What are foods or herbs that are beneficial in helping to shrink a cancerous tumor?
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Few studies have proven the benefit of foods and herbs in the ability to shrink a human malignant tumor.
Cancerous tumors can double in size in as little as 28 days and spread rapidly. If foods and herbs had any benefit in controlling rapid growth it would not be this difficult to find and document the evidence. Shrinkage and changes can be measured with imaging tools. (in order to track shrinkage using chemotherapy an oncologist documents changes using CT, PET, or MRI every four to six weeks. This is physical evidence. In comparison, no one has been able to document using a CT, PET, or MRI food or herbs causing any type of tumor shrinkage. Which leads to the conclusion that there is little or no benefit in using these products to shrink malignant tumors.)
You can search for information about these products and studies that are currently being done to discover if they are beneficial in some way to cancer patients.
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
http://nccam.nih.gov/
Memorial Sloan Kettering: Integrative
http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/11570.cf...
MD Anderson: complementary and Integrative
http://www.mdanderson.org/departments/ci...
And search for any types of reports and studies being done on this issue at PubMed which is the National Library of Medicine:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez...
ACS:Common Questions About Diet and Cancer
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ped/conten...
The great news is that there are many food and herbs that are beneficial in shrinking tumors. That's because cancer is a weak cell.
For instance, little over a year ago, UCLA researchers shrank tumors 80% with capsaicin, the hot ingredient in hot peppers. Ginger can do much the same thing.
Nine years ago, I used both habeneros peppers and garlic to cure my own Stage 4 cancer in two weeks. I also took emulsified cod liver oil. I had over a dozen lesions the size of fifty cent pieces located from my calves to my upper back.
They were gone in two weeks.
On another front, Essiac Tea which is comprised of at least four herbs is very effective for shrinking tumors.
If a person has had chemo or radiation, the scarring caused by those 'treatments' makes it more difficult for the herbs to work. Proteolytic enzymes in massive doses would be a good idea to help heal the damage form those modalities.
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