The truth is that a simple review of studies on cancer and mistletoe appeared in Publiman sample of the great interest and confirms what we have written so far. Citing only some of the studies of recent years has shown we find that response to different types of cancer.

This applies to a 2004 study on breast cancer led by Lin HS is published as Impact of complementary mistletoe extract treatment on quality of life in breast, ovarian and non-small cell lung cancer patients. A prospective randomized controlled clinical trial. This is a prospective multicenter, randomized, open and conducted in three cancer centers in the People’s Republic of China: Beijing, Tianjin and Shenyang. The study was conducted along the guidelines known as Good Clinical Practice (GCP) to obtain data on the efficacy and side effects of mistletoe extract. However, “this study shows it is said in the conclusions-that the adjuvant mistletoe extract can beneficially reduce the side effects of chemotherapy in cancer patients and improve their quality of life.”

Two years later, in October 2006 – Ziegler would release another study on breast cancer entitled Prospective controlled cohort studies on long-term therapy of breast cancer patients with a mistletoe preparation (Iscador). And in that case would begin recognizing the role of mistletoe: mistletoe preparations derived as Iscador-can read it-are commonly used in the CAM / anthroposophic for many types of cancer, particularly solid cancers. Well, the study would conclude that the long-term effect on the progression of Iscador in most cases is significant, as well as on overall survival.

“Iscador-stated in the conclusions, showing a clinically relevant effect on breast tumor progression, as measured by overall survival, as well as time to recurrence, lymph node or distant metastasis. In the short term, psychosomatic self-regulation increases significantly lower complementary Iscador therapy than with conventional therapy alone.
The same researchers publish in June 2007 a new investigation, this time on cervical cancer, entitled Prospective controlled cohort studies on long-term therapy of cervical cancer patients with a mistletoe preparation (Iscador). And in his return to draw conclusions that Iscador appears capable of extending overall survival, this time among patients with cervical cancer. In addition to improving quality of life. The same conclusion would later study on the effects of mistletoe in cancer of the ovary.

And they are only a few samples. Even in cancers considered very difficult to deal with encouraging results have been obtained. In 1996, for example, was published Treatment of advanced pancreatic cancer with mistletoe: results of a pilot trial of Buchler MW et al. This was a phase I / II in which we evaluated the effect of an extract of mistletoe (Eurixor) in 16 patients (7 women and 9 men) with histologically verified ductal pancreatic carcinoma. And although the results suggest that mistletoe does not have a significant influence on tumor growth in advanced pancreatic cancers do indicate that “can stabilize the quality of life and therefore help patients maintain their quality of life in the few months remaining in their life. “

We can also find good results against hepatitis C. In a 2005 study led by Dutchman Hattum J. on 21 patients with hepatitis C, the results suggested an effect comparable to treatment glicirrínico: an improvement in liver inflammation and, therefore, possible long-term reduction of complications such as cirrhosis and liver cancer. “Preparations of mistletoe-add-have the advantage of easy administration and low cost.”

