Wisdom of Cancer Specialists

Nutrition and Cancer Aggressiveness

     Russell Blaylock whom I have had the opportunity to meet at clinical nutrition meetings is a leading cancer researcher. The following are quotes you will probably find of interest from an interview with Blaylock in Suzanne Somers book Knockout, pages 153-160. Regarding cancer and nutrition he says the following: "...the one thing that's known in oncology that the general public doesn't know is that tumors can change their characteristics based on these factors (nutrition and toxin exposure). With good nutrition, a tumor will become very benign in its behavior. In labs, the animal will live much longer. But if you take the same animal and give it a bad diet and toxins, the tumor will change its characteristics and become highly aggressive, highly invasive, and kill the animal very quickly."

Flavonoids and Cancer

     The NeoLife Flavonoid Complex was shown to slow breast cancer cell growth in culture by over 90% in one study by the Southern Research Institute. Blaylock has the following to say about flavonoids which supports this finding: "If you look at the molecular action of flavonoid combinations and vitamin combinations, it's all been worked out down to the exact cell signaling method--what happens in the cell, why it only affects cancer cells, and why it doesn't affect normal cells. The beauty of flavonoid combination treatment is that it protects normal cells and kills and suppresses cancer cells. It's very selective. This is information oncologists have always claimed they have looked for, but chemo drugs are not selective at all."

Some Studies

Lung Cancer

     Flavonoids reduced the risk of lung cancer by almost half. Results were even more dramatic among  people under 50 and nonsmokers.

     Knekt, Paul, et al, Dietary Flavonoids and the Risk of Lung Cancer and Other Malignant Neoplasms,   

Journal of Epidemiology, 1997;146(3):223-230.

Colon Cancer Recurrence

      The combined recurrence rate for cancer was 7% (1 in 14) among patients treated with flavonoids and 47% (7 of 15) among controls. These results suggest that long-term supplementation with flavonoids may reduce the rate of cancer recurrence in patients with resected colon cancer.

     Hoensch H, Kirch W, et al,  

Prospective cohort comparison of flavonoid treatment in patients with resected colorectal cancer to prevent recurrence, World J Gastroenterol, 2008; 14(14): 2187-93. 

 

 

Ovarian Cancer

    

  

  

  

  

  

The highest intake of five flavonoids was associated with a 25% reduced risk of ovarian cancer.

     Gates MA, Hankinson SE, et al, A p

 

rospective study of dietary flavonoid intake and incidence of epithelial ovarian cancer,Int J Cancer, 2007; 121(10): 2225-32.

Why is Cancer Progress so Slow?

     

     "The problem is that it has gotten to be such big business. If we found the cure to cancer there would be a terrible economic impact....The impact would be hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars....that is what keeps research from following a course that would lead to truly curing patients."

      When people ask me about cancer I always tell them that the best prevention possible is a good diet with lots of fruits and vegetables. The best supplements are the compounds in Phytodefense, Betagard, and Cal-Mag with vitamin D.