Prostate Cancer Alternative Treatment – Latest Therapies
Prostate Cancer Alternative Treatment options are being discovered, tested, and refined every day. Scientific studies that are only spoken of inside their specialty’s symposiums are showing that very simple treatments can have radical effects on prostate cancer survival rates. Some of these simply won’t ever make it into the public sphere if patients don’t learn to ask about them. Check out these prostate cancer latest alternative therapies:
Modified Citrus Pectin
In 2003, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute quietly published a paper by doctors Nangia-Makker P, Hogan V, Honjo Y, Baccarini S, Tait L, Bresalier R, and Raz A. It happened almost eight years ago, and no one has heard much about it since. In that paper, the doctors verified scientifically that significant doses of modified citrus pectin (15 grams per day – costing about $100 per month) halved the growth rate of prostate tumors in several men tested. That means that cancer can be detected later without adversely affecting survival rates if you start on a regimen of modified citrus protein as soon as you learn that you have cancer.
Their tests indicated that modified citrus pectin prevents many types of cancer from creating new blood vessels with which to feed itself. Because it’s reliant on a specific molecule (galectin-3) to function, and that molecule isn’t found in healthy human cells, it has no adverse side effects whatsoever. It also doesn’t function on cancers that don’t use galectin-3, but most cancers, notably prostate, breast, and colon cancer, do.
Cannabinoids
In 2005, Cancer Research (a trade journal for oncologists) published a study by doctors Sami Sarfaraz, Farrukh Afaq, Vaqar M. Adhami and Hasan Mukhtar, in which they tested human prostate cancer cells and found that certain non-addictive cannabinoids (not marijuana-based, but clinically created synthetic cannabinoids) not only prevented prostate cancer cells from reproducing, but actually induced apoptosis (killed the cancer cells). The study was concluded with a simple sentence that sums it up the best: “We conclude that cannabinoids should be considered as agents for the management of prostate cancer.”
Herbs
Study recommending herbs as a prostate cancer alternative treatment was presented at the December 13, 2003 meeting of the Society of Urologic Oncology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Doctors D.L. Bemis, K.A. Kozakowski, A.G. Anastasiadis, B.C. Stisser, L. Salomon, and Aaron E. Katz observed the effects of a “unique blend” of herbs which they named ‘Zyflamend’ on prostate cancer. The blend contained rosemary, tumeric, ginger, holy basil, green tea, hu zhang, Chinese goldthread, barberry, oregano, and scutallaria baicalensis. According to the study, Zyflamend killed prostate cancer cells so well that after only 72 hours of treatment, cultures that had been treated with Zyflamend had seventy-eight percent less cancer cells than untreated cultures. Further study by Aaron E. Katz has proven that Zyflamend also prevents prostate cancer in men who show strong risk signs such as prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia.
These latest therapies are still being researched but some are already available for sale. Ask your doctor if he would recommend any of them but keep in mind that like most prostate cancer alternative treatments, he may never have heard of them.