Viscum album, as alternative and bridge to palliative chemotherapy in recurrent gallbladder cancer following laparoscopic radical cholecystectomy: a case report
Joonggyeong Shin, Eunsang Yim, Chang Moo Kang · 2023
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Description
Shin, Yim, and Kang report the case of a seventy-eight-year-old woman whose gallbladder cancer came back after surgery and a round of chemotherapy. Scans showed the cancer had spread to many lymph nodes, but she refused more chemotherapy. A year later her tumor marker had climbed steeply and the nodes had grown, and she began injections of Viscum album, a mistletoe extract, three times a week.
On the extract, the nodes shrank and the marker fell from 1,925 to 252 units. Seventeen months later she agreed to standard palliative chemotherapy, and her disease stayed stable on it. The authors suggest the mistletoe therapy showed a real anticancer effect in this case. They propose it may serve as a bridge for patients who cannot yet face or tolerate chemotherapy, while stressing that one case cannot prove a treatment.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Joonggyeong Shin, Eunsang Yim, Chang Moo Kang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 14 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |