Lower Cancer Rate in Giants Over 7 Feet Tall
     People with high GH levels had lower risk of cancer: According the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, and a follow-up study reported June 1999 in 46 giant people over seven feet tall with acromegaly. Giants have excessive levels of HGH in their system present during most of their life however less cancer was present.  "The overall cancer incidence rate (new cancers at any site in the body including breast, thyroid, colon, lung, or prostate) was lower than that in the general population in the United Kingdom (19).  The overall mortality death rate was not increased when compared to the general population during the 14-year study.  Another impressive finding from this study was there was no cancer of the prostate found in any of the men including those over the age of 60! Men over 60 are normally at the highest risk for prostate cancer.  The giants had consistent problems with benign prostate hyperplasia or simple enlargement of the prostate.  You would expect to see this in giants with overactive growth hormone levels.  Yet they show no signs of cancer probably because growth hormone actually prevents cancer due to a stronger immune system stimulated by growth hormone.  If HGH were a risk for cancer, you would expect a higher rate of new cancers at all sites and a higher death rate from all types of cancer.  The findings reported less cancer in giant people with high HGH levels as compared to people with normal or lower HGH levels!  From this information, HGH and IGF-1 replaced at ideal levels would reduce the risk of cancer and it may add a protective factor.

Hormones and Growth Factors May Reduce Cancer
     It is possible that GH and growth factors may reduce the risk of cancer by stimulating the immune system.  Cancer becomes more dangerous as a risk with age.  Cancer is considered the second leading cause of death in the United States following heart disease, stroke and heart attack.  One of the important factors to overcome or reduce the incidence of cancer is our own bodies' immune system. We have the ability to reduce the risk of cancer by maintaining the blood in a slightly alkaline state with diet and supplements and by enhancing our own immune factors and lymphatic system.  The lymphatic system has a very extensive circulating system throughout the body.  If you were to take the whole lymphatic system together it is a greater system and takes up more mass and more fluid volume than the entire blood stream in your body.  How efficient are your lymphatic system, your white cells and your killer T cells? 

Depressed Immune System Benefits From Hormones
     Large white cells that migrate in the tissues, called macrophages, secrete several types of growth factors to fight cancer.  These growth factors all regulate cell growth and repair.  Cellular repair and the building up of the body's lean mass require protein anabolism and recovery from early inflammatory responses.  Healing involves both proper immune system functioning; energy producing processes, and cell to cell communication to avoid muscle wasting associated with age.  Many cancer patients and patients with depressed immune systems are in a catabolic or "wasting away state".  For example, when lean body mass is reduced to 65% of the ideal body weight, life can no longer be supported and death will occur.