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According to a study published by Mayo Clinic Proceedings, less than 3 percent of Americans meet the basic qualifications for a healthy lifestyle. Some may ask, what is a healthy lifestyle? A healthy lifestyle means you’re exercising everyday, getting adequate sleep, you eat more fruits and vegetables instead of foods high in sodium and carbohydrates, it means you’re getting the necessary vitamins everyday, it means that you don’t smoke, it means you drink more water instead of sugary drinks. Is all of that possible especially for working class families? Many studies have shown that some health issues are caused by the foods we eat. Over the last few years a lot of research has been done about cancer. One research in particular was done by Dr. Jason Locasale to find if altering a patient's diet to a low methionine diet could improve the likelihood of chemotherapy or other treatments. Methionine is present in animal products such as lean meats and eggs. It is also present in plant products. It is one of the eight essential amino acids in the human diet. Although his method is fairly new but has been proven to work in mice and six middle aged adults, Dr. Locasale says “We can speculate that there’s going to be all kinds of interesting nutritional interventions that could influence cancer, but we’re nowhere near the point of really being able to prescribe these dietary interventions.” This means that more research needs to be done. Since everyone is different, you're not able to create a one size fits all treatment. And depending on the person the correct dose and timing may vary and for some patients who do not choose to undergo chemotherapy, this may or may not be an option at all. Another recent study by Greg Delgoffe suggest that oncolytic viruses can not only treat individual cancer cells but also improves the immune system and allow it to recognize and kill a tumor. And oncolytic viruses main job is to infect and kill cancer cells.

A clinical trial done by Tennessee Oncology and Florida Cancer Specialists revealed that combining bendamustine which is a prescription medication known to possibly treat leukemia and lymphoma, and ofatumumab which is an antibody, was more effective in elderly patients than standard care. Large B Cell Lymphoma or Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) is a type of cancer that develops from the B-cells in the lymphatic system. It is a very aggressive type of cancer that is often treated with chemotherapy. Although the survival rate is high, if the NHL is left untreated it may lead to death. The question that lies is, what would cause your body to produce too many abnormal B cells? Over the last five decades of the 20th century, the mortality rate for NHL rose. And our environment has also changed in the last five decades. We’ve seen an increase in natural disasters, the temperature is getting warmer, and more animals are going extinct. According to AACR journals, benzene exposure (plastics, drugs, pesticides, dyes, detergents, rubber lubricants, resins, synthetic fibers) along with radiation may cause lymphoma. “A strikingly similar history of research occurred for ionizing radiation and lymphoma. Longer observation and more refined exposure assessments now show that both benzene and radiation probably cause lymphomas, but the risks at particular dose levels remain uncertain.”