Where can I buy essiac tea? I hear that it may cure cancer?!


Question: Where can I buy essiac tea? I hear that it may cure cancer?
I heard some people talking about this product when I was in the hospital. Does anyone know if I can purchase it online? Do I need a prescription for essiac? Is it really a tea?

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Sorry, but you heard wrong. There is not a scrap of evidence that Essiac tea has any effect on cancer, much less cures it.

Clinical studies in the 1970s and 80s following up people who had taken Essiac showed no evidence of any change in expected disease progression.

Several animal tests using samples of Essiac have shown no antitumour activity. Nor did a review of data on 86 patients performed by the Canadian federal health department during the early 1980s .

If you want some background information:

Rene Caisse, who created Essiac in the 1920s, at first claimed the formula could strengthen the immune system, improve appetite, relieve pain and generally improve quality of life. It was only later that she began to claim it could attack cancerous tumours.

She wouldn't allow researchers to investigate Essiac, refusing to reveal her 'secret formula'. This fact didn't stop her claiming years later that there had been a conspiracy to cover it up - the old fraud.


You will certainly be able to purchase it online - it's heavily promoted by people wanting to make a fast buck from desperate and vulnerable people



lo_mcg took the words right out of my keyboard.

I could add that it is dangerous to experiment with various rumour based non-conventional cancer therapies. A few studies have been done to see what happens to patients who chose alternative therapy instead of conventional treatment. These studies show that the risk of progression/death significantly increases - most notably in those who refuse surgery, but also in those who refuse additional radio-chemotherapy.

You can read the summaries of those studies here:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16978…
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21225…




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