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My husband died from Colon cancer after one year. His histimine count had been as high as 3000. Has anyone done a study on high histimine count and cancer?
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- By cards7up
- Posted July 29, 2009 at 9:07 am
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FYI-Histamine is the chemical (neuro-transmitter) your body produces when you're having an allergic reaction. Was he having an allergic reaction to anything he was being given? How long did they know about these high levels? The chemo would cause his auto-immune system to be very low and therefore hard to fight an allergic reaction unless they caught it early and were able to treat it. I can imagine you have lots of questions and not many answers. I hope this helps a little. Keep in touch, JC
- By veggienft
- Posted July 29, 2009 at 2:18 pm
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Here's Wikipedia's definition of histamine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histamine
Histamine has multiple rolls.
Here's an interesting link explaining the possible roll of histamine in colorectal cancer:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/xml230065n7301r0/
The second link claims histamine may play a roll in protecting colon cancers from the immune system. I'm guessing this roll would interplay with chemicals the tumor produces or regulates.
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