Iran makes first herbal anti-cancer drug

1 Interesting topic- have you encountered it before?

I have come across some interesting information, though I can not understand why I'm having trouble finding controlled studies to evaluate the efficacy of the drug.

The following pg describes the consideration in one piece:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/18...ti-cancer-drug

At first I was as dismissive, as most will be when they read the small script. I then continued to google to do my own investigation, unfortunately, I was VERY limited with search results in both google and google scholar. The following information is what I found, which is limited.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18575066
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...0&searchtype=a

I also considered the main component capable of producing the indicated results.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmal

Lastly, I came across the following, which also utilizes the primary component indicated above.
http://www.lurj.org/article.php/vol2n2/hiv.xml

Personal bias and skepticism aside, why is there such little studies available for search retrieval?
Any help or links is appreciated. Last edit by NRSKarenRN on Apr 27, '11
What exactly are you babbling about?

Probably because no one is interested in researching it or willing to take the risks and expenses and liability to do real double blind, reliable, reproduceable studies on it. Doing so is expensive and has risk to it. Or they have, and found that the treatment is not as effective as current treatments, has unacceptable toxicities, and good results are not reproduceable.Perhaps, you should see about investing your time and money into researching it, so that data is available. And preferably, published by better source journals, given that several (not all) of the sources that are cited are notable for their bias against conventional medicine, and preference for "alternatives".

@ Canoehead: If you have to ask you need not reply.

There is still so much that needs to be researched in cancer drugs. I wanted to do a dissertation on male breast cancer and my own professor told me there was no such thing. I was like what??? Anyway, cancer is still an open book and its treatments.

in less than 10 seconds, searching under "herbal anti-cancer drug" found following book --- springer publisher well known in academic scientific circles.evidence-based anticancer herbal medicine [color=#767676]- [color=#767676]william c. s. cho - 2011 - 432 pagesthis unique book provides an overview of the anticancer herbal medicines and remedies ...he's also written:supportive cancer care with chinese medicine

Quote from tomjones200824@ Canoehead: If you have to ask you need not reply.