A new study in the UK revealed that gum disease may increase the risk of cancer.
Though the link is still unclear, people with gum infections have increased amount of inflammatory markers in the blood — inflammation has previously been linked to cancer.
According to lead researcher Dominique Michaud, a cancer epidemiologist at Imperial College London (UK):
“Men with history of periodontal disease had a 14 percent higher risk of cancer than those who did not have periodontal disease, and the increase persisted among never smokers.
This new finding needs to be examined in other populations and among women, but it at least suggests …read more

Bumping into this article reminded me of My Top 10 Cancer Beaters.
After all, living and eating healthy all boils down to a strong or robust immune system that lessens our risk of having major diseases and of course, cancer.
Indeed, the link between the increasingly common lifestyle factors, the immune system and cancer, with the ultimate goals of preventing and better understanding cancer development are the issues under dissection at the American Association for Cancer Research’s Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research meeting.
Like the gum disease-prostate cancer link. Harvard School of Public Health’s epidemiologists were able to show that diseased gums increase …read more