tcm really helps lung cancer, maybe good for those with mets

pete43lost_at_sea
pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
edited December 2011 in Colorectal Cancer #1
Below is a very interesting about tcm and lung cancer i just found on the rgcc website. i posted it on the lung board, but them i remembered we have got lots on our board fighting mets to the lungs so i thought of posting it here.

hugs,
pete

ps last post for today, its just i have been very very busy getting organised for the stage 4 fight, why wait for the crc to get an advantage.


THIS WAS POSTED ON THE LUNG CANCER FORUM

I am a stage 3 or maybe 4 colorectal. i have been in the colorectal forum for over a year, i post alot. i never sticky beak into other forums on csn.

but i have lost an aunty a year ago to lung cancer and my good friend as well a few months ago. another friend with lung cancer met from her breast cancer just last week. I have the greatest empathy for your battle its pretty tough!!!!!

i have made another great friend who is fighting his big lung cancer very hard.
he is a great dad with a lovelly family.
i told him about this site, but i don't think he has joined yet. i hope he does.

This looks like a good study, you see i have been on tcm for a year for my crc. that what we abbreviate collorectal cancer too.

its a small world but my tcm ( that traditional chinese medicine ) is given by a doctor. he did his phd in lung cancer and traditional chinese medicine. i feel he is the best in australia, he specialises in cancer patients only. i have great faith in his treatment for me. anyway i saw this article on the rgcc usa site with the lung cancer study.

again its mainly being posted for andrew, i hope he makes an appointment with henry, but of course we all have our own journeys with our cancer.

http://www.rgccusa.com/
http://ict.sagepub.com/search?fulltext=TCM herbal treatment&sortspec=date&submit=Submit&andorexactfulltext=phrase&****
****=selected&journal_set=spict

my tcm treatment costs me about $8 a day, which is less than the two coffees day day i have given up. of course my traditional doctors hate this stuff, but i have them under control.

i hope this is old news for you all, but if not here it is.

i did the rgcc test yesterday and want the results.

anyway merry xmass,
hugs,
pete

ps is just found this related study about lagtime
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21862517
just google the title to find it.
i would also read reference 7 about 10 year survival with vitamins

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  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    #2
    small study backs up tcm and vitamins
    I tried and could not find a free copy of the complete text, if one finds a link could you reply here.

    this study is small but very positive , its what i am trying.


    Colon Cancer Survival With Herbal Medicine and Vitamins Combined With Standard Therapy in a

    Whole-Systems Approach: Ten-Year Follow-up Data Analyzed With Marginal Structural Models and Propensity Score Methods.
    McCulloch M, Broffman M, van der Laan M, Hubbard A, Kushi L, Gao J, Abrams D, Colford JM Jr.
    Source
    Pine Street Foundation, San Anselmo, CA, USA; University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
    Abstract
    Although localized colon cancer is often successfully treated with surgery, advanced disease requires aggressive systemic therapy that has lower effectiveness. Approximately 30% to 75% of patients with colon cancer use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), but there is limited formal evidence of survival efficacy. In a consecutive case series with 10-year follow-up of all colon cancer patients (n = 193) presenting at a San Francisco Bay-Area center for Chinese medicine (Pine Street Clinic, San Anselmo, CA), the authors compared survival in patients choosing short-term treatment lasting the duration of chemotherapy/radiotherapy with those continuing long-term. To put these data into the context of treatment responses seen in conventional medical practice, they also compared survival with Pan-Asian medicine + vitamins (PAM+V) with that of concurrent external controls from Kaiser Permanente Northern California and California Cancer Registries. Kaplan-Meier, traditional Cox regression, and more modern methods were used for causal inference-namely, propensity score and marginal structural models (MSMs), which have not been used before in studies of cancer survival and Chinese herbal medicine. PAM+V combined with conventional therapy, compared with conventional therapy alone, reduced the risk of death in stage I by 95%, stage II by 64%, stage III by 29%, and stage IV by 75%. There was no significant difference between short-term and long-term PAM+V. Combining PAM+V with conventional therapy improved survival, compared with conventional therapy alone, suggesting that prospective trials combining PAM+V with conventional therapy are justified.

    PMID: 21964510 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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