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Withholding these vitamin supplements helps to control prostate cancer
Oncologists in Whittier, California successfully controlled prostate cancer in a 71-year-old patient whose case had been diagnosed as untreatable. They simply had the man stop taking extreme amounts of vitamin B12 and folic acid.
Case study
The doctors first treated the patient with cocktails of anti-androgens, but he failed to respond; despite this treatment, his PSA continued to rise. They then began chemotherapy and administered docetaxel.
Once again, the patient failed to respond, and his PSA rose even higher.
Supplementation
Two weeks after he had stopped taking such a very large dose, his PSA began to decrease.
Folic acid & cancer
As early as 1946, Science published an animal study in which hefty doses of synthetic folic acid - which was then called "liver Lactobacillus casei factor" - accelerated tumor growth. [Science. 1946 Nov 8;104(2706):436.]
Two years later, in 1948, a study appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine in which administration of a drug that neutralized folic acid in children with leukemia slowed the development of the disease. [N Engl J Med. 1948 Jun 3;238(23):787-93.]
Cells that divide quickly need folic acid. This also applies to quickly dividing cancer cells.
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