A tested way to survive chemo treatments and to prevent some cancers....
Today's Post: Friday, 12-3-2010
The best source that I know of and possibly the best one that exists for preventing cancer is the book, Anticancer, A New Way of Life, New Edition by David Servan-Schreiber (Hardcover - Dec 31, 2009). (This is available on amazon.com if it isn’t in your local bookstore.)
It also helps that eating the way this book suggests ALSO helps prevent type 2 diabetes, heart disease, mental decline, and obesity!
But it always helps to have more ways to prevent cancer or slow it if you get it.
And, of even more importance it can literally be life-saving to have a way to help you and the healthy part of you survive the chemotherapy or radiation used to treat cancer if you undergo it. It certainly can help improve your quality of life and make getting chemo or less nasty! This is also true for getting targeted radiation treatments.
Apparently, the herb astragalus, has been tested successfully as doing this.
It may prevent some cancers including some kinds of breast cancer and it may slow tumor growth on its own. But in tests it substantially cut side effects from chemo and radiation and increased the number of people treated with them who survived.
Dr Sears email recently had this information. (He isn’t perfect. But much of the free information in his emails is very valuable as it was in this case.)
And, it checked out in other online sources including, www.wholehealthmd.com .
There is even a bonus. Taking astragalus also helps prevent getting colds! For people with type 2 diabetes it can take them from getting more colds than most people to getting less!
It’s available in several forms at health food stores, tea, tincture, etc. But the simplest way to take it is by taking the supplement from Nature’s Way. (They focus on good quality herbal supplements.) Three capsules a day is what Dr Sears suggested.
Here’s some of the information I saw on it.:
If I remember correctly, I found this on WholeHealthMD:
“The Research Studies Show Positive Benefits
One clinical study of 115 patients receiving various forms of chemotherapy found 83% higher white blood cell counts from the use of Astragalus, exactly what is needed to fight the battle of cancer. When white blood cell counts are higher, then it is possible to strongly ward off infections.
In another study, Astragalus was added to a petri dish containing white blood cells and tumor cells. The white blood cells began attacking the tumor cells. This is an important finding because tumor cells usually produce chemicals that turn off the white blood cells' ability to attack tumors. Astragalus clearly helps the white blood cells become faster and more efficient at fighting the tumor cells.
One study showed that lung cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, radiation and immunotherapy who were given Astragalus improved their overall response rate to all four treatments. In another study, patients with small cell lung cancer who took standard chemotherapy drugs like vincristine, carmustine and cyclophosphamide along with Astragalus and ginseng survived as long as 17 years from the combined therapy.
Astragalus was also found to stop the spread of cancers known to respond to the p53 gene, a tumor-suppressing gene that keeps defective cells from multiplying.”
This was either on Wikipedia or Dr Sears email: (His site is www.alsearsmd.com .)
“The immune-enhancing properties of astragalus seem to be particularly useful in cases in which the immune system has been damaged by chemicals or radiation.
A 1988 University of Texas System Cancer Center study of immuno-depressed mice found astragalus reversed T-cell abnormalities caused by radiation. (5)
Other preliminary in vitro and animal studies also indicate efficacy in restoring T-cell function suppressed in cancer patients. A 1983 in vitro study evaluating the effect of 10 mcg/ml of astragalus Extract on grafts from 19 cancer patients and 15 healthy donors found the extract seemed to induce T-cell restoration in cancer patients. (6)
In addition to immune-boosting properties, the monograph says preliminary evidence also indicates astragalus may help to increase survival rates in breast cancer patients who are also undergoing conventional treatment. (3)
And preliminary research regarding lung cancer (mostly low-quality studies) suggests taking herbal products containing astragalus may increase the effectiveness of platinum-based chemotherapy for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer. A 2006 meta-analysis of 34 randomized trials of 2,815 patients with non-small-cell lung cancer compared the use of astragalus treatment combined with platinum-based chemotherapy to treatment of chemotherapy alone.
