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annevmason
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:35 pm    Post subject: Iscador questions Reply with quote
Has anyone had experience using iscador as a complimentary treatment for cancer -- in particular brain tumors?

I have heard from family members that iscador is commonly used for cancer treatment. Does any one have information about it and if it is used for brain tumors?

Thank you
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Vee Smith
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:31 am    Post subject: Re: Iscador questions Reply with quote
Hi - It is used to assist in treatments for brain tumours. This site gives information which may help: http://www.cancure.org/iscador_mistletoe.htm

I would advise extensive research into its use before taking any decisions.
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ChemoMan
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 3:54 pm    Post subject: Re: Iscador questions Reply with quote
Hi

This is from the cancer institute (www.cancer.org)

At present, there is insufficient evidence to recommend the use of mistletoe as a treatment for cancer outside the context of well-designed clinical trials. Such trials will be valuable to determine more clearly whether mistletoe can be useful in the treatment of specific subsets of cancer patients.


As a treatment it doesn't have a lot going for it. I would save your money and don't buy it.. unless of course it passes trials and becomes a treatment which I think is highly unlikely. There maybe an active ingredient in the mistletoe that will one day be a new anti cancer drug, but that day is a long way off, if it will happen at all.

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brainman
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 12:00 am    Post subject: Re: Iscador questions Reply with quote
It is topics like this one that make me wish I was still a pharmacognosist... I would go get a bunch of mistletoe right now and start to try to extract its active components.
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