Lymphoma

Research based on patient case data for antihistamine effects shows positive impacts for Hodgkin lymphomas – use of desloratadine leads to much lower risks of progression, specifically in the Hodgkin variant. Similar study of patient records in other cancers confirms superior response rates during immunotherapy, which researchers suggest are also applicable to lymphoma.

The substantial positive impacts found for higher levels of vitamin D3 include an interventional trial that was able to correct levels of this crucial compound in about a quarter of patients. The effects include over 60% improved event free survival during immunotherapy. This would be a much larger effect if comparing full normal levels with clearly deficient patients.

Beta glucans derived from mushrooms or yeast, both commercially available and proprietary forms, are increasingly shown to support oncology treatments including lymphomas. Evidence includes increasing treatment response rates and improving and balancing immune system activity. Re-balancing immune system inflammation levels, the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and improving low platelet count both reduce risks quite substantially. Along similar lines the well proven herbal supplement, astragalus, is a natural immune modulator with evidence for rebalancing immune system related inflammation. This may help treatment response, and also potentially lower its side effects.

Abnormally high circulating iron in the form of an enzyme like protein called ferritin are closely linked to poor prognosis. Cancers can use ferritin to store iron needed to fuel growth requirements. However, low iron or even anemia is also a big risk found in patient data. The prebiotic classed supplement lactoferrin can counteract the cancer related iron activity, it binds iron in the gut and drives healthy metabolism and balance – so called homestasis. Well balanced ferritin and iron predict much more sustained treatment responses.

Treatment outcomes in lymphomas are heavily influenced by gut microbiome. A high diversity of gut bacteria is reported to improve stem cell therapy success and slowing of progression. Crucially, therapy failure is linked to poor gut microbiota and in particular deficiency or even absence of blautia and akkermansia bacteria. Some necessary oncology treatments reduce levels of these bacteria as do antibiotics.

Successful treatment relies strongly on how quickly new white blood cells can be produced. The Nicotinamide Riboside variant of vitamin B3 has been extensively studied in anti-aging science for its ability to increase cellular mitochondrial health. Now, there are is remarkable pre-clinical evidence that this vitamin can substantially increase stem cell activity that drives production of new white blood cells. Related, another form of B3 has reached phase II for reducing incidence of melanoma in lymphoma and leukemia patients.

A commonly available anti aging supplement, alpha-ketoglutarate, is emerging as a potential supporting role during immunotherapy. Patient data including in lymphoma shows higher levels of responses with increasing levels of AKG, and highly compelling lab studies have confirmed the likely metabolic effects that improve drug activity.

Systemic acute type inflammation is associated with most cancers and resistance to treatment. Supplements including curcumin, garlic and an anti-inflammatory functional food regime are all evidence based interventions, often reported as lowering so called c-reactive protein levels (CRP).

The so called Th1/Th2 immune system balance is strongly linked to the progression of lymphomas and to treatment resistance. Molecular iodine solutions are emerging in this area in breast cancer management, seen boosting Th1 anti tumor activity and helping suppress over active Th2 used in resistance. This has improved results in surgery plus chemotherapy and may support increased responses during immunotherapy (see Supplement Library). For immunotherapy the presence of high sodium levels is now identfied as a key marker for success in other cancers. Also in other cancers, AM treatment programs are substantially more effective that PM/evening sessions

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Antihistamines have large scale analysis of case data supporting their use in most cancers

  • Study results show 60% risk reductions with certain antihistamines
  • Researchers point to desloratadine and probable benefits during immunotherapy
  • Notably differs from findings in Non-Hodgkin which showed no effects in this dataset.

Our hypothesis is that if these antihistamines are. given together with modern or forthcoming immunotherapeutic agents, the effects could be synergistic or additive and enhance one another. Important to note is also that for this reason, any studies or trials of novel immunotherapies in cancer treatment should take into account this potential antihistamine effect, as antihistamines are often given to alleviate side effects of these therapies, which may introduce confounding into the analyses of such trials and studies

Akkermansia and healthy gut microbiota are crucial to therapy success

  • Low or no akkermansia and blautia gut bacteria reported with treatment failure
  • Necessary oncology treatments an antibiotics seen to reduce levels
  • Diversity of gut microbiota has extensive research showing improved outcomes

Lower microbial gene richness, a lower abundance of the genus Blautia, and a lower abundance of Akkermansia muciniphila, early post-aHSCT was observed in those who developed aGVHD. Myeloablative conditioning was associated with aGVHD along with a reduction in gene richness and abundance of Blautia and A.muciniphila. These results confirm low diversity and Blautia being associated with aGVHD. Crucially, we add that pretransplant conditioning [chemo/radiotherapy] is associated with changes in gut microbiota. Investigations are warranted to determine the interplay of gut microbiota and conditi...

