Independent Medical Alliance cross-posted a post from Dr. Saleeby's Substack
Independent Medical Alliance
Aug 19 · Independent Medical Alliance
There sure are a lot of alternative cancer remedies out there. From “Vitamin B17” to shark cartilage, the promises can sound convincing—but how much of it is real science, and how much is just hype? In this new post, IMA Senior Fellow Dr. JP Saleeby takes readers through some of the most widely promoted therapies, separating hope from hyperbole and reminding us why informed, evidence-based choices matter in cancer care.
Was on a national TV news spot with Sinclair News Group this morning at 8:15AM interviewed by Jan Jeffcoat on Cancer Screening innovations.
Seraphin G, Rieger S, Hewison M, Capobianco E, Lisse TS. The impact of vitamin D on cancer: A mini review. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 2023 Jul;231:106308. doi: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2023.106308. Epub 2023 Apr 11. PMID: 37054849; PMCID: PMC10330295.
Dallavalasa S, Tulimilli SV, Bettada VG, Karnik M, Uthaiah CA, Anantharaju PG, Nataraj SM, Ramashetty R, Sukocheva OA, Tse E, Salimath PV, Madhunapantula SV. Vitamin D in Cancer Prevention and Treatment: A Review of Epidemiological, Preclinical, and Cellular Studies. Cancers (Basel). 2024 Sep 20;16(18):3211. doi: 10.3390/cancers16183211. PMID: 39335182; PMCID: PMC11430526.
Petrelli F, Deda R, Borgonovo K, Dognini G, Ghilardi M, Parati MC, Petrò D, Lonati V, Dottorini L, Ghidini A. Vitamin D3 and cancer risk in healthy subjects: An umbrella review of systematic review and meta-analysis. Clin Nutr ESPEN. 2024 Oct;63:776-786. doi: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2024.08.014. Epub 2024 Aug 22. PMID: 39178988.
Garland CF, Garland FC, Gorham ED, Lipkin M, Newmark H, Mohr SB, Holick MF. The role of vitamin D in cancer prevention. Am J Public Health. 2006 Feb;96(2):252-61. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.045260. Epub 2005 Dec 27. PMID: 16380576; PMCID: PMC1470481.
This was not an exhaustive article but one that points to some hyped-out interventions. IVM, Mebendazole and FenBen are all listed on the IMA Cancer Care monogram. Many others too.
Very disappointed with this post. It's much to short to do justice to the topic. The book "Cracking Cancer Toolkit" lists many thousands of studies on these and many more. And here you dismiss them as simply "no evidence?" If you only want to count randomized clinical trials, then say that is your bias. But that there are other kinds of evidence. And no mention at all of IV C?
What about some acknowledgement that many people have reversed cancer with natural techniques, but you need to understand what cancer pathways you're blocking, and it's probably never only one thing but a combination of things?
Too many un-referenced abbreviations, Doc, and I'm a physician. If you're trying to reach the general public consider writing the full name of the substance you're discussing, along with the abbreviation. LDN? I would guess low dose naltrexone, but?? And my spouse wouldn't have a clue.
Let's see shill here and take a look at Knockout, interviews with doctors who are curing cancer. The Laetrile studies were done on stage 3 cancer patients, its best as a preventative. An apple a day keep the doctor away, if you eat the seeds of course with trace cyanide and arsenic. Poisoned by apricot pits? lol, if you are dumb enough to eat them by the bowlful. but four a day...Nah. Then take a gander at the Hoxsey Therapy, when curing cancers became illegal to set the stage for your historical understanding of how the medical cartels call quackery while delivering it.
Well, doctor, you do not even touch on the most important and basic cancer care treatments. It is a sin not to mention magnesium, and even or almost worse, not to mention bicarbonate as a basic, safest chemotherapy. Selenium, if you use the right type, lipid-selenium, I give up to 15 mg, which makes it another form of chemo.
