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Glioma Food and Herb Studies that Potentiate Chemotherapy

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  These are links on foods and some herbs, mostly cooking herbs, that can help to reduce cancer growth. As most people will use a combination of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation these foods can potentiate treatments and lessen the risk of cancer growing back again. For glioma I have used the main chemotherapy drug Temozolomide as a general reference. You don’t really need to read any of the links unless trying to work out cancer pathways yourself, I have mentioned the foods worth trying in the studies if the substance mentioned in a study is in another food or herb.   I found out about this from a doctor years ago who was from the Brain Tumour Support group in Canberra, he told me about Boswellia, I told him about bromelain. Boswellia or frankincense has been used for years to prevent damage from edema or swelling in brain cancer. Because Boswellia is a blood thinner, Boswellia tablets may be unsafe while surgery is happening and waiting 3 to 4 weeks after surgery b