"Experts warn against using the fruit to treat cancer. While research suggests soursop can fight cancer, it has not been studied in humans. As a result, there is no evidence of its safety or efficacy."
Wait, what?
So despite the multiple encouraging results in basic controlled tests, because (the pharma industry) won't test it on humans in clinical trials, you advise against it?
Even Snopes.com left it "undetermined"
To which they wrote (describing the claim):
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...Research shows that with extracts from this miraculous tree it now may be possible to:
* Attack cancer safely and effectively with an all-natural therapy that does not cause extreme nausea, weight loss and hair loss
* Protect your immune system and avoid deadly infections
* Feel stronger and healthier throughout the course of the treatment
* Boost your energy and improve your outlook on life
The source of this information is just as stunning: It comes from one of America ‘s largest drug manufacturers, the fruit of over 20 laboratory tests conducted since the 1970’s! What those tests revealed was nothing short of mind numbing… Extracts from the tree were shown to:
* Effectively target and kill malignant cells in 12 types of cancer, including colon, breast, prostate, lung and pancreatic cancer.
* The tree compounds proved to be up to 10,000 times stronger in slowing the growth of cancer cells than Adriamycin, a commonly used chemotherapeutic drug!...
*The National Cancer Institute performed the first scientific research in 1976. The results showed that Graviola’s “leaves and stems were found effective in attacking and destroying malignant cells.” Inexplicably, the results were published in an internal report and never released to the public…
*A study published in the Journal of Natural Products, following a recent study conducted at Catholic University of South Korea stated that one chemical in Graviola was found to selectively kill colon cancer cells at “10,000 times the potency of (the commonly used chemotherapy drug) Adriamycin…”
*The most significant part of the Catholic University of South Korea report is that Graviola was shown to selectively target the cancer cells, leaving healthy cells untouched. Unlike chemotherapy, which indiscriminately targets all actively reproducing cells (such as stomach and hair cells), causing the often devastating side effects of nausea and hair loss in cancer patients.
*A study at Purdue University recently found that leaves from the Graviola tree killed cancer cells among six human cell lines and were especially effective against prostate, pancreatic and lung cancers…. Seven years of silence broken — it’s finally here!
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It is also worth noting the following things:
1. [The Purdue university study were the] results of adding the annona derivatives to cancer cells growing in test tubes. This is a long way from clinical trials to determine the safety and efficacy of these compounds in people with cancer.
- Andrew Weil, MD
2. Snope's also called it's ability to treat cancer FALSE in another article, based on a lack of study in humans. And went on to cite it as a neurotoxin. That article can be found here.
3. The company referenced to study it was Bristol Myers Squibb, according to my own fact finding.
So it works in a test tube. And also in mice and rats, but was never studied in humans, and because it was never studied beyond test environments of human tissue in tubes, it is FALSE until peer reviewed otherwise.
My own editorializing:
Way to go academia and pharmaceutical interests! This is the pharmacological version of the electric car and they know it. Way to let the same type of rich white man who had 1/4 doctors prefer Lucky Strike brand cigarettes keep it down.
Plenty of drugs trace their roots to natural sources, like Heroin. And they hock near chemically identical versions of that with money making impunity. Must not be able to reproduce it in a patentable form..
There is tons of precedence for drugs being found naturally first. See Agave, Coca, and Aphedra. (Tequila, Crack, Meth)
It may not end with Graviola either. In another study Purdue also found:
https://news.uns.purdue.edu/...Laughlin.pawpaw.html
Thoughts?