THE DOCTOR’S ANGEL SPANISH EXPERIENCE Borruel
We must say, in conclusion, that during the preparation of this report we are in Internet -www.medicina-naturista.net/Congreso_Malaga_2004/Congreso_2004.htm- the paper that a Spanish doctor, Angel Borruel Omenat-member of the Spanish Association of Physicians Naturists, was introduced in Congress Naturist Medicine and Oncology in November 2004 in the Faculty of Medicine of Granada. Fortunately it was easy to locate and more talk. And that brings seventeen years Borruel using in your query Huesca mistletoe in cancer patients. As we would have had knowledge of its effectiveness through Anthroposophical Medicine-of-specialist who is also after doing a course at a clinic-the anthroposophical Lukas Arlesheim Clinik (Switzerland) – specializing in cancer where the mistletoe is fundamental treatment.
Mistletoe-start-telling “is the most widely used oncology product in Germany, including chemotherapeutic drugs of any kind, because it is perfectly compatible with any conventional treatment.
“And after 17 years of use, what can make us overall assessment of its usefulness in treating cancer?
“In cancer, the results are always the mistletoe because it strengthens the immune system and inhibits the oncogenes that stimulate angiogenesis and prevents apoptosis. At the least, improves quality of life of patients: appetite, energy and mood. In my practice of natural medicine see patients of all kinds and I would not be considered statistically valid, but in Germany, where many patients treated with mistletoe, there are studies that clearly is the increase in life expectancy. This is the case Grossarth-Maticek study done in 2002, for example, which examined 10,226 cases of patients with carcinoma of the colon, rectum, stomach, breast and lung. Of these 1668 were treated with Iscador (VAF in Spain) obtaining a longer life expectancy taxed at 40%. And when there was also a level of self-regulation in the patient is cared for, was on a diet, exercised, etc. .- the difference in expected survival reached 56%. As if today is a drug that increases life expectancy by 56% would be opening news in all news programs.
- Also affects the tumor growth mistletoe?
“It seems that in some cases and although the effect is not so much on the tumor cell as the immune system that strengthens it. The presentation of the conference held in Granada presented the case of a 17 year old girl with an astrocytoma of 3 cm with a large cerebral edema. In November 2000 he was given a life expectancy of two months. He had found two years earlier, underwent surgery and chemotherapy was administered but reappeared two years in an area where the surgery was impossible for him to be turned back to the chemo to no avail. The patient, neurologically, increasingly got worse. In November oncologists decided to suspend the chemo did not get to see any results nor gave him hope. Then started treatment with mistletoe .. but not with the VAF is marketed in Spain as in intracranial tumors can raise the blood pressure of spinal fluid. We start with a type of mistletoe called Isorel and no longer sold in Spain so we had to ask for Germany. He applied intravenously in very high doses-we put up to 20 blisters on a drip at a time-and we were changing the dose. The patient began to feel better neurologically. In spring resonance image was like in the fall but was much better neurologically. To the extent that at the end of course could participate in the concert at the conservatory. He had to give up music for their neurological problems. In the fall the tumor had already been halved and edema to a fourth or a fifth. Today the tumor is still there. Just talked to his mother last week and the oncologist had told him that the tumor was slightly better but still present. In short, we reduce the tumor and edema getting the patient to lead a completely normal life. Today is still clicking but now under the skin. Of course, other patients with astrocytoma have not been so lucky.
“Among other reasons, we assume, because when patients come to you with the disease are already at an advanced stage …
“It’s true. The vast majority get very damaged. Almost never do the first diagnosis. I already come with whatever reports were made.
“And in the cases that have come sooner, what was the outcome?
“Right now I have a patient who began treatment in early December. I was the first he saw her as a doctor. I recommended myself to go to Social Security because it had a huge tumor in her right breast but while waiting to be made all the tests I tried with mistletoe, ozone therapy at high doses, Papimi-joined this device to my office after learning to fund their chances in the last congress organized DSALUD Discovery, changed his diet, I take flax oil in large quantity and recommended antifungal therapy. The right breast tumor was reduced by 10% in little over a month and a half. Indeed, from early January to late February infiltration of the left breast tumor has completely disappeared. Just today (meaning the day we had the conversation that the reader is reading) has seen an oncologist and has said he wants to continue with the treatment of mistletoe. With the tests complete the proposed chemotherapy treatment but for now she prefers to stick with the mistletoe. We do not know where to get. One must be cautious in this. I normally try to terminally ill cancer patients with mistletoe and precancerous. Although all cases of cervical cancer that I have tried, some even in grade three, they have to negative. Always with subcutaneous injection because the oral route is much less effective. My advice also is to follow the lifelong treatment but with different dose and timing.
“What you normally do then is to complement conventional treatments …
“Yes. For example, it is common for patients who have come chemo scheduled, a drip of chemo every three weeks, but can not complete the cycle as a result of side effects, anemia, leukopenia … and thus have four weeks to distance. Then begin with the mistletoe and almost always recover the hematological level. Not until a normal level but to a level enough to get chemo every three weeks. The mistletoe is perfectly complementary with the chemo because adequate doses have no side effects.
-In your experience, is there some kind of tumor more susceptible to improvement treated with mistletoe?
“Except for lung cancer Small cell leukemia cases and all others are susceptible of improvement with the mistletoe. Both a hepatocellular adenoma and prostate cancer, an ovarian tumor as a breast or colon. In the worst response is achieved at least there is improvement in quality of life. But I never do alone. Additionally use mistletoe other therapeutic tools I mentioned before so you never know for sure what degree of improvement corresponds to each part of the treatment but I can tell you that mistletoe I put in a tumor ever. All patients with tumors that have tried for 17 years I have treated with mistletoe.
- Is also effective in the case of metastases?
“In my paper I presented another case, a woman with metastatic hypernephroma hip, lung metastases and another possible impairment. He had said only: “Go home and use pain medications as needed. When we started treatment with VAF Mali had enough pain in the hip. However, the third injection, is usually not as fast, “he began feeling better and hip pain disappeared soon after. Six months after the lung metastases had disappeared and the liver can form a tumor that was said was treatable intractable so just undergoing surgery and conventional treatment. The paradox here is that the patient ended up leaving with mistletoe treatment recommended by his oncologist.
“Being the most widely used oncology product in Germany, what attributes the ignorance that oncologists in Spain seem to have of him?
“I think that oncologists know it all but neither recommend it nor use it. Here we encountered the power of multinationals. I put my hand in the fire for the efficacy of mistletoe to improve the quality of life and survival. Sometimes even by healing the sick. But I fear that oncologists will receive information from the drug multinationals so skewed that they do not conceive it possible to achieve these results with the mistletoe. I’m not saying they have ill will. I believe as a physician that the vast majority of my colleagues want to cure their patients but clearly they are driven by information, at least, wrong. The first patient I treated was 17 years ago a young man of 30 years with adenocarcinoma of the pancreas with metastases in liver and lung. I talked to his oncologist because the family asked me and he said they were going to give palliative chemotherapy without any hope, just to see if they could prolong her life. We begin with the mistletoe and first disappeared lung and liver metastases. It was only with the primary tumor and that was removed surgically. That man is still alive. I do not know how much of his survival was the mistletoe. And I know because I was also getting chemo but given the expectations that had given it seems to me that the role of mistletoe was significant.
“Neither seem to be widely used mistletoe among naturopathic doctors …
“No, do not use it much, unfortunately. Whenever I get together with a colleague at conferences or courses will talk about the results of mistletoe in cancer because I am convinced how well it goes. At the least, improves quality of life for what the patient and patients are grateful. I think Weleda, Swiss drugmaker manufacturer does not make a good media campaign and training among doctors prone to natural medicine.
“One last question: treatment with mistletoe should always be in control of a professiona.

