Effect of Vitamin A
a) Vitamin A is important in that it is an element constituting the membrane of the cell. In most cases, the concentration of vitamin A in the blood of cancer patients shows a low value. This does not neccessary mean that it comes from its shortage in meals alone.
b) It has been reported that in case of cancer patients, vitamin A binding protein which carries the vitamin A absorbed by intestine shows a low value.
c) In view of the indication of the extremely low density of vitamin A in the cancer tissue, it is presumed that within the cancer tissu, a mechanism which serves to destroy vitamin A is working.
d) In light of those facts, it is neccessary to direct the cancer patients who are short of vitamin A to take such things as vitamin A supplement (chocola A 60000 IU) all trans retinoic acid (ATRA) and meals full of pumpkins.
e) A differentiation inducing ability is indicated in the differentiation inducting vitamin A derivatives (cis-transretinoic acid etc.) In leukemia (M3 and APL), ATRA is very effective with a 80-90% curability.
f) In conducting cancer treatment and prevention activities, in the event that an administration of vitamin A does not increase vitamin A in the blood, it should be improved even by injecting intramuschulat 50000〜100000 units of retinoic acid (chocola A). If the vitamin A in the blood is improved likewise the effect of immunity treatment is improved.
10) On systemic immunothermochemotherapy (s-ITC)
First, prior to commencing on treatment, a muschular injection of retinoic acid (50000-100000 units depending on the concentration of vitamin A in the blood) is given.
An attempt is made to raise the body temperature using various methods, since it is known that an elevation of body temperature higher than normal to 39 degree C causes the immunity effect to increase 2-10 times higher.
a) As to the methods of elevating the body temperature, the first method is the whole body thermotherapy in which a treatment is applied to raise the body temperature by using biological response modifier (BRM), for example, by injecting a small amount of immunity promoting substances, such as picibanil (OK432) or interferon, into the vein continuously, thus maintaining a high body temperature for a period of 20 hours to 2 days (BRM induced ITC).
Another method is the dome type whole body hyperthermia designed to maintain the body temperature at 40-41.5 degree C for two hours by using infrared rays.
The second method is the dome type thermotherapy which means immunotherapy.
b) Revolution of chemotherapy
The conventional chemotherapy aims at complete reaction (CR) or necrosis of cancer by using as large quantity as possible of chemotherapy. Whereas our concept is that since the cancer cell is a same family member's cell, it is unnecessary to aim at necrosis of cancer cell, although the differentiation induction therapy is necessary. Therefore, we aim at creating a lead to inducing apoptosis by using least possible amount of chemotherapeutic material which has thermosensitivity. Therefore, a small amount of chemotherapeutic material to be used, for example, 5 mg one time in case of CDDP, is sufficient.
With the use of this small amount, an immunity stimulation effect can be obtained.
c) During warming period, checking operation of oxidative substance and activated oxygen is conducted by using 20-30 g/day of vitamin C.
d) During warming period, infusion of 500 ml saline containing actosin and aminophilline, is slowly injected intravenously during a period of 6-24 hours.
Conducting above process (a) thru (d) as a program is the ITC treatment.
8) one example of immunothermothermochemotherapy (ITC)
Lt us introduced a case of a prostate cancer male patient (61 years old) treated with apoptosis induction promoting therapy. On august 8, his tumor marker PSA elevated and he was diagnosed as having a prostate cancer after undergoing biopsy. He rejected to undergo a surgical operation and so our new apoptosis induction therapy (ITC) was give, after conducting treatment for 4 times, both tumor marker PSA and gamma-seminoprotein values were found to stay almost within the normal range.
After carrying out ITC treatment for 8 times, we intend to follow-up and observe by containing dosage of Chinese medicine "Sun Advance".
The quantity used of the chemotherapy for above ITC treatment is 5 mg x 8 times=40 mg, which is an extremely small amount, compared with that in common knowledgr held by medical doctors of conventional chemotherapy, thus causing no side effect and immunity is improved. |