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Stop Cancer With a Little Honey

http://blog.drdavidwilliams.com/blog/dr-david-williams/0/0/stop-cancer-with-a-little-honey

courtesy of David Williams Blog

Published 10/14/09

Laparoscopic surgery, or "keyhole" surgery, is becoming more common every day, it seems. Together with needle biopsies, these developments have been hailed as less invasive, so automatically better solutions. Not so fast.

When a tumor is being inspected or withdrawn from the body, the procedure itself can spread cancer along the needle track or around the site of incision. Often, a tumor forms at the site of the spread.

Turkish doctors tested whether the application of honey to the entrance site would have any effect on stopping the formation of new tumors. Using 60 mice, tumor-cell injections were given to 30 of the animals using standard procedures. In the other 30, the entrance area was pre-treated with honey and then treated again with honey after the injection of the tumor cells. In the untreated group, 30 out of 30 mice developed tumors at the wound site. In the group treated with honey, only eight mice developed tumors.

Although this was an animal study, the results are amazing. If you or someone you know is planning to have a biopsy or keyhole surgery that might involve cancerous tissue, I strongly suggest discussing the study with your doctor and using honey to pre- and post-treat the entrance site. The research was published in the December 2000 Archives of Surgery.