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Only one of the articles they cite deals with cancer treatment in humans, and that appears to involve only one person.
I can't find any other reference to mebendazole for use against cancer in a peer reviewed journal.
Was A Cancer Cure Quietly Eliminated?
by metatron 68 Replies latest jw friends
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talesin
I get your point, Jeff, but to me there is a difference between published articles, and the medical profession lobbying for change. For many years, there were doctors conducting studies supporting the tobacco industry. The information is out there, or you could check out Jeffrey Wigand's story. He 'blew the whistle' on 60 Minutes, and I will never forget that interview (late 90s, I believe). Researchers, bought-and-paid for by the tobacco industry, produced the reports the tobacco companies wanted. It took one man who felt he had to do the right thing, to finally expose the truth to the public.
Over the past few decades, I've seen doctors be (mostly) unwitting pawns of the pharmaceutical industry, and I've become quite wary of the medical profession in general -- hydrocodone and oxycontin being the most recent, and paxil being another.
In the past couple of years, there has been a plethora of drugs that were marginally safe at best, and some deadly. Many physicians take the drug companies' word on things, and just 'write a scrip' without even researching their own literature (in Canada, that would be the CPS - The Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties: The Canadian Drug Reference for Health Professionals).
It's been quite disheartening. I've been paying for it all my life, having been wrongly prescribed heavy-duty NSAIDS and unnecessary antibiotics as a child and teen. Rotted out my stomach to the point where I was vomiting blood at age 20, allergies and resistances to some antibiotics, along with a few other issues.
Personal experience makes a big difference in our personal POV, as it does in many subjects, I guess.
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Aussie Oz
hmmmm
the watchtower once claimed they had a cancer cure too...
and then went very quiet.
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metatron
Could there be a single cure for cancer? Don't be too quick to believe drug company nonsense. This drug was said to work on the same basis as taxol - in interfering with cell reproduction. If the mitosis is stopped, how does cancer grow?
You can add this to a growing list of supplements, foods or drugs that escape being properly tested by authorities - likely for financial reasons.
I still am not aware of any test in regards to MS involving Zocor, polyunsaturated oils or estriol despite promising clinical results years ago. I am not aware of any human test of seaweed extracts in regard to cancer, either - although Japanese researchers found dramatic results in lab rats.
I also note how the FDA attempted to ban estriol after complaints by Wyeth that it damaged their profits on Premarin. I also note how quickly the FDA stepped in to stop people from getting DCA after reports that it might cure cancer. They are much faster and zealous to ban than to test.
In Bethel, old Art Worsley was diagnosed with cancer. Someone got him an odd beet extract from Germany. He failed to die on schedule for years thereafter. I know a guy at work whose PSA score dropped like a rock after he started taking selenium. And so it goes....
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WTWizard
I can remember Laetrille, which was made illegal because it reduced or cured cancer back in the 1970s. Today, there are foods that contain loads of antioxidants, that alkalize the body, or do both. Yet, the FDA will not allow a cancer-cure claim on them. Alpha lipoic acid, high doses of vitamin C, vitamin D, selenium, vitamin E, and many herbs help with curing cancer and can be used along with surgery or radiation (or even chemo, allowing the chemo to work better or safer).
One food I strongly suspect may help cure cancer is green kiwi fruits. Eat enough of those things, your body becomes alkaline. Green kiwi fruit also contains huge amounts of various antioxidants, including lutein and vitamin C. It is one of the few fruits containing significant vitamin E (within the seeds), for only 1/2 gram of fat per fruit (again, within the seeds). Of course, they might just decide to make kiwi fruit illegal like they did with laetrille. Side effects of eating too many kiwi fruits: You might get a laxative effect as it cleanses your system out, and if you eat too many of them, as with any food, you might get just plain fat. (Of course you would get sick from too much volume in your stomach long before that, so you would have trouble getting fat just from kiwi fruits.)
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cofty
Why do doctors bother with all that difficult study and expensive double-blind trials? They should just read the internet more.
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sooner7nc
I looked at this stuff at several other sites. One of the big side effects (and yes there are side effects) is leukopenia. That means it vastly lowers the number of white blood cells and puts you at serious risk of major infections.
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botchtowersociety
Could there be a single cure for cancer?
No. Cancer is not a single disease.
You might find this thread interesting, however.
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botchtowersociety
In the early sixties I was watching movies in jr. high school about the dangers of smoking.
My father used to take my grandfather's cigarette cartons and run over them with a lawnmower trying to make him quit. This was back in the 60's.
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botchtowersociety
Here is all the research on mebendazole available at pubmed.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=mebendazole
Hmmmmmm.
Antiparasitic mebendazole shows survival benefit in 2 preclinical models of glioblastoma multiforme.
Bai RY , Staedtke V , Aprhys CM , Gallia GL , Riggins GJ .
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Ludwig Collaborative Laboratory, Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, USA.
Abstract
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and aggressive brain cancer, and despite treatment advances, patient prognosis remains poor. During routine animal studies, we serendipitously observed that fenbendazole, a benzimidazole antihelminthic used to treat pinworm infection, inhibited brain tumor engraftment. Subsequent in vitro and in vivo experiments with benzimidazoles identified mebendazole as the more promising drug for GBM therapy. In GBM cell lines, mebendazole displayed cytotoxicity, with half-maximal inhibitory concentrations ranging from 0.1 to 0.3 µM. Mebendazole disrupted microtubule formation in GBM cells, and in vitro activity was correlated with reduced tubulin polymerization. Subsequently, we showed that mebendazole significantly extended mean survival up to 63% in syngeneic and xenograft orthotopic mouse glioma models. Mebendazole has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for parasitic infections, has a long track-record of safe human use, and was effective in our animal models with doses documented as safe in humans. Our findings indicate that mebendazole is a possible novel anti-brain tumor therapeutic that could be further tested in clinical trials.