Natural Treatment for Reducing Cancer

Cancer is an uncontrolled, abnormal cell growth condition associated with DNA damage. The increasing prevalence of cancer become a global health concern. A recent survey of the global incidence of cancer shows that the cancer prevalence in American states raises up more than 300 cases per 1 million population. According to the American Cancer Society, 5, 00,000 Americans in the United States die due to cancer. The fetal outcome related to cancer fully depends upon the cancer stage. The dietary indiscretion and cigarette smoking are two great contributory factors in cancer progression. There are several types of cancers, such as bladder cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, endometrial cancer, esophageal cancer, laryngeal cancer, leukemia, lung cancer, lymphoma, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, skin cancer, stomach cancer, testicular cancer.

Why natural treatment for cancer reduction become popular?

Modern medical science has made some major tramps in the understanding of cancer progression. But the medical treatment for complete curing and preventing cancer is still undiscovered. Medical advancement invents conventional therapies, which mainly based on destroying or removal of cancerous development from the body. Therefore, all the conventional treatments primarily remove the cancer growth by surgical intervention or destroy them by radiation therapy or chemotherapy. But several currently available conventional therapies including chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgery may not be applicable to treat many types of cancers like lungs, pancreas, liver, bones and in an advanced stage of breast and colon cancer. In addition, these conventional therapies have various side effects.

In an alternative medical approach, cancer is not an organ-specific disease but involves the whole body. The inability of body defence mechanism to adapt the adverse environmental or physical condition due to poor immunity is the main culprit in cancer development and spreading of the disease. Natural treatment usually treats cancer through multi-targeted cellular approach instead to interrupting single cell signalling pathway. Oncologist experts are also agreed by studying different therapeutic approaches that multi-targeted therapy give a better result. Moreover, healthy lifestyle management can prevent several types of cancer. Avoidance of smoking and healthy dietary measures have cancer preventive effects. The following alternative measures can reduce the risk of cancer cell growth and also assist in treating cancer along with conventional therapies.

Natural Treatment for cancer reduction

There are many novel natural therapies are evaluated to minimize the incidence rate of cancer. The following therapies are practically effective to treat and prevent cancer development and progression. However, early detection and immediate commencement of correct treatment is very important in cancer progression reduction.

Hormonal Therapies 

Hormonal therapy involves melatonin and dehydroepiandrosterone, the two most promising hormones which have regulating effects on estrogen and progesterone, that can further help to fight against reproductive cancer cells preventive action, including breast and prostate cancers on both, female and male.

Herbal Therapies

Several herbal remedies like alfalfa, Irish moss, dandelion root, rose hips, oat straw, etc. augment skin tissue healing and prevent the risk of skin cancer development. Topical application of tea tree oil as an ointment can act as an antiseptic cream and prevent skin infection.

Turmeric, ginger, capsicum, bilberry, etc are different herbs that regulate blood composition, and liver function and may prevent unwanted cell growth. Astragalus herb has the immunity-boosting effect and Chinese cucumber seeds and peels have an anti-cancer effect. Noni is a fruit which can alter cancerous cell growth to normal cell growth and also can block tumour growth.DandGuiLonghui wan is a Chinese Traditional herb used as a folk medicine for treating leukemia.

Nutritional Therapies 

• Grape seed extract has an inhibitory effect on cancer cell growth.
• Obesity increase the risk of cancer, grapefruit has an anti-obesity effect and can assist to prevent cancer by controlling obesity.
• Vitamin E, Vitamin C, lycopene, selenium, alpha-carotene, beta-carotene and other antioxidant-rich fresh fruits and vegetables fight against cancer cell growth. In addition, it has been also found from different nutritional recommendations that omega 3 fatty acids, quercetin, genistein, fiber-rich food and even low fat containing foods have preventive actions against stomach cancer, leukemia, lung cancer, ovarian cancer etc.
• Wheatgrass juice has a remedial effect against cancer, especially for cancer patients who are treated with radiation therapy.
• Green tea has an anti-angiogenesis effect and can shrink the malignant tumor.

Essential Oil Therapies

Lavender oil can boost immunity; Geranium oil assists in regulating hormonal balance while tea tree oil, Frankincense oil, and Clary Sage oil have an anti-inflammatory effect, and Sandalwood oil, Rosewood oil, Rose oil is good for skin health. All these therapeutic effects of essential oils indirectly provide beneficial effects against cancer development and its progression.

Ascorbic Acid Flush 

Vitamin C rich dietary items like calcium ascorbate or Ester-C with a dose of 1000 mg for adult and 250 mg for children are suggested to be added into a cup of water and drink with half an hour interval till diarrhea occurs.  From this, the dose can be calculated that can promote diarrhea, then reduce one unit of the dosing and continue to take the remaining dose for the next two to four days with four hours intervals. This process can be performed once a month to excrete all the internal toxins and prevent cancer risk.

Color Therapy 

Dr. Alexander Schauss explained that when color enters through our skin tissue to internal body parts it plays several roles like stimulates pituitary and pineal glands and regulates hormonal balance and maintains several physiological functioning. Green color has a significant role in cancer progression.

Light Therapy

Photodynamic light therapy is applied in the treatment of cancer. In this process, the light-absorbing dye is injected into the cancerous tumor cells and causing a chemical reaction and kills the cancer cells.

UV-A (ultraviolet-A) rays have longer wavelengths and have skin cancer-preventive effect.

Pain Control therapy

Mostly cancer provides chronic pain symptoms and several alternative pain control therapies applied to reduce the pain symptoms in cancer, which include biofeedback, and guided imagery.

Other Alternative Anti-Cancer Therapies

• Dimethylsulphoxide (DMSO) alone or in combination with other therapies assist in cancer treatment.
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can reduce the risk of healthy tissue necrosis during radiation therapy. Thus, hyperbaric oxygen therapy can decrease the adverse effects associated with radiation therapy.
• Shark cartilage can suppress the angiogenesis on the cancer cells and can further restrict the growth of cancer cells. Researchers expect that squalamine present in shark tissue has a promising anticancer effect.

Natural Cancer prevention guidelines:

• Naturopath recommends dietary management for cancer prevention, which include a maximum intake of whole foods, naturally ripened fruits, fresh foods obtained from plant sources. Gradually this dietary management is also supported by modern medical science, as they found plant-based foods are potent anti-oxidant property.
• Low glycemic foods need to avoid, as this can cause hyperglycemia. Chronic hyperglycemic condition or diabetes has a correlation with cancer development. Hyperglycemia generates free radicals which may enhance advanced glycation end products, like protein or lipid glycated product formation is increased in contact with glucose and promotes inflammation. Moreover, elevated haemoglobin A1c is a biomarker for hyperglycemia, which helps to estimates the hyperglycemic tendency in a prolonged period may be weekly or monthly. Some trials also found the link between elevated haemoglobin A1c and increased risk of endometrial, pancreatic, colorectal and other cancers.
• Spices like clove, cardamom, garlic, ginger also have anticancer property.

Reference

• Phyllis A. Balch, James F. Balch. A Prescription for Nutritional Healing. 3rd Edition. 
• https://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/030413p46.shtml