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U.S.-HEALTH:'BAD CALCIUM' BELONGS ON HEALTH MENACE LIST.
By Katja Hansen
NEW YORK, July 13, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) By now we've all heard of breast cancer, but who knows what causes it and a host of other ailments?
For a clue, just think of Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell. When she discovered she had breast cancer, it wasn't because a scan found a tumor. It was because doctors found a malignancy in a biopsy of the calcium deposits in her breasts.
That discovery may have saved her life, because doctors were able to get the malignancy before it spread to her lymph nodes. Using such signs to pre-empt the spread of cancer is an early line of defense.
Rell's case shows how breast cancer can be diagnosed by looking into calcium that has gone bad. The tell-tale deposits aren't just in breast cancer: ovarian and lung cancers often have them too.
Calcification is a rock-hard mix of two of the most plentiful minerals in the body; calcium and phosphorous. This isn't the good stuff that makes healthy bones and teeth. It's the toxic stuff that provokes acute inflammation and unwanted cell division.
Women have a special problem with it in osteoporosis, where calcium often leaches out of the bones then mysteriously shows up in the arteries as hard deposits that shouldn't be there.