cancer cure protocell?!

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It is being looked into, but the data are not there yet to tell if it will be of benefit to patients:
http://www.nature.com/pcan/journal/v6/n4…
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles…

Lol people are dumb! Cancer doesn't "stick" to anything!


EcoNugenics points to a recent paper by Scholz and colleague Brad Guess, PA-C, as evidence the compound works. But that paper uses raw study data only to demonstrate the use of a statistical test and is not meant as a clinical study of Pectasol.


"There was no mention of modified citrus pectin in our paper," Guess tells WebMD. "I would be remiss to try to talk about it in light of this paper. Yes, we used data from the modified citrus pectin study. But this data was used only used for statistical example. The company is wrong to use this as a representation of their product. I do not want to encourage a bunch of guys with prostate cancer to buy modified citrus pectin. That is not a responsible use of our paper."


Raz, too, is unhappy that his work is being used to sell pectin products.


"Because of our work, several companies now sell pectin products over the Internet and use my results to back up any claim that they have. They do this without my permission and use our intellectual property to their advantage," Raz says. "We still don't know what dose should be used or whatever. Cancer is a horrible disease and they are taking advantage of patients who will grasp at any straw."

http://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/new…

A good place to look for answers about herbal medicines is the Memorial Sloan Kettering site on herbals:
http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/58481.cfm

and this is pectin...with a short quote
http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/69327.cfm

"In vitro and animal studies show that pectin induces apoptosis in colonic adenocarcinoma cells (1) and has antiproliferative (2), anticancer (3), and antimetastatic effects (13). "

The theory as I understand it is to stop cancer from forming colonies by stopping cancer cells from sticking to each other. The pectin affects the cell membrane of cancer.