antioxidants and cancer

Learn how antioxidants reduce the side-effects of chemotherapy and may even make it more effective.

A phenomenal book on adjuvants in cancer therapy that is both conservative and very thorough

For a few decades a few scientists, some of them Nobel laureates, have believed that antioxidants may prevent and even help to treat cancer.  Some of the ideas and clinical results have been very promising, but have not received the attention they deserve.  

Even worse, unsubstantiated and even false claims have been bandied about by some of those who claim to know everything about the antioxidants, which makes anyone who touches the subject appear to be disreputable.

Enter Ralph Moss, PhD, formerly of Sloan-Kettering, who has done a first-rate job of going through myriad journals and papers and establishing which ideas about the use of antioxidants are scientifically proven.  

Antioxidants Against Cancer

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by: Ralph W. Moss Release Date: 15 January, 2000, Media: Paperback

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This resource has no less than 460 references to papers on the subject, in other words, every contention of Dr. Moss's is well documented.  This certainly isn't a rah-rah book; Moss carefully explains that certain antioxidants are known to worsen certain cancers; this is a field in which carelessness is particularly disasterous.

One of the most intriguing points he raises is that some cancers have been known to remit in response to large doses of CoEnzyme Q 10, a molecule that younger people are able to produce on their own, but which older people must ingest from their diet.

This book is so well researched and written that it ought to be read by anyone with cancer, as one would expect of a book written by the protege  of one of the Nobel laureates who first started thinking about the use of antioxidants to prevent and treat cancer.  Albert von Szent-Gy rgi, one of the brighter Nobel laureates of the last century, mulled all this high up on his intellectual Mount Olympus; Dr. Moss has taken this down to us lesser mortals by putting his thoughts into understandable English and documenting what experimental proof there is for the use of antioxidants in treating cancer.

Useful information for co-doctoring

All cancer patients must co-doctor if they are going to survive.  Most cancer doctors will warn against the harmful effects of taking antioxidants with chemotherapy or radiation treatments.  This book completely debunks that medical school dogma.  

As a cancer patient, you need to arm yourself with factual knowledge.  This is one of the books you need to study and share with your doctor.  It covers specific combinations of chemotherapy drugs and antioxidant supplements.  If you can't agree on what you should take, find another doctor.

It would have been helpful if Dr. Moss had mentioned some of the animal foods which contain high doses of Vitamin A and other antioxidants, but his emphasis is on supplements and "fruits and vegetables."  It is still recommended you study this book closely BEFORE you agree to a treatment regimen for your cancer.