Dog Food May Relieve Cancer Pain
My breast cancer surgeon had to quit because of it. Others say the pain is worse than labor. "It" is neuropathy, where painful nerve damage from chemo makes hands and feet become almost unusable (certainly for surgeons!), and it's what some cancer patients get after chemotherapy. But an amazing ingredient has been found to take the pain away. An additive in dog food. A study done at Johns Hopkins has found that "a chemical commonly used as a dog food preservative may prevent the kind of painful nerve damage found in the hands and feet of four out of five cancer patients taking the chemotherapy drug Taxol," according to newswise.com. An antioxidant called ethoxyquin was shown in experiments to bind to certain cell proteins in a way that limits their exposure to the damaging effects of Taxol, the researchers say. "The hope, they say, is to build on the protective effect of ethoxyquin’s chemistry and develop a drug that could be given to cancer pa...