Cancer Cures

[Michaelangelica]

I've read that the body stores toxins in fat, and a woman who breast feeds reduces her risk of cancer because the toxins are excreted in the milk. Good news for Mum, bad news for baby.

 

 

 

Quote from: Cadbury, D. (1997). The Feminization of Nature: Our Future at Risk. p. 171-172.

Maybe bad news for breast cancer too?!

 

I remember seeing a film on seals who feed off the Californian coast and got lots of pesticides in their system from the vegetable farms inland. (This was 30 years ago)

 

When the mother seals gave birth they had a lot of problems.

(While giving birth they lived off their body fat)

One terrible one to watch, was when the baby seal cried the mother seal could not cope/recognise/understand and picked up the baby seal and bashed it to death.

 

Sound familiar?

[Michaelangelica]

Treating Cancer -- With Herbs

 

herbs, natural remediesMany of the chemotherapies used to fight cancer in modern medicine were developed from natural substances.

 

For instance:

 

* Taxanes used to treat prostate and breast cancer came from yew trees.

* Vinca alkaloids, which are used to treat malignant lymphomas, are made from periwinkle plants.

* The anti-cancer drugs topotecan and irinotecan come from a component of the Chinese Happy Tree.

 

Scientists are increasingly focusing on plants used in traditional medicine in their search for new compounds. About three-quarters of the pharmaceutical compounds used today came from plants used in traditional medicine.

 

Professor Dr. Thomas Efferth from Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum in Heidelberg, for example, has begun analyzing 76 Chinese medicinal plants that are believed to treat malignant tumors and other growths. Extracts from 18 of the plants were found to significantly suppress the growth of cancer cells.

 

“With this success rate of about 24 percent, we are way above the results that could be expected from searching through large chemical substance libraries,” Efferth said.

Sources:

 

* Eurekalert March 4, 2008

 

* Molecular Cancer Therapeutics January 1, 2008, 7, 152-161

 

Treating Cancer -- With Herbs - Articles

[Monomer]

Antioxidant in Green Tea May Stop Breast Cancer Growth

 

A new study shows the green tea antioxidant EGCG (epigallocatechin-3-gallate) significantly slowed breast cancer growth in female mice.

 

One group of the female mice was fed a solution of the antioxidant in water for five weeks while the other received regular drinking water. During the second week of the study, researchers injected both groups with breast cancer cells.

 

At the end of the study, researchers measured tumor size, weight, and density as well as VEGF protein levels associated with tumor growth.

 

The results showed that treatment with the green tea antioxidant decreased tumor size by 66% and weight by 68% compared with the control group. Mice fed the antioxidant also had significantly lower density of small blood vessels within tumors and VEGF protein levels.

 

Researcher Jian-Wei Gu, of the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, says the green tea antioxidant may work against breast cancer by suppressing blood vessel growth in breast tumors as well as slowing the proliferation and migration of breast cancer cells.

[Monomer]

Green Tea, Mushroom Extract Combo Slows Sarcomas

 

A combination of the active ingredients in reishi mushrooms and green tea inhibited the growth of tumors and extended survival time of mice with sarcomas, two Chinese studies show.

 

Sarcomas are cancers of the bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other connective or supportive tissue.

 

Both reishi mushrooms and green tea have long held a place in traditional medicine in Asia. Recent research has shown that both enhance the body's immune function, according to background information in a news release about the two new studies by researchers at the Pharmanex BJ Clinical Pharmacology Center in Beijing.

 

In one study, researchers injected mice with sarcoma cells and then gave them either low, medium or high doses of a product (ReishiMax) that contains high concentrations of the active components in reishi mushrooms, including polysaccharides and triterpenes, or a combination of ReishiMax and Tegreen, a product that's 98 percent to 99 percent made of green tea polyphenols.

 

All the mice eventually died, but the ones that received the combination treatment lived longer.

