This was posted on a Canadian site so here's the link, there are other useful links on the Canadian site.

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2006/09/13/ideas_for_cancer_selftreatment.htm

7th of March 2007.

http://www.topicalinfo.org/Treatment.htm

I found this to be a good description of the pancreatic enzyme theory of cancer as well.

The Cure For Cancer: Theory, History and Treatment

http://www.thecureforheartdisease.com/owen/CancerCure.htm

And this was interesting, just because Betaine from Beetroot provides the stomach with digestive acids, this acts in a similar way to Paw Paw and Pineapple which have enzymes that help your pancreas function.

Beet Therapy for Cancer

http://www.industryinet.com/~ruby/beet_cancer_therapy.html

Plus this, I expect topical Hydrogen Peroxide to be safe, internal use I'm not sure as the stomach may have to deal with it?

Hydrogen Peroxide Cancer Treatment

http://www.cancertutor.com/Cancer/HydrogenPeroxide.html

This was the mainstream study so it does have some substance to it.

Cell lysis or death occurred after exposing giant cell tumor cells and osteoblasts to 100 mm and 30 mm hydrogen peroxide, respectively, concentrations substantially lower than the 3% (880 mm) hydrogen peroxide commonly used clinically.

Hydrogen peroxide inhibits giant cell tumor and osteoblast metabolism in vitro.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9520898&dopt=Abstract

I completely rewrote the first link so here's the 13th Dec 06 revision.

This is a compilation of mainstream studies of everyday foods, vitamins and some herbs that have shown to work with cancer.

I know most people in the West will immediately do what the doctor says so may only use this as a last resort but all the ideas are mostly about food so they can be complementary or preventative.

Since this is the Internet there may be people who read this from countries that have no free health care so it may be completely useful.

The first idea to think about is what is Cancer?

When people get a diagnosis a cancer doctor often goes into panic mode and begins to wage war on your cancer, they may cut, burn or poison it.

Surgery can work, the old gentleman I told this to at the start of 2006 had extensive surgery for lung cancer, he has since eaten 4 Brazil Nuts, 10 Lysine tablets, the normal Cod Liver Oil dose, squeezed a Lemon and drunk Green tea each day.

He also drinks some Thyme tea to help his breathing.

His cancer didn't come back.

So think of cancer as your own cells getting confused, there are two causes of this.

The first is repeated damage to cells in a particular area.

This is why smokers get lung cancer, drinkers get liver cancer, people who eat terribly get stomach and colon cancers.

Cancer cells are really healing cells out of control.

The cells have been trying to heal an area over and over again and have run out of the things needed to fix that area.

This is why Chemotherapy often works only when you take the drugs and the cancer comes back once a course of chemotherapy is finished.

The chemotherapy kills cancer cells but depletes the nutrients needed to finish the healing process.

It's also a good idea to take Milk Thistle tablets to protect the liver if on chemotherapy.

Of course avoid smoking and drinking.

It's good to remember that the cancer probably took many years of damage to appear and so it may take a few years to get rid of it, patience helps.

The other types of cancer are hormonal or related to problems with cell signaling.

On the surface of our cells there certain types of sugars called Glycoproteins, we don't get them in our diet as much these days and without them the cells get confused.

So these cancers tend to occur in the breast, cervix and prostate.

Avoiding sugar like the plague is important because sugar gets in the way of our cell signaling process.

Exposure to petrol also confuses cells so don't warm the car up under the house and if you can then get someone to do the mowing for you.

The lack of cell signaling can affect cancers in any part of the body as well.

The types of food that affect cell signaling are mushrooms, sprouts and legumes.

Vegetables in general are good so almost all of this advice is about food.

Since hormonal changes also involve the head it's good to think about the amount of anger or sadness you might carry around.

If you are angry think of ways to forgive other people and let the anger go.

If you're depressed and a diagnosis is enough to do that then try and distract yourself from being ill or whatever tragedy you've gone through to become sad.

Learning to meditate may help.

The reason I mention this is because it often seems that emotions can cause what I would call toxic blockages in the body and these emotions also release the wrong hormones that can feed cancer.

The rest I'll mention is how to fix the damage, foods to stop the cancer spreading and how to get the cells signaling properly again.

Just because there's a cancer in you doesn't mean it will kill you if it stays, if it doesn't hurt and you stop it spreading you can carry it round for the rest of your life a bit like a scar.

