2009-12-27

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 .

. 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) .

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