 

In the second study, groups of health mice were given either low, medium or high doses of ReishiMax or low, medium or high doses of a combination of ReishiMax and Tegreen. After 14 days of treatment, the mice were injected with sarcoma cells. The treatment then continued for another 14 days.

 

Tumor development in the mice that received the combination treatment was less than in those that received only ReishiMax and 45 percent less than mice that received no treatment.

[Michaelangelica]

The Chinese will need all the green tea and reishi they can get with their polution.

I think reishi grows around here. Very hard ,semi-circular, long-living, fungus growing on trees. Never been game enough to chew it!

 

[B]A Magnesium Defficiency Increases Cancer Risk Significantly [/b]

A Magnesium Defficiency Increases Cancer Risk Significantly

magnesium was also mentioned in the depression thread. there seems to be lots of varieties of magnesium.

A Little Rosemary Can Go a Long Way in Reducing Acrylamides in Food

(NaturalNews) Several animal tests have shown acrylamide to be a carcinogen, and a recent study conducted by the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, has shown a positive association between acrylamide and breast cancer in humans.

 

"Acrylamide is formed during the preparation of many ordinary foods.

A Little Rosemary Can Go a Long Way in Reducing Acrylamides in Food

Rosemary is easy to grow in a sunny well drained spot/pot. It is easy also to kill if you cut too much off at once or over-water it.

[Ahmabeliever]

The gauntlet is thrown down

 

OK, I have the briefest brief on both cancer and virus both from hypography and various links from hypography threads.

 

Please correct me where I'm missing stuff or plain wrong.

 

Pondering how to cure cancer here, bear with me...

 

Viruses will replicate themselves, their 'strong point', if you will, is the ability to force the cell to replicate the virus dna, not the cells dna.

 

Virus target specific hosts. This is also important. I think they may target specific compatible dna markers in the host. Much the same as human DNA merges, the virus and cell DNA merges?

 

To be very simple, as I need to be :hihi: lets say virus are 'looking' for DNA markers A, B, & C before they find a compatible mate. They find them, they take over the host during the merger (much like a wedding ;) ), then replicate.

 

 

Cancer is a complete mongrel of a thing to cure as it can mutate as it spreads. So you send in something to deal with cancer cells with markers ABC but it can't kill it all as the cancer now has ABD forms of DNA.

 

So you find a virus that targets A and B markers, but not C. So ABC cells and ABD cells and ABE... are also subject to the virus. The virus spreads it's dna print to cancerous cells forcing them to code (or die?) into it's form.

 

So what we are looking for in this scenario are the dna markers of cancers that dont mutate (the constants) and a virus harmless to humans that targets these specific markers.

 

Unless it's all horsepiss. :hihi:

 

:shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug: :shrug::shrug::shrug:

 

Somewhere in the million plus cancer papers they have the DNA markers for many cancers.

And hopefully we are gathering dna data from the oceans viral pool at a great rate of knots.

 

And then perhaps the people capable of detailing in my very broad sweeping and utterly incomplete idea may know how to access such information and implement some study into it.

 

My humble submissions before the court! :hihi::doh:

[GAHD]

"Dr. Evangelos Michelakis, a professor at the U of A Department of Medicine, has shown that dichloroacetate (DCA) causes regression in several cancers, including lung, breast, and brain tumors..."

 

Spectacular claims, no? How? The Warburg effect.

 

"Until recently, researchers believed that cancer-affected mitochondria are permanently damaged and that this damage is the result, not the cause, of the cancer. But Michelakis, a cardiologist, questioned this belief and began testing DCA, which activates a critical mitochondrial enzyme, as a way to "revive" cancer-affected mitochondria.

 

The results astounded him. "

 

This bullet just might be +1

 

media contacts has a wealth of information, of particular interest is the STKE Article(PDF) .

[Michaelangelica]

"Dr. Evangelos Michelakis, a professor at the U of A Department of Medicine, has shown that dichloroacetate (DCA) causes regression in several cancers, including lung, breast, and brain tumors..."

Where does DCA come from ?

