This web page discusses pancreatic cancer, which may have a different mechanism and treatment from other forms of cancer. Please see Cancer Overview for general information that is common to all forms of cancer.
Please see conventional, complementary, and alternative medical treatments for important background information regarding the different types of medical treatments discussed on this page. Naturopathic, Complementary, and Alternative treatments that may be considered include:
[LDN_Cancer] reports that the late Dr. Bernard Bihari treated approximately 450 patients with some form of cancer, with a 60% success rate, almost all of who had failed to respond to standard treatments. In particular, 5 patients with pancreatic cancer metastatic to the liver appeared to be in remission. In one case, "four months [after starting LDN], an MRI demonstrated disappearance of the primary [pancreatic] tumor ... and the liver metastases had cleared entirely."
Four other successful cases of pancreatic cancer treatment using a combination of LDN and alpha lipoic acid have been reported by [Berkson2006 🕮 ] [Berkson2009 🕮 ]
Dr. Weyrich has been trained to use Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN). However, Dr. Weyrich has not treated any cases of pancreatic cancer with LDN.
Please see What is Low Dose Naltrexone? for more information.
A number of special diets have been proposed to benefit cancer patients, including:
See for example see:
10.1007/0-387-21600-6_1 FULL TEXT
For general information on the ketogenic diet, please see: Ketogenic Diet
For general information on using the ketogenic diet to treat cancer, please see: Cancer Overview