... there is a new molecular and genetic understanding of a tumors biology and allows for doctors to set up treatment to more directly kill cancer cells. (Www.amprogress.org) Two medicines, Herceptin and Tamoxifen, have saved thousands of lives of people with breast cancer and animal research had an essential role in their development. (www.findacure.org) For example, Alec Baldwin, son of Carol M. ... Baldwin, received PETAs Humanitarian Award in 2005, but broke off with PETA over the value of animal research in developing treatments for breast cancer and served on the advisory board for the...

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... experimentation, warnings and further research were delayed for years while thousands died and thousands more commenced a seemingly unhazardous activity. Animal studies failed to demonstrate that asbestos caused cancer, but human clinical investigation had already strongly indicated that it did. Crucial genetic, molecular, and immunological differences between humans and other animals prevented animal models from serving ... consumption and cirrhosis is indisputable in humans. Animal studies on the genetic defeats of inherited diseases have also proved unreliable. Mice models of cystic...

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... humans. Another example that is even more bizarre is the drug Tamoxifin, which is used to treat human breast cancer. Even though Tamoxifin reduces the incidence of mammary cancer in rodents, it actually increases the presence of liver cancer in rodents, and appears to be also toxic to the kidney (Menache, 1998). Due to the unavoidable biological differences between human beings and animals, the ... many investigative techniques available. Dr. Barnard believes that although animal experiments are sometimes intellectually attractive, they are poorly suited to addressing the urgent health ...

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... -eaters through regular and thorough meat inspection while in reality, fewer than one out of every 250,000 slaughtered animals is tested for toxic chemical residues. As a matter of fact, breast milk of a meat-eating mother versus a non meat-eating mother is 35 times higher for contamination of milk due to pesticides found in meat. Vegetarianism also prevents ... cancer by 50%, and prevents heart disease, lowering blood pressure, gallstones, kidney stones, osteoporosis and can even reverses diabetes. Finally, maintaining a vegetarian diet will not only make you physically healthier but ....

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... the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest, was historically considered a "trash" tree. However, a substance in its bark taxol, was identified as one of the most promising treatments for ovarian and breast cancer (http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/NewCropsNews/94-4-1/taxol.html). Additionally, more than 3 million American heart disease sufferers would perish within 72 hours of a heart attack without digitalis; a drug derived ... ...

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... the fear of an underclass of unemployable people could emerge. (Rueterlink) Also, test results may have an impact on whether patients qualify for health insurance. If a woman carries a gene for breast cancer, for example, can she be denied health insurance on the basis of having a pre-existing condition? Fear of this discrimination makes people afraid of letting insurers know they were tested ... ...

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... kill innocent human beings, anti-abortionists believe that they also damage the mental, as well as physical condition of the mother. Since, after an abortion a mother is more susceptible to breast cancer, and to periods of depression . In the case of congenital defects, the pro-life activists argue that such indications of a disease, do not guarantee that the child will be born ... ...

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... abortions kill innocent human beings, anti-abortionists believe that they also damage the mental, as well as physical condition of the mother. Since, after abortion a mother is more susceptible to breast cancer, and to periods of depression. In the case of congenital defects, the pro-life activists argue that such indications of a disease, do not guarantee that the child will be born ... ...

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