Re: Professional-Alternative medicine (prostate)

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Here's some more material on prostate cancer that may be of interest.

Best,

RB

Posted: March 19, 2006

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060319150754.htm    

Pepper Component Hot Enough To Trigger Suicide In Prostate Cancer Cells

Capsaicin, the stuff that turns up the heat in jalapeños, not only

causes the tongue to burn, it also drives prostate cancer cells to kill

themselves, according to studies published in the March 15 issue of

Cancer Research.

 

According to a team of researchers from the Oschin Comprehensive

Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in collaboration with

colleagues from UCLA, the pepper component caused human prostate cancer

cells to undergo programmed cell death or apoptosis. Capsaicin induced

approximately 80 percent of prostate cancer cells growing in mice to

follow the molecular pathways leading to apoptosis. Prostate cancer

tumors treated with capsaicin were about one-fifth the size of tumors in

non-treated mice.

" Capsaicin had a profound anti-proliferative effect on human prostate

cancer cells in culture, " said Sören Lehmann, M.D., Ph.D., visiting

scientist at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the UCLA School of

Medicine. " It also dramatically slowed the development of prostate

tumors formed by those human cell lines grown in mouse models. " Lehmann

estimated that the dose of pepper extract fed orally to the mice was

equivalent to giving 400 milligrams of capsaicin three times a week to a

200 pound man, roughly equivalent to between three and eight fresh

habañera peppers – depending on the pepper's capsaicin content.

Habañeras are the highest rated pepper for capsaicin content according

to the Scoville heat index. Habañero peppers, which are native to the

Yucatan, typically contain up to 300,000 Scoville units. The more

popular Jalapeño variety from Oaxaca, Mexico, and the southwest United

States, contains 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville units. As described in their

study, the scientists observed that capsaicin inhibited the activity of

NF-kappa Beta, a molecular mechanism that participates in the pathways

leading to apoptosis in many cell types. Apoptosis is a normal cellular

event in many tissues that maintains a balance between newer replacement

cells and aged or worn cells. In contrast, cancer cells seek to be

immortal and often dodge apoptosis by mutating or deregulating the genes

that participate in programmed cell death. " When we noticed that

capsaicin affected NF-kappa Beta, that was an indication that we might

expect some of the apoptotic proteins to be affected, " said the study's

senior author, Koeffler, M.D., director of Hematology and

Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and professor at UCLA.

The pepper extract also curbed the growth of prostate cancer cells

through regulation of androgen receptors, the steroid activated proteins

that control expression of specific growth relating genes. In prostate

cancer cells whose growth is dependent on testosterone, the predominant

male sex steroid, capsaicin reduced cell proliferation in a

dose-dependent manner. Increased concentrations of capsaicin caused more

prostate cancer cells to freeze in a non-proliferative state, called

G0/G1.

Prostate cancer cells that are androgen independent reacted to capsaicin

in a similar manner. Capsaicin reduced the amount of androgen receptor

that the tumor cells produced, but did not interfere with normal

movement of androgen receptor into the nucleus of the cancer cells where

the steroid receptor acts to regulate androgen target genes such as

prostate specific antigen (PSA). Capsaicin also interfered with the

action of androgen receptors even in cells that were modified to produce

excess numbers of androgen receptors.

The hot pepper component also reduced cancer cell production of PSA, a

protein that often is produced in high quantities by prostate tumors and

can signal the presence of prostate cancer in men. PSA content in the

blood of men is used as a diagnostic prostate cancer screening measure.

