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I searched the forums and couldn't find anything on this, but: apparently in Germany there's quite a few people that have had good experiences with melatonin in conjunction with chemo, there's also a pretty old article on human studies in a renowned German magazine: http://www.focu.....01801.html (google-translate it, please) that sounds promising
Anybody EVER hear anything about that??? Sounds pretty safe at least...
Guardian of Manni the Wonderdog. -Or was it the other way around?
Osteo and amputation in Dec 2015. Second, inoperable, primary osteosarcoma found in June 2017.
The end of our adventures came Dec 10, 2017. 2 years to the day.
ok, a little addition after reading up on this:
apparently certain cancer types, including lung cancer, blood cancer, liver and kidney cancer,... lead to very low levels of the melatonin hormone. adding melatonin to therapy can increase the benefits of treatment.
or so I read. This is from a couple of German sites again, I will have to check out American research I suppose.
Guardian of Manni the Wonderdog. -Or was it the other way around?
Osteo and amputation in Dec 2015. Second, inoperable, primary osteosarcoma found in June 2017.
The end of our adventures came Dec 10, 2017. 2 years to the day.
ok, there's stuff in English, too.
http://www.life.....in/Page-01
https://www.can.....spx?n=1242
a little abstract from this, that I find interesting:
11. In a 2015 meta-analysis by the University of Copenhagen over the course of one year, the chances of cancer survival rose from 28% to 52% in patients supplementing with melatonin. Professor Mogens Claesson said that the problem was that melatonin was cheap, with little chance of a patent so Pharmaceutical companies were simply not interested in it, resulting in limited research and awareness.
12. In another study, a 20 mg supplement was given to cancer patients at the same time as chemotherapy - survival times increased, while side-effects fell. In a second study, 1440 patients with untreatable cancers showed the same results - longer survival, less side-effects.
Guardian of Manni the Wonderdog. -Or was it the other way around?
Osteo and amputation in Dec 2015. Second, inoperable, primary osteosarcoma found in June 2017.
The end of our adventures came Dec 10, 2017. 2 years to the day.
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This isn't much help, but I do recall Dr Dressler (The Dog Cancer Survival Guide ) used in in treating some forms of this crap. I don't have the book handy right now, but I'll try and find it.
Also some Melatonin producets do jave Xyitol (sp) in them so that needs ro be noted.
And yeah, in humans it apparently is helpful in the crap disease when it shows up as being hormone related.
Again, not much help, but some small vague validation of some of the info you shared.
And, as usual, if "it" does no harm, it doesn't hurt to try!
Hugs
Sally and Alumni Happy Hannah and Merry Myrtle and Frankie too!
Happy Hannah had a glorious additional bonus time of over one yr & two months after amp for osteo! She made me laugh everyday! Joined April's Angels after send off meal of steak, ice cream, M&Ms & deer poop!
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