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Selenium is part of an enzyme, glutathione peroxidase, which is responsible for ensuring the destruction of hydrogen peroxide formed in the oxidative reactions. It is therefore a vital element.
In selenium deficiency theory should not be a problem because food is so common as grains, meat, seafood, etc.., But it’s not because the current overexploitation of the land prevents fields containing adequate minerals and that they become part of the diet of livestock or humans.

In fact, many researchers have already sounded the alarm about the problems associated with deficiency of this mineral and investigations are only beginning to define the many functions that selenium has. Let’s highlight the most relevant:

In coronary disease

In 1988 Michelson found that there was a relationship between heart disease and the lack of selenium in the body. It has also been able to demonstrate its effectiveness in preventing and controlling cardiac arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. But not only protects the heart through the production of glutathione peroxide but also can limit the body burden of toxic metals like mercury, lead, cadmium and others who are capable of damaging the heart tissue.

It is also necessary to maintain levels of coenzyme Q10, a substance essential for the heart.
Glutathione peroxidase combat oxidation of lipids in the arteries and reduces platelet aggregation. His absence has a direct impact on the inhibition of prostacyclin synthase enzyme essential for the production of a vasodilator produced by vascular endothelium.

As protection of DNA

Selenium helps protect genetic material against free radicals.

Selenium and cancer

Its relation to the prevention of cancer is well documented. Several epidemiological studies have established that there is a clear and direct relationship between low blood selenium and cancer.

In 1996 he published what may be the cancer prevention study most successful in the U.S., conducted by the National Cancer Institute between 1312 volunteers. Were administered 200 mcg of selenium daily, and the result was a 49% decrease in the mortality rate of the three most common cancers: lung, prostate and colorectal. That shows that we need more selenium in the diet you provide.

