Digitalis's anticancer effects
by Carlos Monteiro
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Wayne Martin, in articles published in TLDP (July 2003; June 1999), wrote of the "anticancer effects of digitalis" and referred to a Purdue University survey in 1900-1930 that looked at heart patients maintained on digitalis for life. In his survey, the Purdue University doctor who wrote the study found that very few of the patients treated with digitalis died from cancer. In this same regard, we would like to draw your attention to another case study, involving 1150 patients with stable heart disease taking digitalis. The study, which followed the patients for 28 years was authored by Quintiliano H. de Mesquita and Claudio A. S. Baptista and published in Ars Cvrandi, a Brazilian medical journal in 2002. (1)
In their study, the authors found a very low mortality of 1.7% for cancer. The permanent use of digitalis (Digitoxin, Digoxin, Acetildigoxin, Lanatoside-C, Betametildigoxin, or Proscillaridin-A) in low, daily therapeutic (non-toxic) doses was based on the Myogenic Theory of Myocardial Infarction and had as its objective the prevention of acute coronary syndromes. The global mortality for the patients without previous myocardial infarction was 14.2% (0.5% per year), while the global mortality for the patients with previous myocardial infarction was 41.0% (1.4% per year). The numbers for mortality and morbidity are described in the Table 5 of the article. (2-4)
Carlos Monteiro
Infarct Combat Project
References
1. Cardiotonico: Insuperavel na Preservacao da Estabilidade Miocardica como Preventivo das Sindromes Coronarias Agudas e Responsavel pela Prolongada Sobrevida--Casuistica de 28 anos (1972-2000), Mesquita, QHde e Baptista, CAS. Ars Cvrandi. May 2005, Volume 35, republished in 2005 at http://www.infarctcombat.org/28anos/digitalicos.html, with summary in English at http://www.infarctcombat.org/heartnews-16.html.> 2. Myogenic Theory of Myocardial Infarction Book with summary in English at http://www.infarctcombat.org/LivroTM/parte8.htm.> 3. Some articles in English about the Myogenic Theory are available at: http://www.infarctcombat.org/MyogenicTheory.html.> 4. QHM Homepage and Memorial: http://www.infarctcombat.org/qhm/homepage.html.>
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