Reported Use of Selected Vegetables/Sun’s Soup as a Treatment for Human Cancera
| Principal Reference Citation | Type of Study/Report | Type of Cancer | No. of Patients: Enrolled; Treated; Controlb | Strongest Benefit Reported | Concurrent Therapyc | Level of Evidence Scored |
| [1] | Anecdotal report (patent document) | Metastatic kidney or non-small cell lung | 4; 4; None | Complete tumor regression, 3 patients | Yes | None |
| [2] | Phase I/II trial | Early non-small cell lung (toxicity study) | 5; 5; None | Improved Karnofsky performance status, 4 patients | Yes | None |
| [3] | Nonconsecutive case series | Advanced non-small cell lung | 16; 12; None | Improved median survival | Yes, 10 of 12 evaluated patients | 3iiiA |
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| aSee text and glossary for more details and definitions of terms. | ||||||
| bNumber of patients treated plus number of patients controlled may not equal number of patients enrolled; number of patients enrolled = number of patients initially recruited/considered by the researchers who conducted a study; number of patients treated = number of enrolled patients who were administered the treatment being studied AND for whom results were reported; historical control subjects are not included in number of patients enrolled. | ||||||
| cSurgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormone therapy, pleurodesis administered/allowed at same time as treatment with Selected Vegetables/Sun’s Soup. | ||||||
| dFor information about levels of evidence analysis and an explanation of the level of evidence score, see Levels of Evidence for Human Studies of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine. |
References
- Sun AS: Herbal Treatment of Malignancy. US Patent 5437866. August 1, 1995. Washington, DC: US Patent and Trademark Office, 1995. Available online. Last accessed January 10, 2013.
- Sun AS, Ostadal O, Ryznar V, et al.: Phase I/II study of stage III and IV non-small cell lung cancer patients taking a specific dietary supplement. Nutr Cancer 34 (1): 62-9, 1999. [PUBMED Abstract]
- Sun AS, Yeh HC, Wang LH, et al.: Pilot study of a specific dietary supplement in tumor-bearing mice and in stage IIIB and IV non-small cell lung cancer patients. Nutr Cancer 39 (1): 85-95, 2001. [PUBMED Abstract]