Moreover, according to a study from Stanford University low selenium levels significantly increase the risk of prostate cancer. And according to American and Chinese researchers, a large proportion of cases of esophageal cancer and stomach cancer in Linxian (China) are epidemic in nature and can be attributed to low levels of selenium in the population.

Collaborators from the National Institutes of Health in Maryland (USA), meanwhile, examined the association between serum selenium and the development of squamous cell esophageal cancer and gastric adenocarcinoma. According to the results, the researchers estimated that 26.4% of cancers of the heart can be attributed to low levels of selenium in blood.

It also is studying the application of selenium in skin cancers induced by ultraviolet B radiation as it could mediate the genetic material mutation, oxidative damage and immunosuppression.

Detoxifies Action

Selenium protects against the toxic effects of cadmium and arsenic antagonist, silver, mercury and copper, thus reducing their toxicity.

Selenium and the brain

Evidence suggests this mineral supplements reduced in number and intensity of seizures. Coupled with vitamin E and zinc reduced cognitive decline in older people. It is also able to improve mood, anxiety, depression, hostility, and mental confusion.

The role of selenium in AIDS

It seems that maintaining an optimal level of selenium involves more than replenish this loss and strengthen the immune system. Its effectiveness is based on inhibition of virus-related substance called reverse transcriptase. Selenium-dependent viruses to grow and replicate but a deficiency of the mineral makes the virus active.

In fact, it has been shown that when laboratory-specific viruses including hepatitis B and influenza viruses (common cold) – they are deprived of selenium may mutate into more dangerous forms.

His influence on fertility

Selenium participates directly in the synthesis of testosterone and the formation and development of sperm and its deficiency decreases sperm motility. Along with folic acid and zinc, selenium is also crucial for preventing neural tube defects in newborns.

Inflammatory disorders

Selenium levels are low in people affected by rheumatoid arthritis, combined with vitamin E and other antioxidants, have helped alleviate the symptoms of the disease. Because glutathione peroxidase is selenium known anti-inflammatory action is also effective for treating conditions such as asthma, colitis and psoriasis.

Cataracts

It has been shown in laboratory studies with rats that lack of selenium can induce cataracts. And in humans has shown that the lenses affected by cataract had a lower selenium than required.

It is, finally, that excess selenium can be toxic. Should therefore be careful with their intake as a supplement, especially if you follow a diet too rich in that mineral. Therefore be taken with caution and always on the prescription of a professional.

(Remember the reader to follow both the treatment and the dosages to prescribe in cases of illness are the work of a specialist health and no way to use this article as a basis for treatment, only as a guidance and illustrative).

credit to: José Ramón Llorente

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Surgery

The main strategy for curative treatment of cancer is excision of all malignant cells by surgical intervention. In the past, this involved the excision of all affected tissue and as many potentially affected tissue, including the surrounding tissues and lymph nodes. For some tumors, particularly breast cancer, is not accurate as ablative surgery (mastectomy) in most cases.

Improvements in surgical techniques, knowledge in physiology, anesthesia and the availability of powerful antibiotics and blood products, have resulted in more limited surgery, with fewer sequels and more speedy recovery.

However, many cancers are not widespread in the time of diagnosis to curative surgery possible. If the local extent of tumor that affects surrounding tissues can not be resected, or if there are distant metastases, surgery is not curative treatment.

However, it may be beneficial for symptom relief in certain situations such as obstruction, or may have in order to reduce the tumor mass to allow better response to chemotherapy or radiation therapy treatment thereafter.

Radiation

Ionizing radiation can be electromagnetic or particulate matter and produce tissue destruction. Electromagnetic radiation includes gamma rays, a form of radioactive emission, and X-rays, which occur when an electron beam strikes a heavy metal. The particle radiation include electron beams, protons, neutrons, alpha particles (helium nuclei) and pions.

The sensitivity of tumors to radiation is highly variable. Sensitive tumors are those whose sensitivity is higher than the adjacent normal tissue. When such tumors are well-accessible surface tumors or tumors in organs like the uterus which can introduce a source of radiation, can be cured by radiotherapy. The property of radiation to comply to some extent the normal tissue allows treatment of tumors in locations where surgery is not possible by the proximity of vital tissues or because the tumor has begun to infiltrate adjacent structures that can not be sacrificed. Radiation therapy is commonly used as palliative treatment, especially in metastases.

