LETTER | Amidst Covid-19, cancer care cannot be delayed
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LETTER | In the year 2020 alone, the number of new cancer cases reported in Malaysia was 48,639 and the number of people living with cancer (5-year) was a whopping 128,018. Presently, the top three most common cancers among Malaysian males are colorectal, lung and prostate cancers whereas for females, they comprise breast, colorectal and cervical cancers.
Central to this discussion is that the pandemic has led to the reallocation of healthcare resources to cater for the influx in Covid-19-related hospitalisations. Particularly, during the first movement control order (MCO), cancer-screening services were limited, cancer surgeries were postponed, and clinical visits and imaging appointments were deferred.
Vitamin B17: Able to Treat and Prevent Cancer, or Pure Poison?
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May 26, 2013
May 26, 2013
vitamin B17. This powerful vitamin substance
shown to halt cancer has also been called poison. So which is it: a natural treatment, or ‘quackery’? Vitamin B17 is patented in the U.S. as Laetrile, but used in Mexico simply as crushed apricot pits, without boiling the seeds and turning them to ethanol, which then produces benzaldehyde. You can also find the tampered-with version as laevomandelonitrile, the man-made version of B17, and amygdalin, the natural version of B17. According to the National Cancer Society, Laetrile is staggeringly lethal, and even makes cancer tumors grow larger. The US government has made B17 downright illegal, so why are many naturalists saying apricot seeds, which are naturally full of vitamin B17, are extremely effective at curing cancer? And how can something be toxic, if it naturally occurs in dozens of other foods like soybeans, mung bean