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Reported Use of Selected Vegetables/Sun’s Soup as a Treatment for Human Cancera
Principal Reference Citation
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Type of Study/Report
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Type of Cancer
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No. of Patients: Enrolled; Treated; Controlb
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Strongest Benefit Reported
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Concurrent Therapyc
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Level
of Evidence Scored
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[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
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Various |
9;
9;
None |
Complete tumor regression, 3 patients
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Yes, 3 patients; no, 3 patients; unknown, 3 patients |
None |
[4] |
Phase I/II trial |
Early non-small cell lung (toxicity study)
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5;
5;
None |
Improved Karnofsky performance status, 4 patients |
Yes |
None |
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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.
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aSee text and glossary for more details and definitions of terms.
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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.
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cSurgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormone therapy, pleurodesis given/allowed at same time as treatment with Selected Vegetables/Sun’s Soup.
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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.
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eControl group consisted of patients who refused treatment with Selected Vegetables/Sun’s Soup.
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References
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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.
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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.
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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]
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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]
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