PSA is regulated by androgens, and capsaicin limited androgen-induced

increases of PSA in the cancer cell lines. More men in the United States

develop prostate cancer than any other type of malignancy. Every year,

more than 232,000 new cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed in the

U.S., and more than 680,000 develop the disease worldwide. Approximately

30,000 men die from prostate cancer in the U.S. each year, which is

about 13 percent of all new cases. Worldwide, there are 221,000 deaths

– approximately 31 per cent – among men with prostate cancer. Lehman

conducted the studies in Koeffler's laboratory in collaboration with

UCLA cancer researchers Akio Mori, O', Takishi Kumagai,

n Desmond, Milena Pervan, and McBride. Mosahiro Kizaki, a

former post-doctoral fellow in Koeffler's laboratory who initiated the

capsaicin studies, is currently at the Keio University School of

Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

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A CLASSICAL EXAMPLE OF MEDICAL QUACKERY: THE NON SPECIFICITY OF

" PROSTATE SPECIFIC " ANTIGEN

http://www.duffyslaw.com/current2.htm

A CLASSICAL EXAMPLE OF MEDICAL QUACKERY

21st CENTURY STYLE:

THE NON SPECIFICITY

OF " PROSTATE SPECIFIC " ANTIGEN

By H Duffy Sr, DC

A CLASSICAL EXAMPLE OF MEDICAL QUACKERY

21st CENTURY STYLE:

THE NON SPECIFICITY

OF " PROSTATE SPECIFIC " ANTIGEN

By H Duffy Sr, DC

Rewritten September 6, 2004

On Saturday, June 15, 2002 a long time patient came in for his regular

checkup and treatment via AK. He is now

77 and has been a patient for almost 30 years. He was preparing for a

senior citizen race walking event.

On a recent visit to His MD, he was examined in orthodox fashion and

found to have an elevated PSA for which an incredibly expensive drug was

prescribed. It cost over $1000 for 90 pills. Three of the pills

immediately made him sick so he stopped taking the drug after his first

three doses. Of course, he only paid five of the $1000 plus dollars it

cost - we the taxpayers paid the rest - thanks to the socially

disastrous efforts of LBJ - the father of MEDICARE.* [see short story at

the end of the Prostate article].

HERE ARE THE FACTS ON PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN, THE PSA NOTORIOUS PSA

TEST WITH ITS

DISASTROUS RESULTS, NOW CONFESSED BY ITS CHIEF PROTAGONIST DR STAMEY OF

U OF

CAL......PASS THEM AROUND!!!

1. PSA means Prostate Specific Antigen.

2. PSA is NOT specific and has LITTLE to do with the prostate

specifically.

3. PSA is found in females with breast, lung and uterine cancers.

[whoops!] In fact, the highest levels of PSA have been found in females

RECOVERING from breast cancers. [J Nat'l Cancer Inst Oct 6, 1999,

Fortier, AH et al]

Surprise, surprise, the ladies that made the best recoveries were the

ones with the highest PSA levels!!

4. PSA appears to be an anti-angiogenic molecule. For those of you

unfamiliar with the term, one of the features of cancer is that it has

an enormous appetite and therefore needs a huge blood supply to feed it,

so wherever you see cancer growing, you will see angio-genesis taking

place - the creation of new vascular tissue. [That's why shark cartilage

became popular.]

5. PSA appears to inhibit the usual increases in circulation necessary

to feed the cancer and to support its rapid growth and proliferation.

6. MD of NYC reports patients who have shown PSA

levels of a hundred or more for long

periods of time who are doing just fine as they recover from their

cancers - he opines that increased PSA levels indicates a GOOD response

by the body, NOT a BAD response. [audio tapes 12 and 17 spring 1999

lecture,

ACAM - see ordering info below]. Dr uses the nutritional

protocol that he learned from his teacher, the orthodontist and

scientist, Dr Kelley of Grapevine, Texas, who is one of

my three nominees for the Nobel prize in medicine [along with J

Goodheart DC and Pershing Isaacs MD]. also reports a well

recovered cancer patient with a CEA of 350,000, the highest in medical

history. See the article on this site entitled, The AMAS test, to learn

about the CEA which is another cancer marker. When a tumor breaks down

it dumps CEA into the blood stream which can be measured. WARNING AND

CAUTION NOTE!! BE CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT BLOOD TEST LEVELS

AND TUMOR SIZES, MORE IS OFTEN NOT WORSE, AND BIGGER, [TUMOR], IS OFTEN

NOT WORSE!!! The

healing process often causes tumors to encapsulate and get a little

bigger rather than smaller, although the growth is stopped and they are

walled off!!

