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“Cancers Made Worse By Antioxidants”

Cancer is on the increase and is rapidly gaining on heart disease as the number one killer in America.  Even worse, we are lacking new and innovative ways of treating and preventing it and some of the things we do can make cancer worse.  Large clinical trials have found that antioxidant supplements can worsen some cancers. Antioxidants can block the killing of leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, and human cancers of the breast, lung pancreas, liver, colon, rectum and endometrium. This was shocking since, in theory, they should be beneficial.  In my book, Danger of Excessive Antioxidants In Cancer Patients, I clearly demonstrated the harmful effects of antioxidants in cancer patients.  I found twenty seven (27) types of human cancer cell types and nine (9) murine cancer cell types that can be killed by EMODs and in which the killing can be blocked by antioxidants, thereby providing antioxidant protection and shielding of the cancer cells.

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