Do not take lightly if you suffer from blocked nose, headache, dizziness and ringing ears until blood came out of the nose. Because flu-like symptoms was a symptom of cancer nesofaring. What and how the cancer treatment? The following report of the inauguration of Bali Post reporter detection and cancer treatment center Cancer Specialists International (ICS) in Singapore, recently.

Cancer is a disease caused by the growth of body tissue cells are not normal, so turn into cancer cells. Furthermore, these cancer cells spread gets another body, so if it is severe can cause death. Most people think of cancer with tumor. Though the tumor is any abnormal lumps or abnormal inflammation in the body that are not. While cancer is a malignant tumor.

Severe disease affects all age groups, both men and women. Cancer can also occur in every part of the body. In Indonesia, some types of cancer is ever found in the cervix, breast, liver, lungs, skin, lymph nodes, blood cancer, cancer of the colon and nesofaring and others. For cervical cancer and breast cancer, affects many women.

Normally when cancer has not spread and damage the surrounding tissue, the patient does not feel the symptoms or complaints. Therefore, many people who already have cancer, but did not realize. They realized after his illness had no symptoms and complaints or when the disease begins to develop. Only after that, people checked out the hospital.
One of the dangerous type of cancer is cancer nesofaring. The disease is usually hidden in the back of the cube-shaped nose. The front of the nasopharynx is bordered by the nasal cavity. Meanwhile, the top adjacent to the skull base and the bottom is the palate and oral cavity. Epstein-Barr virus increase the risk of someone suffering from cancer nesofaring. Viruses that live freely in the air can enter the body and remain in the nasopharynx without causing symptoms. The disease is commonly found in Asia, including Indonesia.

According to Drs. Hsieh Wen Son of ICS, Asians have a higher risk compared with Westerners. Men generally have a higher risk than women. ICS itself is an international cancer clinic located at 290 Orchard Road, # 15-01/02/03 Paragon, Singapore. ICS was established to ensure patients get the best treatment. The interests of patients is the main focus at ICS. In addition to handling the physical, emotional factors also received attention from the ICS team.

Patients who want to get more information about ICS, please contact Primus Health at Hotline number: 081 380 099 500. Primus ICS Health is the official representative in Indonesia. According to Health Director Diana Pratanto Primus, the patient receives a number of free service if you want treatment to ICS.
Benefits for patients who want treatment in the ICS is Dr. Hsieh is a researcher who is actively involved in researching new treatment of cancer. If standard treatments are not successful, patients can get access to new treatments that are still in experimental stages. Patients will be offered the kind of targeted therapies. For this therapy, patients are free of charge.

Before you follow the special treatment, patients were given the explanation that this treatment is still in research stage. Patients also will be notified of the advantages and disadvantages of this therapy. In some cases, side effects of targeted therapies could lead to reduced blood cell. But it quickly in the tackle with nutrition.

Sexual intercourse at age below 17 years are known to stimulate the growth of cancer cells in the organ content of women, because in the age range 12-17 years, changes in cervical cells are very active.
Please note, when cells are actively dividing (metaplasi), ideally not occur kontaks or any external stimuli, including injus (entry of) foreign body in the female body.
With foreign bodies, including male genitalia and sperm cells, would result in the development of abnormal cells in the direction. Especially if it comes to injuries that cause infection in the womb.
Abnormal cells in the cervix that can lead to cervical cancer (cervical). Cervical cancer that attacks the female womb tools, starting from the mouth of the womb and the risk of spread to the vagina to get out on the surface.
In addition, the risk of cervical cancer also spread to other organs in the body, such as the uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes, kidney, lung, liver, bone to brain.
If you have reached an advanced stage and spread to other organs, then cervical cancer may lead to death. Patients with advanced stage generally have to lift organ content tools and the possibility of having children becomes impossible.
Worldwide, there are about 100 types of strains of the virus that causes cervical cancer, the HPV virus (Human Papilloma Virus). Terganas strains are types 16 and 18. Symptoms often appear in patients with onset usually foul-smelling vaginal discharge and repetitive and there is bleeding in the genitals when he was not menstruating.
Therefore, it is recommended that women get married after the age of 17 years and applying a healthy sexual behavior. In addition, early detection is necessary to prevent the occurrence of advanced-stage cervical cancer, one of them by doing a pap test (pap smear).