7. So giving a toxic drug for a " specific " antigen which is not at all

" specific " is just one more in a long line of examples of medical

quackery being propagated by present establishment sources. It's sort of

like giving a deadly drug for a non infectious, non transmissible

disease [AIDS] allegedly caused by an unproved virus [HIV]. It can also

be compared to injecting newborn babies with foreign proteins and heavy

metal poisons to " protect " them from

adult diseases found mainly in intravenous dope addicts [recreational

drug users]. Note that I use the old familiar term for these human

wastrels - " dope addicts " rather than " substance abusers " - dope addict

is more apropos.

Sort of like calling a bum a bum, rather than a homeless person. Using

the euphemism " homeless person " might

make you feel better but hey, life is not fair, some people are bums.

Face it. Others are criminals. Face it. Not facing it results in what

we're discussing here. Highly educated people committing crimes against

humanity and

getting away with it largely because we indulge the use of politically

correct language. If we were in the habit of calling bums what they are,

and dope addicts what they are, we might not find it so difficult to

call an MD a quack and a criminal and begin to take steps to put them

where they belong, behind bars, not out on the street preying on the

innocent and the ignorant.

The very highly educated, brilliant doctor, Stamey published the

original study on PSA in the New England

Journal Of Medicine in 1987. He concluded, based upon his knowledge,

experience and training along with the

study result that the worse the Prostate cancer, the higher the PSA.

Exactly the opposite is true! Dr Stamey is an honest fellow though, he

recently was quoted as saying " I removed a couple of hundred prostates I

wish I hadn't. " [F.B.Dunn, J Natl Cancer Inst Vol 94, No6, pp 415-16 Mar

20, 2002] The activities of Dr Stamey raise several questions:

1. Do you think that Dr Stamey should be held accountable for those

unnecessary surgeries?

2. What do you think would happen to the tobacco industry executives or

the auto industry executives or the toy

industry executives if they were caught killing, maiming or harming so

many people - especially innocent children like those suffering from

quack vaccine induced disabilities and death?

3. Do you think the deaths of prostate cancer patients resulting from

misdiagnosis and maltreatment became part

of the statistics used to place the practice of orthodox medicine in

third place on the list of causes of unnecessary deaths in the USA?

4. Are you beginning to get the right idea about the dreadful effects

orthodox medicine in the 21st century?

5. Why is it that many people are serving prison sentences for shaken

baby syndrome [many of whom are victims

of medical misdiagnosis] and doctors are quick to charge lay people with

neglect and abuse but we see no doctors

serving time for the same reasons? Since 328 people are killed every day

by orthodox medical activity, why do we

not see a lot of doctors in jail? Isn't it time we began holding them

responsible in the same manner they hold lay people responsible? I'll

say it once again, CONSENSUS-DRIVEN, ORTHODOX MEDICINE IS CRIMINAL

BEHAVIOR, IT IS BAD FOR

YOUR HEALTH AND IT IS THE ROOT SOURCE OF ALL OF THE MEDICAL QUACKERY OF

THE 21st

CENTURY. It is also the greatest threat to life and limb and health in

all recorded history. Do you REALLY think that orthodox medicine is only

number three in the cause of deaths in the USA? If you believe that I

have a bridge to sell you! Most of the deaths caused by orthodox medical

doctors go unreported and unrecognized for what they are. The reported

figures are only the tiny tip of a very large iceberg. This

underreporting is especially true of vaccine reactions. Especially in

infants and young school aged children. And we want to trust these

people and accept what they have to say about VACCINES and HRT [hormone

replacement therapy] etc.??? We want to trust these consensus driven

quacks to inject our neonates with

poisons? We want to accept the dribble and gobbledook nonsense they

continue to propagate about vaccines,

phantom diseases, phantom viruses, bacteria and prions as the CAUSES

rather than the RESULTS of most

disease processes???

