Antioxidants and other nutrients do not interfere with radiation or chemotherapy

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Antioxidants and other nutrients do not interfere

with radiation or chemotherapy

15th April 2007 by Rett Posted in Disease,Cancer,

Drug/Vaccine Info

From Pubmed 1: Altern Ther Health Med. 2007 Mar-Apr;13(2):40-7.

Related Articles,Links Antioxidants and other nutrients do not

interfere with chemotherapy or radiation therapy and can increase kill

and increase survival, Part 2.

Simone CB 2nd, Simone NL, Simone V, Simone CB.

Simone Protective Cancer Institute in Lawrenceville, NJ, USA.

PURPOSE: Some in the oncology community contend that patients

undergoing chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy should not use food

supplement antioxidants and other nutrients. Oncologists at an

influential oncology institution contended that antioxidants interfere

with radiation and some chemotherapies because those modalities kill

by generating free radicals that are neutralized by antioxidants, and

that folic acid interferes with methotrexate. This is despite the

common use of amifostine and dexrazoxane, 2 prescription antioxidants,

during chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy.

DESIGN: To assess all evidence concerning antioxidant and other

nutrients used concomitantly with chemotherapy and/or radiation

therapy. The MEDLINE and CANCERLIT databases were searched from 1965

to November 2003 using the words vitamins, antioxidants, chemotherapy,

and radiation therapy.Bibliographies of articles were searched. All

studies reporting concomitant nutrient use with chemotherapy and/or

radiation therapy (280 peer-reviewed articles including 62 in vitro

and 218 in vivo)were indiscriminately included.

RESULTS: Fifty human clinical randomized or observational trials have

been conducted, involving 8,521 patients using beta-carotene; vitamins

A, C, and E; selenium;cysteine; B vitamins; vitamin D3; vitamin K3;

and glutathione as single agents or in combination.

CONCLUSIONS: Since the 1970s, 280

peer-reviewed in vitro and in vivo studies, including 50 human studies

involving 8,521 patients, 5,081 of whom were given nutrients, have

consistently shown that do not interfere with therapeutic modalities

for cancer. Furthermore, non-prescription antioxidants and other

nutrients enhance the killing of therapeutic modalities for cancer,

decrease their side effects, and protect normal tissue. In 15 human

studies, 3,738 patients who took non-prescription antioxidants and

other nutrients actually had increased survival.

PMID: 17405678 [PubMed - in process]