This part is about the nutrients that get depleted and then trigger a cancer growth.

Foods like Brazil nuts, Broccoli and Garlic should be eaten each day for the Selenium content as there are hundreds of studies that show Selenium controls cancer growth.

Spirulina has heaps too, highly recommended.

"selenium cancer"

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=selenium+cancer&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

I'll leave this link for searching nutrients in foods, if you go to a link and keep going down a page you'll find the foods with the highest content of anything I talk about here plus all the blurb on each nutrient at the link.

Micronutrient Information Center

http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/contentnuts.html

I put Brazil nuts in muesli and you can throw Broccoli and Garlic into all sorts of meals. Seafood also has heaps of Selenium.

"This paper reports the results of two mammary cancer prevention experiments in the rat dimethylbenz[a]anthracene model by continuous feeding of selenium-rich Brazil nut (processed to a smooth-textured nut material for mixing in the diet). A dose-dependent inhibitory response was observed at dietary selenium concentrations of 1-3 micrograms/g. Interestingly, Brazil nut was found to be just as powerful as sodium selenite, if not more so, at similar levels of dietary selenium intake."

Bioactivity of selenium from Brazil nut for cancer prevention and selenoenzyme maintenance.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8072875&dopt=Abstract

The reason for this advice is here and it may sound confusing but I should show it.

Brazil nuts have Selenomethionine and that is a building block to make S-Adenosylmethionine or SAM.

"SAM is derived from an ATP-dependent transfer of adenosine to methionine via methionine adenosyltransferase and serves as the proximal methyl donor for most methylation reactions."

"The formation of SAM requires a continuous supply of folate, methionine, choline, vitamin B12, vitamin B6, vitamin B2 and energy from the extracellular milieu.

"Higher DNA methyltransferase activity has been observed in tumor cells compared to normal cells. Chronic dietary methyl deficiency also increases DNA methyltransferase activity, which may be an attempt to compensate for diminished SAM supply. Nutrient supply, therefore, appears to play a key role in regulating DNA methyltransferase activity."

DIET, DNA METHYLATION AND OTHER EPIGENETIC EVENTS, AND CANCER PREVENTION

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/rfa-ca-03-016.html

"The effects of selenomethionine (SeMet) on the growth of 17 cultured cell lines were studied. SeMet in the culture medium of three hepatoma cell lines promoted cell growth at subcytotoxic levels (1-20 microM), but the growth of malignant lymphoid and myeloid cells was not stimulated."

Effects of selenomethionine on cell growth and on S-adenosylmethionine metabolism in cultured malignant cells.

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1131364

"These results demonstrate that dietary supplementation of selenomethionine reduced experimental metastasis of melanoma cells in mice and inhibited the growth of metastatic tumors that formed in the lungs."

Dietary supplementation of selenomethionine reduces metastasis of melanoma cells in mice

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1801053

Garlic may be a bit safer, in this study less Selenium accumulated in the bones than Brazil nuts but since this is cancer I suggested Brazil nuts because you get more easily with less Garlic breath.

Use Broccoli too, it's another good source.

"This suggests that the anti-cancer activity of the high-selenium garlic was likely to be accounted for by the effect of selenium, rather than the effect of garlic per se."

"Thus, based on the results of several biological responses, it appears that the ability of the high-selenium garlic to protect against tumorigenesis is primarily dependent on increased intake of selenium provided by the vegetable."

Efficacy of cancer prevention by high-selenium garlic is primarily dependent on the action of selenium.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?itool=abstractplus&db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstractplus&list_uids=7586181

So the Brazil nuts, Broccoli or Garlic will stop this……

"Higher DNA methyltransferase activity has been observed in tumor cells compared to normal cells."

Folic acid will help but avoid a supplement and you'll get enough from eating well anyway.

The same goes for Choline, nuts and eggs have it and your liver should make Choline in your body, you'll get B12 as long as you're not a vegan.

Beetroot has some of the best Choline so maybe drop into a juice bar for a Beetroot and Carrot mix, they can add Spirulina sometimes.

They can actually cause cancer just by removing Selenium, Folic acid, Choline and B12 from the diet in rats.

I'll mention B6 at the end.

There are other reasons I recommend Brazil nuts and the first is the high Methionine content of the nut and Methionine is needed to make Carnitine.

