You can cut your inherent cancer risk by avoiding the obvious carcinogens and by proper nutrition. Even so, you still cause massive damage to your DNA every day by simply living. There is absolutely no way of reducing this risk to zero. Most of that damage gets repaired through normal body processes, and quite often the damage is not that critical, even when not repaired. Once in a while bad things happen and the damage occurs at a critical position, and is not repaired. Then the stuff hits the fan. This gets much worse if your body's repair system is not fully functional, as is the case in some people.

The real question here is how many people have died because the believed the Rasputins and wasted valuable time in which they could have been treated. And yes, it would be nice to take a pill or two and a supplement and beat cancer! Some of the stuff you hear sounds outlandish like hyperthermia therapy for example (heating up the tissue) but it that particular case there is something to it. The point is to get accurate information from a reliable source.

Do I take supplements now, avoid obvious carcinogens and exercise, absolutely. Would I go to a herbalist in case of a recurrence.... hell no.

M

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Therapy/hyperthermia