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Lifestyle Choices May be a Predictor or Bladder Cancer

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The thought itself is astounding: a way possibly exists to
predict if a person could possibly contract bladder cancer in
the future. In recent studies, debate is emerging in regards to
one theory – that lifestyle choices and the impact of living
life a certain way may be related to bladder cancer. A recent
study by the Department of Preventive Medicine of Nagoya
University School of Medicine indicates that there might, in
fact, be a strong and credible link between lifestyle and
bladder cancer.


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Lifestyle Choices May be a Predictor or Bladder Cancer
Copyright (c) 2006 Jon M. Stout
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The thought itself is astounding: a way possibly exists to
predict if a person could possibly contract bladder cancer in the
future. In recent studies, debate is emerging in regards to one
theory – that lifestyle choices and the impact of living life a
certain way may be related to bladder cancer. A recent study by
the Department of Preventive Medicine of Nagoya University School
of Medicine indicates that there might, in fact, be a strong and
credible link between lifestyle and bladder cancer.

The department studied 258 bladder cancer patients in order to
determine if lifestyle choices played a role in allowing medical
professionals to prognosticate the possibility that patients
might be susceptible to bladder cancer. This was a follow-up
study of patients who had suffered from bladder cancer in
metropolitan Nagoya, Japan and were recruited for study. Their
personal survival information was derived from a database that
was maintained by the Nagoya Bladder Cancer Research Group.

After reviewing the tests and their results, researchers were
able to pinpoint several key factors that impact the occurrence
and reoccurrence of this type of cancer. Univariate analysis
showed that there was a significant relationship between 5 year
survivorship and the level of education a person possessed, their
marital status, drinking habits, and the degree of green tea
consumption in males. Additional factors were the age at which
the cancer was diagnosed, the histological type and grade of the
any tumors, the degree of metastasis, and the state of metastasis
in both sexes.

The results were adjusted for age, stage, histology (histological
type and grade), and distant metastasis by means of a
proportional hazards model.The consumption of alcoholic beverages
was also significantly associated with the prognoses of bladder
cancer in males. The ratio of adjusted hazard was 0.46 with a 95%
confidence interval of 0.26 – 0.79 among males that consumed
alcoholic beverages.

Detailed analysis revealed that former drinkers and every level
of current drinkers exhibited hazard ratios smaller than unity,
although no correlation between dosage amounts was detectable.
Other factors, such as smoking habits, uses of artificial
sweeteners and hair dye, and consumption of coffee, black tea,
matcha (powdered green tea), and cola were detected, leading one
to believe that it is reasonable to conclude that drinking any
type of beverage, not just alcohol, plays a significant role in
the development or reoccurrence of bladder cancer.

The significance of this is vague in terms of prognosis, although
that ratio seems to indicate that at least among those who
participated in the study and were bladder cancer survivors,
drinking alcohol is not a very good idea. Additionally, the study
showed that the higher risk factor in regards to bladder cancer
and males can be correlated directly to drinking in terms of
reoccurrence propensity. If you are male and have had bladder
cancer, along with dietary changes and other lifestyle choices,
avoiding alcoholic beverages might increase the possibility of
avoiding the sickness in the future.

This, however, is not, and should not be considered conclusive,
but merely the very compelling result of one specific study.
Also, the indication that other factors, such as smoking, did not
seem to increase the risk of reoccurrence, should not be
construed as rock solid justification for those behaviors.

For instance, the fact that smoking does not apparently increase
the risk bladder cancer does not in any way obviate the fact that
smoking has been risked to other diseases or maladies such as
heart disease, lung cancer, strokes, or degradation of blood
circulation. All of these conditions are just as life-threatening
as bladder cancer.

One significant factor seems to be that dosage amounts of alcohol
do not seem to correlate with the propensity of reoccurrence. In
fact, this study seemed to show that among moderate to heavy
drinkers, the reoccurrence rate was unaffected. If one were to
take this at face value, one could conclude that any drinking at
all increases the chances of bladder cancer coming back.




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