The 10 Cancer Signs You Need to Know

 The 10 Cancer Signs You Need to Know

Hello, health champions Cancer can be really scary because it seems completely out of control. But what if you have more control over cancer than you were led to believe?

Today, I want to examine 10 cancer signs, but more importantly, I want to help you understand what cancer is, how it develops, and the mechanisms so that you can reduce your risk of getting it.

Introduction: The Power of Knowledge in the Fight Against Cancer

Imagine having the power in your hands to identify and understand the early signs of cancer, enabling quick and effective intervention. Cancer, one of the most feared diseases today, is often associated with a feeling of helplessness.

However, knowledge is a powerful tool that can change this narrative. In this article, we will explore the 10 signs of cancer, providing an in-depth view of how this disease develops and what you can do to significantly reduce your risk. Get ready for a journey of discovery and empowerment that can save lives.

What is Cancer?

Cancer is essentially a disease caused by cells that grow uncontrollably. The normal cells in our body have a life cycle that includes growth, division, and programmed death. However, cancer cells lose the ability to regulate this cycle, resulting in uncontrolled growth and tumor formation.

The number one symptom can be fatigue.

It’s important not to jump to conclusions, as there are countless possible causes for fatigue, but cancer is one of them. Especially if fatigue is not relieved by sleep or rest, persists for a long period, and lasts more than six months, this can be a worrying sign.

Growing cancer can be using your body’s resources, and your immune system may be overwhelmed trying to fight it, resulting in a constant feeling of tiredness. However, remember that, more often, fatigue is caused by factors such as stress and poor nutrition.

Another sign that may indicate cancer is pain. Headaches and back pain. Mainly if they are chronic and do not change with body positions, they can be an indicator.

For example, if you have back pain, you will usually find a position where the pain decreases or disappears. However, if it is a space-occupying lesion, such as a tumor pressing on something, you may not find relief in any position, which is worrying.


Now, let's try to understand what cancer is and how cancer cells differ from normal cells. A normal cell can turn its growth on and off, but a cancer cell, which used to be a normal cell, loses this ability.


While the growth of a normal cell is regulated, allowing it to grow to a certain point and then stop, a cancer cell exhibits unregulated growth. This is one of the main characteristics of cancer. For example, when you cut your finger, your body starts producing new cells to create layers of skin with specific functions.

These cells are differentiated and serve specific purposes. In contrast, a cancer cell is undifferentiated and continues to replicate uncontrollably, without specializing. Normal cells obey the body's intelligence and order, while cancer cells disobey and become mutants due to mutations that alter their original function. This results in uncontrolled growth and tumor formations.

The third symptom is the presence of lumps.

Many people are aware of the importance of regularly self-examining the breasts, and finding a lump can indicate a tumor that might be cancer.


Most of the time, these tumors are benign, like fibroadenomas or cysts. It's important to note that men can also develop breast cancer, although it's less common. Additionally, men can have lumps and growths in the testicles, indicating testicular cancer.

The fourth symptom is blood in the urine.

Which is never a good sign. It can indicate bladder cancer, kidney cancer, or prostate cancer in men. It is essential to see a doctor immediately if you notice blood in the urine for proper evaluation and treatment.


By understanding these signs and the nature of cancer, we can be better prepared to detect the disease early and take effective preventive measures.

However, more often than not, blood in the urine is not so serious. It can be a kidney stone, a urinary tract infection, which is the most common cause, or it can be caused by trauma, infection, or toxicity that inflames the tissue.

Any type of inflammation is called "itis," so if you have inflammation of the bladder, it is called cystitis; inflammation of the kidneys is called glomerulonephritis; and inflammation of the prostate is called prostatitis.

The next question is: how does cancer develop?

It all starts with a mutation, which is a change in the DNA sequence. Your body makes about a million changes to DNA per cell per day as part of daily operations. When we consider cell replication, the number becomes astronomical. You make about 400 billion new cells per day as old ones wear out and need to be replaced.

Each time you make a new cell, you need to copy six billion base pairs, or six billion pieces of information, and do it correctly. With that number of copies, errors are inevitable. You are making about 120,000 errors per cell per day, totaling 48,000 trillion errors or copy mistakes. But the body has ways to deal with this.

If you make a mistake, the body can repair the DNA, which is the first course of action. This is a good thing because if it were absolutely perfect, there would be no genetic variation, and we couldn't adapt our DNA to changes.

However, there shouldn't be too many errors. Some errors slip through, and if DNA repair fails, the next course of action is apoptosis or programmed cell death. Most of these errors won't result in functional cells, so they simply die. But if apoptosis fails and the cells survive, we get a mutation.


The body has even more resources, such as the immune system, with T cells, macrophages, and phagocytes that can find and destroy abnormal cells. If this also fails, we can end up with something called pre-cancer.

