Long-Term Disappearance of Mesothelioma
A Japanese man who was diagnosed with advanced malignant pleural mesothelioma is disease-free more than two years after being treated with a mushroom extract containing agaricus blazei Murill Kyowa and a modified form of acupuncture. The authors, who note that the patient had undergone debulking and chemotherapy but thereafter, as is typically the case, fared poorly, conjecture that his remarkable recovery may be due to “some immunological reactions of the host to the tumor” induced by either or both of the alternative treatments. The free paper was published in the Journal of Medical Case Reports.
