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Sleep Apnea and Cancer
I am board member of The Danish Cancer Society. Last weekend we had our annual council meeting in the committee of representatives, which was very exciting. There has been an incredible development in cancer treatment in recent years. In fact so we probably within 10 years can survive most cancer cases (similar to AIDS).
But I also got information that there in some cases may be a link between sleep apnea and cancer.
I did some searches on the Web and found some articles.
I will simply refer to a single block messages from "our" Dr. Park.
http://www.wellsphere.com/insomnia-sleep-disorders-article/a-link-b...
Henning
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Permalink Reply by Walt Service on
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Interesting article. Seems though that one can link about anything to sleep apnea nowadays.
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Permalink Reply by Victoria Castro on
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It's very frightening. I know that if left untreated; sleep apnea causes heart problems. My dog was overweight and had sleep apnea and on top of that he had a heart murmur and it lead to major heart issues. He had congestive heart failure and the treatments lasted a while, but then it costed too much and he was looking for a place to hide and I had to take him to the SPCA to have him put down. I miss my little guy. My Blackie Boy.
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Permalink Reply by RockRpsgt on
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Apnea affects o2, hormones, diet and restoritive sleep. All of which are needed to maintain a healthy immune system. The baffling part is that it has taken them this long to put it all together.
Walt Service said:Interesting article. Seems though that one can link about anything to sleep apnea nowadays.
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Permalink Reply by Henning on
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A recent study has shown that some kind of medicine for high blood pressures is carcinogenic.
The suspected drug labels are as follows:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiotensin_II_receptor_antagonist
Henning
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I should perhaps tell you about my interest in cancer.
My biological family and I have never experienced cancer. I think we have some lucky genes.
But seven years ago, my wife was diagnosed with a Colon Cancer. She was lucky that it was a slow growing cancer, and by surgery she was cured.
Since then I have been very active in the Danish Cancer Society.
Henning
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That is interesting about you and your family Henning. Cancer has plagued my family for generations. My mom has beat cancer 3x with the last being brain cancer. They removed a baseball size tumor from her frontal lobe. I just returned home from helping my cousin set up hospice for my aunt. They gave her 4-6 months. It is hard to explain how I feel about things right now. I know that I should be celebrating, but it just feels like there are too many other things to do.
Henning said:I should perhaps tell you about my interest in cancer.
My biological family and I have never experienced cancer. I think we have some lucky genes.
But seven years ago, my wife was diagnosed with a Colon Cancer. She was lucky that it was a slow growing cancer, and by surgery she was cured.
Since then I have been very active in the Danish Cancer Society.
Henning
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Hi Rock,
I'm sorry to hear about your family and cancer. But it is actually such that approximately 30% of the population at one time or another will get a cancer diagnosis. Fortunately, in most cases - not fatal.
Although we spend a lot of resources to publicize the lifestyle diseases, I think quite personally that genes play a larger role than we know today.
Again in my biological family - on my mother's side - we have a gene defect. So far as I know it was the first one that was completely documented.
It is such that we have genes in pairs. You can be a carrier of a disease if you have a single gene defect. This does not affect yourself, but if you have children with a partner with a similar gene defect then statistically 25% of your kids get a double gene defect, which can cause serious illness.
In my case, I am a carrier of a gene defect (Alpha1Antitrypsin deficiency), and the whole family have been tested. My grandparents became very old, but three out of four of their children died prematurely from this disease. Subsequent generations have no gene defect, or have only a single gene defect.
I believe that many diseases in the future will be cured through gene manipulation.
BTW
Congratulations with your RPSGT. Of course you should celebrate this.
Henning
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Permalink Reply by Mary Z on
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Rock, sorry about the sadness in your family. That's a hard load to deal with.
Mary Z.
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Permalink Reply by Renee on
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Dear Rock ~
My deepest thoughts and caring are with you and your family,
Fondly,
Renee
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Rock Hinkle said:That is interesting about you and your family Henning. Cancer has plagued my family for generations. My mom has beat cancer 3x with the last being brain cancer. They removed a baseball size tumor from her frontal lobe. I just returned home from helping my cousin set up hospice for my aunt. They gave her 4-6 months. It is hard to explain how I feel about things right now. I know that I should be celebrating, but it just feels like there are too many other things to do.
Henning said:I should perhaps tell you about my interest in cancer.
My biological family and I have never experienced cancer. I think we have some lucky genes.
But seven years ago, my wife was diagnosed with a Colon Cancer. She was lucky that it was a slow growing cancer, and by surgery she was cured.
Since then I have been very active in the Danish Cancer Society.
Henning
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