"In cancer patients, abnormalities of tumor tissue as well as nontumor tissue metabolism have been observed. Such abnormalities are supposed to contribute to deterioration of clinical status of patients, or might induce cancerogenesis by themselves. The carnitine system appears abnormally expressed both in tumor tissue, in such a way as to greatly reduce fatty acid beta-oxidation, and in nontumor tissue. In this view, the study of the carnitine system represents a tool to understand the molecular basis underlying the metabolism in normal and cancer cells. Some important anticancer drugs contribute to dysfunction of the carnitine system in nontumor tissues, which is reversed by carnitine treatment, without affecting anticancer therapeutic efficacy."

Cancer and anticancer therapy-induced modifications on metabolism mediated by carnitine system.< P>

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10653600&dopt=Abstract

So this is how your body makes Carnitine.

"It can be synthesised within the body from the amino acids lysine or methionine. Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid) is essential to the synthesis of carnitine."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnitine

Again here is the Methionine content of Brazils.

"The proteins found in Brazil nuts are very high in sulfur-containing amino acids like cysteine (8%) and methionine (18%) and are also extremely rich in glutamine, glutamic acid, and arginine."
A hard nut cracked: Brazil nuts' selenium compounds identified
http://www.speciation.net/Public/News/2006...?PHPSESSID=363d

Brazils also have high Glutamine and Arginine content.

Glutamine is the precursor for Proline.

So this study shows some effects on breast cancers induced in rats and then treated with the mix of Lysine, Proline, Arginine, Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) and Green tea.

"The limited ability of current treatments to control metastasis and the proposed antitumor properties of specific nutrients prompted us to examine the effect of a specific formulation (nutrient supplement [NS]) of lysine, proline, arginine, ascorbic acid, and green tea extract in vivo on the development of N-methyl-N-nitrosourea (MNU)-induced mammary tumors in rats."

"Results: NS reduced the incidence of MNU-induced mammary tumors and the number of tumors by 68.4%, and the tumor burden by 60.5%. The inhibitory effect of NS was also reflected by decreased tumor weight; the tumor weights per rat and per group were decreased by 41% and 78%, respectively. In addition, 30% of the control rats developed ulcerated tumors, in contrast to 10% in the nutrient supplemented rats.

Conclusion: These findings suggest that the specific formulation of lysine, proline, arginine, ascorbic acid, and green tea extract tested significantly reduces the incidence and growth of MNU-induced mammary tumors, and therefore has strong potential as a useful therapeutic regimen for inhibiting breast cancer development."

Modulation of N-methyl-N-nitrosourea induced mammary tumors in Sprague–Dawley rats by combination of lysine, proline, arginine, ascorbic acid and green tea extract 2005
http://breast-cancer-research.com/content/7/3/R291

The Lysine, Proline, Arginine and Ascorbic Acid are needed for Collagen repair and since Cancer releases enzymes that destroy Collagen by recreating your Collagen with the right foods you then neutralize those enzymes.

The Green tea stops angiogenesis.

Angiogenesis is how our body makes new arteries, cancer cells also divert blood supply and arteries to feed themselves and Green Tea helps stop that.

Epigallocatechin-3-gallate is the stuff that comes out of Green Tea so here's a study.

"We report that compared to non-EGCG-treated tumors, topical application of EGCG in UV-induced tumors resulted in inhibition of protein expression and activity of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2 and MMP-9, which play crucial roles in tumor growth and metastasis. In contrast, tissue inhibitor of MMP-1 (TIMP-1), which inhibits MMP activity, was increased in tumors."

Epigallocatechin-3-gallate inhibits photocarcinogenesis through inhibition of angiogenic factors and activation of CD8[+] T cells in tumors

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=17202252

Increasing TIMP is good, it's one of those genes that tell tumors to stop.

Metalloproteinases are the enzymes that cancer cells release and destroy your collagen.

This mix is one of the simplest ways to stop Cancer spreading.

It is also part of a heart disease cure.

Unified Theory of Cardiovascular Disease

http://www.paulingtherapy.com/

Lysine tablets and Sodium Ascorbate powder can be bought from chemists and health stores.

Don't take too much Ascorbate or you end up moving the bowels too quickly.

Lemons are the best for the Vitamin C, two halves squeezed in water or juice a day is easy, more is better.

Foods with Lysine are at this link and fish are best or Mung bean sprouts.

