Curcumin in Cancer Therapy
Curcumin is getting a lot of attention in the integrative oncology community. It is the bright yellow pigment in turmeric, a flavoring agent in curry spice. It is found in most mustards. Curcumin helps the immune system by protecting immune cells from their own poisons (pro-oxidants) used against cancer cells. In other words, it guards against self-inflicting wounds by immune cells as they attack cancer cells. In recent tests, turmeric with curcumin has shown to produce significant reduction in skin cancer lesions for patients who had failed therapy with chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery. Integrative oncologist are hopeful that this natural and plentiful substance will soon be an effective complement to most types of cancer treatment. Discoveries like this that would allow oncologists to rely less on toxic therapies and more on natural therapies will help in the pursuit of a new strategy for the war on cancer.
If you are familiar with any practicing integrative oncologists among your acquaintances, please forward their names to: info@cancerchoices.org, or simply as a comment to this blog post. This information will be valuable to my research and my upcoming book.
April 29th, 2009 at 00:56
Would love to know if there are any integrative oncologists in Iowa.
April 29th, 2009 at 16:04
I’m trying to compile a list of bona fide integrative oncologists, so I can better answer questions like this. I will ask about Iowa specifically in my next post.