https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190618123522.htm
An ounce of prevention: Preoperative management of inflammation may stave off cancer recurrences
Date: June 18, 2019
Source: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Summary: Administering anti-inflammatory treatments that prevent inflammation as well as proresolution treatments that tamp down the body's inflammatory response to surgery or chemotherapy can promote long-term survival in experimental animal cancer models, new research shows.
“This novel approach of blocking inflammation and/or accelerating the resolution of inflammation before a surgical procedure may also benefit the more than 30 percent of patients who do not have cancer but harbor microscopic cancers -- small clusters of cancer cells that don't produce a growing tumor. Physiologic stress, including from therapeutic procedures such as surgery and anesthesia, can prompt these microscopic cancers to grow into palpable tumors.”
Preoperative stimulation of resolution and inflammation blockade eradicates micrometastases. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2019; DOI: 10.1172/JCI127282
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For ME/CFS patients there are recommendations in the ICC MECFS Primer (Appendix E at http://www.iacfsme.org/portals/0/pdf/primerfinal3.pdf ) regarding the care to be taken for surgical procedures and administering anesthesia for these patients. I wonder if other anti-inflammatory treatments before surgery or other procedures might also be worthwhile to give patients the best chance of not triggering a cascade of other problems due to the stress on the immune system that surgery/procedures might cause. Perhaps the potential to decrease or prevent cancerous tumor growth as shown in mouse models from the above study is just one more indication that controlling inflammation seems to be a key element in keeping disease/illness in check.
There is a post on this Forum from May 2019 referencing a blog post on the Health Rising website regarding herbs that Dr. Jared Younger is investigating to see if they can potentially reduce neuroinflammation. See, https://forums.phoenixrising.me/thr...nts-for-neuroinflammation.76303/#post-2212454 and https://www.healthrising.org/treati...al-inhibiting-drugs-combat-neuroinflammation/. It would be interesting to see whether any of those herbs have been studied to see if they have had an effect on slowing or stopping cancer cells from growing and to know the status of Dr. Younger’s study of these drugs/herbs re neuroinflammation. (Perhaps a status update on this study has been presented by Dr. Younger at one of the recent ME/CFS Conferences?)
An ounce of prevention: Preoperative management of inflammation may stave off cancer recurrences
Date: June 18, 2019
Source: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Summary: Administering anti-inflammatory treatments that prevent inflammation as well as proresolution treatments that tamp down the body's inflammatory response to surgery or chemotherapy can promote long-term survival in experimental animal cancer models, new research shows.
“This novel approach of blocking inflammation and/or accelerating the resolution of inflammation before a surgical procedure may also benefit the more than 30 percent of patients who do not have cancer but harbor microscopic cancers -- small clusters of cancer cells that don't produce a growing tumor. Physiologic stress, including from therapeutic procedures such as surgery and anesthesia, can prompt these microscopic cancers to grow into palpable tumors.”
Preoperative stimulation of resolution and inflammation blockade eradicates micrometastases. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2019; DOI: 10.1172/JCI127282
______________
For ME/CFS patients there are recommendations in the ICC MECFS Primer (Appendix E at http://www.iacfsme.org/portals/0/pdf/primerfinal3.pdf ) regarding the care to be taken for surgical procedures and administering anesthesia for these patients. I wonder if other anti-inflammatory treatments before surgery or other procedures might also be worthwhile to give patients the best chance of not triggering a cascade of other problems due to the stress on the immune system that surgery/procedures might cause. Perhaps the potential to decrease or prevent cancerous tumor growth as shown in mouse models from the above study is just one more indication that controlling inflammation seems to be a key element in keeping disease/illness in check.
There is a post on this Forum from May 2019 referencing a blog post on the Health Rising website regarding herbs that Dr. Jared Younger is investigating to see if they can potentially reduce neuroinflammation. See, https://forums.phoenixrising.me/thr...nts-for-neuroinflammation.76303/#post-2212454 and https://www.healthrising.org/treati...al-inhibiting-drugs-combat-neuroinflammation/. It would be interesting to see whether any of those herbs have been studied to see if they have had an effect on slowing or stopping cancer cells from growing and to know the status of Dr. Younger’s study of these drugs/herbs re neuroinflammation. (Perhaps a status update on this study has been presented by Dr. Younger at one of the recent ME/CFS Conferences?)
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