| Seventy percent of the plants identified by the national cancer institute as useful in cancer treatment are found only in the rain forest. If you know a child who has survived leukemia, you might want to consider it likely that periwinkle, a rain forest herb, played a role. Rauwolfia is a natural plant medicine from India and was the first high blood pressure drug; it is widely known today as the medication Reser-pine. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 CANCER PREVENTION: Perillyl alcohol, present in the essential oil of celery seeds, has been shown to have anticancer properties. The national cancer institute is conducting human clinical trials with perillyl alcohol to investigate its effectiveness in halting breast cancer. Animal studies have demonstrated positive results in regressing pancreatic, mammary, and liver tumors and may hold hope for preventing and treating many other types of cancer.
ANTIBACTERIA AND FUNGI (MOLD): Celery contains polyacetylenes, substances highly toxic against fungi and bacteria. |
| CANCER: In a study that evaluated the top ten vegetables consumed in the United States, yellow onions were the third highest in phenolic (a type of antioxidant) content and were fourth highest in anticancer-growth activity. The national cancer institute has found that onions have a modest level of cancer-protective activity.
LUNG CANCER: Onions are rich in the phytochemical quercetin, which has been shown to have beneficial effects against lung cancer. A case-controlled study of 582 subjects found that people who increased their onion consumption decreased their risk of developing cancer. |
David Steinman
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 A total of eleven children contracted nine different kinds of cancer between 1981 and 1984, a number four times the expected cancer rate, according to studies of the cancer data from the national cancer institute. The cancers continued to occur at abnormally high rates through the early 1990s.
What had happened to the towns? Had the towns recovered? Were things better or worse?
Even when the EPA came to town in 2005 to reassure people that their cancers were not caused by pesticides, the people felt as though they had been taken advantage of. I read one of their reports. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD.
13. Powell, I. J. (2007). Epidemiology and pathophysiology of prostate cancer in African-American men. J. Urol. 177, 444-449.
14. World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research. (1997). "Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective," pp. 20-52. American Institute for Cancer Research, Washington, DC.
15. Nomura, A. M., and Kolonel, L. N. (1991). Prostate cancer: A current perspective. Epidemiol. Rev. 13, 200-227.
16. Whittemore, A. S., Wu, A. H., Kolonel, L. N., John, E. M., Gallagher, R. P., Howe, G. R. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Unfortunately, residues of those pesticides remain on the harvested crops and ultimately end up in our bodies. The national cancer institute has repeatedly found that farmers have higher than average risks for several types of cancer affecting the blood (leukemia), brain, and stomach. They also have been shown to suffer from higher than average rates of depression or suicide. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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| Over twenty-five years ago, the national cancer institute claimed laetrile was an ineffective cancer treatment, yet many who seek alternative cancer treatments travel to Mexico, where laetrile remains available. In the seventeenth century, apricot oil was said to be used in England to cure ulcers. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Titania lauded apricot's aphrodisiac properties.
Throw Me a Lifesaver! vision: Rich in vitamin A, a powerful antioxidant that prevents free radical damage to eye tissue, apricots may help to promote good vision. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 The results of a national cancer institute study in 2004 indicate that you'll reduce your risk of developing melanoma if you take in larger amounts of vitamin D and vitamin A. In 2005, Dr. Marianne Berwick and colleagues at the University of New Mexico showed that patients with early-stage melanoma who had had more sun exposure had a lower risk of dying from melanoma. This told us that vitamin D may play a role in improved prognosis for melanoma patients. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Program of the national cancer institute). Figure 15 illustrates that the lowest rates of breast and prostate cancer are consistently in China and Japan, where dairy and animal meat are rarely consumed. As Jane Plant, PhD, remarks in The No Dairy Breast Cancer Prevention Program:
The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have similar rates of breast cancer: and remember, both cities were attacked with nuclear weapons, so in addition to the usual pollution-related cancers, one would also expect to find some radiation-related cases. |
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We know ... that whatever causes the huge difference in breast and prostate cancer rates between Eastern and Western countries, it isn't genetic. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 The fournal of the national cancer institute, which is the official publication of the U.S. national cancer institute, took note of these studies and featured some of our findings on its cover.52
Furthermore, a pattern was beginning to emerge: nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development. In our large lifetime study of rats with aflatoxin-induced tumors, the pattern was consistent. In mice with hepatitis B virus-altered genes, the pattern was consistent. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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| NON-HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA (NHL): A national cancer institute study found that higher intakes of vegetables that contain lutein and zea-xanthin, such as spinach, are associated with a lower NHL risk.