Radiation therapy may be useful as an adjunct to surgery. Preoperative radiation may sterilize the tumor cells rapidly and prevent its spread during surgery. It can also decrease the tumor mass to facilitate the surgery, or transforming an inoperable tumor operable in another. In other cases the radiotherapy is employed postoperatively.

Chemotherapy involves the use of drugs for the treatment of cancer. Since the drugs are distributed in the body through the circulatory system, chemotherapy is useful for those whose tumors spread makes them inaccessible to surgery or radiotherapy. There are many anticancer drugs, most of which act by interfering with DNA synthesis or function. Therefore dividing cells are more sensitive to chemotherapy.

The sensitivity of some tumors to chemotherapy is such that it is possible to cure a high percentage: this happens in uterine cancer, acute leukemias (especially in children), Hodgkin’s disease and diffuse large cell lymphomas; testicular carcinoma, ovarian carcinoma, small cell carcinoma of the lung, and most of all childhood cancers. Often these processes have spread cancer at the time of diagnosis and no other treatment option. More advanced cancers are responsive to chemotherapy and may be held for long periods, so it is frequently used as palliative treatment.

The two main problems that limit the use of chemotherapy are toxicity and resistance. The techniques that prevent or control the toxicity and reduce the risk of resistance have been refined. It is important to the establishment of early treatment, use of optimal doses of the drug, the repetition of cycles with shorter intervals if possible, always allowing patient recovery from toxic effects.
Hormone Therapy: Many cancers from tissues that are sensitive to hormone action, such as breast, prostate, endometrium and thyroid, respond to hormonal treatment. Involves the administration of various hormones or anti-hormones or termination of the corresponding stimulating hormone.

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Another area of research in colon cancer prevention lies in the relationship between this disease and vitamin D. Researchers at the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) has published a paper in the British Medical Journal, which has involved more than half a million people.

In the study, we analyzed vitamin D levels in blood and the number of people who developed colon cancer. The conclusions are clear: people with higher levels of vitamin D showed a 40% lower risk of colon cancer.

LACK OF VITAMIN D AND METASTASIS

Autonomous University of Madrid, has found a possible link between vitamin D and tumor development. A paper published in the Journal of Cell Biology explains that vitamin D may help prevent cancer in two ways.First, is activating genes that encode the E-cadherins, proteins involved in cell junctions and are linked to tumor development because its absence facilitates cell migration. This fact leads to an increase in the number of metastases (reproduction or extension of tumor to another part of the body). Secondly, vitamin D inhibits several proteins involved in the activation of the cytoskeleton, a set of polymers required for cell division and migration of metastasis. If it crashes the cytoskeleton of cancer cells, prevents these can be split and moved.

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Researchers from John Hopkins University (USA) has discovered a bacterium that could be implicated in the development of colon cancer. The study is published in the journal Nature Medicine.

Scientists say that “Bacteroides fragilis, which can cause gastroenteritis, and boxes that are located in the intestines of children and adults around the world, is also responsible for some cases of this tumor.Higher levels of vitamin D in blood are associated with a lower risk of colon cancer

For the study, the bacteria were infected with various mutant mice a gene called APC, which is related to tumor development. Within a short time, animals had diarrhea and inflammation of the colon. In one week, the diarrhea disappeared but the swelling persisted and formed small tumors. A month later, the mice had developed cancer.

On the other hand, another group was treated mouse with a nontoxic strain of the same bacteria and the result was that the mice did not develop diarrhea or no tumors. The authors believe that the bacterium causes an inflammation of low level but persistent in the digestive tract. Thus, over time, the genetic material in epithelial cells may be damaged and cause tumor development.

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13,101 people in 2006 died from colorectal cancer, a figure representing 12.9% of total cancer deaths during that year. This is one of the main conclusions of a study published in the journal European Journal of Cancer Prevention’.

The research analyzes the causes of these inequalities and seek a possible relationship to changes in diet (red meat, fish, vegetables) in the alcohol and snuff, and the exercise or sedentary. The good news is that the incidence of these tumors can be reduced. Just keep a healthy lifestyle.