How Arsenic Can Cure One Type Of Leukemia

How Arsenic Can Cure One Type Of Leukemia

 

Anti-cancer Medicines Obtained From The Elecampe, A Wild Plant Growing In The Mediterranean, Researchers Say

 

The closest I can find to this is Dittrichia viscosa ??

False Yellowhead, Aromatic Inula, Sticky Fleabane

Wild Plants of Malta & Gozo - Plant: Dittrichia viscosa (False Yellowhead)

ScienceDaily (Apr. 19, 2008) — A group of scientists from the Department of Organic Chemistry and the Biotechnology Institute of the University of Granada have found out that the plant “Dittirichia viscose”, known as elecampe, can be used to obtain inhibitors of neurogenic vasodilatation, a significant progress in migraine and cancer treatments.

 

This natural product serves to inhibit selectively the vascular endothelial brain cells and it has been used as an agent to prevent cancer in brain tumours and metastases from brain and lung cancer, preventing its growth.

 

Besides, it has been found that it leads to apoptosis and stops the cellular differentiation process and inhibits neoplasm metastases, so it can be used in lung neoplasm chemotherapy as well as in colon, stomach or brain chemotherapy, etc.

Anti-cancer Medicines Obtained From The Elecampe, A Wild Plant Growing In The Mediterranean, Researchers Say

 

You might remember Mel Gison painted in Woad in "Braveheart".

Most people dismiss it as "war paint" used to intimidate the enemy. Perhaps it was and did; but also it is a strong antiseptic and very astringent. These two properties would be vary handy if you were cut by a sword in battle.

From memory, I think it has to be fermented to get the dye (?)

No I seem to be wrong see for how to extract the dye.

Very interesting how fine it is and difficult to filter. Would that make it easier to assimilate into the body?

Extraction of Woad by Teresinha Roberts

The latest research

Ancient War Paint In Fight Against Breast Cancer

 

ScienceDaily (Aug. 14, 2006) — A plant that gave ancient Britons and Celts their blue war paint, has been found to be a rich source of the anti-cancer compound, glucobrassicin, traditionally associated with broccoli. Glucobrassicin has been found to be effective against breast cancer. The war paint, a blue dye, is obtained from Woad, a member of the Brassicaceae family.

Ancient War Paint In Fight Against Breast Cancer

 

Impressive a weed with its' own website no less

All About Woad by Teresinha Roberts

[Michaelangelica]

Vitamin D Inhibits Post-Menopausal Breast Cancer - Clinical Results | Scientific Blogging

[Monomer]

Vitamin D Inhibits Post-Menopausal Breast Cancer - Clinical Results | Scientific Blogging

 

Since most vitamin D is produced in the body by exposure to sunlight, you'd have to be in the sun long enough to produce the required amount of vitamin D, but not long enough to cause cancer. Perhaps a research team could fiqure out the optimum exposure time.

 

 

Exercise... a treatment for obesity, a treatment for Alzheimer's and a possible preventer of breast cancer...

 

Women who engage in regular, consistent exercise are less likely to develop breast cancer than women who are less active, according to two new studies.

 

Exercise has long been prescribed as a way to help ward off disease. Now experts believe physical activity may help lower a woman's breast cancer risk by reducing the production of certain hormones, such as estrogen, insulin, and insulin-like growth factor that may fuel cancer development.

 

Scientists reporting in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found that regular physical activity was associated with reduced risk of premenopausal breast cancer.

 

Graham Colditz, MD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and colleagues evaluated questionnaires from more than 64,000 premenopausal women involved in the Nurses Health Study II. The women detailed their leisure-time physical activity starting from age 12 to the present.

 

After six years of follow-up, 550 women developed breast cancer. Researchers discovered that the women whose activity equaled 13 walking hours a week or 3.25 running hours per week had a 23% lower risk of premenopausal breast cancer compared with the less active women. The strongest association was seen with increased exercise during adolescent and young adult years (ages 12-22).

