Cancer Stem Cells and Treatment Options

Agents and items that kill cancer stem cells.

This is very important.

Yeah.

Very, very important. Cancer stem cells,

you know, uh, colon cancer, the, at the base of the crypt is a

normal s- stem cell, normally speaking.

And if those cancer, if those normal stem cells become

malignant for

whatever reason, then you ha- then you're almost certainly dealing with

a cancer stem cell. Cancer stem cell is highly resistant

to treatment, to ca- to standard treatment.

So

there are big drug companies involved in

trials, clinical trials of agents to try to get

FDA

approval to kill for, the agent to kill cancer stem cells.

So I was looking at a list, a paper that contained a list of these

agents. At the top was-

Wait, before the list, before you say the list-

Yeah, yeah

... I, I wanna-

Yeah

... just establish something for folks

that don't understand why-

Sure

... this matters.

Yeah.

It's because m- many, many cancer drugs and treatments will

shrink a tumor, but they don't kill the cancer stem cells,

which are only, you know, less than 10% of a tumor.

Sometimes they're only 1% of a tumor.

And, and so y- it looks like, whoa, this treatment totally shrunk my

tumor by 90%. Like, wow, it's working.

Let's go to Chili's and celebrate, you know, happy hour.

And the reality is, is like, no, you, those stem cells

are now more aggressive. They're pissed off, and they're,

and they're

resistant, and they're gonna come raging back because

the treatment not only didn't

kill them, but made them more aggressive, right?

Yeah.

So the, the, the whole point is, like, you gotta kill the stem cells.

Right. And drug companies have been racking their

collective brains trying to come up with drugs to kill s-

cancer stem cells. So here's the funny thing.

I was looking at this list yesterday of drugs,

candidate drugs, substances to kill cancer stem cells.

At the top of the list was a drug called, um, Nexavar.

Nex- that interested me because m- I did,

I w- I didn't know, but most of these other drugs

are just in development.

Nexavar is actually an approved drug for cer- certain kinds of cancer

now being clinical trialed to kill, specifically to kill cancer stem cells,

right?

The bottom of the list was curcumin, uh, the yellow

coloring, natural coloring agent in, uh, turmeric, right?

So the cost of, of a good quality,

um, curcumin, uh, in a, in what probably would

be an effective amount, would be

about 60 cents-

Yeah

... a day, right? Literally, right?

Yeah, yeah.

To get, you know, in that realm.

Or t- if you took it for a year, $250.

The, look this up, and I look, you can look this up at

drugs.com or any other website. The cost of Nexavar,

uh, currently for the, for its indications, is

over $20,000 a month. If

you took that,

simple math, if you took that for a year, you're looking at

$250,000 as

opposed to $250. That's

sort of the gulf between the generic,

natural, non-toxic, uh, w- you

know, stuff that you could buy at a health food

store or a food co-op

versus something that you only can get through the

machinery

of big pharma pumping this out. And then of course, uh, you know,

with all the, all the buzz around, now we found something

to kill cancer stem cells, blah, blah, blah.

But they've known for 10 years that curcumin and

other, uh, natural agents kill cancer stem cells.

They're actually the only thing pretty much that do.

If you, th- y- there are probably about 20 different items that

kill cancer stem cells that are known in, in, in the laboratory and somewhat

also in the clinic. And of those, 10 of them

are foods, food items, food derivatives.

So why don't we-

Like what? What else?

So resveratrol from red grape skins.

Yeah.

Uh, genistein from soybeans. Um,

sulforaphane from broccoli and broccoli sprouts.

I mentioned turmeric from cur- from, uh, curcumin from

turmeric, and EGCG from green tea.

And some people-

Thymosin from, uh, black seed?

Yeah, but the big five are the, in terms of the, certainly the

quantity of research. There's about 10,000 journal

articles that cover those, those big five.

That's top five? Yeah.

And then there are other minor ones like, uh, maybe they're

not so minor, but they're not as well-researched.

Like for instance, cinnamon,

uh, cardamom,

uh, pepper, uh, some... And by the way, how

interesting is it that those things are sort of like traditional things in

golden milk, in the, the Ayurvedic formula,

and also you could put those in smoothies.

Um, you know, there's a lot you can do with those,

whether you take them as

foods or you take them as supplement.

But there's, aside from the, the holistically

oriented doctors who are not that, not that common

in the cancer field, or naturopathic

oncologists, um, who, who among, you know,

who among your, your viewers was ever told this by

a conventional oncologist?

They're, they are either completely unaware-

Zero. The number is-

Zero

... zero.

Absolutely. And then every, there are a few, uh, you know, heroes who

are oncologists or doctors mainly treating

cancer who are aware of this. But you know,

what happens is if you push too hard,

if you're an oncologist and you push too hard on this,

you get a reputation as a weirdo. You get a

reputation not as a sound person who is gonna move up the

ranks of American Society for Clinical Oncology and of your

department, but as, like people are looking at you

askance, like what's wrong with, with that guy

or that woman that they're suddenly so interested in garlic

or ginger or green tea? And we have testimony

from two top doctors in England who said that what...

They're, they're big enthusiasts for ginger.

Ginger's another one that's, that kills cancer stem cell.

But they, they are aware of the fact that, you know,

there's, it's embarrassing. It's a deep embarrassment to,

to them and to their colleagues if they admit this, this

sort of, um,

uh, fascination with something that's not

mainstream