Skin Cancer Alternative Treatment
If you or someone you love has been through the traditional cancer-fighting regimen, you’re probably on the lookout for skin cancer alternative treatment. Information about the subjects can be hard to find if you’re not already reading the trade journals published by the scientists who are working on cancer cures. Here are a few skin cancer alternative treatment options you’ve probably missed.
Wasabi – Skin Cancer Alternative Treatment
In 2005, a pile of Japanese doctors studied something called 6-methylsulfinylhexyl isothiocyanate – a main chemical component of wasabi. The amount of wasabi needed to cause a 50% reduction in melanoma growth (i.e. doubling the time it takes for a tumor to grow and metastasize) was so small that it was almost trivial. A larger dose not only slowed cell growth, but actually killed some kinds of cancer cells outright – specifically, melanoma and breast cancer.
Ascorbic Acid – Skin Cancer Alternative Treatment
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, November 9, 2007: “Physicians and patients report that Vitamin C, applied directly to basal cell skin cancers, causes them to scab over and drop off.” You read that correctly. The most common type of skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma, can literally be treated with liquid vitamin C. A solution of ascorbic acid in water does no harm to your body, but kills basal cell carcinoma quite effectively. Simply purchase crystallized ascorbic acid, add water slowly until the crystals all dissolve, and apply it to the tumor. This is probably the simplest skin cancer alternative treatment ever discovered.
Fruits and Veggies – Skin Cancer Alternative Treatment
Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, 2003 published a study in which Calcium Glucarate (CaG), a compound found in most fruits and vegetables and some seeds, proved to be a very effective inhibitor of cell growth and in many cases triggered apoptosis (cell death) in cancer cells. According to the report’s conclusion: “…the topical application of CaG… can be used for the prevention of skin tumors alone or can be tried in combination with… other known antitumor compounds.”
Corn Lily – Skin Cancer Alternative Treatment
Though the corn lily itself is quite toxic, a compound derived from it, cyclopamine – already proven effective against brain and pancreatic cancer – has recently been proven to be a strong skin cancer alternative treatment as well. By blocking a signaling protein that tells cancer cells when to grow, it prevents tumors from spreading. The experiment gave mice with basal cell carcinoma the corn lily extract in their drinking water – virtually the worst way to get a compound into the skin (because of all of the systems it must pass through to get from the digestive system out to the skin), and it still reduced microscopic basal cell carcinomas by 90%.
The advances that scientists are making quietly, without any medical doctors hearing about them, are incredible. From simple solutions of crystallized vitamins to extracts of plants that nearly killed Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition, each of these skin cancer alternative treatments is almost stupidly simple and safe compared to the horrors of chemotherapy and radiation.