Study Confirms Pancreatic Enzyme Cancer Treatment

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Study Confirms Pancreatic Enzyme Cancer TreatmentFrom Cathy Wong, N.D.,

A study published in the journal Pancreas suggests the effectiveness of

pancreatic enzymes against cancer in mice. This form of nutritional cancer

therapy has been used by Nicholas Gonzalez, M.D. in his medical practice in New

York City. Gonzalez is one of the authors of the study, " Pancreatic Enzyme

Extract Improves Survival in Murine Pancreatic Cancer " (Pancreas. 2004

May;28(4):401-12).

 

The study found that mice treated with pancreatic enzymes survived significantly

longer than the control group. Tumors growth in the enzyme-treated group was

significantly slowed compared to the control group.

 

In addition, while all mice in the control group showed the conditions

steatorrhea, high glucose in the urine, high levels of bilirubin, and ketones in

the urine at the early stages of tumor growth, only a few in the treated group

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Five years ago, a pilot study of human cancer patients treated by Gonzalez and

his associate was published in in the journal Nutrition and Cancer. From there,

Gonzalez received a $1.4 million federal grant for a Phase III prospective

clinical trial of people with pancreatic cancer. This multi-year study is

ongoing.

 

This enzyme-based cancer treatment has been written about for nearly a century.

In an article that appeared in the British Medical Journal in 1906, embyologist

John Beard wrote that pancreatic enzymes are one of the body's defenses against

cancer and would be useful as a cancer treatment. He later wrote a book entitled

The Enzyme Treatment of Cancer A dentist names William Donald Kelley later

expanded on this treatment.

 

The results of this study are promising because pancreatic cancer is difficult

to treat and has a high mortality rate, due to difficulties in diagnosis, the

aggressive nature of pancreatic cancer, and the few treatment options available.

Pancreatic cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer deaths following breast

cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, and prostate cancer.

 

Risk factors of pancreatic cancer are:

 

 

Age - Most pancreatic cancers occur in people over the age of 60.

 

Smoking - Cigarette smokers are two to three times more likely than

nonsmokers to develop pancreatic cancer.

 

Health condition - Pancreatic cancer occurs more often in people who have

diabetes and chronic pancreatitis.

 

Gender - More men than women are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

 

Family history - The risk for developing pancreatic cancer triples if a

person's mother, father, sister, or brother had the disease. Also, a family

history of colon or ovarian cancer increases the risk of pancreatic cancer.

 

Pancreatic cancer is sometimes called a " silent disease " because early

pancreatic cancer often does not cause symptoms.

 

Symptoms may include:

 

Pain in the upper abdomen or upper back

 

Yellow skin and eyes, and dark urine from jaundice

 

Weakness

 

Loss of appetite

 

Nausea and vomiting

 

Weight loss

 

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