Digitalis's anticancer effects.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)

From: Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine | Date: May 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

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 ...

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