Pancreatic Cancer -- Complimentary/Integrative treatments that may be worth looking into:
1. Dietary factors--feed your mitochondria and starve the cancer cells:
-> Foods linked to higher cancer risk: processed industrial foods, grains (especially gluten grains), aflatoxin contaminated grains, irrigated corn, margarine, refined vegetable oils, high-heated fats, fructose, processed fruit juices, excessive fruit intake, ... (See
http://healthydietsandscience.blogspot.com)
-> Foods linked to lower cancer risk or even cancer therapy: wild herbs, red meat, saturated fat, pork, eggs, resveratrol-rich foods (grapes, red wine, berries, nuts, ...--possibly due to a hormetic effect in small to moderate doses that is lost in excess), ...
-> Paleo foods like berries and nuts have been found to restore natural apoptosis (programmed cell death) to cancer cells (so that they die), slow or stop angiogenesis (increased blood flow that cancer cells feed on via growth of new blood vessels), and reduce the blood thickening that enables cancer cells to generate more blood cells (which requires a certain level of pressure).
-> Low Carb/ketogenic diets: “Over the last years, evidence has accumulated suggesting that by systematically reducing the amount of dietary carbohydrates (CHO) one could suppress, or at least delay, the emergence of cancer, and that proliferation of already existing tumor cells could be slowed down.”
http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/pdf/1743-7075-8-75.pdf-> Zero Carb diets may be inferior to low carb diets in treating cancer: An Anti-Cancer Diet, Paul Jaminet, September 28, 2011,
http://perfecthealthdiet.com/?p=4739 (the article also mentions supplements and other therapies that may hold promise)
-> Here's a couple's success story (so far) report with pancreatic and breast cancer that mostly involves a near-Paleo diet (it does include some non-Paleo foods like whole wheat and soy milk and some bizarre advice like "Grain fed beef is best") after alleged failure with the Burzinski Clinic's supposed antineoplaston therapy:
http://burzynskiscam.com/what-we-are-doing-now/ 2. Oxygenation and the Warburg Hypothesis: oxygenate the blood (high oxygen levels kill cancer cells); measure the progress in the blood oxygen saturation with a pulse oximeter. Again, feed your oxygen-loving mitochondria and starve the oxygen-hating cancer cells
3. Fever and/or infection: Heating the body and/or provoking the immune system to identify and attack cancer cells--infections with fever have been correlated with killing of cancer cells; "scientists are trying to harness the power of fever and infection in a controlled way to treat cancer patients." (
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1313773/Can-fever-cure-cancer-Jordan-baffled-doctors-leukaemia-vanished-new-evidence-suggests-remarkable-explanation-.html; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9508895/A-virus-that-kills-cancer-the-cure-thats-waiting-in-the-coldc.html)
4. Minimize process-induced food toxicants: don't overheat foods such as bread/grains (which should be avoided anyway), meats, fats, coffee, etc. and minimize consumption of highly processed foods (such as refined/powdered foods). See Process-Induced Toxicants,
http://www.mcgill.ca/macdonald/sites/mcgill.ca.macdonald/files/thermally_generated_toxicants_-_v__yaylayan.pdf.5. Avoid smoking, or at least switch to a pipe or cigar, instead of manufactured cigarettes
6. If you must drink an alcoholic beverage, make it an ancient drink that your great-great-great-great-great grandfather might recognize and don't drink chronically to excess
7. Low-dose naltrexone has been found to inhibit cancer cell proliferation with some successes in treating pancreatic and other cancers: Burton Berkson, MD, PhD - LDN in Pancreatic Cancer and in Autoimmune Disease
part 1
LDN 2008 Dr Burt Berkson Best of part 1 part 2
LDN 08 Dr Burt Berkson Part 2 (Berkson also uses intravenous alpha-lipoic acid and a low-carb, high-greens diet, sun tanning and relaxation in his protocol), The Long-term Survival of a Patient With Pancreatic Cancer With Metastases to the Liver After Treatment With the Intravenous alpha-Lipoic Acid/Low-Dose Naltrexone Protocol
http://www.integratedhealthclinic.com/assets/byCancerType/Pancreatic/4-LDN%20and%20IV%20Alpha%20Lipoic%20Acid.pdf, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20042414, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21807817, http://www.magicwater.org/storage/Case%20study%20Pancreatic%20cancer%20ALA-LDN.pdf, http://lowdosenaltrexone.org