Busting a Myth: Antioxidants & Chemotherapy

Busting a Myth: Antioxidants & Chemotherapy

by Health Sciences Institute (HSI), 05/15/07

The new antioxidant study comes from the Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Education in Evanston, IL, where researchers combed through several databanks to come up with 19 randomized clinical trials that evaluated the use of antioxidants during chemotherapy.

The 19 trials included more than 1,500 subjects, and most had advanced or relapsed cancers. Seven trials evaluated the antioxidant glutathione, four evaluated melatonin, and the remaining trials examined vitamins A, C, and E, N-acetylcysteine, ellagic acid, or an antioxidant mixture.

Results showed no significant decreases in chemotherapy effectiveness when used with antioxidant supplements. In fact, the supplements may have INCREASED chemo effectiveness. Writing in the May 2007 issue of Cancer Treatment Reviews, the authors note: "Many of the studies indicated that antioxidant supplementation resulted in either increased survival times, increased tumor responses, or both."

For more details on this report go to HSI eAlert.

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