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I am curious to know if there is anyone out there who is/was enrolled in the clinical trial entitled:
"Effects of Selected Vegetable and Herb Mix on Advanced NSCLC" # NCT00246727.
It looks, potentially, pretty interesting.
Thanks,
Jane
Cancer Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) Chemotherapy Memory Confusion Lung cancer
I should include a bit more info about this Phase III study:
"Carcinoma of the lung is the leading cause of cancer related deaths in North America. Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) causes the death of more than 400,000 patients annually in the US and Western Europe. The benefit of conventional therapies, such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy, for unresectable stage IIIB and IV NSCLC patients is marginal; the generally accepted median survival time of late stage patients has remained 4-6 months in the "Supportive Care" group and 6-9 months in the chemotherapy treatment group; the one-year survival is about 20%. A recent paper and an Editorial comment of New Engl J Med concluded that 4 widely used chemotherapy regimens offer only marginal benefits with severe toxicities for advanced NSCLC patients and concluded that “It is time to move on from chemotherapy.”. Because of the poor overall results, NCI concludes that More Effective Treatments for NSCLC Are Urgently Needed.
Ideal Treatment for NSCLC: The toxicity of chemotherapy and side-effects of radiotherapy to the quality of life of the patients have been a major issue in cancer treatments. They not only add misery to the patients' lives, their anticancer activity is severely hindered by its limitation in dosage because higher dosage means more side-effects to the patients. Furthermore, the current chemotherapy for advanced NSCLC is quite expensive, about $50,000 to $100,000 per year. Therefore, an ideal treatment for advanced NSCLC patients should meet the following criteria:
1. Prolong patient survival.
2. Minimal toxicity.
3. Improvement in the patient's quality of life.
4. Relatively inexpensive.
A phytomix consisting of selected vegetables and herbs appears to meet all these criteria. The phytomix consists of 19 vegetable and herbs in a highly concentrated form. These vegetables and herbs were selected based on their anti-cancer and immune-enhancing activities. Each batch of raw materials has gone through a very strict quality control (QC) scheme to make sure the product meets our QC standards and devoid of deleterious contaminations, such as heavy metals, pesticides, aflatoxin, and microorganisms. The manufacturing process is tightly controlled to ensure batch-to-batch consistency. The final product, a 20 gram freeze-dried powder, is sealed in a pouch. In our previous studies, patients who ingested phytomix daily for 17-60 months showed no clinical sign of adverse effect.
The Objectives of the proposed studies are to evaluate the benefits and adverse reactions of adding SV to the daily diet of cancer patients who are willing to undergo the chemotherapy (Study 1) or those who refuse chemotherapy (Study 2)."
Jane
Can't say I've heard of this one. We all know that certain foods contain antioxidants and help build the immune system. Personally, the only supplement I would take is one that is already in my body. Vits. A, B C, etc. and minerals. Check it out, it can't hurt.
Take care, JC
The NCI statement as quoted from above says it ALL:
“It is time to move on from chemotherapy.”
Ya think?????
So are you saying they are testing it with and without chemo tx? Those taking chemo to test to see if it helps with toxic side effects and those not on chemo, just taking the phytomix? Do you have a link to this study, I'd love to read it. Thanks and take care, JC
"The primary objective of these two studies is to test the hypothesis that the daily ingestion of a dietary supplement, Selected Vegetables and Herbs Mix (SV), which consists of non-toxic botanicals containing known anti-cancer and/or immune enhancing components, may prolong the survival time of stage IIIB/IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. Either SV or placebo will be added to their daily diet in a double-blind randomized fashion."
Interestingly this Clinical Trial is not recruiting now and was Sponsored by Sun Farm Corporation.
If memory serves me correctly, they are the manufacturers of "Sun Soup". (Very costly... Google it if anyone is interested. It runs a whopping $700 a month or so. Wow)
A little blurb at the bottom of the page eludes to the soup ingredients because you would have been excluded from the trial if you had an allergy to any of these ingredients:
..."soy beans, mushrooms, mung beans, red dates, scallion, garlic, lentil beans, leek, hawthorn fruit, onions, ginseng, angelica root, Chinese licorice, dandelion root, Senegal root, ginger, olives, sesame seed and parsley."
Guess we'll never know so us believers will just have to go on eating our "peas and carrots" and see if it helps :)
What a beautiful day outside!! Gonna go make another raw organic vegetable drink then jog my Stage IV butt through the park a few miles in the sunshine!
God bless,
Ellen
Dear Berlin2:
Yep, I'd also be interested in a link. Very interesting.
Thank you for posting this.
Blessings!
Brooklynda
Dear Drawing3d,
Thanks for providing the link (I was just about to add it). The clinicaltrials.gov site says that they are still recruiting. Do you have different information about that???
Jane
Jane, you are right... In researching the "History of Changes", I accidently clicked the initial page of 2005 not the updated page.
I have never done it before, but I suppose interested persons could always write to the principal investigator for the trial:
Principal Investigator: Henry S Sacks, MD, Ph.D
henry.sacks@mssm.edu
Sorry for the confusion!
God bless,
Ellen
I did just send an e-mail to the principal investigator, Dr Henry Sacks and will certainly post any reply that I get from him.
Jane
I found the link also and saw that it was started in 2005,but no updates were available. Has anyone found these? Thanks, JC
HI,
I just got a reply from the PI of the clinical trial. Here is the text:
Thank you for your interest. Our study has temporarily suspended enrollment because of delays in funding. The SV mix is available for purchase from Sun Farm Corp in Milford, CT. If you tell them you were referred by me, they will give a small discount.
Henry S. Sacks, PhD, MD
Professor of Community & Preventive Medicine
Director, Thomas C. Chalmers Clinical Trials Unit
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY 10029
212-241-7856
SORRY,
Jane
Thank God for this post. It is about time people started talking about what is really working. I can't comment on that study as I know nothing of it but due to being fairly experienced in the area of what people are doing to heal their cancer which is working... all of them, every single one of them know about this kind of nutrition. But there is much more than just nutrition. It's about getting alkalized and out of the acidic state yes and then also oxygenating the cells using EFA's (Essential Fatty Acid's) and detoxing using colonics, coffee enimas etc... It's a life change for most but it's better than just treating the symptoms and not the cause.
I still believe 100% in both conventional and non-conventional medicine. End of Story.
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