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The Doctors discuss a recent study that revealed engaging in oral sex may raise your chances of getting cancer.. Connect with The Doctors: Subscribe to The Doctors: http://bit.ly/SubscribeTheDrs. LIKE us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/FacebookTheDoctors. Follow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/TheDrsTwitter. Follow us on Pinterest: http://bit.ly/PinterestTheDrs. About The Doctors: The Doctors is an Emmy award-winning daytime talk show hosted by ER physician Dr. Travis Stork, plastic surgeon Dr. Andrew Ordon, OB-GYN Dr. Jennifer Ashton, urologist Dr. Jennifer Berman and family medicine physician and sexologist Dr. Rachael Ross.. The Doctors helps you understand the latest health headlines, such as the ice bucket challenge for ALS and the Ebola outbreak; delivers exclusive interviews with celebrities dealing with health issues, such as Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham, reality stars Honey Boo Boo and Mama June and activist Chaz Bono; brings you debates about health and safety claims from agricultural company Monsanto and celebrities such as Jenny McCarthy; and shows you the latest gross viral videos and explains how you can avoid an emergency situation. The Doctors also features the News in 2:00 digest of the latest celebrity health news and The Doctors’ Prescription for simple steps to get active, combat stress, eat better and live healthier.. Now in its eighth season, The Doctors celebrity guests have included Academy Award Winners Sally Field, Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda, Marcia Gay Harden, Kathy Bates and Marisa Tomei; reality stars from Teen Mom and The Real Housewives, as well as Kris Jenner, Caitlyn Jenner, Melissa Rivers, Sharon Osbourne, Tim Gunn and Amber Rose; actors Jessica Alba, Christina Applegate, Julie Bowen, Patricia Heaton, Chevy Chase, Kristin Davis, Lou Ferrigno, Harrison Ford, Grace Gealey, Cedric the Entertainer, Valerie Harper, Debra Messing, Chris O’Donnell, Betty White, Linda Gray, Fran Drescher, Emmy Rossum, Roseanne Barr, Valerie Bertinelli, Suzanne Somers; athletes Magic Johnson, Apolo Ohno and Danica Patrick; musicians Tim McGraw, Justin Bieber, Clint Black, LL Cool J, Nick Carter, Kristin Chenoweth, Paula Abdul, Gloria Gaynor, La Toya Jackson, Barry Manilow, Bret Michaels, Gene Simmons and Jordin Sparks; and celebrity chefs Wolfgang Puck, Guy Fieri and Curtis Stone.
John Kisiel, M.D., a gastroenterologist at Mayo Clinic specializing in the care and evaluation of patients with IBD, discusses a recent study published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology that concluded patients with Crohn’s disease, but not ulcerative colitis, have an overall excess risk of cancer
Research shows that more than 5% of new cancer occurrences across the globe and 20% of all cancer deaths worldwide are attributed to alcohol. Medical oncologist Dr. Noelle LoConte explains the effect of alcohol on different parts of the body and its link to cancer, and answers what people can do to reduce their personal risk of several types of cancer.
Nutritionist Maya Feller discusses what to know about a new study that links eating more processed foods to a significant increase in your risk of developing certain cancers.
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MONDAY, Sept. 8, 2014 (HealthDay News) Having prediabetes may increase a person’s risk for cancer, researchers report. The researchers analyzed 16 studies that included nearly 900,000 people from around the world and found that people with prediabetes had a 15 percent overall increased risk of cancer. Patients with Crohn’s colitis—particularly younger patients—are at increased risk for colorectal cancer.
This risk does not rise until seven or eight years after Crohn’s colitis is diagnosed. It tends to be more insidious in its onset than other colon cancers, often causing no symptoms until it is advanced. Celiac Disease and Colon Cancer When it comes to colorectal cancer, several factors will raise your risk, including having inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), having a personal or family history of colon or rectal cancer or intestinal polyps, smoking, or eating a. But having a risk factor, or even several risk factors, does not mean that you will get the disease. And some people who get the disease may have few or no known risk factors.
Factors that can increase your risk of liver cancer. Several factors can increase a person’s chance of getting a hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Gender. But research has shown that certain risk factors may increase a person’s chances of developing cancer. (There are also factors that are linked to a lower risk of cancer.
These are sometimes called protective risk factors, or just protective factors.) Cancer risk factors include exposure to chemicals or other substances, as well as certain. “But it is important to stress that while mononucleosis does increase the risk of getting Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the risk is still very small on the order of one case of the cancer. Learn about symptoms of breast cancer in men and things that may increase your risk. Learn what triple-negative breast cancer is and how it’s treated. CDC works with partners to reduce the burden of breast cancer in the United States.
Chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes are serious health concerns by themselves, but to make matters worse, they may also raise a person’s risk of cancer, a new study from Taiwan finds. A mutation of the retinoblastoma (RB1) gene can cause cancer of the eye in infants, and also increases the risk of bladder cancer. Cowden disease, caused by mutations in the PTEN gene, is linked mainly to cancers of the breast and thyroid.
People with this disease also have a higher risk of bladder cancer. At this time, it is not known whether having a history of cancer increases your risk. Actions to take: Have a conversation with your healthcare provider or care team to discuss your individual level of risk based on your condition, your treatment, and the level of transmission in your community.
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About half of all cancer deaths in developed countries may be prevented by changes in lifestyle, such as reducing cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, and exposure to environmental and occupational carcinogens (cancer-causing substances); altering diet; and engaging in regular physical activity.
Many things are known to increase the risk of cancer, including tobacco use, certain infections, radiation, lack of physical activity, obesity, and environmental pollutants [5].
For example, tobacco use increases lung cancer risk by more than 20-fold among Hodgkin lymphoma survivors who have been treated with mediastinal radiation (46,47).
This means that instead of an annual colorectal cancer risk of 1 in 10,000, a person consuming that quantity increases his or her risk to reach 1.6 per 10,000.
• Possible association with celiac sprue or dietary deficiencies of molybdenum, selenium, zinc, vitamin A. ADENOCARCINOMA: • Smoking may increase the risk of developing adenocarcinoma, particularly in patients with Barrett’s.
Indeed, 30–40% of overall cancer risk is reported to be diet-related, and there is a wealth of compelling observational evidence that a lower risk of cancer, CVD, diabetes, and other chronic age-related disorders is associated with diets that are rich in antioxidants.
These operate in a secondary way to predispose an individual to cancer, they are not carcinogenic as such.1 It has been estimated that 70–90% of all human cancers can be attributed to environmental chemical causes (Tomatis 1979).
Kutluk Oktay, MD, FACOG is one of the world's foremost experts in fertility preservation as well as ovarian stimulation and in vitro fertilization for infertility treatments. He developed and performed the world's first ovarian transplantation procedures as well as pioneered new ovarian stimulation protocols for embryo and oocyte freezing for breast and endometrial cancer patients.
Wait…about that thing about “history of cancer in your family” does it affect if it happened after my birth? My mom had breast cancer, does that mean I can get cancer!?
I heard cherrys fights cancer but there’s a sideaffects if you eat too much of it gives you headaches and stomach aches ����there’s your facts for today
I just watched a video about a 15 year old boy that got brain cancer I am worried that I might get cancer because I don’t live in a healthy lifestyle Thanks for making me aware of cancer
I’m really grateful for the strict parenting my parents gave us. I’m 20, never had sex, never engage in any form of sexual activity and Im saving it until marriage.
Oral sex is not normal for man and woman couple. It is a form of experiment that does not agree the normal sex life. Oral sex of same sex is different issue.there is no feeling for mouth,it is just like sucking dog.on the side of guy or woman that is victim of oral sex, it is a form of rape coz the pressure is too much and almost killling the victims. The aftermath will be feeling in trauma or shocked and it will change positively the physical appearance of the victim.there is no love in same sex practice. It is just an animal instinct of craving for flesh from other body. I am telling this because i was raped by a macho guy and it shook me.i recuperate after 10 years!not allowing anyone to do it again to me.i can say it is a form of raping and draining too much energy from the body until you lost consciousness. I cannot trust the suckers! They are killling you softly.
Save the heavy metals, polluted Mobile Alabama Bay Oyster’s, eat more Kitty Katy. Once U get past the smell,? U got her licked. If U lick her, before U stick her,.. then U may keep her. 9-5-20
Hi thank you for sharing this amazing study. As somebody who’s 17 and diagnosed in october with ulcerative colitis are there any more tests preformed for specifically colitis? i’m very curious about the risks I could be at later down the road. I understand lymphoma chances are increased by remicade by a very small margin but anything else?