Vitamin D3 and its immune system health actions are key, higher doses being trialed in oncology

  • An intervention trial of high dose D3 with immunotherapy, level correction and during oncology
  • Over 90% initially insufficent, which was reduced to around 70%, high BMI limits serum D3 levels
  • Over 60% improved event free survival reported, and that was conservative

 

We analyzed the impact of 25(OH)D levels on event-free survival in patients treated with Rituximab… 25(OH)D levels below 20 ng/mL at diagnosis and IPI were independently associated with inferior EFS. Moreover, patients with normalized 25(OH)D levels following supplementation showed better EFS than patients with persistently deficient/insufficient 25(OH)D levels. Our study provides the first evidence that achievement of normal 25(OH)D levels after vitamin D3 supplementation is associated with improved outcome in patients with DLBCL and deficient/insufficient 25(OH)D levels when receivi...

Alpha Ketoglutarate is emerging in oncology particularly for enhancing immune system activity during immunotherapy

  • Lymphoma tumors cells upregulated glutamine and low alpha-ketoglutarate levels drive growth
  • Increasing AKG levels strongly recuce glutamine uptake with very striking results in a mouse model
  • Effects in health and anti-aging science show metabolic and anti-inflammatory benefits

Notably, glutamate, glutamine, and α-KG were the critical metabolites in glutamine metabolism. Clinical data analysis identified that high glutamine concentrations and low decreased α-KG were associated with poor prognosis in DLBCL patients. Subsequently, dimethyl α-ketoglutarate (DM-αKG) was used to reverse glutamine metabolism and increase α-KG concentration. In vitro studies showed that DM-αKG treatment significantly inhibited cell proliferation of DLBCL cells both in vitro and in vivo

Beta glucans protect and balance immune system activity improving outcomes

  • Around 1/3 of patients show significantly increased immune system activity
  • Evidence suggests at least a supportive role in immune system health
  • One patent of 20 is reported with direct anti-cancer response

In this study, twenty patients with advanced malignancies receiving chemotherapy were given a β-(1,3)/(1,6) D-glucan preparation (MacroForce plus IP6, ImmuDyne, Inc.) and monitored for tolerability and effect on hematopoiesis. Our results lead us to conclude that β-glucan is well-tolerated in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, may have a beneficial effect on hematopoiesis in these patients and should be studied further, especially in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and lymphoma.

Vitamin B3 in several forms shows protective effects in cancers

  • Vitamin B3 variant accelerates activity of hematopoietic stem cells
  • Large protective effect in mouse model gave dramatically higher survival
  • B3 is widely available and has supporting evidence in other cancers

NR dietary supplementation results in a significantly enlarged pool of progenitors, without concurrent HSC exhaustion, improves survival by 80%, and accelerates blood recovery after murine lethal irradiation and limiting-HSC transplantation….Our work demonstrates for the first time a positive effect of NAD+-boosting strategies on the most primitive blood stem cells, establishing a link between HSC mitochondrial stress, mitophagy, and stem-cell fate decision, and unveiling the potential of NR to improve recovery of patients suffering from hematological failure including post...

Lactoferrin increases iron balance and reduces anemia rates, countering cancers use of iron

  • Lower ferritin levels seen halving the relative risks
  • Around a 60% effect on risk for recurrence and progression
  • High ferritin strongly linked to relapse prior to stem cell therapies

Elevated serum ferritin is associated with reduced survival following allogeneic transplantation and an increased risk of toxic and infectious complications after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. We studied 315 patients who underwent ASCT for Hodgkin (HL) or non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) at our institution in whom pretransplantation ferritin was available to determine its association with survival. On multivariate analysis, a pretransplantation ferritin >685 ng/mL was associated with significantly lower overall and relapse-free survival, Ferritin >685 ng/mL was associa...

Astragalus actions include protecting and balancing immune responses often with clear effects reporteds

  • Immune system inflammation marker NLR linked to progression
  • Low levels are reported to reduce overall risks by 70%
  • Astragalus has evidence here and with low platelet count

The accumulation of neutrophils is related to increased cytokine levels, especially IL-8 and it has been suggested that a high number of neutrophils may actually promote tumor growth and metastasis and/or inhibit lymphocyte activity, thereby counteracting the antitumor immune response . These observations suggest that an imbalance in the ratio of neutrophil to lymphocyte in the peripheral blood of patients with cancer may be related to tumor development…Our single center study clearly showed that high NLR is associated with shorter overall survival in patients with newly diagnosed HL....

Curcumin has evidence for reducing levels of systemic inflammation used by cancers

  • Inflammatory immune response increases treatment resistance
  • 80% reduction in relapse with low inflammation at the 6th round of chemo
  • Underpowered for reporting effects on overall risks and benefits

 

High CRP levels were associated with advanced disease and presence of B symptoms. CRP was considered a predictor of treatment response after the 5th and 6th cycle of chemotherapy, while persistent high CRP levels during treatment were associated with refractoriness….Our results show that baseline CRP level was higher in patients with advanced disease and B symptoms. Level of CRP was associated with final response to treatment, showing that patients with persistent high serum CRP during treatment should be assessed carefully for potential poor response. CRP holds promise for widespread...

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