cancer risk related to autoimmune risk

8.6: news.health/cancer risk related to autoimmune risk:

. tumor necrosis factor helps fight cancer,

and suppressing it can also suppress autoimmune disorders

-- tho' now they are finding it raises risk of leukemia .

. this gave me the idea that

autoimmune disorders might be a symptom of

the body having to raise its tumor necrosis factor

in order to fight high levels of tumor creations;

so that if one could reduce cancer risk

there might also be a reduced risk of autoimmune disorders .

9.5: news.health/hot peppers raise risk of cancer:

. Capsaicin is weakly mutagenic in the Ames test, and a co-carcinogen in rats,

enhancing gastric carcinogenesis.

Ten percent of mice exposed to capsaicin developed duodenal cancer,

versus 0% of those not exposed. A study in Mexico found that consumers of chili pepper

had a more than 5-fold increase in risk of gastric cancer

(age- and sex-adjusted odds ratio of 5.49; 95% CI 2.7-11.1) compared to nonconsumers;

high-level consumers had an odds ratio of 17.11 (95% CI 7.8-37.6).

In India and other Southeast Asian countries, eating of chili peppers is associated with

oral submucosal fibrosis, a precancerous condition of undetermined etiology.(7,22-24) .