News digest – PSA test, cutting calories, cervical cancer, and… do you know what increases cancer risk?

It’s unfortunate that so many people object to the obesity/cancer link without thinking it through rationally.
I appreciate that many people considered to be obese can be very defensive about their weight and object to the correlation but in my view the population generally has been conned by the food industry to adopt unhealthy eating patterns over the last 50 years.
We were persuaded that sugar and carbs were the healthy option and we should cut out saturated fats.
This of course is now being questioned by scientists and other experts who are also linking the sugar diet with the increased incidence of diabetes, alzheimers and cancers.

People who have problems with their weight should NOT be having to take personal responsiblity for following NHS guidelines and the food industry who profited so richly from pushing the junk foods which has become our staple diet.

The food industry should be financing advice and treatments for all those people who conformed to their marketing strategies and perhaps they should be sued for putting the health of the population at risk.

I won’t be donating to Cancer Research UK again because I thought my money was being spent on research, not on billboard sites to inform people that obesity causes cancer. I can understand some advertising to generate more donations but the obesity ad isn’t going to generate donations and has lost you mine.

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Its all very well saying that such as “processed meat” increases cancer risk, but
a. there doesn’t seem to be a clear definition of what “processed” means.
b. Assuming it includes red meat etc in “Ready meals”, it is more and more difficult to purchase and consume healthier alternatives.
Its all very well (and correct) telling individuals to take more responsibility, but its not the individual’s fault if Butchers are closing right left and centre, such that decent ones can only be reached by a long drive – no good if you don’t even have a car!
And its not the individual’s fault if (large) Employers are closing canteens and making employees go out and buy, prepare (in second hand microwaves) and eat lunch all inside 30 minutes.

I have pancreatic cancer and I never hear news that money is being put behind research for the cancer that is the deadliest and diagnosis is often too late.

With prostate cancer being so destructive, I think that the important issue here is that we need new screening methods that don’t fall short as the PSA test apparently does. We need a test that is highly reliable and we should all do what we can to help with that cause.

As a 44 year old with no family history of prostate cancer, a PSA test run by a doctor who ignored the guidelinea saved my life. I was diagnosed and treated for stage 3 prostate cancer. Without the PSA test being run “early”, i would have had untreatable diagnosis by the age of 50 when the teat is usually run in the US. When i see articles about overdiagnosis, i think better training doctors is a better option than leaving actual cancers undiagnosed.