999 Foods Highest in Lysine
http://nutritiondata.com/foods-000083000000000000000.html

999 Foods Highest in Proline

http://nutritiondata.com/foods-000095000000000000000.html

Don't eat Soy products as they may be a cancer risk.

Here they talk about cancer destroying collagen, proteinases are the collagen destroying enzymes that these foods will stop.

"Breast cancer cells frequently metastasize to the skeleton and induce extensive bone destruction. Cancer cells produce proteinases, including matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and the plasminogen activator system (PAS) which promote invasion of extracellular matrices, but whether these proteinases degrade bone matrix is unclear."

"ResultsThe 3 breast cancer cell lines all produced significant degradation of the 3 collagenous extracellular matrices (ECMs) whilst the normal breast cell line was without effect."

Human breast cancer cell-mediated bone collagen degradation requires plasminogen activation and matrix metalloproteinase activity

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=548674&tools=bot

"extracellular matrices" are just skin, bones, tendons etc.

So here's a description of Collagen.

"Collagen is the main protein of connective tissue in animals and the most abundant protein in mammals, making up about 25% of the total protein content.'

"Prolines and lysines at specific locations relative to glycine are modified post-translationally by different enzymes, both of which require Vitamin C as a cofactor."

"Vitamin C deficiency causes scurvy, a serious and painful disease in which defective collagen prevents the formation of strong connective tissue. Gums deteriorate and bleed, with loss of teeth; skin discolors, and wounds do not heal."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collagen

This is why Vitamin C is needed for sick people, without it we actually fall apart.

Vitamin A or Retinoic Acid is next, it get used for all sorts of Cancers including Leukemia.

That's why I told the old gentleman I mentioned before to take Cod Liver Oil.

The other sources are just the red and yellow vegetables, so Carrot juice, Pumpkins, Tomatoes are all useful, I just suggest Cod Liver Oil because you know the dose each day. Never take too much.

"Retinoids, the natural and synthetic vitamin A derivatives, are effective in inhibiting the proliferation of breast cancer cells."

Prevention of Breast Cancer Tumor Growth by Retinoic Acid

http://www.cbcrp.org/research/PageGrant.asp?grant_id=3

The Glycoproteins

The next bit is about the cell signaling molecules called Glycoproteins that we have on the surface of our cells to communicate with.

"However, it is the ability of cancer cells to spread to remote locations and grow without restraint that kills the patient. The metastatic spread of breast cancer involves the ability of the cancer cells to escape their normal tissue boundaries through invasion, engraftment and their ability to recruit a vascular supply. Tissue invasion and metastasis are highly dependent on alterations in the extra-cellular matrix and cell-cell interactions that, in part, involve structural changes in cell surface components, including glycosylation."

"The N-linked glycoproteins have been shown to have important roles in cell-cell interactions including fertilization, inflammation, development and differentiation."

Metastases: the glycan connection
http://breast-cancer-research.com/content/2/5/321

So what happens is these Glycoproteins are not happening on the surface of the cancer cells so there is no way for the body to tell them to stop growing.

This is why foods like sprouts, legumes and mushrooms are useful as they have the glycoproteins to attach to our cells.

This is why you need to stop eating sugar if you have cancer because sugar gets in the way of the important cell signaling sugars.

The cancer cells even release enzymes that destroy these glycoproteins.

Those enzymes are called Glycosidases.

"Other studies have demonstrated a correlation between metastatic cell potential and increased endoglycosidase and polysaccharide lyase activity. Generally, metastatic tumor cell variants have been found to be more invasive and capable of degrading proteoglycan basement membrane components, in part due to these increased levels of degradative enzymes. Hence, it is of considerable interest to develop inhibitors against these enzymes."

Glycosidases in cancer and invasion

http://www.springerlink.com/content/q52r3328k31q1u64/

"degrading proteoglycan basement membrane components" means wrecking the glycoproteins on our cell surfaces.

Proteoglycans are in Mushrooms, Sprouts and Legumes

So all of these are helpful with cancer, for an example of this in practice I've got a mushroom craving just writing this so this weekend I'll head to China town and collect all sorts of mushrooms for a tomato and mushroom stir fry.

You'll find all sorts of studies about mushrooms and cancer if you look.

Here's a little nerd stuff naming these glycoproteins if curious.