Why stop there Mark. Over a decade ago I helped two people resolve their terminal cancer one non small cell lung cancer the other an aggressive form of prostate cancer both cured in three months using high THC cannabis oil administered rectally one gram per day in divided dose, including these minerals, zinc, copper, Lugol's iodine, and borax including those you mentioned, in addition no dead food living food only the freshest of vegetables and meat, no milk products and these vitamins two or more grams of vitamin c taken two to four hours away from iodine and copper, b complex, vitamin d during winter months, sun otherwise. Now all those minerals are vital to your health and most people are deficient in one or more or all of them, certainly if attempting to fight cancer we need a therapeutic dose of them all. In addition they are extremely antifungal as is every substance that has any effect on cancer without exception. As I mentioned to you recently via a comment, is it a mere coincidence that ivermectin, fenbendazole, cannabis oil, Curcumin, soursop, artemisia/wormwood all kill fungi/cancer by disrupting the microtubules in their cells, other antifungals work differently. I forgot to mention MSM organic sulphur and colloidal silver earlier. While I addressed this comment to you Mark it was meant for others also.
What I meant there when I said don't stop there, was why mention a few antifungal minerals when there are many more than those you mentioned. Don't take what I wrote as any form of criticism. I've read god knows how many of your articles over the years and regard you as one of the few people on earth that knows the truth about cancer and writes about it. All the best mark and now I know you are writing on substack I'll continue to read your articles on cancer.
This past 17 months my consciousness has been on heart and vascular disease but I have been sensing the need to get back to cancer. And thanks for your kind words.
I like to hear that some therapy at least has some plausible biochemical mechanism of action before I consider it. Also, for cancer many things may "help" but cancer needs to be attacked at multiple pathways. Consequently, monotherapies may help tend not to cure except in rare cases. Casey Peavler MD has a great YT channel on metabolic/mitochontrial approaches to cancer which helps me to begin to understand these issues.
Thanks for sharing your observations and opinions. I've added your advisements on laetrile, shark cartilage and stem cell therapy to this summary of evidence-based cancer therapies:
Thing is -- what works for one will not work for others. I know people who have recovered using several different ones of those modalities. The RGGC test would probably be worth it to get an idea of what would work best for each person.
Budwig? Moerman? both have proven healings. Moerman is only dietary, Budwig includes a whole procedure, that can be had in Mexico but not in the US, because there you must also cut, burn and poison... Moerman can easily done on your own.
B17 is the absolute best thing to relieve pain in people with cancer and it is safe. It has no competition when used to help the person resolve malignant pleural effusion. It has strengths and after 25 years of using it I have not seen any adverse effects whatsoever. I personally have taken it daily for over 20 years. It’s been intentionally removed from the supermarket foods so that while the average American had 200-300 mg in their diet in the early 1900s, there’s less than 10 mg in our diet today. The most I have pushed iv in one day is 18,000 mg and it assisted a gal with bone mets in getting off the oxycontin and get back into living well sans pain. It really has its best benefit in limiting metastatic spread of malignancy. It’s second best at prevention when in our diet in my experience.
Independent Medical Alliance cross-posted a post from Dr. Saleeby's Substack
Independent Medical Alliance
Aug 19 · Independent Medical Alliance
There sure are a lot of alternative cancer remedies out there. From “Vitamin B17” to shark cartilage, the promises can sound convincing—but how much of it is real science, and how much is just hype? In this new post, IMA Senior Fellow Dr. JP Saleeby takes readers through some of the most widely promoted therapies, separating hope from hyperbole and reminding us why informed, evidence-based choices matter in cancer care.
Was on a national TV news spot with Sinclair News Group this morning at 8:15AM interviewed by Jan Jeffcoat on Cancer Screening innovations.
On Vitamin D:
Seraphin G, Rieger S, Hewison M, Capobianco E, Lisse TS. The impact of vitamin D on cancer: A mini review. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 2023 Jul;231:106308. doi: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2023.106308. Epub 2023 Apr 11. PMID: 37054849; PMCID: PMC10330295.
