By Yvone Madid
Sometimes it’s hard to accept changes, right? It’s not that easy to change anything that you’ve been used to do, feel and think. There may be times that you find it difficult to cope up when something breaks the rule of the word routine.
But sometimes, there are really certain facts of life that come hand in hand with these changes. In science, there are founded theories that when being accepted by majority of the population, it becomes a law. But what if that law is not really the fact that people are waiting? Would they become blind because of their ignorance? One of good example was when Galileo had the guts to state, “It is the earth which revolves around the sun”. Everybody mocked at him because they believed to the “law” founded by Plato that “ the sun revolves around the earth”. But now, even primary student know the fact that one complete revolution of the earth around the sun is equivalent to a one whole year…
Like in the example above, a French study by some of its most noted scientist has surprised the professional medical world. Their studies have dismissed the well-accepted theory that a diet plentiful in calories plays a factor in promoting the generation of cancer in the intestines.
Their five-year period of observation to patients with intestinal cancer proves that a calorie rich diet also helps to actually increase the chances of outliving an intestinal cancer that has been removed through an operation.
The study with 148 patients proved this connection. There’s a higher mortality rate risk of patients who lived a calorie conscious lifestyle before their cancer diagnosis than their suffering counterparts after the operational removal of the tumor.
The French researchers in the medical field from Marie Christine Boutron Ruault of Paris Institute studied and evaluated the data of the 97 men and 51 women who had their intestinal cancer removed through operations. They particularly monitored and studied the eating habits of the patients before they were diagnosed with cancer. This was apart from the age, sex and situation of the tumor within the intestine and was found to be crucial for the chances for survival of the patients.
The data they gathered shows that 50 of the patients nourished themselves on a calorie rich diet, 48 patients follow the balance nutrition and 50 patients were extremely calorie conscious.
Within 5 years, the mortality rate after the intestinal cancer operation within those who had a balanced diet was 46% or 22 patients, which proved to be the highest. 36% or 18 of the patients who led calorie conscious lifestyle nutrition died after that certain period and only six patients or 12% of the patients who clearly ate too sumptuously died as the result of the intestinal cancer.
Consumption of alcohol, tobacco and other special food, which could have affected the mortality rate, were not taken into account and did not seen to play any vital influence.
Because a calorie rich diet has long been regarded as jointly responsible for the emergence of intestine cancer, the result of this study were surprising to many, even to other researchers.
Intestinal cancer ranks among the most frequent cancer forms in the western industrialized countries. There’s a slim chance of survival among the patients because usually, it is being discovered too late. Over half of the patients diagnosed with intestinal cancer die within five years after the initial diagnosis.
In order to fight his deadly form of cancer, further studies are required to undertake, but due to the length of the term of each research study, it may be a few more years yet before the human race can finally hope to rid itself of this killer known as intestinal cancer disease.
Though the research negates the saying of having a balanced nutrition with regards to intestinal cancer, we need to accept this fact. It somehow made some changes about the usual theory, but as the maxim goes, there’s no permanent thing in this world except change……
I am a professional nurse and I would like to share my views and opinion to other people who are making this community a rich source of information. I would like also to share some of my views about the most dreadful disease of the world - CANCER
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