetes, certain cancers, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, disability and premature death. We now also have data that links having a large belly to...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 18, 2017 | Other Diseases & Conditions
A seven-year study of 992 patients with colon cancer that had already spread to their bellies had a 42 percent reduction in death rate and a 31 percent reduction in recurrence of their cancer when they: • avoided overweight • exercised regularly (one hour of...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 16, 2017 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Human Papilloma Viruses (HPV) that cause cancers of the mouth and sexual organs are the most common sexually-transmitted diseases in the United States today, infecting 20 percent of people under age 60 (CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, April 6, 2017)....
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 26, 2017 | Other Diseases & Conditions
A diet that is high in either red meat or sugar, or both, increases the growth in the colon of bacteria called Fusobacterium nucleatum that appears to suppress a person’s immunity to increase the growth of cancer cells in the colon. A prospective study of...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 5, 2017 | Other Diseases & Conditions
The American Association for Cancer Research reports that being overweight is linked to 25 percent of cancers, and adding lack of exercise and eating pro-inflammatory foods raises the risk to 33 percent of newly diagnosed cancer cases in the U.S. The International...