Be happy for you lovers of tea and coffee drinks. Not only serves to add energy in the body, regular consumption of tea and coffee are known to prevent cancer, especially brain cancer.
Scientists have long found evidence that coffee or tea can boost one’s stamina. However, recent research shows that eating regular two types of the most popular drinks in this world also can protect you from brain cancer that often affect adults.
Although only drink half a cup of coffee or tea per day, it can reduce the risk of brain cancer by 34 percent. Dominique S. Michaud of the Faculty of Public Health, Brown University in Providence, United States, is chairman of an international team report their findings in the November issue of the journal American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The idea that coffee and tea’s health benefits, particularly as anticancer for regular drinkers based on previous studies which have shown that the lovers are two drinks can also avoid the risk for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Further study further discusses the possibility that coffee and tea also can prevent brain cancer.
Especially the type of glioma, a cancer that attacks the central nervous system originating from the brain and or spinal cord. Gliomas, including brain cancer causes about 80 percent of cases of malignant brain cancer in adults. However, the results of this study itself has not been able to prove that the two drinks that provide protection against cancer. “It’s all temporary,” said Michaud.
“This study should not be a reason for anyone to alter their intake of coffee or tea,” he said as quoted by healthday.com. Even if coffee and tea have a direct effect on risk of glioma, it looks like the effect will be small. Brain cancer in general are rare in the world.
In Europe for example, the annual incidence rate is estimated at between four to six cases per 100,000 women, and six to eight cases for every 100,000 men. Overall, the likelihood someone will develop brain cancer in their lifetime is less than 1 percent.
But Michaud says, if the intake of coffee and tea which was higher to protect against gliomas, it will be able to give insight to the investigators about the cause of the cancer. “Currently we do not know much about what causes brain cancer,” he said.
The study itself evaluates health data of more than 410,000 men and women aged between 25 and 70 years drawn from the European Prospective Investigation research into Cancer and Nutrition, which originated from France, Holland, Italy, Spain, Britain, Greece, Denmark, Norway, Sweden , and Germany.
The participants were recruited between 1991 and 2000 and continuously monitored for 8.5 years. In a study conducted a survey that is used as a measure of food, including tea and coffee consumption each study participant. They were also asked to complete questionnaires about medical history, diet, exercise habits, smoking and other lifestyle factors.
In that time, 343 new cases diagnosed gliomas. Also, 245 new cases of meningioma, other types of cancer that affects the tissue that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. Overall, consumption of decaffeinated coffee was found very low. While the usual coffee and tea drinking patterns vary widely from one country to another. For example, Denmark (the largest consumer of coffee) drinking an average of almost 3.5 cups per day.
Or Italian (the lowest consumer) average less than half a cup a day. The highest consumption of tea made by participants from the UK and the lowest from Spain. The addition of beverage consumption on the incidence of brain cancer were related to each other. The research team found that drinking 100 ml (or about 0.4 cups) per day or more may reduce risk of glioma by 34 percent.
In addition, also concluded that the protective effect of these two drinks seemed a little stronger against a man and seems to apply only to gliomas. According to Michaud, is not clear why there was no evidence of dose-response relationship between coffee and tea consumption with risk of glioma, which is generally considered a strong sign of a possible causal relationship.
However, perhaps it relates to the difficulty in precisely measuring the intake of coffee and tea from the study participants, which depends on the report itself. “It is biologically plausible that coffee or tea and may affect the risk of glioma,” he said. A recent laboratory study, for example, found that caffeine seemed to slow the growth of a type of glioma is glioblastoma.
In addition, both coffee and tea contain antioxidants that help protect body cells from damage that can cause cancer and other diseases. However, it could also coffee and tea lovers it has other characteristics that may influence susceptibility to glioma.
But as far as the characteristics that have not been revealed, it causes brain cancer is also not yet known. Researchers know there are some risk factors. Those who undergo radiation therapy most frequently-radiation to the head to treat other cancer types have a high risk of brain tumors in the future. Genetic Pradisposisi apparently plays a role in a few cases of brain tumors. However, evidence of food or environmental factors, such as exposure to chemicals in the workplace so far inconclusive. Michaud said, still need some research to confirm that there is a relationship between coffee and tea consumption with risk of glioma and to determine the underlying reasons.
Dr. Jonathan Friedman, Chief of the Texas Brain and Spine Institute at Texas A & M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Bryan, Texas, United States, described the findings as “surprising”.
“However, please note, the mechanism of why coffee may be protective (a disease) is really unclear,” he explained. “While the benefits of caffeine itself may be important (for body), but several other common components in a coffee or tea may also be relevant (the cause), such as natural antioxidants,” he said.
“However, further research would be needed to confirm these findings and to identify how the basis of the correlation relationship,” Friedman happen outside. Dr. John S. Yu, Director of the Brain Tumor Center of Excellence at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, United States, called the discovery remarkable. “If we have a cure for various diseases that can reduce the risk of suffering about 34 percent, would be considered a great medicine,” he said.

