Uterine cancer and vitamins

[Guest guest]

The August-September issue (2009) of the Townsend Letter just arrived

and this is a cancer issue. I noticed several interesting items that

have merit or deserve follow up, but I came across one thing that was

quite outstanding. There is an article Vitamins vs. Chemotherapy and

Radiation for Cancer Therapy, by Reagan Houston on p.60. In it he

reports on the work of Abram Hoffer (RIP) and his results of using

vitamin supplements. The selection was quite typical for those on

this List. Some variation was that the vitamin C averaged about 12

grams per day. He includes vitamin E succinate [which I also

like]. There was nothing remarkable about his other choices. With

nutritional supplementation the survival averaged 99 months whereas

without supplementation survival averaged 4 months. Even allowing

for distortions caused by small sample size this is very significant.

In clinical practice when a clinician is confronted with an

aggressive advanced cancer, he/she may have to use distortive

therapies, wisely choosing therapies that don't worsen immune

dysfunction. This buys time to decide on intermediate and long-range

strategies in which immune function pulls the laboring

oar. Certainly Hoffer's type of supplementation would be welcome.

As an aside, sometimes urea can be very useful in cancer therapy --

it is a chaotropic salt and disrupts cancer cell signalling but it

dumbs down immune function, so it is probably a poor choice to use

with many immune and supplementation therapies.

Save the oral urea for the day when flu vaccines with a squalamine

adjuvant are imposed. It would be less messy than carving an X at

the injection site and sucking out the venom.