"Feed the Man Meat" - perhaps not!

I wonder if there is now a possibility of suing the organisations that started off the campaign in Australia about the need to 'feed the man meat'

The latest information from the ABC is that there is now research which seems to link the consumption of red and processed meat with lung and colorectal cancers and this of course includes oesophageal cancer.

"People who eat a lot of red meat and processed meats have a higher risk of several types of cancer, including lung cancer and colorectal cancer, US researchers have reported.

The work is the first big study to show a link between meat consumption and lung cancer. It also shows that people who eat a lot of meat have a higher risk of liver and esophageal cancer and that men raise their risk of pancreatic cancer by eating red meat.

"A decrease in the consumption of red and processed meat could reduce the incidence of cancer at multiple sites," Dr Amanda Cross and colleagues at the US National Cancer Institute wrote in their report, published in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Medicine."

Very soon if this research continues we are likely to find that it is better to eat the occasional bit of unprocessed grain and fruit and perhaps if you happen to be of 'middle eastern appearance' the occasional date! everything else is simply unhealthy.

It's at this point that you can probably get me started on GM crops and what sort of a mess THAT is likely to produce in the next few years.

There goes my last argument against being a vegetarian!

Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy New Year

I just wanted to wish all my readers the compliments of the season and let you all know that I still have no further news that what I offered back in November.

One ray of possible sunshine is that my scans were apparently taken to a case conference or some other form of presentation and the verbal advice I have had back from the Doctor's receptionist is that the conclusion from that meeting was that my aches and pains may be from just the effects of the radiation scarring and that I would get a letter in due course from the Doctor.

This would indeed be welcome news and news which has not as yet arrived in any form other than the comments of the doctor's receptionist.

So this will be the week I ask again for some verification - otherwise it's just waiting around until the next scan to see what if anything is happening.

Sorry I have no better news than that.

Update 13th November 2007

Well the visit to the Chemo Therapy oncologist went well!

The blood tests once again show no cancer markers (not that this is a definitive sign).

To cut a long story short - we are no further advanced than the last time. He indicated that if this was a recurrence it was most unusual in that in his experience most people with oesophageal cancer who have a recurrence then head downhill fast and so a six month period with little change is "unusual".

We have another appointment in six months time.

Meanwhile I guess it's life as usual! SIGH!