The patients who are undergoing cancer therapy and who have completed therapy is recommended to consume a healthy diet with balanced nutrition. Several studies have shown that cancer patients who consume healthy foods during therapy is generally more resilient to face the side effects of therapy Sometime during the therapy, emerging side effects such as nausea, loss of appetite so that patients sometimes difficult to follow healthy eating. Therefore, if the patient has it immediately discuss with your doctor and dietician.
Some cancer therapies can work effectively in patients with high body resistance that is obtained from the nutritional adequacy. Eating healthy foods is very useful for the health of muscles, build a network of new cells, keeping away from invasive infections. Indeed, there is no guarantee that after eating with a healthy menu, cancer will not recur again. Because the origins kankerpun hitherto undiscovered, only to regulate our food, it becomes immune system stronger, we are spared from excess cholesterol, increased blood sugar, blood becomes thicker, the instability of hormones, etc.. Where it all are several contributing factors of cancer recurrence. At least if we are healthier and more independent will not interfere with / depend on others, can perform useful activities. Also low-fat foods will help us to control weight so as not to overdo it. Cancer patients are encouraged so that their weight does not rise excessively and control his blood pressure. Should consume the food is as follows:
• Consumption of adequate vegetables and fruits (4-5 kinds each day). For example, apples, papaya, avocado / kiwi / mango, guava red / strawberry / dragon fruit, oranges, etc.. Red amaranth, green amaranth, ginseng, papaya leaf + flower papaya, broccoli, beets, carrots, etc.. Choose vegetables and fruits are brightly colored and do not consume the kinds of vegetables and fruits are the same in the long term. Preferably in combination for the body but not the excess of certain substances other deficiency. Vary the colors of fruit and vegetables.
• If the consume food sources of carbohydrates, choose complex carbohydrates, such as brown rice, whole wheat bread
• Expand marine fish meal (try not to eat squid, crab, milkfish), if chicken, buy free-range chicken or organic chicken. If forced to eat red meat (beef), choose low-fat. In a study mentioned that eating red meat as much as five to six times a week increases cancer risk. To reduce the risk, the U.S. National Cancer Institute advise us to limit fat consumption hingga30%. But according to research to get the anti-cancer effects, try to consume fat approximately 10-15% only. Or better not at all. If I was not eating red meat again since getting cancer.
• If the consume milk and other dairy select low-fat or soy milk. Select a plain yogurt. Other processed soy is also good, such as tofu, tempeh.
• We recommend that you begin to reduce the sugar (honey may be substituted if forced), foods that contain nitrites, preservatives, dyes, salted, smoked.
• Reduce fried. Carbohydrate-containing foods such as french fries / potato chips will stimulate the formation of carcinogenic compounds called acrylamide. In potato / fried potato chips this compound more than the other fried foods.
• Avoid cooking foods with a high temperature.
• If forced to eat fried food, use cholesterol-free oils such as canola oil. Disposable directly discharged, hence saving battery life just because they’re expensive at all (2 liter to Rp. 70,000) I usually do, if Canola Oil hard to find in supermarkets around the home with Olive Oil was forced to use (this is much more expensive, usually for the salad dressing) is also very use immediately discarded.
• Avoid alcohol and drink soft drinks. Better to drink 8 glasses of water a day
• Limit the tasty but healthy snacks, like cake, candy and various desserts. Replace snacks with for example: corn on the cob, boiled peanuts, edamame boiled, chestnuts, and legumes / beans.
• When making a salad vegetable dressingnya just use olive oil mixture. Do not wear that high in fat.
FOOD CONSUMPTION DURING MY undergoing chemotherapy:
Here is my experience eating during their chemotherapy. Since before undergoing conventional treatment (in medicine, namely radiation and chemotherapy) my body is very weak condition (weight loss up to 16 Kg, breast perforated 11 cm diameter, almost paralyzed state, smaller feet, in constant pain), then when it is advisable to immediate radiotherapy I eat rather a lot of carbohydrates and protein for rapid weight increases. Not embrace a specific diet but still there are vegetables and fruits. So when undergoing radiotherapy process, I did not experience any side effects. Only when the last radiotherapy leukocytes decreased to 2500. It’s not too bad condition. And HB, I also did not drop, the level 12 +. still good. Once finished Radiotherapy I (as much as 10x) where I had a better condition (pain is reduced), I slowly began to organize food for chemotherapy preparation and subsequent Radiotherapy (38x). Here I choose a diet with how food combining.
Why I chose this, because the eating arrangements follow the body’s metabolic cycle, so that the process of food digestion, absorption and utilization of nutrients for the body, as well as food waste disposal take place effectively. So that all organs of the body can work in their capacity, and no work overload, because when the work overload of the body organs will be exhausted. Alerts include: increased blood sugar levels (from the pancreas is wrong) or cholesterol / high blood triglycerides (such as interference with the bile), the body’s metabolic processes take place continuously for 24 hours. But for 8-hour cycle that occurs most active. Namely:
At 04:00 to 12:00: The cycle of food waste disposal
