Figures released last week, in Jan. 2012, show a drop in cancer
death rates of 1.8 percent per year for U.S. men and 1.6 percent
for women. However, incidences of certain types of cancer are on
the rise and expected to account for about 245,000 new cancer
cases this year—or about 15 percent of the 1.6 million total
cancer cases projected for 2012.obesity, chronic infection (such
as hepatitis C in the liver), changing sun exposure patterns,
and better detection of small tumors that previously went
undetected, such as in the thyroid. Author, cancer researcher
and forgiveness expert Michael Barry has spent years conducting
clinical research on the link between cancer and the stress of
negative emotions—namely the anger, bitterness and resentment
associated with unforgiveness. “While research hasn’t told us
that negative emotions actually cause cancer, we do know that
emotional stress makes our bodies less effective in fighting
against disease, even diseases like cancer,” Barry says. “More
in-depth research, bett