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Vitamin A produces astonishing leukemia cure rate,
even without
chemotherapy
New research conducted at the University of Texas M.
D. Anderson
Cancer Center shows that vitamin A cures as many as
33% of patients
with a rare form of leukemia -- without using
chemotherapy. In the
study, the vitamin A was being delivered inside
"bubbles of fat" to
enhance bioavailability. Out of 34 patients
participating in the
trial, an astonishing 10 remained cancer-free after
five years,
despite receiving no chemotherapy.
So what's the real story here? Researchers are
calling this form of
vitamin A a "drug," which seems odd, since it's just
vitamin A.
Perhaps they don't want to admit that a vitamin is
better than
chemotherapy for curing cancer. And this is
definitely a cure -- that
term is even being used by the researchers here. To
take a group of
cancer patients and watch them remain cancer-free
for five years is
nothing short of astonishing, especially since they
were only taking
one vitamin. Imagine how well they'd do if they also
consumed
chlorella (a strong anti-cancer superfood),
spirulina (another
superfood containing phytochemicals known to destroy
breast cancer
tumors), graviola (an Amazonian herb known for its
powerful ability to
destroy cancer cells), licorice root (a more popular
anti-cancer herb)
and other health-promoting foods and supplements.
With the help of
this collection of health-promoting substances, the
cure rate could
have easily risen to 75% or more.
Still, that's just a guess. Organized medicine isn't
really interested
in studying things that don't generate profits, and
herbs and
superfoods certainly fall into that category. But it
is exciting to
see vitamin A having such a dramatic, positive
impact on patients with
leukemia who might otherwise be subjected to
chemotherapy. And perhaps
someday these researchers will have the courage to
admit that it's a
vitamin, not a drug, that's working the healing
magic here.
Overview:
* A biological agent --- a drug that wraps
vitamin A inside
bubbles of fat --- used without chemotherapy appears
to offer as many
as one-third of patients with a rare form of
leukemia an opportunity
for a long-term, disease-free future, say
researchers at The
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
* Researchers say the findings, presented at the
annual meeting of
the American Society of Clinical Oncology, provide
the proof that
biologic drugs can work in patients with acute
promyelocytic leukemia
(APL), and opens the door to development of such
agents for more
common forms of leukemia.
* "This is the first time we have seen patients
with an acute
leukemia potentially cured without use of
chemotherapy," says the
study principal investigator, Elihu Estey, M.D., a
professor in the
Department of Leukemia.
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