Cancer Treatment and Health Care » clinical validity http://www.hogsbreathphuket.com Presenting latest information about cancer and health care Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:28:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Cancer Treatment Using Mistletoe – Clinical Validity (II) http://www.hogsbreathphuket.com/cancer-treatment-using-mistletoe-clinical-validity-ii.htm http://www.hogsbreathphuket.com/cancer-treatment-using-mistletoe-clinical-validity-ii.htm#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:00:06 +0000 mzPOTTER http://www.hogsbreathphuket.com/?p=210 4) controlled studies, randomized prospectively made are expensive and complicated. The research is funded or mistletoe just what was never publicly funded. The funding of existing trials was achieved mainly by contributions from the producers of this drug. And these laboratories, for its small size, have-not unlike the large multinational pharmaceutical-huge research budgets to make possible the kind of studies required by the official Oncology.

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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]]> http://www.hogsbreathphuket.com/cancer-treatment-using-mistletoe-clinical-validity-ii.htm/feed 0 Cancer Treatment Using Mistletoe – Clinical Validity (I) http://www.hogsbreathphuket.com/cancer-treatment-using-mistletoe-clinical-validity-i.htm http://www.hogsbreathphuket.com/cancer-treatment-using-mistletoe-clinical-validity-i.htm#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:00:28 +0000 mzPOTTER http://www.hogsbreathphuket.com/?p=189 Document Anthroposophical Medicine in the field of Science and Research, published by Association Anthrosana Spain-patients for a health system expanded-anthroposophic mistletoe can read about the “There is neither ready anthroposophical healing plant for one that has been so well-researched as this.

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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