"There are two major types of N-linked saccharides: high-mannose oligosaccharides, and complex oligosaccharides. High-mannose is, in essence, just two N-acetylglucosamines with many mannose residues, often almost as many as are seen in the precursor oligosaccharides before it is attached to the protein."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycosylation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycan

A yummy plant like Aloe Vera has all of these sugars or glycoproteins, if you drink that you'll feel like you are taking medicine.

"The virtues of the aloe plant (chronicled in the writings of Hippocrates) have evolved to include a strong anticancer connection (Corsi et al. 1998). It was determined that aloe juice reduced tumor mass and the frequency of metastasis in rats (Gribel et al. 1986). Aloe protected individuals with weakened immune systems against infection (Klein et al. 1988). Random scientific papers, plus scores of anecdotal reports relating to cancer regressions, spurred a group of physicians and scientists to study the nature and role of carbohydrates in biological events; a science referred to as Glycobiology emerged."

"The active ingredients in aloe are eight chains of mannose sugars, (glucose, galactose, mannose, fructose, xylose, N-acetylglucosamine, N-acetylgalactosamine, and N-acetylneuraminic acid). Scientists determined that the eight sugars (super carbohydrates), frequently missing in the diet, are important to intercellular communication"

http://www.glyconutrients-center.org/glyconutrient-aloevera.php

The glycoproteins may be the reason Aloe helps collagen wounds heal.

"Treatment of full-thickness wounds with A. vera, on rats resulted in increased biosynthesis of collagen and its degradation. A corresponding increase in the urinary excretion of hydroxyproline was also observed. Elevated levels of lysyl oxidase also indicated increased crosslinking of newly synthesised collagen. The results suggest that A. vera influences the wound healing process by enhancing collagen turnover in the wound tissue."

Influence of Aloe vera on collagen turnover in healing of dermal wounds in rats.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9854430&dopt=Abstract

The other 'yummy' drink that can be of use though I haven't seen it used for cancer is Elderflower tea, again you feel like you're drinking medicine.

It's really useful for getting rubbish out of the lungs, try Thyme tea for infections and breathing if you have problems.

Elderflower is Sambucus Nigra and it's got a heap of Glycoproteins.

Fractionation of sialylated oligosaccharides, glycopeptides, and glycoproteins on immobilized elderberry (Sambucus nigra L.) bark lectin

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=7560229

Lectins are also in mushrooms, sprouts and legumes.

"Numerous studies have reported that these substances possess toxic, cytotoxic, antitumor, and anticarcinogenic properties."

Antitumor effect of plant lectins.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9407559&dopt=Abstract

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectin

Vitamin B17 (called Laetrile or Amygdalin and is a glycoside) is supposed to cure cancer and Elderflower has some in it.

This site talks about this and here's their link to find the foods.

http://www.laetrile.com.au/copy.asp?sect=q2&page=foods

This is the mainstream overview, the main problem seems to be that Laetrile treatment has the possibility of cyanide poisoning.

Laetrile/Amygdalin

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/cam/laetrile/HealthProfessional/page4#Reference4.18

But then there are studies like this?

"Tumour specific

The cassava plant, almond tree and hydrangea, all have an enzyme that will produce cyanide when it comes into contact with a particular sugar molecule.

The enzyme and the sugar are normally kept apart and are only brought together when a pest bites into the plant tissue.

The Imperial College scientists have engineered the enzyme and attached it to an antibody that will target specific tumours, when injected into the body.

A second drug, containing the sugar, would then be introduced which would react with the enzyme to release cyanide and kill the cancer cells."

Cyanide targets cancer
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/festival_of_science/913463.stm

Or this glycoside study from 2006?

Leukemia antiproliferation and apoptosis induced by C-glycosides

http://rockymountainbmt.com/news/Leukemia-antiproliferation-and-apoptosis-induced-by-C-glycosides-4943.html

Apparently B17 or Laetrile is legal in some US states and here in Australia apricot kernels can be bought from growers?

I'm not sure?

You can still go to clinics in Mexico for it but food is still best.

Cancer Loves Sugar

http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/nutrition/sugar.htm

Because cancer cells feed off sugar it may be of use in getting some foods with pancreatic enzymes that break down sugar before it gets to the cancer cells.

There were about 20 clinics successfully using pancreatic enzymes for cancer at the beginning of the last century and they really went out of fashion when Marie Curie discovered Radiation, a therapy that is still in fashion.

