Breast Milk - Cancer Cure?

[Ducky]

BREAST MILK - CANCER CURE?

I've heard about this before, but didn't think anything of it.

There are more studies in the last few years concerning this, and I'm beginning to wonder if there's more substance to the media bulk.

Watch the latest report:

VIDEO: "Dad's Off Kilter Treatment" (http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/index.php%20rn=222561&cl=13682357&ch=224106)

[offsite:hfyskjt8]Breast milk used to treat cancer patients

08:02 PM CST on Saturday, February 16, 2008
By SHELLY SLATER / WFAA-TV

Taking a breath isn't taken for granted in the Bauer house.

"I was dying. I was literally dying, and I knew it," said Dr. Donn Bauer.

Bauer had a cancerous tumor in his right vocal chord, severe enough to cut off his airway. Surgeons removed it, leaving him with a hole in his neck to talk and breathe.

"So I was bent on getting better. No matter what," he said, wiping his eyes.

But he didn't get better.

Bauer lost 35 pounds in one week, and his diabetes made recovery almost impossible. Then he discovered a new remedy: a mother's breast milk.

"It's just a boost of energy, and it's not like drinking an energy drink or a couple cups of quick coffee, but a slow process of feeling good," he said...[/offsite:hfyskjt8]
FULL STORY (http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/tv/stories/wfaa080215_lj_breastmilk.c618de8d.html)

Cancer Killers (http://discovermagazine.com/1999/jun/featcancer)

Related News (http://www.thedaily.com.au/news/2009/jan/13/breast-milk-cancer-fight/)

[lala]

Great find Ducky and I'm incline to beleive in it . . . . the old wet nurse might make a come back . . . but great if it helps :)

[Ducky]

Great find Ducky and I'm incline to beleive in it . . . . the old wet nurse might make a come back . . . but great if it helps :)

Thanks Lala!

There are already 'donation' clinics to provide milk to mothers trying to feed their infants but are 'dry at the teat'' so to speak.

Now researchers are upping the ante to ask lactitating mothers to give more, where cancer research is involved.

I read an article this morning (see if I can find it again) regarding how breast milk was put into a beaker of cancer cells and literally killed them off. :shock:

[Ducky]

Didn't find the exact document yet, but have a gander at this:

[offsite:1t1a4com]Breastmilk Component Kills Cancer Cells (http://www.infactcanada.ca/milkkillscancer.htm)
A few years ago immunology student, Anders Hakansson1, of Lund University, Sweden, was experimenting by mixing human milk, cancer cells and bacteria. To his surprise the cancer cells were "acting up". Their volume was decreasing and their nuclei shrinking. Hakansson's supervisor, Catharina Svanborg, quickly recognized that the cancer cells were committing suicide. The phenomenon of apoptosis, whereby the body rids itself of old and unnecessary cells was well known, however for this to occur with cancer cells was unknown as their usual pattern is to reproduce in an uncontrolled fashion. Something in the breastmilk caused the cancer cells to self-destruct. Svanborg and her team had already done extensive investigation in the ability of breastmilk to protect the gut lining from invasive bacteria such as pneumococcus that causes the increased rates of upper respiratory tract infections and otitis media in children not breastfed. And so they began to track down the cancer-killing component in breastmilk. Then in 1995 they reported2 that the protein alpha-lactalbumin, or alpha-lac for short, was capable of targeting not only cancer cells but also other immature and rapidly growing cells, leaving stable, mature cells for growth and development. Alpha-lac's amazing capabilities may explain in part why formula fed infants suffer from increased rates of infectious diseases as well as childhood cancers.

References:
1. Discover Magazine, June 30, 1999[/offsite:1t1a4com]

The article is 10 years old, but it shows that researchers were scoping out the possible merits even back then.

[lala]

After you said you'd find that article I went and did a google search, just read it before you popped it on lol. . ..but alot of info about it . . . .I'll have a look now, see if they have any milk banks here . . . I'm really paranoid about cancer I've had cervical cancer cells removed in my late 20's . . . and my mum died from brain cancer, but she got it everywhere, she had cervical, breast and lung which she survied then the brain one just took her out. . . so I'm alway looking at prevention methods . . . :)