Principal Reference Citation	Type of Study/Report	Type of Cancer	No. of Patients: Enrolled; Treated; Controlb	Strongest Benefit Reported	Concurrent Therapyc	Level of Evidence Scored
[1]	Anecdotal report (patent document)	Metastatic kidney or non-small cell lung	4; 4; None	Complete tumor regression, 3 patients	Yes	None
[2]	Anecdotal report	Various	9; 9; None	Complete tumor regression, 3 patients	Yes, 3 patients; no, 3 patients; unknown, 3 patients	None
[4]	Phase I/II trial	Early non-small cell lung (toxicity study)	5; 5; None	Improved Karnofsky performance status, 4 patients	Yes	None
		Advanced non-small cell lung (therapeutic study)	6; 6; 13e	Improved median survival	Yes (1 patient in control group received supportive care only)	3iA
[5]	Nonconsecutive case series	Advanced non-small cell lung	16; 12; None	Improved median survival	Yes, 10 of 12 evaluated patients	3iiiA

No. = number.

aSee text and glossary for more details and definitions of terms.

bNumber of patients treated plus number of patients control may not equal number of patients enrolled; number of patients enrolled = number of patients initially recruited/considered by the researchers who conducted a study; number of patients treated = number of enrolled patients who were given the treatment being studied AND for whom results were reported; historical control subjects are not included in number of patients enrolled.

cSurgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormone therapy, pleurodesis given/allowed at same time as treatment with Selected Vegetables/Sun’s Soup.

dFor information about levels of evidence analysis and an explanation of the level of evidence score, see Levels of Evidence for Human Studies of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

eControl group consisted of patients who refused treatment with Selected Vegetables/Sun’s Soup.

References

1. Sun AS: Herbal Treatment of Malignancy. US Patent 5437866. August 1, 1995. Washington, DC: US Patent and Trademark Office, 1995. Available online. Last accessed November 28, 2007. 
   
   
2. Sun A: Food therapy for non-small cell lung cancer. In: Comprehensive Cancer Care: Integrating Complementary and Alternative Therapies - A Conference for Health professionals, June 12-14, 1998. Breakout Session 405: Herbal Therapies. Available online. Last accessed November 28, 2007. 
   
   
4. Sun AS, Ostadal O, Ryznar V, et al.: Phase I/II study of stage III and IV non-small cell lung cancer patients taking a specific dietary supplement. Nutr Cancer 34 (1): 62-9, 1999.  [PUBMED Abstract]
   
   
5. Sun AS, Yeh HC, Wang LH, et al.: Pilot study of a specific dietary supplement in tumor-bearing mice and in stage IIIB and IV non-small cell lung cancer patients. Nutr Cancer 39 (1): 85-95, 2001.  [PUBMED Abstract]