Marie died from the radiation she discovered.

Your pancreas breaks down sugars and so needs enzymes to do that.

"These results are far above the survival at one year and survival at two years for all stages of pancreatic adenocarcinoma reported in the National Cancer Data Base from 1995. This pilot study suggests that an aggressive nutritional therapy with large doses of pancreatic enzymes led to significantly increased survival over what would normally be expected for patients with inoperable pancreatic adenocarcinoma."

Evaluation of pancreatic proteolytic enzyme treatment of adenocarcinoma of the pancreas, with nutrition and detoxification support.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=10368805

"The best food sources of digestive enzymes are: sprouts (easy and inexpensive to grow on your own), unripe papaya, unripe pineapple, avocados, bananas, and mangos."

http://www.auntjeni.com/enzymes.htm

I'm not sure about unripe papaya and pineapple, ugh.

Here's a mainstream study on sprout enzymes to prove the point.

So any seed or nut that starts growing is a sprout.

Broccoli Sprouts: An exceptionally rich source of inducers of enzymes that protect against chemical carcinogens

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/94/19/10367

Vitamin B6

This actually gets called an antidepressant vitamin sometimes, since it's used in 100 or so enzymes in the body I suggest it.

It needs Magnesium to make it work in the body so heaps of greens help otherwise a supplement of Magnesium never hurts.

B6 is called Pyridoxine and Pyridoxal.

"Pharmacologic levels of PL (0.25-0.5 mM) resulted in significant reductions in cell proliferation."

Effect of pyridoxine and pyridoxal on the in vitro growth of human malignant melanoma."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?itool=abstractplus&db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstractplus&list_uids=3218963

"In previous studies, decreased growth of tumor cells by vitamin B-6 treatment has been attributed to modulation of steroid hormone action."

Pyridoxal Supplementation Reduces Cell Proliferation and DNA Synthesis in Estrogen-Dependent and –Independent Mammary Carcinoma Cell Lines

http://www.leaonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/S15327914NC382_18?cookieSet=1&journalCode=nc

I think the reason is the effect of B6 on the Pituitary gland and how it regulates growth hormones.

"Patients with breast, or colon , bladder, or laryngeal cancers, and or Hodgkin's disease have lower plasma PLP levels compared with healthy controls. In vitro studies have shown that pharmacologic doses of vitamin B6 (from 0.25 to 5 mM) inhibit cell proliferation and protein synthesis in HepG2 human hepatoma cells."

Pyridoxal Phosphate Inhibits Pituitary Cell Proliferation And Hormone Secretion

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1513048

PLP stands for Pyridoxal Phosphate and cancer patients as it says have low B6 levels.

B6 helps digest food so 50mg with a big feed is best.

Two 50mg tablets a day is plenty enough, one will help.

When they gave kids B6 at night it increased their Melatonin.

The Pineal gland is where Melatonin is made and this then affects the pituitary gland.

"The effect of melatonin on reproductive systems can be summarized by saying that it is anti-gonadotropic. In other words, melatonin inhibits the secretion of the gonadotropic hormones, luteinizing hormone and follicle stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary."

The Pineal Gland and Melatonin

http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/endocrine/otherendo/pineal.html

Below is why Melatonin's effect on luteinizing hormone LH and follicle stimulating hormone FSH may be important.

"Estrogen exposure has repeatedly been shown to associate with the risk of developing breast cancer. Estrogen synthesis is under the control of LH and FSH, where LH, through its receptor (LHR), stimulates production of ovarian androgens; and FSH, their aromatization to estrogens."

Luteinizing hormone signaling and breast cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12679452&dopt=Abstract

So B6 is needed to make Serotonin (this is why they use Prozac as an antidepressant, B6 is safer) and this then turns into Melatonin, a bit of dairy product of any sort is needed to synthesize Melatonin as well.

When they gave kids B6 at night it increased their Melatonin.

"The data obtained showed a significant increase in melatonin levels after pyridoxine administration in the pyridoxine night group

Pineal response after pyridoxine test in children

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=3182129

Avoid too much TV and computer screens at night as the light wrecks your Melatonin.

So here's the last blurb on Melatonin and cancer, it costs too much to buy and B6 is quite cheap, a bottle of B6 should last two months for ten dollars.