Dallavalasa S, Tulimilli SV, Bettada VG, Karnik M, Uthaiah CA, Anantharaju PG, Nataraj SM, Ramashetty R, Sukocheva OA, Tse E, Salimath PV, Madhunapantula SV. Vitamin D in Cancer Prevention and Treatment: A Review of Epidemiological, Preclinical, and Cellular Studies. Cancers (Basel). 2024 Sep 20;16(18):3211. doi: 10.3390/cancers16183211. PMID: 39335182; PMCID: PMC11430526.
Petrelli F, Deda R, Borgonovo K, Dognini G, Ghilardi M, Parati MC, Petrò D, Lonati V, Dottorini L, Ghidini A. Vitamin D3 and cancer risk in healthy subjects: An umbrella review of systematic review and meta-analysis. Clin Nutr ESPEN. 2024 Oct;63:776-786. doi: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2024.08.014. Epub 2024 Aug 22. PMID: 39178988.
Garland CF, Garland FC, Gorham ED, Lipkin M, Newmark H, Mohr SB, Holick MF. The role of vitamin D in cancer prevention. Am J Public Health. 2006 Feb;96(2):252-61. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.045260. Epub 2005 Dec 27. PMID: 16380576; PMCID: PMC1470481.
What about IVM and Fenben/Menben?
This was not an exhaustive article but one that points to some hyped-out interventions. IVM, Mebendazole and FenBen are all listed on the IMA Cancer Care monogram. Many others too.
Follow my Substack for talk about FenBen, IVM, Doxy and many other repurposed drugs on several postings.
IMA has pointed out that anti-parasitics will be helpful for parasitic-based cancers. Otherwise they emphasize viewing cancer as a metabolic disease.
Very disappointed with this post. It's much to short to do justice to the topic. The book "Cracking Cancer Toolkit" lists many thousands of studies on these and many more. And here you dismiss them as simply "no evidence?" If you only want to count randomized clinical trials, then say that is your bias. But that there are other kinds of evidence. And no mention at all of IV C?
What about some acknowledgement that many people have reversed cancer with natural techniques, but you need to understand what cancer pathways you're blocking, and it's probably never only one thing but a combination of things?
Too many un-referenced abbreviations, Doc, and I'm a physician. If you're trying to reach the general public consider writing the full name of the substance you're discussing, along with the abbreviation. LDN? I would guess low dose naltrexone, but?? And my spouse wouldn't have a clue.
DMSO? Ivermectin& Doxycycline?
Do you have any proof about Ivermectin and not anecdotal evidence?
https://ibb.co/fzr7Pf0G
IMA. Independent Medical Aliiance. Check out their Substack. They offer more proof than I’m going to be able to link you to.
Let's see shill here and take a look at Knockout, interviews with doctors who are curing cancer. The Laetrile studies were done on stage 3 cancer patients, its best as a preventative. An apple a day keep the doctor away, if you eat the seeds of course with trace cyanide and arsenic. Poisoned by apricot pits? lol, if you are dumb enough to eat them by the bowlful. but four a day...Nah. Then take a gander at the Hoxsey Therapy, when curing cancers became illegal to set the stage for your historical understanding of how the medical cartels call quackery while delivering it.
Knockout by Suzanne Somers
Well, doctor, you do not even touch on the most important and basic cancer care treatments. It is a sin not to mention magnesium, and even or almost worse, not to mention bicarbonate as a basic, safest chemotherapy. Selenium, if you use the right type, lipid-selenium, I give up to 15 mg, which makes it another form of chemo.
https://drsircus.com/cancer/non-toxic-natural-chemotherapy/
Not exhaustive; SS would not allow for the publishing of a Tome on the subject in this forum. I focused on some hype and hyperbole in marketing.