Twelve studies reported treatment with astragalus reduced the risk of death in cancer patients after a 12-month follow up, and 30 studies reported improved tumor response in cancer patients. (7)”
Today's Post: Friday, 12-3-2010
The best source that I know of and possibly the best one that exists for preventing cancer is the book, Anticancer, A New Way of Life, New Edition by David Servan-Schreiber (Hardcover - Dec 31, 2009). (This is available on amazon.com if it isn’t in your local bookstore.)
It also helps that eating the way this book suggests ALSO helps prevent type 2 diabetes, heart disease, mental decline, and obesity!
But it always helps to have more ways to prevent cancer or slow it if you get it.
And, of even more importance it can literally be life-saving to have a way to help you and the healthy part of you survive the chemotherapy or radiation used to treat cancer if you undergo it. It certainly can help improve your quality of life and make getting chemo or less nasty! This is also true for getting targeted radiation treatments.
Apparently, the herb astragalus, has been tested successfully as doing this.
It may prevent some cancers including some kinds of breast cancer and it may slow tumor growth on its own. But in tests it substantially cut side effects from chemo and radiation and increased the number of people treated with them who survived.
Dr Sears email recently had this information. (He isn’t perfect. But much of the free information in his emails is very valuable as it was in this case.)
And, it checked out in other online sources including, www.wholehealthmd.com .
There is even a bonus. Taking astragalus also helps prevent getting colds! For people with type 2 diabetes it can take them from getting more colds than most people to getting less!
It’s available in several forms at health food stores, tea, tincture, etc. But the simplest way to take it is by taking the supplement from Nature’s Way. (They focus on good quality herbal supplements.) Three capsules a day is what Dr Sears suggested.
Here’s some of the information I saw on it.:
If I remember correctly, I found this on WholeHealthMD:
“The Research Studies Show Positive Benefits
One clinical study of 115 patients receiving various forms of chemotherapy found 83% higher white blood cell counts from the use of Astragalus, exactly what is needed to fight the battle of cancer. When white blood cell counts are higher, then it is possible to strongly ward off infections.
In another study, Astragalus was added to a petri dish containing white blood cells and tumor cells. The white blood cells began attacking the tumor cells. This is an important finding because tumor cells usually produce chemicals that turn off the white blood cells' ability to attack tumors. Astragalus clearly helps the white blood cells become faster and more efficient at fighting the tumor cells.
One study showed that lung cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, radiation and immunotherapy who were given Astragalus improved their overall response rate to all four treatments. In another study, patients with small cell lung cancer who took standard chemotherapy drugs like vincristine, carmustine and cyclophosphamide along with Astragalus and ginseng survived as long as 17 years from the combined therapy.
Astragalus was also found to stop the spread of cancers known to respond to the p53 gene, a tumor-suppressing gene that keeps defective cells from multiplying.”
This was either on Wikipedia or Dr Sears email: (His site is www.alsearsmd.com .)
“The immune-enhancing properties of astragalus seem to be particularly useful in cases in which the immune system has been damaged by chemicals or radiation.
A 1988 University of Texas System Cancer Center study of immuno-depressed mice found astragalus reversed T-cell abnormalities caused by radiation. (5)
Other preliminary in vitro and animal studies also indicate efficacy in restoring T-cell function suppressed in cancer patients. A 1983 in vitro study evaluating the effect of 10 mcg/ml of astragalus Extract on grafts from 19 cancer patients and 15 healthy donors found the extract seemed to induce T-cell restoration in cancer patients. (6)
In addition to immune-boosting properties, the monograph says preliminary evidence also indicates astragalus may help to increase survival rates in breast cancer patients who are also undergoing conventional treatment. (3)
And preliminary research regarding lung cancer (mostly low-quality studies) suggests taking herbal products containing astragalus may increase the effectiveness of platinum-based chemotherapy for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer. A 2006 meta-analysis of 34 randomized trials of 2,815 patients with non-small-cell lung cancer compared the use of astragalus treatment combined with platinum-based chemotherapy to treatment of chemotherapy alone.
Twelve studies reported treatment with astragalus reduced the risk of death in cancer patients after a 12-month follow up, and 30 studies reported improved tumor response in cancer patients. (7)”
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