"Melatonin is a hormone naturally found in humans. Its association with cancer has been shown in many studies assessing links between shift work and cancer rates, and shown a consistent relationship. The association between melatonin levels and cancer progression has suggested to some that melatonin may be a modifier of cancer progression. In this latest study, researchers examined all clinical trials assessing the role of melatonin as a therapy for solid tumor cancers. They used a methodology called meta-analysis, a technique of analyzing multiple studies. The authors reviewed 10 randomized clinical trials that included a total of 643 cancer patients with a variety of different solid tumor cancers. The types of cancers involved included lung, brain, skin, renal and breast cancer. "In this analysis, the effects appeared to be consistent across studies" say the authors. The researchers examined the effect of large doses of melatonin (10-40mg/day) on survival rates at one year. Melatonin reduced the risk of death at one year by 34%. "Effects this large certainly warrant further clinical trials" say the authors. The study also showed that melatonin was predominantly safe and had a beneficial effect on sleep patterns of patients."

Role of melatonin in cancer treatment is looking compelling

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=34048

Sleep well.

Why Meditation Is Useful

The basics of meditation involve breathing exercises and relaxation.

You lie down or sit in a quiet spot and clear the mind.

The most useful breathing simply involves a slow deep breath in and to hold it for a count of 4 (heartbeats can be used to count as well) and then to breathe out slowly and hold with your breath out for 4.

Concentrating on breathing not only relaxes but gets Oxygen into the body.

The count of 4 with the breath out actually raises Carbon Dioxide which helps absorb more Oxygen, it's a strange paradox but is used in the Buteyko method for Asthma.

Oxygen slows tumor growth and is opposed to Hypoxia, a lack of Oxygen.

"Hypoxia cancer"

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=Hypoxia+cancer&btnG=Search&meta=

Here's a good description of what happens with low Oxygen to our cells.

"In cancer, the lack of oxygen deep within the tumor or genetic changes can induce a strong hypoxia response that helps the tumor to grow faster, and reduces the efficacy of chemotherapy and radiotherapy."

"For breast and ovarian cancer, a high hypoxia response correlated with poor outcome."

Hypoxia Responses: How Different Cells and Tumors React to Oxygen Shortage

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1334224

So when Breast and Ovarian Cancer cells became starved of Oxygen they had a Hypoxia response and grew more.

"When the supply of oxygen from the bloodstream fails to meet demand from body tissues--as can occur in the exercising muscle, ischemic hearts, or tumors--hypoxia results, the researchers explained. Cells adapt to low oxygen conditions by activating a "program of gene-expression changes" initiated by so-called hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) transcription factor.

Over a century ago, Pasteur described that hypoxic cells increase the conversion of glucose [the body's primary energy source] to lactate."

Adaptation to oxygen deprivation elucidates tumor physiology

http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/studien/bericht-56378.html

The Cancer cells then grab all the sugar they can to live off.

Is the jig-saw puzzle making sense now?

This is why heaps of folk say to avoid sugar.

Breathe more too and you're survival is quite promising, the Hypoxia studies all talk about solid tumors being affected by oxygen so there is hope.

Some Topical Herbs for Tumors.

Ginger is one, you could easily stick Ginger on a bandage and pop it on.

"There is considerable emphasis on identifying potential chemopreventive agents present in food consumed by the human population. Ginger rhizome (Zingiber officinale), known commonly as ginger, is consumed worldwide in cookeries as a spice and a flavoring agent."

"The animals pretreated with GE (extract of ginger) showed substantially lower tumor body burdens compared with non-GE-treated controls. The results of our study, for the first time, provide clear evidence that GE possesses anti-skin tumor-promoting effects, and that the mechanism of such effects may involve inhibition of tumor promoter-caused cellular, biochemical, and molecular changes in mouse skin."

Inhibition of tumor promotion in SENCAR mouse skin by ethanol extract of Zingiber officinale rhizome.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8640756&dopt=Abstract

The Jason Winters Tea has Red Clover and Chaparral in it.

http://www.sirjasonwinters.com/

I'm not sure about drinking Chaparral (I've tried it) as it could possibly cause kidney and liver damage.

It might be bad for Diabetics as well since it causes such a low blood sugar level.

I drink Red Clover to patch up skin dramas but it has phytoestrogens so could be a risk, it is an old herb for tumors though.

