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Article: Can breast milk help an adult fight off cancer?
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- January 17, 2005
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Byline: JULIE WHELDON
OME adult cancer patients are turning to breast milk to help them beat the illness, it emerged yesterday.
They believe it can boost their immune system and ease the side-effects of chemotherapy.
For four years a milk bank in San Jose, California, has been supplying donated breast milk - meant for low-weight and premature babies - to 28 adult patients who have a doctor's prescription.
Howard Cohen, who has twice weekly 'smoothies' made from the milk, believes it has helped put his prostate cancer into remission and enabled him to avoid invasive surgery.
The Californian software consultant started taking ...