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Bicarbonate, that stuff in baking soda, 'could detect cancer'

by PEP | May 28, 2008 at 10:02 am

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Once again, going to a natural material and a simpler solution leads the way in potential health care. I look forward to the time when medicine catches up with herbals.

The naturally-occurring chemical bicarbonate, used to make baking soda, could help detect cancer using sensitive scanning, research suggests.

Bicarbonate is involved in the body's balancing of acid and alkali.

But cancerous tissue is known to turn it into carbon dioxide.

The Cancer Research UK team found MRI scans were able to track changes in the chemical and therefore identify cancers even in the very early stages.

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azzayindia

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at 10:08 on May 28th, 2008

PEP, I like this story. It's good stuff.

PEP

at 10:12 on May 28th, 2008

Thanks, azzay.

PEP

at 10:11 on May 28th, 2008

I post this with tears in my eyes. One of the dearest and most important people in my life is fighting breast cancer--again. She had it decades ago. This time, what the doctor thought would be a simply cyst removal revealed cancer. My friend is in her 90's. She's taking radiation treatments, and so far, doing well. But it's scary.

liamssoft

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at 12:31 on May 28th, 2008

PEP, I like this story. It's good stuff. Many people have lost their lives to this devastating disease. Heaven alone knows how many might have lived, if there was a good treatment.