I was diagnosed w/UC, but never had blood in stool, diarrhea, ulcers. I had polyps and inflammation. But last year I had sepsis and it turned out that my appendix was dead, when I had my surgery it fell apart in the surgeon’s hands. The next day I woke up and felt better than I did in years. They suspected all these years I had chronic appendicitis. Within three months the gastroenterologist did a colonoscopy and removed a benign polyp and said I had a small amount of inflammation in my colon. She now diagnosed me with uc with no symptoms (does this even exist). Doesn’t it take a longer time than 3 months for the inflammation (which I suspect is the reason I had polyps) that was ongoing for many years to clear up without medication? I don’t trust this doctor. When I had my sepsis with absasses in my abdomen and a lot of puss around my appendix, both her and another GI told me I have Chron’s. Am I wrong that these doctor’s are just throwing around guesses and there really isn’t anything wrong with me? I take no medication and I am perfectly fine with no symptoms at all. Also, I can eat anything I want with no problems.
If your partner has HPV, yes there is a risk. But there are also things like tomatoes that fight free radicals in the body. The true answer is kind of hard to really predict. Plus I think they have a few HPV shots for certain groups of people that protect from certain strains of HPV.
When you have chrons in two places, got it since you were 10, have been taking azathioprine ever since and start to feel really bad. I am 20 now, not doing any drugs other than aza, but yeah anyways gonna see a doc again soon.
Wait…about that thing about “history of cancer in your family” does it affect if it happened after my birth? My mom had breast cancer, does that mean I can get cancer!?
I heard cherrys fights cancer but there’s a sideaffects if you eat too much of it gives you headaches and stomach aches ����there’s your facts for today
I just watched a video about a 15 year old boy that got brain cancer
I am worried that I might get cancer because I don’t live in a healthy lifestyle
Thanks for making me aware of cancer
ayyy anyone else watching because anxiety tells them they will die from cancer at age 25 because it wasn’t diagnosed until stage IV?
just me?
ok
I’m really grateful for the strict parenting my parents gave us. I’m 20, never had sex, never engage in any form of sexual activity and Im saving it until marriage.
Oral sex is not normal for man and woman couple. It is a form of experiment that does not agree the normal sex life. Oral sex of same sex is different issue.there is no feeling for mouth,it is just like sucking dog.on the side of guy or woman that is victim of oral sex, it is a form of rape coz the pressure is too much and almost killling the victims. The aftermath will be feeling in trauma or shocked and it will change positively the physical appearance of the victim.there is no love in same sex practice. It is just an animal instinct of craving for flesh from other body. I am telling this because i was raped by a macho guy and it shook me.i recuperate after 10 years!not allowing anyone to do it again to me.i can say it is a form of raping and draining too much energy from the body until you lost consciousness. I cannot trust the suckers! They are killling you softly.
Save the heavy metals, polluted Mobile Alabama Bay Oyster’s, eat more Kitty Katy. Once U get past the smell,? U got her licked. If U lick her, before U stick her,.. then U may keep her. 9-5-20
Hi thank you for sharing this amazing study. As somebody who’s 17 and diagnosed in october with ulcerative colitis are there any more tests preformed for specifically colitis? i’m very curious about the risks I could be at later down the road. I understand lymphoma chances are increased by remicade by a very small margin but anything else?
I was diagnosed w/UC, but never had blood in stool, diarrhea, ulcers. I had polyps and inflammation. But last year I had sepsis and it turned out that my appendix was dead, when I had my surgery it fell apart in the surgeon’s hands. The next day I woke up and felt better than I did in years. They suspected all these years I had chronic appendicitis. Within three months the gastroenterologist did a colonoscopy and removed a benign polyp and said I had a small amount of inflammation in my colon. She now diagnosed me with uc with no symptoms (does this even exist). Doesn’t it take a longer time than 3 months for the inflammation (which I suspect is the reason I had polyps) that was ongoing for many years to clear up without medication? I don’t trust this doctor. When I had my sepsis with absasses in my abdomen and a lot of puss around my appendix, both her and another GI told me I have Chron’s. Am I wrong that these doctor’s are just throwing around guesses and there really isn’t anything wrong with me? I take no medication and I am perfectly fine with no symptoms at all. Also, I can eat anything I want with no problems.
If your partner has HPV, yes there is a risk. But there are also things like tomatoes that fight free radicals in the body. The true answer is kind of hard to really predict. Plus I think they have a few HPV shots for certain groups of people that protect from certain strains of HPV.
When you have chrons in two places, got it since you were 10, have been taking azathioprine ever since and start to feel really bad.
I am 20 now, not doing any drugs other than aza, but yeah anyways gonna see a doc again soon.
My neighbors smoke every time they take there dogs out in there backyard. How do I know? Because I jump on my trampoline facing there yard.