MEDLINE is a biomedical database free to use thanks to the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Library of Medicine and contains approximately 19 million citations.
Over one half million of these studies are associated with complementary/alternative medicine and there are a number of very promising studies like these which show that food supplements and certain spices have profound chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic activity against pancreatic cancer cells, in vitro, in vivo and in some (though limited) human studies.
Here is an example of a study published in In Vivo in 2009 which shows that there is promise in using aloe as an adjuvant therapy:
Aloe significantly improves chemotherapy treatment coutcomes in patients with metastatic gastric, pancreatic and colorectal cancers.
Abstract Title:
A randomized study of chemotherapy versus biochemotherapy with chemotherapy plus Aloe arborescens in patients with metastatic cancer.
Abstract Source:
1: In Vivo. 2009 Jan-Feb;23(1):171-5. PMID: 19368145
Abstract:
BACKGROUND: The recent advances in the analysis of tumor immunobiology suggest the possibility of biologically manipulating the efficacy and toxicity of cancer chemotherapy by endogenous or exogenous immunomodulating substances. Aloe is one of the of the most important plants exhibiting anticancer activity and its antineoplastic property is due to at least three different mechanisms, based on antiproliferative, immunostimulatory and antioxidant effects. The antiproliferative action is determined by anthracenic and antraquinonic molecules, while the immunostimulating activity is mainly due to acemannan. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A study was planned to include 240 patients with metastatic solid tumor who were randomized to receive chemotherapy with or without Aloe. According to tumor histotype and clinical status, lung cancer patients were treated with cisplatin and etoposide or weekly vinorelbine, colorectal cancer patients received oxaliplatin plus 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), gastric cancer patients were treated with weekly 5-FU and pancreatic cancer patients received weekly gemcitabine. Aloe was given orally at 10 ml thrice/daily. RESULTS: The percentage of both objective tumor regressions and disease control was significantly higher in patients concomitantly treated with Aloe than with chemotherapy alone, as well as the percent of 3-year survival patients. CONCLUSION: This study seems to suggest that Aloe may be successfully associated with chemotherapy to increase its efficacy in terms of both tumor regression rate and survival time.
There are over 80 MEDLINE referenced studies on the non-profit natural biomedical database known as
Here is the link:
http://www.GreenMedInfo.com /category/diseases/pancreatic-can
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