 

“These results suggest that consistent physical activity during a woman’s lifetime is associated with decreased breast cancer risk. Unlike many risk factors for breast cancer, physical activity is an exposure that can be modified,” the authors say in a news release.

 

Stay Fit, Avoid Breast Cancer?

[Ganoderma]

here is a paper in chinese that talks about asparagus as a cancer cure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also Reishi mushrooms (not sure if i mentioned them yet)

[Overdog]

Imagine you have a collection of self-replicating little robots, all running the same program. Imagine this program actually contains a massive amount of code, and that the robots have a capacity for a wide range of different functions, but initially, the robots only execute the tiny section of code that governs their replication behavior.

 

Now imagine (and I realize this is a huge leap) a control system that communicates to each robot. The control system not only tells each robot what code to excute, but when to execute it and for how long. The control system invokes different behaviors in different robots, organizing and coordinating the many different behaviors of the robots into a cooperative whole, thus giving rise to a more complex form of a self-replicating robot.

 

Now imagine that environmental influences are constantly screwing up the software that the little robots are executing, including the software that the control system is executing.

 

Add a capacity for the robots and control system to aquire new sections of code from the environment from time to time.

 

Now mix in several orders of magnitude of dynamic, interdependent complex relationships into the whole...add a few billion years, a dash of Darwin and natural selection, and what do you get?

 

Robots looking for a cure for Cancer.;)

 

To me, curing cancer is a lot like the fight against diseases in general. We can and do win some battles...but certain ones just keep coming back.

[Michaelangelica]

here is a paper in chinese that talks about asparagus as a cancer cure.

 

 

 

Also Reishi mushrooms (not sure if i mentioned them yet)

There is a similar looking plant to asparagus called astragalis.

Could this be what the Chinese are talking about?

It is supposed to be an adaptogen and immune system stimulant.

[Ganoderma]

it could very well be. i got my wife to read this to me for a bedtime story.but she may have gotten it confused. i will get her to find the scientific name and i will post it :)

[Monomer]

Poly-MVA - The First Dietary Supplement To Be Cleared By The FDA For Use In A Cancer Study

 

When Poly-MVA (Palladium Lipoic Complex) was administered to terminally ill (Stage 4) cancer patients as an adjunct to the therapy they received during the 2005-2008 clinical studies completed by Dr. Forsythe, the Overall Survival Rate was 71% in the Poly-MVA group, an extraordinary result in view of the fact that less than 10% of those patients would have been expected to survive 2 years if they had continued to receive conventional therapy alone.

 

Dr. Forsythe's work was compelling and significant enough to convince the FDA to approve, for the first time in history, a cancer-related IND study (Investigational New Drug study) utilizing a dietary supplement. This FDA approved study has been designed to further validate the benefits of Poly-MVA for cancer patients.

 

Poly-MVA was invented by Dr. Merrill Garnett, a biochemist. It is a dietary supplement based on the nontoxic lipoic acid-palladium complex (LAPd). LAPd is a liquid crystal that works in cancer cells by transferring excess electrons from membrane fatty acids to DNA via the mitochondria. It appears to be a safe and effective dietary supplement for cancer patients when used with or without conventional chemotherapy. Its safety profile is excellent and there were no treatment related deaths, significant adverse reactions or negative interactions with chemotherapy or hormonal treatments. The best responding tumors in Dr. Forsythe's studies were prostate cancer, breast cancer and lung cancer. Some of the remissions in Dr. Forsythe's studies involved brain cancer patients who had tried and failed conventional cancer treatment protocols.

[Ganoderma]

There is a similar looking plant to asparagus called astragalis.

 

Could this be what the Chinese are talking about?

It is supposed to be an adaptogen and immune system stimulant.

 

its Asparagus

芦笋 - Wikipedia

[Ganoderma]

There is a similar looking plant to asparagus called astragalis.

 

Could this be what the Chinese are talking about?

It is supposed to be an adaptogen and immune system stimulant.

 

its Asparagus

芦笋 - Wikipedia