The natural treatment helping patients battle chemo-resistant cancer

I’m sure that chemotherapy resistance is a tough topic for oncologists to discuss with their patients.

Chemo resistance occurs when cancer cells adapt to the attack of the therapy and devise ways to protect themselves. This is also known as multidrug resistance since an oncologist’s primary strategy in overcoming chemo resistance is to use more than one type of chemo drug.

But more, as they say, is not always better, and multidrug resistance is the proof of that. It’s the main cause of tumor recurrence and the spread of cancer to other sites in the body (also known as metastasis).

But now, University of Maryland (UM) researchers believe they’ve discovered a breakthrough in the way doctors can overcome chemo resistance. They’ve found a way to shut off a part of the cancer cell called an efflux pump, which is what ejects chemo drugs.

This is a clever way to outsmart cancer cells. And researchers believe that it could allow oncologists to fight cancer more effectively with smaller chemo doses and fewer drugs — a big plus for patients, obviously.

But it could be years before this new approach becomes available to the public. And there’s no telling how much it will cost when (and if) that day arrives.

The good news is, there’s something you can do right now to make cancer cells more vulnerable to chemotherapy and potentially prevent chemo resistance…

In his Authentic Anti-Cancer Protocol, Dr. Marc Micozzi says, “Science is overwhelmingly clear that vitamin C, when given intravenously, is a bona fide cancer fighter.”

That’s because vitamin C shuts off tumors at the source.

Dr. Micozzi cites a study where researchers used intravenous vitamin C (IVC) doses as high as 60 grams to produce these three effects:

  • Inhibited blood vessel cells from multiplying
  • Reduced migration of blood vessel cells to the cancer
  • Prevented blood vessel cells from organizing into new vessel structures

Without this lifeline of tiny blood vessels, cancer cells weaken and become more vulnerable to chemotherapy.

Other research shows that the high doses delivered by IVC generate a high level of hydrogen peroxide that kills cancer cells but leaves healthy cells intact.

This may be the reason cancer patients who use IVC with chemo report fewer chemo side effects, such as fatigue, hair loss, nausea, and lack of appetite.

In addition, a study last year from the UK’s University of Salford found that high dose vitamin C killed cancer stem cells, which are believed to be a primary driver of chemo resistance.

I hope you never have to make hard decisions about cancer therapy, but if you do, ask your doctor about using IVC. More and more conventional doctors these days are opening their minds to the use of adjunct, non-drug therapies — especially ones as effective and safe as IVC.

You can read about other cancer-fighting therapies like this in Dr. Micozzi’s Authentic Anti-Cancer Protocol. For more information, or to enroll today, click here.

 

SOURCE

nature.com/articles/s41467-018-02915-8
Targeted production of reactive oxygen species in mitochondria to overcome cancer drug resistance
Nature Communications
February 8, 2018