Today I got caught up with my Science Daily articles, one of which triggered my curiosity: h ttp://goo.gl/Ogr7B Now this is really really REALLY interesting: if you TREAT cytomegalovirus, a really crappydappydangerous type of virus that 70-75% of us adults have inside of us (luckily, it remains dormant in most cases), you can the growth of brain tumours. Note: 92% of brain tumours are infected with cytomegalovirus, or CMV. Wow…as soon as I read that, I rushed to consult PubMed, the main source I use in my research. Not surprisingly, when I did a search for CMV and myeloma, I found some interesting abstracts…
It turns out that myeloma patients who have received chemotherapy treatments and stem cell transplants are at risk of awakening this terrible virus. The consequences can be scary, even devastating…
Here follows a selection of some of these studies…
This one concerns patients who have received chemo treatments but not stem cell transplants: http://goo.gl/WXOO7
Infections in myeloma patients undergoing stem cell transplants are discussed here: http://goo.gl/IWfc9
This full study shows how different treatments put patients at risk for different infections: http://goo.gl/VTqWg
I’ll stop here, but you can find other studies on PubMed if you’re interested in the topic…
The viral connection pops up again…and again…When I get back to Florence, I have some work to do…
: as I was fishing around on PubMed for natural ways to combat CMV, I found an abstract on the wonders of caprylic acid, which I’d never heard of before but apparently can be found in the milk of some mammals and in coconut oil…Here is the link: http://goo.gl/UNZsn Note: this stuff is used to treat candida (Paul, what do you think?)…Hmmm…
Today I got caught up with my Science Daily articles, one of which triggered my curiosity: h ttp://goo.gl/Ogr7B Now this is really really REALLY interesting: if you TREAT cytomegalovirus, a really crappydappydangerous type of virus that 70-75% of us adults have inside of us (luckily, it remains dormant in most cases), you can the growth of brain tumours. Note: 92% of brain tumours are infected with cytomegalovirus, or CMV. Wow…as soon as I read that, I rushed to consult PubMed, the main source I use in my research. Not surprisingly, when I did a search for CMV and myeloma, I found some interesting abstracts…
It turns out that myeloma patients who have received chemotherapy treatments and stem cell transplants are at risk of awakening this terrible virus. The consequences can be scary, even devastating…
Here follows a selection of some of these studies…
This one concerns patients who have received chemo treatments but not stem cell transplants: http://goo.gl/WXOO7
Infections in myeloma patients undergoing stem cell transplants are discussed here: http://goo.gl/IWfc9
This full study shows how different treatments put patients at risk for different infections: http://goo.gl/VTqWg
A fatal case of myeloma and CMV (full study): http://goo.gl/z2Npw Scary…
I’ll stop here, but you can find other studies on PubMed if you’re interested in the topic…
The viral connection pops up again…and again…When I get back to Florence, I have some work to do…
: as I was fishing around on PubMed for natural ways to combat CMV, I found an abstract on the wonders of caprylic acid, which I’d never heard of before but apparently can be found in the milk of some mammals and in coconut oil…Here is the link: http://goo.gl/UNZsn Note: this stuff is used to treat candida (Paul, what do you think?)…Hmmm…
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September 30th, 2011 at 2:02 pm