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Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 55 | There is a study on the affect of grape seed extract and cranberry extracts on squamous cell oral cancer. I would like to post a link but I am unsure if it is allowed. I don't see a forum for complimentary medicine The study is titled Cranberry and Grape Seed Extracts Inhibit the Proliferative Phenotype of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinomas.
Brother Dx oral cancer March 23. Invasive Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Mod Dif Anterior Floor of Mouth, Peridental Soft Tissue, Right Bony Margin. Lymph Nodes 0/56 Stage II,pT2,pN0 2.8 cm
I was Dx b/cancer 9/2007. IDC Stage2 Grade2 2.4 cm 0/8 Nodes ER+ PR+ Her-2 Rad 33 no chemo.
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Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 507 | I think this might be the same one in the NIH Pubmed library. If so I think it would be a credible study. Abstract at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18955355
Don
TXN2bM0 Stage IVa SCC-Occult Primary
FNA 6/6/08-SCC in node<2cm
PET/CT 6/19/08-SCC in 2nd node<1cm
HiRes CT 6/21/08
Exploratory,Tonsillectomy(benign),Right SND 6/23/08
PEG 7/3/08-11/6/08
35 TomoTherapy 7/16/08-9/04/08 No Chemo
Clear PET/CT 11/15/08, 5/15/09, 5/28/10, 7/8/11
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Joined: May 2006 Posts: 720 Likes: 1 | [quote=notself]I don't see a forum for complimentary medicine[/quote] FYI, notself, there is an Adjunctive Therapies forum that sounds like what you're looking for. The forum description: [quote]Here the discussion of therapies outside the realm of curative, conventional medicine are discussed. Note: these are not ALTERNATIVE therapies. No linking to other sites from this forum please[/quote]
Leslie
April 2006: Husband dx by dentist with leukoplakia on tongue. Oral surgeon's biopsy 4/28/06: Moderate dysplasia; pathology report warned of possible "skip effect." ENT's excisional biopsy (got it all) 5/31/06: SCC in situ/small bit superficially invasive. Early detection saves lives.
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Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 55 | Here it is. It is a pdf file. http://ecam.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/nen047v1I am on an aromatase blocking drug, Arimidex. These block the production of estrogen and have some unpleasant side effects as the estrogen in one's body slowly disappears. Men also produce estrogen in smaller quantities and fat cells produce estrogen. This study should be discussed with your oncologist before using grape seed extract.
Brother Dx oral cancer March 23. Invasive Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Mod Dif Anterior Floor of Mouth, Peridental Soft Tissue, Right Bony Margin. Lymph Nodes 0/56 Stage II,pT2,pN0 2.8 cm
I was Dx b/cancer 9/2007. IDC Stage2 Grade2 2.4 cm 0/8 Nodes ER+ PR+ Her-2 Rad 33 no chemo.
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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | I was in a Black raspberry study at Ohio State. I have no idea how it came out.
Since posting this. UPMC, Pittsburgh, Oct 2011 until Jan. I averaged about 2 to 3 surgeries a week there. w Can't have jaw made as bone is deteroriating steaily that is left in jaw. Mersa is to blame. Feeding tube . Had trach for 4mos. Got it out April.
--- Passed away 5/14/14, will be greatly missed by everyone here
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Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 711 | Now they tell us after all those grape seeds I spit out.
David R. 65 yr old male non-smoker, light drinker, stage 3 or 4, depending on which doc you ask, scc rt. tonsil, 2 nodes, 7 weeks radiation and chemo. No surgery. Teatment ended 3/20/08. PET scan 8/08 showed no cancer.
And now, as of oct, 2010, caregiver to wife, Linda, with breast cancer.
May, 2013, Linda diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer. Enuf already.
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Joined: May 2007 Posts: 666 | Dejeer, you can spit!?
Yes both pdf and link are the same. I just glanced through it and some of the effects are quite small to me, but then how much of a change do you have to see to get excited. Also, it is wide jump to go from in vitro studies to a human. Still the paper is quite interesting and we are not talking about ingesting any unknown chemical with unknown side effects. And yes this should be discussed with your MO/RO especially during treatment.
M
.. here is an intriguing tidbit.... smoking inhibits aromatase as well....
Partial glossectomy (25%) anterior tongue. 4/6/07/. IMRT start @5/24/07 (3x) Erbitux start/end@ 5/24/07. IMRT wider field (30x) start 6/5/07. Weekly cisplatin (2x30mg/m2), then weekly carbo- (5x180mg/m2). End of Tx 19 July 07.
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