CATARACTS: A cohort study of 36,644 United States male health professionals found that spinach intake was correlated with a lower risk of developing cataracts.
NEUROPROTECTIVE: Rats who had suffered brain damage and were fed a spinach diet showed a reduction in damaged tissue and increased brain function.
Tips on Using Spinach
SELECTION AND STORAGE:
• Buy it FRESH! |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 In the late nineties, Roy Hertz, then director of endocrinology at the national cancer institute and a leading authority on hormonal cancers, warned of the carcinogenic risks of estrogenic additives, which can cause imbalances in natural hormone levels.
Pesticides and plastics. Chemical pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides are routinely applied to mass-produced fruits and vegetables. In addition, most people routinely use bug sprays, weed killers, and other pesticides in their homes and yards. |
Stacy Malkan
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 She bundled them into sets of five, each with a card that read: "The national cancer institute annual budget is $1.8 billion; only 5 percent goes for cancer prevention. Help us wake up our legislators and America by wearing this ribbon." She distributed the bundles at her local supermarket and wrote to Dear Abby and other prominent women to call attention to the campaign.19
At that time, breast cancer was just starting to come out of the closet, and a couple of major corporations had big plans. |
Amarjit S. Basra
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 Ethnobotanical studies and cooperation with local communities have been conducted for many years and the drug is now classified by the national cancer institute to the AIDS Research Alliance as a candidate anti-AIDS drug. A significant portion of the license income is to be returned to the Samoan communities. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 A study sponsored in part by the national cancer institute found that people with HIV disease who had low glutathione levels had a lower survival rate over a three-year period than those whose glutathione levels were normal. As we age, glutathione levels decline, although it is not known whether this is because we use it more rapidly or produce less of it to begin with. Unfortunately, if not corrected, the lack of glutathione in turn accelerates the aging process.
Supplemental glutathione is expensive, and the effectiveness of oral formulas is questionable. |
| One study reported in the Journal of the national cancer institute, published in May 2003, found that people who took beta-carotene supplements and who smoked and drank alcohol doubled their risk of precancerous colorectal tumors, while for those who also took the supplements but who didn't smoke or drink there was a 44 percent decrease in their risk. Other types of carotenoids that have been identified are the xanthophylls (including beta-cryptoxanthin, canthaxanthin, lutein, and zeaxanthin); the limonoids (including limonene); and the phytosterols (including perillyl alcohol). |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 Even national cancer institute scientists have published articles showing an increase in cancer risk from chlorinated water. If cancers are increased, the immune system must be weakened. And there are many studies showing that fluoride at the levels found in our drinking water—and in our tissues if we drink that water—interferes with both the mobility of our white blood cells and their ability to engulf and kill germs."
"So what do I substitute for water?"
"Please keep drinking lots of water—it is good for you. But make sure it's water without chlorine, fluoride, and other chemical additives. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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| National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provided the initial funding for this project, the Chinese Ministry of Health paid the salaries of the approximately 350 health workers. It is my estimate that the Chinese contribution to the project was approximately $5-6 million. This compares with the U.S. contribution of about $2.9 million over a ten-year period. Were the U.S. government to have paid for this service in a similar project in the U.S., it would have cost at least ten times this amount, or $50-60 million. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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 Like the development of taxol, it may well take government agencies like the national cancer institute and the National Institutes of Health to step forward and launch full-scale human cancer research on the synthesized unpatentable natural plant chemical (which will allow any pharmaceutical company to develop a cancer drug utilizing the research, as happened with taxol) to be able to make this promising therapy available to cancer patients in a timely fashion. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 American Cancer Society
The national cancer institute recommends 5 servings per day of fruits and vegetables, but only 9% of the population, and only 20% of "gatekeeper" family physicians say they consume the daily 5 servings.
