vitamins a,c,e feeding cancer?

francisca01 · New User Joined: 08 Apr 2007 Posts: 3

would like to know if vit. a,c,e are actually feeding the bad cancer cell?
how do we keep our relatives strong if not by taking these vitamins. especially white blood cells. these treatments are so deteriorating how could they keep strong without using procrit which i hear allegedly seems to be contraindicated?

rlee · Site Admin Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 245

francisca01,
I don't think a multivitamin dose of vitamins A, C, and E would be bad necessarily. I do know of some trials that have found that mega-dose vitamins of A and maybe C also, were not beneficial and maybe even harmful for patients. I don't think the human body was made to take 10x the normal dose. Thus a multivitamin along with a healthy balanced diet low in red meat and fats and with a lot of fruits & vegetables is probably best. Don't forget regular exercise. Remember too much of a good thing can actually be bad. Things like folate in leukemias and beta-carotenes have actually been found to actually be more harmful than helpful for certain cancer patients. The reason we use anti-folate therapies is because Dr. Farber of Dana-Farber cancer center of Harvard gave leukemia patients folate thinking it would help when actually it made his patients die faster. Thus he thought, well maybe I should use an anti-folate.
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francisca01 · New User Joined: 08 Apr 2007 Posts: 3

what are your thought on the alternative medicine KLT. my mom has 1st stage mm. responded quickly to thalidomide although many side effects. with the first trial she inmediately got normal values. her dr. recommends velcade on a future episode of mm. but could this KLT be the same as velcade? DO YOU KNOW IF MM IS HEREDITARY YET?

rlee · Site Admin Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 245

I don't know much and there doesn't appear to be much information on KLT or [NOT HERE] Injection. I found two articles worth looking at. 1st being an abstract on Phase I trial of KLT and another an interesting article by Nature on KLT and alternative medicines. Worth reading.

Velcade on the other hand is FDA approved and has been studied for MM.
MM can be hereditary and I do believe that rare family syndromes exist. Discuss these issues further with your mother's medical team. Good luck.

http://www.asco.org/portal/site/ASCO/menuitem.34d60f5624ba07fd506fe310ee37a01d/?vgnextoid=76f8201eb61a7010VgnVCM100000ed730ad1RCRD&vmview=abst_detail_view&confID=16&abstractID=2192

http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v22/n3/full/nbt0304-263.html;jsessionid=DC8D0206F78A15C748C43F23B1F5C78C
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