CRISIS MEDICINE, ON THE OTHER HAND, IS A BLESSING TO HUMANITY - IT WILL

SAVE YOUR LIFE IN AN

EMERGENCY, RESCUE YOU FROM CONGENITALLY INFLICTED PROBLEMS, AND SPARE

YOU MOST OF

THE UNNECESSARY PAIN AND SUFFERING FROM TRAUMA AND ACCIDENTS - don't

confuse one with the

other, don't throw the baby out with the bath water. WHAT TO DO IF YOU

HAVE A SWOLLEN PROSTATE THAT INTERFERES WITH URINATION:

1. Find a doctor who will teach you how to catheterize yourself.

2. Catheterize yourself three times a day to prevent buildup of urine in

the bladder.

3. This has been reported to have successfully corrected an enlarged

prostate recommended for surgery. Self

catheterization gives the prostate a rest, allowing it to recover. Saw

Palmetto taken on a daily basis helps the

situation.

4. Urine buildup in the bladder can be dangerous, be sure that your

doctor monitors your progress.

PASS THIS ON TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE, ESPECIALLY YOUR LEGISLATORS.

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Pumpkin Seed is very good to normalize Prostate values.

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pipsissewa, oregon grape root, dandelion root and leaf, couch grass,

yarrow, saw palmetto, pygeum, stinging nettles (whole plant) and corn

silk (must be fresh) make sure the diet has supplemental zinc in the

form of zinc picolinate for best absorption. I've read where adding dong

quai, though touted mostly as a women's 'ginseng' is quite helpful for

men's problems as well. suggest that you check out james greens' 'the

male herbal'. don't have my herb pharm catalog, but i really like their

products (nci) when i'm unable to make my own.  you might want to

check out their website, i believe that they have a urinary combo that

may help. diane

[Alternative_Medicine_Forum] Re:

prostate treatment   The news that chemical castration is no good is

no surpise; it's not   even news, except to onclogists, that they got

the treatment   backwards.

  As Dr. Lee pointed out for years, prostate treatment with  

progesterone and testosterone,the exact opposite of chemical  

castration, reverses BPH and slows or stops prostate cancer growth.  

The study abstract, " Diabetes and cardiovascular disease during  

androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer. "   (J Clin Oncol.

2006 Sep) http://tinyurl.com/l5o3q   Duncan Crow.  

  >

  > A treatment mainstay for prostate cancer puts men at increased

risk

  for diabetes and cardiovascular disease, according to a large  

observational study published in the Sept. 20 Journal of Clinical  

Oncology.

  >

  > " Men with prostate cancer have high five-year survival rates, but

  they also have higher rates of non-cancer mortality than healthy  

men, " says study author Keating, MD, MPH, assistant professor  

of health care policy and of medicine at Harvard Medical   School.

" This study shows that a common hormonal treatment for   prostate

cancer may put men at significant risk for other serious   diseases.

Patients and physicians need to be aware of the elevated   risk as

they make treatment decisions. "

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Some veggies may stop prostate cancer  Source: UPI PITTSBURGH (UPI) --

A University of Pittsburgh study suggests chemicals in cruciferous

vegetables, such as broccoli, appear to stop prostate cancer cells from

growing in mice.

Researchers at the school's cancer institute said the chemicals in

vegetables such as broccoli, watercress, cabbage and cauliflower,

inhibited growth of human prostate cancer cells in the mice by affecting

the expression of proteins.

" The contribution of diet and nutrition to cancer risk, prevention and

treatment have been a major focus of research in recent years because

certain nutrients in vegetables and dietary agents appear to protect the

body against diseases such as cancer, " said Shivendra Singh, lead

investigator and professor of pharmacology and urology. " From

epidemiologic data, we know increased consumption of vegetables reduces

the risk for certain types of cancer, but now we are beginning to

understand the mechanisms by which certain edible vegetables ... help

our bodies fight cancer and other diseases. " The study was presented

Wednesday in Washington, during the annual meeting of the American

Association for Cancer Research. Copyright 2006 by United Press

International  

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Posted by: " jpking@... " jpking@...   jpking2158

Sat Mar 15, 2008 3:56 am (PDT)

Please help. I need to know the contact information of two professionals

who

use alternative medicines to treat prostate cancer successfully.

1. In U.S.A

2. In Florida.

Thanks.

Jim