MODIFIED CITRUS PECTIN HALTS THE SPREAD OF CANCER

The most dangerous thing a cancer cell can do is spread to distant parts of the body and grow into a new tumor. Often it is the spread into the vital organs such as the liver, lungs or brain which causes the most suffering and is often fatal. This ability to metastasize and live in a new environment depends on the cancer cell attaching itself to the new site. If it cannot attach, it cannot double and grow. Imagine if something as ordinary and cheap as the pulp left over from making orange juice could be turned into a fool-proof cancer medicine.

Ordinary fruit pectin can be modified by high heat and high pH to form small water-soluble carbohydrates which bind to proteins on cancer cells and stop them from attaching. The modified or fractionated pectin binds to galectin-3 proteins on the cancer cell surface, which acts like putting flour on Scotch tape. The cell coated in this small carbohydrate cannot stick anywhere, cannot get leverage to pull two sets of chromosomes apart, so it cannot divide.

Studies in mice and rats, against breast, prostate, colorectal, lung, melanoma, sarcoma and other cancers show consistent results in reducing the spread of cancer, the rate of tumor growth and blood vessel formation in new tumors. Because all cancers have these sugar-binding proteins for adhesion, it is expected to be useful in all solid tumor cancers. Phase I trials in humans have been very successful, and phase II trials are underway. I can attest that in my practice as a naturopathic physician focussing on cancer, that no patient on this product has ever had a metastasis arise while taking it. MCP is essential protection for patients undergoing tumor biopsy, surgery or therapy that may cause the tumor to shed cells. It is appropriate also for tumors such as melanoma skin cancer which tend to spread very early in the course of the disease.