Delete snuff, moderate alcohol, eating a balanced diet and avoid a sedentary lifestyle are some of the basic pillars of prevention.Alcohol and snuff primarily responsible

Among those responsible for the increase in these tumors emphasizes the consumption of snuff and alcohol. There is scientific evidence about the relationship between smoking and increased risk of developing colorectal polyps and cancer: from 12% to 21% of colorectal cancers could be attributable to smoking. “In Spain, consumption of cigarettes has increased apparent until the late eighties, with a stabilization from the late nineties” notes the study’s lead author and researcher at the University of Sevilla, Luis Maria Bejar.

Alcohol consumption also grew until the early eighties, followed later by a slow decline. Dietary habits with high consumption of red meat at the expense of a diet rich in vegetables and physical inactivity are other factors involved that stress specialists.

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It is the first time explore the benefits of rhubarb growing in British gardens, a variety grown specifically in South Yorkshire. Previous investigations have focused on the rhubarb of Oriental medicine, which it previously documented benefits and is part of traditional Chinese medicine.

According to Dr. Nikki Jordan-Mahy, Center for Biomedical Research at Sheffield Hallam University, this work has shown “that the rhubarb cultivated in Britain is a potential source of pharmacological agents that can be employed to achieve creation of new anticancer drugs. “Current treatments are not effective in all cancers and the resistance is a common problem. Suffer from cancer one in three individuals in the UK, so it is very important to discover new treatments, less toxic and can overcome the problem of resistance.

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In addition, oncologists have preferred to give up a first-order therapeutic tool compatible with conventional treatments and ignore the scientific literature that explains the use of mistletoe is translated into improved survival, a substantial improvement in the quality of life and greater tolerance to cytotoxic treatments.In 2001 the journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine published the results of a study entitled Viscum Album in Cancer Treatment: A Systematic Investigation Epidemiology Viscum album was made for 30 years more than 35,000 residents of Heidelberg (Germany). We first chose a group of 5,000 patients who had cancer, and among them, the researchers chose more than 300 pairs of participants with the same type and stage of disease. And members of one group were given mistletoe extract in addition to conventional treatment. Well, after comparing the survival time of those who added it was found that mistletoe extract treatment lived 40% more than those who did not. “Such long-term study of high quality and scientifically rigorous is costly and difficult as this information is especially valuable-manifest David Riley, MD, Director of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, the leading publication on CAM – . More and more data from basic science and clinical evidence of the efficacy of mistletoe which is the drug most common cancer in Germany. ”

Five months later the same journal published another study: Use of Iscador, an extract of European mistletoe (Viscum album), in cancer treatment: prospective nonrandomized and randomized matched-pair studies nested within a cohort study. And it was written: “Although Iscador is considered an alternative therapy for cancer is the most commonly used oncological drug in Germany.” The same authors sought to determine whether treatment with Iscador prolonged the survival time in patients with carcinoma of the colon, rectum, stomach, breast cancer, with or without distant metastases or axillary-and bronchogenic carcinoma, small cell and non-small – and explore possible synergies between Iscador treatment and psychosomatic effects. They concluded that Iscador provides a survival prolongation of clinically relevant cancer patients while improving their own psychosomatic state.

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The mistletoe extract drugs have become the most prescribed of all those in Oncology. Its prescription is not unique for anthroposophic doctors also apply equally colleagues traditional and complementary medical. There are many studies with mistletoe extracts from pre-clinical research and more than 60 clinical studies on the implementation of in total 5 registered, and anthroposophic preparations made from this plant. They are Abnoba Viscum, Helixor, Iscador, and Iscucin Isorel. The results of these studies is essentially positive. viscum Under a particular therapy improves quality of life, and partly prolongs survival, even those free of disease. ”

Today, in addition to countless studies in laboratory and animal, numerous human studies that have addressed the mistletoe but despite that has found an improved survival and/or the quality of life of patients -no side effects-Spanish oncologists do not propose to use it. The argument is “the lack of conclusive studies, prospective randomized placebo controlled double blind”. To which the Anthroposophical Medicine responds with four arguments also could be valid, in general, for all natural products with anticancer properties:

1) It is difficult to distribute to cancer patients according to the principle of chance in two groups. In a life threatening situation such as cancer almost nobody wants to risk falling by chance in the control group not receiving the medication to try but only a placebo.

