my Wife Moon

I was encouraged to hear of Davanat in your message. We discussed it with my sister's doctor and he is looking into it. She was diagnosed with cholangio in April 2005. Gemzar was working well for the past year, but she is no longer responding. Would you please let me know what your experiende with Davanat was. Also, what drug does Glaxo have? I would appreciate any more information you have. thanks

I don't want to get too technical with you but DAVANAT works by targetting the chemo. It encapsulates 5FU. Gembetazine is just a watered down version of 5FU. 5FU is the most powerful chemo drug out there. The problem is the side effects. Chemo is poison and if all the poison goes where it is suppossed to then you won't have any side effects. That is how DAVANAT works. It latches on to the Galectin-1 receptor found on cancer cells. Cancer overly expresses this receptor. its still a numbers game because the galecting-1 is also found in good cells. The other thing is that the encapsulation of 5FU keeps it in blood stream 5 -10 times longer. I don't know if you know how huge of an advance that is. Right now the half life of 5FU is 15 min imagine increasing that to 1.5 hours. That give the DAVANAT more time to find the Galectin-1 cancer cell. Therefore you don't have to use as much chemo to acheive the same or better results.

Regarding the Glaxo drug SB715992

YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE MUC-1 receptor for this to work. This drug binds to the abberant MUC-1 receptor and turns a cancerous cell normal by not allowing the growth factor in. The stuff I talk about is well over an oncologists head. This stuff I talk about is cutting edge and you will not hear about it for 2-3 years. The question is - do you have the time to wait. Do a google search on Cynthia Bamdad. She is the inventor of this technology.

The Glaxo drug WILL eventually be modified into a cure for Breast cancer. The DAVANAT drug will eventually be a first line treatment if the company can get its corporate governance together. --- Message edited by CancerCompass staff: for personal protection, phone number removed. Please review CancerCompass Member Guidelines at http://www.cancercompass.com/common/guidelines.html ----.

I know what you are going through. My mother was diagnosed in May, a week after my 25th B-Day on mother's day weekend! She is only 49 and she's an awsome person and I think that makes it even harder to deal with.

She had shunts put in first and then biliary drains, which seemed to slip down or get clogged up ever few days. When the drains weren't clogged they were moving to freely so she was dehydrated and in the hospital for that. She had radiation and chemo at the same time, following the mayo clinic protical which has been a sucess for some people. After all the scans following her first round they decided her cancer was not responding at all. They took her off the transplant list and pretty much just said sorry! She started a second round of chemo about 4 weeks ago so I guess we will keep our fingers crossed and see what's next.

I will tell you though, my mother has began taking mannatech. It is just a food supplement. It's a little expensive, but it has worked with people we know, and who can put a price on life? They have a website you can take a look. It's a local company to us here in texas and my family has been to the meetings and spoken to people who have used it and had great success. We first heard about it sitting in the hospital waiting room while mother was having a CAT scan. There was a lady next to us who's son was taking it. She gave us her number and her sons number he had liver cancer as well as lung and throat cancer. They gave him 9 months to live, he's been taking mannatech for 10 months now and is cancer FREE! It's great for all kinds of things not just cancer, pretty much my whole family is on it now.

Mom is set to have another scan in two weeks. I'll keep you posted.

You certainly know alot of technical information on these therapies! Have you used Davanat yourself, or is someone you know on it? I was wondering what your personal experience with it was. thanks

I haven't used it. I just have been following the science for a number of years. In the next 6 months to year we are going to undergo a dramatic leap in understanding how cancer works. I've read certain reports and cancer is caused by a receptor being cleaved off of your cells. Speculation says it is the micro organisms in your body that cause the cleaving of a receptor that result in a cancerous cell. if you find a drug that binds with this abberant receptor you will prevent the growth factors coursing through our body from triggering the cell to be cancerous. All these theories that this causes cancer or that causes cancer are ridiculous. All these outside factors like dioxin for example foster an environment for micro organisms to grow in your body which cause the cancer. Now once you have cancer you ever wonder why stuff like Noni juice works. The complex carbohydrates in the juice bond to these abberant receptors. When this happens the cell dies normally and doesn't replicate. I'm not telling you to buy Noni juice the the theory behind how this works. Davanat is just a sugar made from bean leaves. Used alone it has no therapeutic effect BUT there was a measurable effect. What I mean is that DAVANAT has an affinity for the Galectin-1 receptor found on 75% of all solid tumors. If it binds to the Galectin-1 then that means that a blood cell won't bind to it and help the cancer spread. So it can slow the progression. No more studies were done on it b/c that data with DAVANAT and 5FU was so much greater.

I hope my information helps you. The main thing is fight this disease with everything you got. The Glaxo drug might work but the DAVANAT is a sure thing. The only way to get DAVANAT is calling the company and asking for compassionate use. It has been granted twice before. One person was a cholangio patient who worked at Pfizer. Someone very high up in the organization. Hint hint stomp stomp. There are no side effects of DAVANAT so you have nothing to lose. it is combined with a 30year old chemo drug that basically kills any type of cancer. You could say DAVANAT took the edge off 5fU but that isn't even close. it eliminated the side effects. This is the best bet. You can try Gemzar, Xeloda, etc but they have no targetting technology. They are also modified forms of 5FU designed to be less toxic. As a result they aren't as good as killing cancer cells. 5FU is very toxic but is rendered inert in the carbosome shell.

You should really go to the website and look at the videos. A lot of your questions on how and why this works will be answered.

well im sorry to say that my wife moon has lost her battle with cancer at 3:30 on november 12 she passed away it was the saddest thing in my life for me and my kids to have to see she died at home with her kids by her side taking her last breathshe fought all the way till the end gasping her last breath i thought it was hard dealng with things when she was alive this is the hard part for 4 mounths i was with her day and nigh giving her meds and hookin up her ivs showering her comforting her talking with her doing things with her that i wish no matter how hard i could still do with her i would give anything in this world to have her back but that wont happen we did everything for her noni extract
goji extract and goji berrry flore essence tea strict fruit diet with protein supplements radiation chemo and all was good till she got that damn gemzar 9 days after that she got flue like symptoms and had to have a blood tranfusion and after that day everything went down hill not only did she have to heal her body from the chemo but now her lungs from the gemzar doctors said it was a freak side effect i say what ever now im out a wife and my kids are out a mother 3 boys maybe next time then can warn someone of the side effects before aloha and good luck to the rest of u