At this time, the menu’s most suitable food in the morning is fresh fruit, can of fruit pieces, fruit juice, fruit salad, lassi (fruit juice + plain yogurt). For the sweetener can be added madu.Buah prepare ready-made energy, in the form of fruit sugar which is easily digested and absorbed efficiently, without the need for energy metabolism is too big. This is consistent with the metabolic cycle that is still in the disposal cycle. Because of easy to digest, then fresh fruit more quickly leaves the stomach, so it is easy to hunger. So between 1-2 hours and then we can take the next fruit. This is to keep the blood sugar concentration to keep us berenergy.Untuk my morning fruit consumption is as follows:
• Should, starting with warm water mixed with lemon juice on waking. Since I often Chemo, then my digestion does not take it anymore when waking to drink lemon juice mixed with warm water. So every morning starting at 06 300, I drink apple juice (unsweetened any). If I, apple juice becomes mandatory every morning because of this prop hunger. 07,300 Hours / 8:00 I eat papaya fruit slices. It is also mandatory. In order not hungry. 09.00 / 09:30, I ate whatever fruit juice, can: guava juice + honey, lessi strawberry, melon juice, avocado juice + a bit of palm sugar, etc.. 10.30, can be interspersed with soy milk, or one small bowl of boiled beans, boiled edamame, or a piece of boiled sweet. 11:30 am, eat more fruit juice, can be anything. But during my Chemo avoid eating bananas and mangoes because my stomach acid is not strong. If the durian fruit has not ever eat again since I had cancer.
At 12:00 to 21:00: the cycle of food digestion
During the day is the best time to consume animal protein menu, rather than at night. While at lunch and dinner our bodies still in the cycle of food digestion, but animal foods take much longer than the starch digestibility (animal 4-6 hours, starch 2-3 hours). So, if we eat animal protein for example in at 19.00 then the possibility of undigested food that’s not all perfect when the cycle has moved into the absorption cycle (21:00 hours). As a result, undigested food will not rot and become toksin.Untuk meals daytime I was rotein (can be chicken or fish) + vegetables I use this menu if no Chemo or the body is fit when finished Chemo. If I’m tired a lot of activity in the morning then at lunch, I add the rice meskipu not much. all afternoon and evening so that there is power. Actually this is deviating from the food combining. In the afternoon starting at 17:30 I eat vegetables until 21:00 hours. At this hour, I often eat the leaves of aloe vera saaya buy at the supermarket. I use aloe vera leaves are large (on the Hero, Carrefour) and then I peeled, take meat only, washed using boiled water is warm, then I eat it without using sugar or sweeteners of any kind, point to avoid sprue and heat in the throat in during Chemo.
21:00 to 4:00 am: absorption of nutrients Cycle
Can drinking herbal tea / green tea before bed. If there is still work nights and felt hungry, I eat fruit. Can apples, grapes, or fruit are available dikulkas.
A diet like this is what I wear every day, being Chemo or not. And God willing, will still be my life forever. Because for me, such a diet has proven to increase endurance, seemed to me certain conditions are healthier than people without cancer. If within a month of my men there must be a permit because I was sick until now have never Alhamdulillah. (Meaning more stamina, Alhamdulillah, never had the flu, dizziness and other ailments and other complaints). Also, when compared Chemo last year, I was stronger this year when Chemo me more (9 times) and drugs also incorporated more (4 kinds of drugs, so that Chemo lasted 12 hours). Because at the time of Chemo in 2006, I raised the concentration of weight, then even eat vegetables and fruit, but do not follow the diet strictly food combining. Even this diet still helps me, because during Chemo in 2006, I also did not experience any side effects hair loss only, and never once I went down to stay leukocytes 500. and even then I only feel the weak only. But the doctor advised me to stay 2 days to avoid infection. After it all went normal. Only on 5th Chemo and 6 knees and ankles a little sore when to run. This lasted until 4 months after completion of Chemo. But Alhamdulillah, for Chemo this time, with a strict diet, I did not experience significant side effects. Only hair loss (broken?). The skin is also not experience drought or change color, as well as the nail does not have masalah.Dan leukocyte-ngedrop ngedrop not very. Most go down well only until 2000. And then I just felt tired. But after the injection Neupogen (in 2006, to raise me make use of GRANOSITE leukocytes, but these are expensive ± Rp. 1.200.000, if Neupogen costs Rp. 830 000, -) straight day later rose more than 10,000 leukocytes.
While undergoing chemotherapy, I was also not given any extra vitamins from the doctor, do not eat any supplement. I just rely on diet alone, plus to protect my kidneys 2x a week drinking each of ginger, turmeric and so not bitter kencur plus rice. Also 2x a week drinking white turmeric.
Food Combining diet that I follow it, not that I recommend to patients with other cancers. This is just sharing the experience alone. There are many other dietary patterns, which may be suitable for cancer patients, please try. I want to underline here is that we already have cancer, the pattern of our lives have changed. Of course this changed towards better things, do not carelessly eating. And do not feel suffering because they can not eat as good as it used to be able to just enjoy the food we eat. There is a saying that the enjoyment of food was limited to the tongue, after that everything seemed the same. The most important thing, right after the entrance to the stomach, the food is not beneficial for tubuh.Meskipun with diet arrangement does not guarantee no recurrence of cancer, but still there is another advantage if more regular life, so more fresh bodies, are not quickly achieved, skin so much shine despite being beaten with drugs that contain radioactive.