To develop cancer, we need two things:

um iniciador, algo que aumenta a taxa e a gravidade das mutações, e um promotor. The initiator can be cigarette smoke, chemicals in the environment, ionizing radiation from excessive X-rays or radioactive materials, or even hormonal imbalances.


But even this is not enough to develop cancer; we also need a promoter, something that feeds the cancer or interferes with the body's immune system. If these conditions persist for a while, we can develop cancer, although it usually takes a long time to become dangerous.

The fifth sign and symptom is weight loss.

Up to 40% of people diagnosed with cancer have experienced some recent weight loss. This weight loss is rapid and unexplained, usually not associated with attempts to lose weight, and often comes with a loss of appetite. The body is so depleted that it no longer has an appetite.

In the advanced stages of cancer, cachexia occurs, which goes beyond weight loss, and the body begins to waste away completely, affecting up to 80% of advanced cancer cases.

This is an overview of how cancer can develop and some signs to watch out for. If you have more parts of the text, send them so I can continue helping you. Remember at the beginning I said that there are some cancer promoters and that some conditions need to be present to drive this process?

We can get a clue about this through the way certain types of cancer are detected.

One method is positron emission tomography.

Also known as a PET scan. This test visualizes cancers using radioactive sugar.

The radioactive sugar is injected into the person, enters the circulation, and is mainly absorbed by tumors and cancers, which act like sugar sponges. These tumors can absorb up to 20 times more sugar than an average cell, resulting in a focal point.

Why do tumors use so much sugar?

They rely much more on glycolysis, the metabolism of sugar, than normal cells. They do not efficiently burn fat and do not use oxygen properly, relying more on the anaerobic process of glycolysis. 

This gives us a clue about what we should or should not eat. Perhaps sugar is not an ideal choice for those undergoing cancer treatment or recovery.

Other cancer promoters are chemicals.

They interfere with the body's defenses and the cleansing process, in addition to pathogens such as viruses, bacteria, and fungi.

Although these pathogens do not necessarily cause cancer, they can exacerbate the problem, especially in an immune system already weakened by sugar, chemicals, and toxins.

Stress

Stress is also a major factor in promoting cancer because when we are stressed, our body focuses its attention on dealing with external threats instead of focusing on internal healing.

The sixth sign is fever.

A low-grade fever, in the absence of a cold or flu, that persists for weeks, can be a sign of cancer. This fever can come and go at different times of the day, but it is quite persistent. In the early stages of cancer, a persistent fever can indicate blood-related cancers such as lymphoma or leukemia.


In advanced stages, it can be related to other types of cancer. Often, we have the impression that cancers attack quickly, but what is little understood is when this really began. We do not have exact answers, but we know it takes a long time. For example, pancreatic cancer, one of the most aggressive, progresses rapidly after being diagnosed in its final stage.

However, the process may have started many years earlier.

The first cell mutation can take about 12 years to progress to cancer, with multiple mutations over time, and more than seven additional years before reaching an advanced stage and being ready for metastasis.

The seventh sign is skin changes.

Many people know that if spots on the skin start to change, it is necessary to be alert.

There is an "ABC" for this: A is for Asymmetry, where one side of the spot is different from the other; B is for Border irregularity, where the edges are not smooth; C is for Color irregularity, where there are different shades in the spot; and D is for Diameter, where the size of the spot is larger than the diameter of a pencil eraser.

And "E" would be for Evolving, meaning the spot is changing. Maybe you have had it for 20 years, but in the last year, it has started to look different. This is something you should watch carefully.

The eighth sign is changes in bowel habits.

If you have diarrhea, constipation, blood in the stool, black stools, or abdominal pain and bloating, this may indicate colon cancer. If you see blood in the toilet, it usually means the lesion or problem is near the rectum.

On the other hand, if your stools are black and tar-like, this indicates that the problem is higher up in the digestive tract, where the blood had time to clot before exiting.

However, do not jump to conclusions, as these conditions are extremely common and often due to food intolerances, bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine, imbalances in the gut biome, intestinal inflammation, or ulcers.

The ninth sign is dysphagia, which means difficulty swallowing. This can indicate cancer in the vocal cords, thyroid, or throat, where a lump can make swallowing difficult.

However, dysphagia is much more commonly caused by something less serious, such as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), an irritation of the esophagus by acid, or a goiter, a benign enlargement of the thyroid gland, common in people with severe iodine deficiency.

If you've followed along this far, you probably agree that cancer can be a terrible thing and can progress rapidly in its advanced stages. However, I hope you also realize that we have a lot of time to prevent the progression of cancer.

We have many years to prevent early cancers from becoming serious, as the body has several natural defenses and many factors influence the immune system and overall health. The body has structural, emotional, and chemical aspects that affect homeostasis and the immune state.

The first thing you should do is stop feeding the cancer, that is, reduce sugar and carbohydrates. This will decrease the fuel for the cancer to grow. Additionally, reduce exposure to chemicals, which interfere with the body's cleansing process, immunity, and liver function.

