Mistletoe therapy

[hilaryjane]

Hi there

I listened to a talk yesterday on the Penny Brohn Cancer Support website on Mistletoe therapy and was wondering if any of you have any experience of it? Be really useful to hear if you have.

Thanks and best wishes to everyone.

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This used to be a very popular topic going back ten years or so, particularly on the North American OCNA Inspire forum. It strikes me that it has fallen out of circulation a bit these days, not quite sure why. I think the brand that got mentioned a lot back then was Iscador. Funnily enough, it cropped up the other day when I was reading about a woman called Fi Munro who had stage 4 OC and sadly passed away in 2020. As well as standard treatment for OC (surgery & chemo), she had intravenous mistletoe treatment in a private clinic which cost £2500, plus £200 a month afterwards. I think she had it with the approval of her oncologist. There has been some small scale clinical research which you can easily find through google.

[Sashay2020]

Hi Hillaryjane. I’m stage four OC with liver mets. I was debulked in June 2020 and have had two lines of chemotherapy. I had to stop my second-line chemo midway because the gut pain was unbearable. Even prescription pain meds could not stop the pain. I had researched mistletoe injection therapy extensively and decided to try it. I have been on it since March. After I had been on it a couple of weeks, I restarted my chemo and had no further stomach pains. I was able to finish the chemo. Mistletoe is not FDA approved, but is being trialed at Johns Hopkins. I discussed it with my oncologist before I started on it. He neither condoned nor condemned my adding this therapy to chemo. I don’t think Mistletoe will cure me, but I believe that it enabled me to continue chemotherapy. Feel free to PM me if you more more specifics.

Best wishes,

Sashay