While this is interesting, it doesn't mean that breast milk has been proven to be therapeutic against tumors. These experiments were done with purified HAMLET (human alpha-lactalbumin made lethal to tumor cells). In one mouse study, high concentrations of HAMLET (0.7 millimolar) were infused directly into the glioma xenografts in the mouse brains over 24 hours which caused a decrease in tumor volume and an increase in survival time. http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/64/6/2105
This is in no way similar to drinking breast milk however, as the therapeutic agent in these studies has been a purified minor milk component, and pumped at high concentrations directly into tumors at that.
While this is interesting, it doesn't mean that breast milk has been proven to be therapeutic against tumors. These experiments were done with purified HAMLET (human alpha-lactalbumin made lethal to tumor cells). In one mouse study, high concentrations of HAMLET (0.7 millimolar) were infused directly into the glioma xenografts in the mouse brains over 24 hours which caused a decrease in tumor volume and an increase in survival time.
ReplyDeletehttp://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/64/6/2105
This is in no way similar to drinking breast milk however, as the therapeutic agent in these studies has been a purified minor milk component, and pumped at high concentrations directly into tumors at that.