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      A ‘heathenish liquor’? A cure for cancer? The history of coffee is full of surprises | Jonathan Morris

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 2 April - 15:00

    A new study suggests coffee could prevent bowel cancer reoccurring – but claims for its healing properties have abounded since the 15th century

    Last week a study was published showing that people with bowel cancer who drink coffee – quite a lot of coffee, two to four cups a day – were less likely to suffer a return of the disease. Experts have said that if the results hold in further studies, coffee could be prescribed to cancer patients on the NHS. That coffee does have an effect on human function is beyond dispute – but whether that impact is beneficial or detrimental has been the subject of contention since Sufi mystics began consuming the beverage some time in the mid-15th century.

    The Indigenous peoples of the forests of Kaffa in south-west Ethiopia foraged berries from wild coffee plants that were shipped across the Red Sea to prepare the decoction known as qahwa, which Yemeni Sufis incorporated into their night-time religious ceremonies to reduce their desire for sleep. Once mainstream Islamic courts ruled coffee was not intoxicating, consumption became widespread among the Muslim populations in the Middle East and the Ottoman empire.

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      Patients keep asking if they should take cannabis for their cancer. The answer is still no | Ranjana Srivastava

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 1 April - 14:00

    Cannabis is not a treatment, let alone a cure for cancer. It is not a substitute for chemotherapy and can cause significant side effects

    It’s fair to say my patients were using cannabis long before I knew it was a “thing”.

    My first memory of encountering the drug was a decade ago at the bedside of a dying patient. I was about to commence a morphine infusion when a burly man quietly asked me to step outside. Moments later, my apprehension turned to surprise when, tears streaming down his face, the son begged me to wait while his brother procured some cannabis from an underground supplier, “just in case it works”.

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      UK membership of Dignitas soars by 24% as assisted dying in Scotland moves closer

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 28 March - 05:00

    Bill being laid before Scottish parliament could, if approved, allow people in Britain to take their own lives within the law

    UK membership of Dignitas, the Swiss assisted dying association, has jumped to 1,900 people – a 24% rise during 2023 – as an assisted dying bill is laid before the Scottish parliament.

    People from the UK now make up the second largest group who have signed up to the organisation, which is based near Zurich and helps people take their own lives. The largest group is currently Germans, although they can now get help to end their lives at home after a 2020 court ruling .

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      The virus that infects almost everyone, and its link to cancer and MS – podcast

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 28 March - 05:00

    On 28 March it is the 60th anniversary of the discovery of Epstein-Barr virus, the most common viral infection in humans. The virus was first discovered in association with a rare type of cancer located in Africa, but is now understood to be implicated in 1% of cancers, as well as the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis, among others. Ian Sample meets Lawrence Young, professor of molecular oncology at Warwick Medical School, to hear the story of this virus, and how understanding it might help us prevent and treat cancer and other illnesses.

    Read an obituary of Sir Anthony Epstein, who died in February 2024

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      Hormone medication could increase risk of brain tumours, study finds

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 27 March - 22:30

    Patients taking certain progestogens as a contraceptive or for gynaecological conditions may be more likely to develop growths, researchers say

    Millions of women around the world who use certain hormone drugs for contraception and to manage conditions such as endometriosis may have a raised risk of rare, usually benign, brain tumours, researchers say.

    Scientists found that prolonged use of certain progestogen medications was linked to a greater risk of meningioma, which are tumours (usually noncancerous) that form in tissues around the brain.

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      The assisted dying debate: Paola’s story

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 27 March - 03:00

    Paola Marra ended her life last week in Switzerland after being told by doctors she could not be guaranteed a pain-free death from bowel cancer in the coming months. Robert Booth reports

    Last week Paola Marra arrived in Zurich for the last journey she would ever make. She was in the final months of her life with stage-four bowel cancer and had an appointment with Dignitas for an assisted death. She had gone alone, partly because she wanted peace in her final moments, but also because of the legal risk to her friends or family who could be seen to be assisting her.

    She spoke several times over the final days of her life to the Guardian’s social affairs editor, Robert Booth . He tells Hannah Moore about Paola’s decision to take control of her death and why she was so disappointed that she didn’t have the option to stay in the UK for it.

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      Mathias Poujol-Rost ✅ · Thursday, 8 April, 2021 - 15:59

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    Certains cocktails de pesticides favoriseraient le risque de cancer du sein chez les femmes ménopausées
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      Pour "Stars à nu", Laurent Maistret raconte le combat de sa mère contre le cancer

      Mathilde Pereira Karsenti · news.movim.eu / HuffingtonPost · Friday, 5 February, 2021 - 10:30 · 2 minutes

    Laurent Maistret participe à la deuxième saison de

    HOMMAGE - Alors que TF1 lance la deuxième édition de “Stars à Nu” ce vendredi 5 février soir dès 21h, Laurent Maistret s’est confié au Parisien sur les raisons qui l’ont poussé à y participer. Il raconte le long combat de sa mère contre le cancer et qui a finalement succombé du Covid-19.

    Au lendemain de la journée mondiale de lutte contre le cancer, Alessandra Sublet présentera le programme qui a, cette année, pour objectif de sensibiliser les téléspectateurs au dépistage du cancer du côlon. Comme Camille Lacourt, Christophe Beaugrand, Maëva Coucke et dix autres personnalités, Laurent Maistret a choisi de relever le défi de se mettre à nu. Mais, l’ancien vainqueur de “Koh-Lanta” et “Danse avec les Stars” a surtout accepté ce challenge pour sa mère Aïcha.

    La triste nouvelle a été annoncée à sa maman fin 2013: un cancer de la peau vient de lui être diagnostiqué. “Quand un proche t’apprend qu’il a un cancer, c’est un coup de gong dans le crâne. Alors quand c’est ta mère…” explique-t-il dans les colonnes du Parisien . S’en suit une longue période de lutte contre la maladie.

    La maman de Laurent Maistret était pudique

    Laurent Maistret revient notamment sur les difficultés de sa mère à se mettre à nu ce qui a, selon lui, retardé le diagnostic de son cancer. ”Ça faisait longtemps qu’elle avait un truc au niveau des fesses. Ma mère avait aussi du mal à se mettre à nu. Alors que pour un médecin, c’est comme voir des dents pour un dentiste”, déclare-t-il.

    Après deux opérations, chimiothérapie et radiothérapie, la mère du sportif de 37 ans s’en est sortie. “Elle a repris le goût à la vie même si elle avait encore du mal à marcher et qu’elle était toujours en rémission. Elle avait gagné le premier round”, confie Laurent Maistret.

    Si le participant de “Stars à Nu” était impatient de regarder l’émission avec sa mère, celle-ci a malheureusement contracté le Covid-19 en décembre dernier. Le deuxième round est arrivé bien trop tôt pour sa maman Aïcha, “cette maladie, c’est la roulette russe”, dit Laurent Maistret. Au bout de quelques jours de vertiges, sa mère est transportée en service réanimation et placée en coma artificiel.

    La maman de Laurent Maistret s’est éteinte mi-janvier, “toutes ces années de lutte contre le cancer, pour ça ?” soupire-t-il.

    Depuis, ce dernier aimerait proposer un autre concept d’émission au producteur de “Stars à Nu” : une soirée consacrée à la prévention contre le coronavirus. À l’hôpital, il explique avoir vu  le voisin de chambre de sa mère pas très âgé faire une crise cardiaque. “Les soignants l’ont ramené à la vie. Je les ai vus pleurer. Comment ils font pour tenir ? Certains pensent que l’État fait peur aux gens avec le Covid, mais cette maladie est bien là. Mettez des masques !” conclut-il.

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