I wonder what others may know, about this product.

• By travellady
• Posted January 3, 2009 at 9:16 am
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I plan to send this to our doctor!
The article might have explained why my husband who was plagued with sinus problems prior to surgery never has any now. All this time, I thought it was the oxygen they gave him post op:) that must have cleared up his "system's balance"....now it seems otherwise.
Being able to breathe again --no longer wearing breathe strips at night--was certainly one of the few perks of cancer!
I would love to know more about this, too!

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• By reykr
• Posted January 3, 2009 at 12:07 pm
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I had lung cancer 20 years ago, and was cured by an operation in which a third of my right lung was removed. Just before the operation, I went out on a cold day, and got pneumonia, too, so my temperature was 106 degrees when in checked into the hospital.

It's possible that the pneumonia might have caused my immune system to strengthen and fight the cancer because I didn't need an post-op chemo or radiation.

My bladder cancer was diagnosed in June, 2004 after there was blood in my urine. I had BCG treatment, and a subsequent operation to remove the tumor, in February, 2005.

Another tumor was later found, and it was removed in September, 2007.

The present tumor was diagnosed by a biopsy this past October, and I'm taking BCG and Interferon in 6 successive weeks.

I've had bladder control problems due to prostate enlargement, for about 11 years. (I'm age 76.) I take a herbal thing, Graminex, made from pollen, for that. It costs about half as much as a drug, and doesn't have the possible side effects that a drug does.

Pollen comes from the "male" part of a flower, so it seems appropriate that it helps the "male" part of a human.

The treatment I'm having makes bladder control much more difficult. Sometimes, I have to urinate every 15 minutes. However, that need sometimes goes away, when I'm sleeping. Last night, I must have slept for several hours, without urinating.

Usually, I have to get up frequently in the night, too, so I haven't figured out why or how I can sometimes sleep that long, uninterrupted.

That makes me think there's a psychological factor involved, a conditioned response or something, that might be alleviated by hypnotherapy. The very successful hypnotherapist Milton Erickson discusssed the case of a patient that was incontinent, in the book "My voice will go with you." In that case, however, the incompetence was apparently only psychological, with no physical factor involved in it.

My urologist isn't interested in discussing hypnosis, probably because the medical profession regards it as quackery, so I haven't tried that.

I've also started seeing a chiropractor, who, like many these days, also practices alternative medicine, such as Chinese medicine. I'm hoping that eventually he might be able to help with the continence problem, so that I don't have to urinate so frequently.

Jerry

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• By mfenn1957
• Posted January 3, 2009 at 1:25 pm
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Thank you so much for the heads up. My husband's chemo treatments have resulted in acid stomach and the doctor prescribed Priolosec. I plan to switch to him to Tagamet (Cimetindine) today. Cimetindine is even cheaper than Priolosec, this is a win/win situation in my book.
I always am skeptical of any product promoted on an internet store, so I cross referenced the information with medical reseach sites. What I found is this is fairly old science, the medical community was looking at Cimetindine closely in 1999. The problem today is money, the drug is off patent so there is no motivation for the drug companies to spend a lot a money on clinical trials to prove it's effectiveness as an adjunct to cancer treatment. What is becoming more and more evident to me is this community needs to become more active in forcing the government to perform the research on promising treatments that big pharma is written off as economically unviable.

If you want to bring this to your doctor's appointment, I would use this URL it should be seen as more credible.

http://sci.tech-archive.net/pdf/Archive/sci.med.diseases.cancer/2006-10/msg 00119.pdf

Thank you for the information, I will put it on the list with Oncovite, (the vitamins for Urology patients developed by Dr. Lamm, the man responsible for BCG treatments) .

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• By reykr
• Posted January 8, 2009 at 11:48 am
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I've never heard of Oncovite before, and I'm not familiar with Dr. Lamm. I'd like to know something about them.

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• By mfenn1957
• Posted January 8, 2009 at 2:49 pm
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http://blcwebcafe.org/oncovite.asp
Oncovite is basically a multi-vitamin specifically formulated for urology patients.

Dr. Lamm
Donald. L. Lamm, M.D., FACS
Don Lamm, MDAfter 28 years in academic practice Dr. Donald Lamm, MD, FACS, launched his private practice in Fall 2004. Dr. Lamm graduated AOA from UCLA and did a rotating internship at the University of Oregon HSC in Portland. He did family practice for two years as Director of the Colville Indian Health Service Clinic before returning to UCLA for a year of General Surgery and UCSD for urology residency.

During his urology residency he developed an animal model for bladder cancer and found that Bacillus Calmette Guerin (the TB vaccine, BCG) inhibited tumor growth. After residency he and his family moved to San Antonio where Don began his academic career as Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center. During his 9 years in Texas he rose in rank to Professor and Acting Chairman of the Division of Urology. His VA and NIH research resulted in clinical studies that led to the FDA approval of BCG for bladder cancer.

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