Turkey Tail Mushrooms and Breast Cancer ?

candygurl

Paul Stamets shares during his talk how his mother was diagnosed with stage-four breast cancer over two and a half years ago, and given three months to live. Thanks to the combination of taxol, herceptin, and turkey tail mushrooms, he declared that today she has no detectable tumors.

WATCH  www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXHDoROh2hA   (The info about BC is at the end of the video.)

Turkey Tail Mushroom Proven by NIH Study to Fight Breast Cancer

Recently, the National Institute of Health (NIH) approved a $2.25 million-dollar study conducted jointly with Bastyr University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Washington. Researchers analyzed the impact of Turkey Tail mushrooms on the immune systems of patients with breast cancer.

Dr. Cynthia Wenner is one of the principal investigators on the NIH study. In an interview with Bastyr University's Bastyr Magazine, she said, "As an overall goal, we're trying to discover if this mushroom will help stimulate the human immune response to breast and prostate cancers."

The study - which used mushrooms provided by Stamets' company, Fungi Perfecti, LLC - confirmed that the mushrooms definitely stimulate the immune system and can even correct deficits in the immune systems of patients, all without the toxicity and side effects that are so common with more traditional treatments.

Read more: http://undergroundhealthreporter.com/turkey-tail-mushroom#ixzz1wO8sFYW2

rubra

I am aware of the recent study done at NIH using turkeytail mushrooms to boost immune response for women after radiation/chemo for breast cancer.  I noticed the study was done with women with non hormone-receptive tumors.  I have an ER+ breast cancer, Her2-, 15 positive nodes, and am just finishing radiation, and was planning on duplicating the regimen used in the study after my radiation is complete.  Do you know if there is any reason that this is less wise with my ER+ cancer?  That is, do turkeytail have any hormonal effects?  thanks!

DavidStoner

A good source of information about Turkey Tail (or Coriolus versicolor as it is officially known) is this website : http://www.oriveda.com/resources.php  --->medicinal mushrooms / coriolus versicolor.

There are some impressive clinical trial results like this one: http://oriveda.com/zips/PSP_TRIALS.pdf

However, claiming that this mushroom will cure your breast cancer is probably pushing it.

What it definitely will do, according to those articles, is neutralize the effects of chemo and other 'toxic' medication, so the quality of life will be preserved during treatment. Which is also very important, because this is additional stress, and stress affects the immune system, which is so badly needed to battle metastasis and secondary infections, if not the cancer itself.

@ruby - mushrooms like TT do not have a direct effect on the body like pharmaceuticals have. They are not 'chemical levers' fighting something specific, but work in an indirect way by normalizing the immune function and the metabolism. If these two are in balance you have already covered a enormous area! They work as a biological response modifier (BRM). This is also the reason why they have zero side effects.