Nutrition Action Healthletter
84% of cancer patients do not eat cruciferous vegetables, the most recommended food for preventing and fighting cancer. 82% do not get adequate amounts of fiber for disease prevention.
Patrick Quillin, Beating Cancer with Nutrition may soon overtake tobacco use as the leading cause of death. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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| National Cancer Institute has identified more than 3,000 plants that are active against cancer cells, and 70 percent of these plants are found only in the rainforest.
Bioprospecting
In 1983, there were no U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturers involved in research programs to discover new drugs or cures from plants. Today, more than 100 pharmaceutical companies, including giants like Merck, Abbott, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Monsanto, Smith-Kline Beecham, as well as several branches of the U.S. |
| In a 1976 plant screening program by the national cancer institute, graviola leaves and stem showed active toxicity against cancer cells, and researchers have been following up on these findings since. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 A study by the national cancer institute found that the incidence of osteosarcoma was 50 percent higher in fluoridated communities in men up to age nineteen, when compared to unfluoridated areas.121
In 1992 the New Jersey Department of Health published a study showing osteosarcomas occurred at a rate three to seven times higher in males in fluoridated areas as compared to unfluoridated areas.122 A review of three major studies found that overall, the incidence of osteosarcomas in young males increased 70 percent with fluoridation of drinking water. |
| Dean Burke, former chief chemist at the national cancer institute, and Dr. John Yiamouyiannis. They compared the cancer death rates in the ten largest fluoridated cities with rates in ten matched unfluoridated cities. The cities' cancer death rates were very similar during the period just prior to fluoridation, but once public water supplies were fluoridated, they found a strong association between cancer death rates and fluoridation. In fact, fluoridated cities demonstrated a 10 percent increase in cancer deaths following the first thirteen to seventeen years of fluoridation. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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 Cancer Prevention and Treatment: In 1990, the national cancer institute cosponsored a meeting on Ascorbic Acid and Cancer. Thirty-three presenters, including Linus Pauling, outlined the current state of research connecting vitamin C and cancer. Based upon these abstracts, it is clear ascorbic acid must be considered a major component in the treatment of cancer for the following reasons.
Vitamin C protects plasma lipids against peroxidation. Higher vitamin C levels in the blood provide the most protection. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Prostate and breast tumors are known to grow quicker, and metastasize more easily when tumor blood vessels numberover 100/recurwithin33months; fewerthan33bloodvesselsgave5%risk of recurrence (Journal ofthe national cancer institute 90;42:4). Every 10-blood vessel increase increased metastasis risk to nearby lymph nodes 1.59-fold, and 1.17-fold to distant areas.
Take Vitamins and antioxidants: 50.000 units A Carotene (helps prevent cancer); 100mg.Bl,B2,B3,andB6; 100 mg. B5 Pantothenic acid; 12-50 meg. B-12 (buildsthe blood); 500-700 mg. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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| BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES AND CLINICAL RESEARCH
In a 1976 plant screening program by the national cancer institute, espinheira santa was reported to be toxic to cancer and leukemia cells at very low dosages.
Espinheira santa is a source for a group of well known chemicals (found in the leaf, bark, and roots of the tree) called maytansinoids. These chemicals represent a class of substances that have been studied since the early 1970s for their antitumorous and anticancerous activities and are today being developed into chemotherapy drugs. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, MD, to speak out against the soyfood fad. Summarizing the soy and breast cancer research to date, she warned that it was "complicated, inconsistent and inconclusive" and concluded that when patients ask whether they should eat more soy foods, "I think we have to be cautious."4546
PROSTATE CANCER
Despite the endorsement of junk bond dealer and prostate cancer survivor Michael Milken, soy does not emerge as the best option for prevention or treatment of prostate cancer. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
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 NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE
Since 1955, the U.S. national cancer institute (NCI) has carried out a search for potential cancer drugs, with a goal of screening all the flowering plants of the world to identify antitumor activity! So far, NCI has screened 176,000 extracts from 41,000 plant samples collected from 25 countries. The University of Illinois obtains samples from Southeast Asia, the Missouri Botanical Garden collects in
Africa, and the New York Botanical Garden gathers plants from Central and South America. |
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