Why stop there Mark. Over a decade ago I helped two people resolve their terminal cancer one non small cell lung cancer the other an aggressive form of prostate cancer both cured in three months using high THC cannabis oil administered rectally one gram per day in divided dose, including these minerals, zinc, copper, Lugol's iodine, and borax including those you mentioned, in addition no dead food living food only the freshest of vegetables and meat, no milk products and these vitamins two or more grams of vitamin c taken two to four hours away from iodine and copper, b complex, vitamin d during winter months, sun otherwise. Now all those minerals are vital to your health and most people are deficient in one or more or all of them, certainly if attempting to fight cancer we need a therapeutic dose of them all. In addition they are extremely antifungal as is every substance that has any effect on cancer without exception. As I mentioned to you recently via a comment, is it a mere coincidence that ivermectin, fenbendazole, cannabis oil, Curcumin, soursop, artemisia/wormwood all kill fungi/cancer by disrupting the microtubules in their cells, other antifungals work differently. I forgot to mention MSM organic sulphur and colloidal silver earlier. While I addressed this comment to you Mark it was meant for others also.
I did not stop there I wrote a book about it. THC is for sure a form of chemo natural style.
What I meant there when I said don't stop there, was why mention a few antifungal minerals when there are many more than those you mentioned. Don't take what I wrote as any form of criticism. I've read god knows how many of your articles over the years and regard you as one of the few people on earth that knows the truth about cancer and writes about it. All the best mark and now I know you are writing on substack I'll continue to read your articles on cancer.
This past 17 months my consciousness has been on heart and vascular disease but I have been sensing the need to get back to cancer. And thanks for your kind words.
I like to hear that some therapy at least has some plausible biochemical mechanism of action before I consider it. Also, for cancer many things may "help" but cancer needs to be attacked at multiple pathways. Consequently, monotherapies may help tend not to cure except in rare cases. Casey Peavler MD has a great YT channel on metabolic/mitochontrial approaches to cancer which helps me to begin to understand these issues.
Thanks for sharing your observations and opinions. I've added your advisements on laetrile, shark cartilage and stem cell therapy to this summary of evidence-based cancer therapies:
https://yogateachercentral.substack.com/p/research-on-cancer-reversal-and-recovery
The therapies are drawn from published research, available for free here:
https://birdseyeviewperspective.substack.com/p/cancer-reversal-and-recovery-successes
FYI, in case you haven't seen it, I found the following article convincing in the need for laetrile to get some scientific attention:
https://www.themossreport.com/laetrile-mskcc-sugiura-second-opinion/ (that source was shared
That source was highlighted by The Truth about Cancer folks here:
https://thetruthaboutcancerofficial.substack.com/p/laetrile-how-the-medical-mafia-buried
That was incredibly helpful and straight-forward. Thank you for taking the time to compile and disseminate this very important information.
Thing is -- what works for one will not work for others. I know people who have recovered using several different ones of those modalities. The RGGC test would probably be worth it to get an idea of what would work best for each person.
Budwig? Moerman? both have proven healings. Moerman is only dietary, Budwig includes a whole procedure, that can be had in Mexico but not in the US, because there you must also cut, burn and poison... Moerman can easily done on your own.
I have read that it is now believed that it is Benzaldehyde in apricot seeds that target cancer cells. Not cyanide. Have you read that?
B17 is the absolute best thing to relieve pain in people with cancer and it is safe. It has no competition when used to help the person resolve malignant pleural effusion. It has strengths and after 25 years of using it I have not seen any adverse effects whatsoever. I personally have taken it daily for over 20 years. It’s been intentionally removed from the supermarket foods so that while the average American had 200-300 mg in their diet in the early 1900s, there’s less than 10 mg in our diet today. The most I have pushed iv in one day is 18,000 mg and it assisted a gal with bone mets in getting off the oxycontin and get back into living well sans pain. It really has its best benefit in limiting metastatic spread of malignancy. It’s second best at prevention when in our diet in my experience.
It’s not a vitamin and is an accessory nutrient found in 1400 plants. Attacks by media and FDA place it squarely in Dr Pierre Kory’s value scale!
I have to add that cyanide from apricot seeds could be extra dangerous for those with MTHFR because of the impaired ability to detox.