Breast Milk Emerges as Potential Cancer Cure
by Susan Davis on 01/06/09 at 10:41 am
Breast Feeding May Be More Important than We thought
Not long ago we reported how human breast milk was made into cheese for an art exhibit at a London studio. Now we’re bringing you a story about how breast milk is being used for another purpose – as a potential cancer curing agent.
According to the Food and Drug Administration, there have been “intriguing new developments [which] indicate that breast milk may … reduce the risk of childhood cancer.” Apparently, a protein in human milk can cause cancerous cells to “self-destruct” and this unique characteristic could potentially help battle cancer in adults.
Tim Browne, a retired teacher and musician from Wilshire in England, isn’t waiting around to find out the results of ongoing studies. Diagnosed with colon cancer that metastasized to his lymph nodes and liver, he began to add human breast milk to his cereal each morning, to augment his chemotherapy regimen.
What’s even more unusual is that Browne is getting the breast milk from his daughter, Georgia, who is nursing her eight-month old son. She was the one who came up with the idea, after watching a TV program describing an American prostate cancer patient who had been drinking breast milk every day. He swore it reduced his tumors.
According to researchers, there are promising studies indicating that human milk may play a big part in preventing and curing cancer. But for the time being, those who wish to add it to their cancer-fighting arsenal will need a prescription, and close proximity to a milk bank in the U.S., unless they have a friend or family member who is nursing and willing to provide donations.
In the meantime, Browne will continue to eat his corn flakes with his daughter’s breast milk, even though he says the taste is “slightly pungent.”
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