Subject: Human Growth Hormone (HGH) medications increase risks of colon, prostate and breast cancers

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Human Growth Hormone (HGH) medications increase risks of colon,

prostate and breast cancers JoAnn Guest May 10, 2005 22:17 PDT

 

Genetically Engineered Anti-Aging Medication (HGH) Poses Undisclosed

Cancer Risks, Warns Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.

 

Use of the genetically engineered human growth hormone (HGH) for

anti-aging

medication has become a major growth industry. Suppliers of HGH,

including those

offering mail order prescriptions, are proliferating on websites and the

 

Internet. The Chicago-based seven-year-old American Academy of

Anti-Aging

Medicine, with over 8000 members, promotes injectable HGH in programs

claiming

to stop or even reverse aging, including decreasing body fat, and

increasing

muscle mass and bone density. However, practitioners of this burgeoning

" health "

industry are either ignorant of or suppress well-documented information

on the

grave cancer risks of HGH medication.

 

HGH induces growth promoting and other effects by stimulating the liver

to

increase production of the natural Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1)

whose

blood levels normally decline with advancing age. However, there are

numerous

publications in prestigious peer reviewed scientific journals showing

that

elevated IGF-1 levels are strongly associated with major excess risks of

colon,

prostate, and breast cancers; even minor elevations are associated with

up to

7-fold increased risks of breast cancer, risks almost as high as those

in women

carrying genes (BRCA1 and BRCA2) with the strongest hereditary

predisposition.

Additionally, IGF-1 inhibits the programmed self-destruction (apoptosis)

of

cancer cells, thus stimulating the growth and invasiveness of small,

undiagnosed

cancers, besides increasing the resistance of cancers to chemotherapy.

For these

reasons, anti-aging HGH medication, compounded by failure to explicitly

disclose

its grave risks, constitutes medical malpractice.

 

Learn more about IGF-1

 

There are also growing concerns on possible risks from the use of HGH

nutritional supplements, including oral sprays. It should, however, be

recognized that HGH absorption from the mouth and gut is unlikely to be

significant, in striking contrast to complete absorption from injectable

 

medication. Nevertheless, nutritional HGH supplements should be phased

out until

it can be shown that they do not elevate blood IGF-1 levels.

 

HGH medication should only be used by qualified endocrinologists for

highly

restricted medical disorders, such as dwarfism due to pituitary gland

deficiency, as approved by the FDA in 1985; anti-aging medication has

never

received such approval.

 

Source: Cancer Prevention Coalition Press Release – March 14, 2000

 

CONTACT:

 

Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.

Chairman, Cancer Prevention Coalition

c/o University of Illinois at Chicago

School of Public Health, M/C 922

2121 W. Taylor Street

Chicago, IL 60612

 

312-996-2297

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http://www.preventcancer.com/avoidable/breast_cancer/hgh_risks.htm

 

 

 

 

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