It is crucial to improve immunity, and this involves addressing all three aspects mentioned. Reducing sugar not only deprives cancer of its preferred fuel but also improves immunity. You should also reduce stress, as it redirects the body's attention to external threats, impairing DNA repair.

Reducing stress improves DNA repair and parasympathetic function and increases tissue oxygenation. Practicing breathing exercises and meditation can also be beneficial, increasing peripheral vasodilation and, consequently, tissue oxygenation.

Cancer hates oxygen and loves sugar, so anything that improves oxygenation is beneficial.

Fasting is another effective strategy. Intermittent fasting, combined with occasional longer fasts, reduces blood sugar, improves immunity, and increases autophagy, a cellular recycling process that is part of the immune system.

Finally, physical exercise is essential. It drives all the body's physiological processes, improves DNA repair, and increases tissue oxygenation, promoting more efficient circulation.

If you've watched some of my previous videos, you'll notice that many of my recommendations seem to be practically the same. This is correct, because the solutions are very basic and simple. What we need to do is grow and improve our understanding of why these things are important.

It all comes down to one simple thing: we all know we should do this, but if you don't do it, or if you don't do it to the extent that would be good for you, it's because you still don't fully understand.

The tenth sign is a chronic cough.

Often caused by smoking, which can lead to lung cancer. Like other types of cancer, this doesn't happen overnight.

Smokers can have years of chronic cough, called chronic bronchitis, as the internal membranes and cilia of their tracheas begin to degenerate with smoke irritation, progressing through stages of mutations. We have many warning signs in some cases, and it would be smartest to start listening to them.

Most coughs, especially if they don't last for months and years, are generally caused by respiratory tract infections like colds or flu. Hopefully, with a cold or flu, the cough should pass in a few weeks, but sometimes you can have persistent infections where your body can't completely eliminate, and even if you're relatively healthy, you still have that annoying cough for months.

I'm not saying you shouldn't take any of this very seriously, but I want to dispel the idea of feeling powerless. We often hear stories of someone diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer and had only three to six months to live.

These stories make us feel powerless, but we should look at the bigger picture. Most cancers develop over 15 to 20 years, giving us time to adopt a healthy lifestyle and balance our structural, emotional, and chemical aspects to keep the body in balance.

Although it's not guaranteed, this drastically reduces the chances of a terminal diagnosis. Also, it takes multiple mutations and a series of progressions for cancer to become serious, and the body has multiple defenses. If you give your body a chance, you'll have plenty of time to deal with these abnormal cells.

It's important to remember that there's no form of cancer that's 100% lethal. Although some types have really bad numbers, there's nothing that's one hundred percent. There are always cases of spontaneous remission, where people, even diagnosed with stage four cancer and with a prognosis of a few months to live, return some time later with the cancer completely gone.

We want to study these people with spontaneous remissions, not dismiss them. We need to understand what they did, what combination of structural, emotional, and lifestyle chemical factors they incorporated.

What they did, how they thought, and what were the factors that made this spontaneous remission and the defeat of cancer possible.

These inspiring stories show that even in seemingly desperate situations, there's always hope and potential for recovery if we understand and apply principles of health and well-being in a holistic and balanced way.

Conclusion on Cancer Prevention and Treatment

Cancer is a complex and multifaceted disease that develops from a series of genetic mutations over time. These mutations, which occur daily in our bodies, can be repaired by our immune system or result in apoptosis, the programmed death of defective cells.

However, when these defenses fail, mutations can lead to the development of cancer, especially if initiating factors (such as chemicals, radiation, and hormonal imbalances) and promoters (such as excessive sugar consumption, stress, and pathogens) are present.

To identify and diagnose cancer, it's crucial to pay attention to signs and symptoms, which include blood in urine, unexplained weight loss, persistent fever, changes in skin, altered bowel habits, and chronic cough, among others. Recognizing these signs early can be crucial for successful treatment.

Cancer prevention is based on adopting a healthy lifestyle that includes a balanced diet, low in sugar and chemicals, which strengthens the immune system.

Reducing stress through breathing techniques and meditation, regularly exercising, and maintaining good tissue oxygenation are fundamental practices to reduce the risk of developing cancer.

Furthermore, understanding that cancer doesn't develop overnight and that the body has multiple natural defenses against it can bring a sense of control and responsibility over our health.

Although advanced-stage cancer can be devastating, science has documented cases of spontaneous remission, where individuals have managed to reverse the disease, often through significant lifestyle changes.

Therefore, the final message is one of hope and empowerment: by understanding the mechanisms that lead to cancer and adopting practices that promote holistic health, it's possible not only to drastically reduce the risk of cancer but also to face the disease more effectively if it occurs. Prevention and a holistic approach to health are the best strategies for dealing with this complex and often feared disease.