My surgery was scheduled 34 days after the lump I discovered I turned out to be breast cancer. The thought of waiting so long scared me tremendously. I was afraid that the cancer would spread before the surgery date arrived. Because of this fear I decided to see if I could find ways to slow the growth of breast cancer. I was able to find two and started using the results on myself as though I was a human guinea pig. I still have 10 days before my surgery and will let you know how it goes. In the meantime, here are my findings:

Research has shown that the nighttime hormone Melatonin slows cancer growth by 70%.

David E. Blask, MD, PhD, of Bassett Research Institute in Cooperstown, N.Y., reported the findings at the 2003 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. His research team tested it on mice implanted with human breast cancers.

Breast cancers get revved up by a kind of dietary fat called linoleic acid. Melatonin interacts with linoleic acid, so he gave melatonin to mice implanted with human breast cancers.

"This breast cancer rev-up mechanism gets revved down by melatonin," Blask said at a news conference. "Nighttime melatonin is a relevant anticancer signal to human breast cancers. Ninety percent of human breast cancers have specific receptors for this signal."

Blask's team exposed lab mice with human breast cancers to constant light. Tumor growth skyrocketed.

"With constant light, tumors grow seven times faster and soak up incredible amounts of linoleic acid," he says. "During the day, the cancer cells are awake and linoleic acid stimulates their growth. But at night cancer cells go to sleep. When we turn on lights at night for a long time, we suppress melatonin and revert back to the daytime condition."


Walnuts Slow Growth Of Breast Cancer Tumors

Research has found evidence that a daily dose of walnuts - equal to two servings a day in humans - reduces the growth of breast cancer tumors in mice. The study is the first to investigate the effect of walnut consumption on cancer.

In the study, researchers looked at the ability of walnuts to slow the growth of breast tumors using an amount comparable to what humans might eat.

A group of 22 mice with human breast cancer tumors was divided into two groups. One group was fed ground walnuts daily in the amount equivalent to two ounces (28 walnut halves) for humans. The comparison group consumed a diet supplemented with corn oil, along with amounts of vitamins, minerals and fiber that were similar to the amounts occurring in the walnut diet.

After 35 days, the breast cancer tumors of the walnut-fed mice were only about half the size of the tumors in the mice that were not fed walnuts. The time it took the tumor to double in size was 11.1 days for the corn oil fed mice compared to 23.3 days in the walnut fed group.


SOURCES:   American Association for Cancer Research 94th Annual Meeting, American Institute for Cancer Research


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