Breastmilk as Cancer Treatment.

When a friend of the family was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, everybody was horrified. He was young, had two teenage children and was a really good helpful guy. Unfortunately, he was diagnosed late and, it being a very aggressive cancer, wasn't given much hope for survival. He opted to try chemotherapy as he felt he owed it to his family to stay on the planet for as long as possible.

I had recently seen a documentary on Channel 4 called 'Other People's Breastmilk.' In this, one prostate cancer patient claimed that drinking smoothies made from human breastmilk was keeping his cancer under control. I decided to research the subject a bit.

The information I found on the Internet was largely anecdotal. A pancreatic cancer patient had survived 13 months after been given only weeks to live drinking breastmilk shots twice a day. Some others had tried it too with varying results. It did seem that even if the cancer wasn't cured, the antibodies in the breastmilk seemed to protect the patients from secondary infections and ease the effects of chemotherapy by recolonizing the stomach with healthy bacteria.

The one bit of published research I found was known as HAMLET. A doctor in Sweden had literally taken tumour cells in a test tube and added breastmilk. The cancer cells had been killed and the healthy cells thrived. She then isolated the protein that was lethal to the tumour cells. This looked promising, although it would seem that the most efficient method of using breastmilk as a cure for cancer would be to inject the tumour with the protein and good luck to anyone who could get an oncologist to do this.

My friend agreed to give the shot method a go. He was also receiving chemotherapy which made him incredibly ill. I pumped approximately 4 oz of milk a day which we kept refrigerated at 0-4 degrees Celsius where it will keep up to 8 days. We decided against freezing the milk as this will kill some possibly useful living cells in it. There did appear to be some improvement in his overall wellbeing and his platelet levels. Perhaps this was due to breastmilk, perhaps it ws due to other medication, perhaps it was simply because he felt a bit more empowered in that he was taking action. He kept detailed records which I now have. Sadly, in February he passed away.

Since then I have been approached by three separate people looking for information on this. I have his records, the links I found, including the HAMLET study and lots of information re storage and pumping. I also have some scientific reasons why it improves health and decreases nausea. I would like to make this information available to anyone else interested in giving it a go.

You may wonder why so little official research is being done into this possible cure for cancer. The answer is simply because there is no money to be made from it for the people who usually fund medical research. I am interested in collecting as much information as possible on this subject, anecdotal or not. Perhaps we can build up some kind of picture and work out the most effective dosages, administration techniques etc. Please get in touch if you have any information.