2) prepared based on the mistletoe no prescription required and therefore, can be purchased at any time at pharmacies. So there is no 100% certainty that a patient is not administering any product based on the mistletoe simultaneously to conventional treatment. If so be that in the case of improvement, it is quantified in favor of chemotherapy without taking into account the effects of mistletoe because patients often do not inform their doctor the use of natural products, homeopathic or herbal taken simultaneously to conventional products.

3) Double-blind trials are inconsistent with mistletoe preparations because they are usually applied by subcutaneous injection and the patient learns about it. Also in the injection sites reddens the skin, often itchy and is sometimes hard for a few days. Effects are impossible to achieve with a pseudo-medication. Thus, as the doctor that the patient learn the first sight of who has received the correct medication and who placebo. Therefore it is impossible to do a double-blind mistletoe. And,

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We have all heard at one time on the properties of mistletoe. The white mistletoe, league or visco (Viscum album) is a plant semiparasit articulated in stems and evergreen. It belongs to the Santalaceae family and has male and female flowers. It is a plant that can grow to three feet and grow over the branches of various trees, mainly deciduous, like apple or poplar-but also on some varieties of pine trees which gives different characteristics. As the fruit is a berry-toxic, small white and pink.

The mistletoe was the magic plant of the Druids and Celtic but Central had already been used medicinally by the ancient Greeks. And according to its supporters used to treat epilepsy, infertility, menopausal symptoms, nervous tension, asthma, hypertension, headache, dermatitis… and cancer.Modern interest in mistletoe as a cancer treatment resurfaced early last century. Around 1900 Rudolf Steiner, founder of anthroposophy, began using the herb Viscum album as cancer by detecting the product improved the resistance of patients and increased their energy to fight the disease. Being Ita Wegman in 1920 when a German doctor, Iscador introduced the first product of mistletoe as a treatment for cancer.

Anthroposophical Medicine is the only complementary medicine whose principles require to be exercised exclusively by doctors and was recognized as “significant” by the Council of Europe in 1999. Currently practiced in hospitals in Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Britain and Brazil. And he has training centers and drug laboratories in different countries of Europe, USA, Russia, South Africa, Egypt and Australia. Moreover, social security covers its costs in Germany, Belgium, France, Britain, Holland, Italy, Finland and Switzerland. It has a wide variety of non-invasive therapies and 75% of homeopathic medicines are in development but there are some differences from that of other products of this type.

It added that currently the mistletoe, health rescued by Medicine Anthroposophical even has its own web space within the National Cancer Institute (NCI) U.S.. “The mistletoe, a plant semiparásita, has an interest as a potential anticancer agent, can be read on the page because NCI-derived extracts have shown that it kills cancer cells in vitro and stimulates the immune system cells both in vitro and in vivo. Two components of mistletoe, namely viscotoxin and lectins, may be responsible for these effects.”

The viscotoxin are small proteins that exhibit activity to cause cell death and stimulate immune system activity. Lectins, meanwhile, are complex molecules composed of two proteins and carbohydrates can bind to the outside of cells and induce biochemical changes in them. “Having the ability of mistletoe to stimulate the immune system, says the NCI, has been classified as biological response modifier. The biological response modifiers are a diverse group of biological molecules that have been used individually or in combination with other agents to treat cancer or to lessen the side effects of anticancer drugs.

Mistletoe, as we said, has extensive distribution in Europe. Especially in Germany, Switzerland and Austria where both homeopathy and anthroposophical medicine are accepted and disseminated. So there available extracts are marketed under a variety of names including those of Iscador, Eurixor, Helixor, Isorel, Iscucin, Plenosol and Anaboba Viscum. Some extracts are marketed in more than one name but all products are prepared from Loranthaceae Viscum album (European mistletoe). In Spain the Iscador-product produced by Swiss-Weleda can be found in pharmacies and homeopathic medicine under the trade name of VAF (fermented Viscum album).

Moreover, commercial products can be subdivided according to host tree species. For example, Iscador, an aqueous extract from fermented European mistletoe is prepared as a homeopathic remedy sold as-IscadorM (apple), IscadorP (pine), IscadorQ (oak) and IscadorU (the elms ). Mistletoe extracts are usually administered by subcutaneous although other routes are described as oral and intrapleural. And the total duration of treatment varies considerably between cases.

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