Topical Chaparral looks OK.

"The relative potency of linear butane type lignans against human breast cancer appears to correlate positively with the number of O-methyl groups present on the molecule."

Cytotoxic lignans from Larrea tridentata.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15797607&dopt=Abstract

Traderdrew from Cure Zone wrote this and I think it's worth posting, letting go of anger etc. is vital if you can do it....

'Your page lists specific treatments. I just thought I would post some general ideas.

The alternative therapies I have gravitated toward and make the most sense to me have certain principles.

1. Detoxify the body and locate what made or makes you toxic. This might involve becoming a detective. Find the best solutions for the elimination of toxins. There are many ways to detoxify and there probably isn't a best method for everyone.

2. After you detoxify, nourish your body. Conduct research and find out where you are nutritionally deficient. Apparently, almost everyone is nutritionally deficient in one way or another. Don't expect to supplement your body with natural vitamins if you are still eating junk food.

3. Deal with your stress and negative emotions. I once read a quote somewhere, maybe it was the title of a book, "Feelings buried alive never die."'

Prostate Cancer and Parasites?

This is relevant to Prostate cancer and others where you may suspect parasites are raising hormone levels.

Selenium again....

"CONCLUSIONS: The inverse association between baseline plasma selenium levels and risk of advanced prostate cancer, even among men diagnosed during the post-PSA era, suggests that higher levels of selenium may slow prostate cancer tumor progression."
A prospective study of plasma selenium levels and prostate cancer risk.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15126606

Try Milk Thistle as well.

"We examined whether a flavonoid antioxidant silibinin (an active constituent of milk thistle) decreases PSA levels in hormone-refractory human prostate carcinoma LNCaP cells and whether this effect has biological relevance. Silibinin treatment of cells grown in serum resulted in a significant decrease in both intracellular and secreted forms of PSA concomitant with a highly significant to complete inhibition of cell growth via a G1 arrest in cell cycle progression."
Silibinin decreases prostate-specific antigen with cell growth inhibition via G1 arrest, leading to differentiation of prostate carcinoma cells: Implications for prostate cancer intervention
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/96/13/7490

If you look up Hulda Clark she will claim that the presence of worms in the prostate release cancer causing hormones....but Pumpkin Seeds are useful for the Prostate anyway, so maybe try them.

"Pumpkin seeds are taken principally as a safe deworming agent. They are particularly useful against tapeworms in pregnant women and in children, for whom stronger-acting and toxic preparations are unsuitable. The seeds are also mildly diuretic, and have been used in Central American herbal medicine as a treatment for nephritis and other urinary system problems. Varieties of pumpkin that are particularly diuretic, tonic to the bladder, and high in zinc have been recommended in the early stages of prostate problems."
Pumpkin
http://www.herbs2000.com/herbs/herbs_pumpkin.htm

Well it is true that parasites raise hormones to dangerous levels that can tell cancer cells to divide.

"Sex hormones levels were assayed after different periods of infection, the parasites present in the peritoneal cavity were collected and gonads, uterus and seminal vesicles were weighed. In male mice, serum estradiol increased to levels 200 times their normal values whilst those of testosterone decreased 90% relative to controls"
Sex hormone changes induced by the parasite lead to feminization of the male host in murine Taenia crassiceps cysticercosis.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=7779761&dopt=Abstract

"As endogenous estradiol increases, risk of breast cancer increases."
Serum Estradiol Level and Risk of Breast Cancer During Treatment With Raloxifene
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=11779264

This may be why a anti-parasite herb such as Wormwood has action against cancer.

Protection from Radiation, just a postscript.

A good example of Selenium protecting against cell damage and deformations is here.

"A single dose of sodium selenite (0.5 mg Se/kg b.w.) was injected intraperitoneally into mice on day 9 of pregnancy, either 30 min or 2 h before 1.75 Gy whole body irradiation. Administration of selenite 2 h but not 30 min before irradiation resulted in a significant decrease in the number of malformed foetuses (p less than 0.005). The decrease in foetal malformations occurred proportionally for all the major malformations observed, i.e. short or kinked tail, rib and vertebral malformations, coloboma and deformation of retina and iris. In addition, selenium pretreatment also protected against radiation-induced retardation of the sternum of the foetus.

Protective effect of selenium against ionizing radiation-induced malformations in mice.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=2994379&dopt=Abstract