Physicians and Scientists Predict Allergies May Fight Cancers

While allergies may often be irritating a Cornell University study found that allergies may actually be doing the body good by protecting it against certain types of cancers.The study included a reexamination of approximately 650 studies from the previous 50 years. The team found that, “inverse allergy-cancer associations are far more common with cancers of organ systems that come in direct contact with matter from the external environment — the mouth and throat, colon and rectum, skin, cervix, pancreas and glial brain cells.” Additionally, the study found that, “only allergies associated with tissues that are directly exposed to environmental assaults had inverse relationships to cancer.”According to scientists, the relationship between cancer and allergies has always been suspect, but now with the new study the link between the two becomes more conclusive. Allergy symptoms may be providing signs and defenses to expel cancer-causing substances from entering the body. Researchers from Cornell believe that further research is needed to better understand the new link between allergies as anti-cancer defenses.What are Allergies?The National Library of Medicine (NLM) reports that allergies, which are also referred to as hypersensitivity, occur as a reaction of the body0s immune system to particles or substances that bother the […]

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