Have you ever eat chicken claw? turns out a chicken claw was good for our consumption, as reported previously in detikhealth, chicken claw can improve immunity and prevent cancer. Just like a shark fin, aka claw also contains a lot of chicken legs to coat the joint cartilage.

American Cancer Society has developed a cancer drug made from cartilage. Drugs made from shark fin was quite effective, but difficult to obtain raw materials in large quantities without disturbing the balance of marine life.

In this case if the shark to be protected, then the chicken claw could be an alternative because both contain a lot of cartilage. Chicken claw obviously more readily available because these birds are grown so it is not possible extinction although consumed continuously.

Other Ingredients can be found in shark’s fin and chicken claw is glucosamine and chondroitin, two compounds are efficacious as a natural anti-inflammatory. A study in 1995 proved, two compounds that could alleviate the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis.

Another advantage of a chicken claw than the shark fin is a very high content of kolagennya. Collagen is a type of protein and is widely used in beauty products are widely available on the bones, joints, and the hardened skin on chicken claw.

The protein will give the sensation of feeling a little chewy when cooked in chicken claw is believed to be good for skin health because it can reduce the effects of aging, including skin dull and wrinkled. Quoted from Wisegeek, Wednesday (23/03/2011), collagen is also good for healthy hair and nails, making it suitable for those who want to maintain their physical beauty.

However, not much chicken claw containing meat or muscle which is the main protein source. To get a balanced nutrition, hobbies imbangi eating chicken claw with eating meat, especially the chest which contains more protein and little fat on the skin.

Papaya began to gain a prominent place in the Western medical world after a study proving the efficacy of the plant to ward off cancer. In many cultures, people have learned the benefits of fruits, leaves, until the sap of the plant to treat various diseases.
Researchers University of Florida, Nam Dang, and colleagues in Japan have documented the anticancer effect of papaya which is amazing against various tumor cells that developed in the laboratory, including cervical cancer, breast, liver, lung, and pancreas. The researchers used a similar extract prepared from dried papaya leaves. Papaya proven anticancer effect is much stronger when the cancer cells battered papaya leaf tea in an increasingly large doses.

In a paper published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 17 February, Dang and his research team also documented for the first time that the papaya extract increase the production of an important signal transmitter molecules called cytokines type Th1. Production of these proteins regulate the immune system, plus papaya antitumor effects against various types of cancer, is a treatment strategy that can be used in the immune system to fight cancer.

Papaya extract did not cause toxic effects on normal cells, in contrast to the consequences of other types of cancer therapies, which also mercilessly beat up a healthy cell. Dang, who is also professor of medicine and medical director of Shands Cancer Center Clinical Trials Office at the University of Florida, said the success of papaya extract in the fight against cancer without the toxic effect is consistent with reports from indigenous Australians and his hometown in Vietnam. “Based on what I have heard and seen, all the people who drink this extract showed no toxicity,” he said. “You can consume them in a long time as long as it effectively.”

