Surprise Drug Treatment for Bone Cancer Works!
I have to credit one of my very long-term surviving cancer patients for alerting me to this information.
The most common cancers in men and women are prostate and breast cancer, respectively. Unfortunately, both of these tend to spread to bone. And once it gets into your bone, its very hard to treat.
Once cancer is in bones, standard orthodox therapy is largely worthless, except to the oncologist and Pharma. It usually subjects you to radiation. While it can help with pain and may even slow the growth of the tumor, it does not kill the tumor. And it actually can destroy the bone.
That is the bad news. The good news is I have a terrific alternative that may work for you. Its a cheap, readily available, and incredibly safe drug, long used for infections. And it might slow or stall your bone cancer.
The drug is one you have heard of before — tetracycline. This common generic antibiotic is dirt cheap. But it can work wonders when used right.
Tetracycline has a natural affinity for bone. What is remarkable about this drug is that it can inhibit a key enzyme called matrix metalloproteinase (MMP). MMP is crucial for cancer to invade and spread. The enzyme dissolves collagen and other proteins holding cells together. Once it destroys these proteins, cancer cells can invade. Its like a garden. If your garden is full of vegetables, weeds will have a difficult time growing. But if the weeds can kill off your veggies, that will make room for more weeds to grow and speed their invasion.
By blocking MMP, Tetracycline can slow the ability of cancer to invade. Researchers conducted a mouse study. These mice had breast cancer bone metastases. Tetracycline actually reduced the tumors. The authors felt the benefits were from both MMP inhibition and the ability of tetracycline to slow the development and reduce the survival of osteoclasts (bone dissolving cells).
Dr. Gurmit Singh has found that tetracycline treatment can reduce bone metastases by up to 70%! And studies from as far back as 1978 showed that TCN is superior to the toxic drug methotrexate in certain cancers. Patients on tetracycline lived longer than those on the methotrexate.
So you might wonder why researchers are not studying this treatment any more. Ill let Dr. Singh answer that one for you. There is no financial gain for the drug industry, says Dr. Singh. This is a generic drug. If this were a patented drug, then the industry would support it. That is what Dr. Singh discovered when he approached some pharmaceutical companies.
Doxycycline is another tetracycline drug. Researchers tested it on cases of a totally untreatable cancer called mesothelioma, a lung cancer induced by asbestos. The drug inhibited the production of mitochondrial cytochrome-C oxidase in the mesothelioma cells. It also directly inhibited gelatinase-A activity. Both of these activities are critical mechanisms of the drug-stopping growth in other tumor cells as well. Gelatinase-A is another MMP type of enzyme that dissolves your proteins and allows cancer to grow.
Action to take: I am usually against antibiotics. There are far better ways to treat infection, such as enhancing your immune system. On the other hand, cancer treatment is just so gruesome, that its refreshing to find a real cheap and safe drug that offers significant help. These special properties of tetracycline, inhibiting MMP, could slow your cancer growth. Further, it could buy time for immune-enhancing therapies to take hold.
Tetracycline is a very safe drug. It does damage the flora (bacteria) of your gut. So if you do take it, be sure to take a probiotic at a different time of the day. I recommend Advanced Probiotic Formula.
I have used low-dose tetracycline with dramatic success in rheumatic diseases. This is likely due to its anti-infective properties. Cancer may also have an infection component. If you have a cancer, especially one with bone involvement, ask your integrative physician, or oncologist for that matter, to consider tetracycline for you. Even if your insurance company wont pony up for the bill, this is one you can afford. I have seen the cost for 500 mg of tetracycline for as low as 20 cents a pill. And some pharmacies are giving antibiotics away. So you might be able to get it for free. You just cant beat that!
Ref: Anticancer Drugs, 2003 November;14(10):773-8; CTV.ca News Staff Sun. January 19, 2003; European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Volume 16, Number 4 / July, 1979.