Scientists apply 10 types of different cancer cell cultures with four kinds of papaya extract that has the power and measure the effect after 24 hours. Papaya reduce tumor growth rate in all cultures.

To identify the mechanism by papaya in inhibiting cancer cell growth in cell culture, the team Dang research focuses on one type of cell to T lymphoma. The results of their research showed that at least there is one mechanism that was launched by the extract of papaya can trigger cell death.

In a similar analysis, the team also investigated the effects of papaya extracts on the production of antitumor molecules, known as cytokines. In this research, papaya increased Th1 type cytokine production, which is important in regulating the immune system. Based on these reasons, the findings of this study increases the possibility of utilization of papaya extract components in conditions associated with immune system, such as inflammation, autoimmune diseases, and cancer in the future.

Bharat B. Aggarwal, a researcher at the Cancer Center M.D. Anderson, University of Texas at Houston, was so convinced of the restorative power of papaya, so he ate a serving of fruit every day. “We know that papaya has a lot of interesting compounds in it,” said Aggarwal, professor of experimental therapeutic department at the cancer center.

One element that is considered beneficial to health is papain, a special enzyme present only in papaya. Not only in the fruit, these enzymes are also present in papaya leaves. “The paper is not excessive,” he said. “This is a good start in identifying the components responsible for anticancer activity.”

Aggarwal expect success in the pawpaw extract reduced the growth of cancerous cells are not stalled limited experiments in the laboratory, but also tested in animals and humans. “I hope that Dr. Dang continue his research. We need people like him to develop that potential,” he said.

Dang and his team have filed a patent processing means for extracting papaya extract through the University of Tokyo. They plan further study to identify specific compounds in papaya extract that is active against cancer cells. Especially for that stage, Dang took Hendrik Luesch, a fellow member of the Shands Cancer Center, as well as professor of medical chemistry.

Experts have discovered a huge potential of tobacco plant that had been getting a bad image because people are used as material for cigarettes that cause millions of cases of cancer worldwide. It turned out that tobacco can be used as a cancer drug chronic lymphoma. Drugs of this tobacco will arrange for the patient’s own immune response against the tumor cells themselves.
The drug is made ​​by using a new approach that changes the tobacco crop was genetically engineered into plants to certain vaccines. Lymphoma is a type of cancer involving cells of the immune system. A doctor from Stanford University in California say that this is the first time a type of plant used to produce proteins to be injected to humans and would be a way to cure cancer without side effects.
The researchers wounding tobacco leaves wrapped with a virus gene to infect these plants, which subsequently produce protein antibodies are also seen in tumor patients. A few days later, the leaves are plucked and pounded a green powder. From the leaves, the anti-body was taken and clarified. Materials are then injected back into the patient. This is the first cancer vaccine from plants have been tested in humans. Vaccines derived from plants have a number of advantages. The vaccine can be developed much faster and much cheaper.

Cervical cancer or cervical cancer caused by Human Papillomavirus Virus (HPV). There are at least 118 different types of HPV is the cause but only 8 types of HPV that are most widely spread in more than 90 percent of cervical cancer cases.
International research team led by Silvia de San Jose of the Catalan Institute of Oncology in Barcelona check the HPV types that contribute to cases of cervical cancer.
This study used data from 10,575 cases of cervical cancer in 38 countries for over 60 years. The study involved cancer cases from Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
The results, published in the Lancet medical journal shows that there are 8 types of HPV responsible for 90 percent of cervical cancer cases. Types of HPV are types 16, 18, 45, 33, 31, 52, 58 and 35.
Researchers also identified several rare species such as HPV types 26, 30, 61, 67, 69, 82 and 91, this type can also cause cancer but the percentage is only about 1 percent worldwide.
Drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline and Merck & Co. have made a vaccine against strains of HPV that cause most cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer suffered by women around the world.
Cervarix vaccine from GSK and Merck’s new Gardasil provides protection against HPV types 16 and 18. HPV immunization will be given to girls who are not yet sexually active, but the price of the vaccine is too expensive so can not be maximally accessible in poor countries.
“Prevention of cervical cancer through a vaccine that is still rational, and these results will help develop a second generation vaccine that can protect some types of HPV,” said De San Jose, as quoted by Reuters on Monday (10/18/2010).