Dad drinks daughter's breast milk

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-world/2...15875-21436530/

 

Cancer sufferer Tim Browne pours a rather bizarre ingredient over his breakfast cornflakes – his daughter’s breast milk.

 

Mum-of-one Georgia, 27, expresses her milk after feeding baby son Monty, then delivers it to her ailing dad in the hope that it will boost his immune system as he battles colon and liver cancer.

 

And one month after drinking her milk mixed with his daily pinta, scans showed that 67-year-old Tim’s cancer had reduced.

 

Tim, a retired teacher, of Calne, Wilts, said: “It’s not unpleasant – just slightly pungent and oily. But once it is mixed with cow’s milk, I can’t taste it.

 

“I do feel like I have a special bond with Georgia and Monty.”

 

Daughter Georgia, of Bristol, said: “I don’t find it strange at all. I’m just glad to help. My mum Carole and my siblings are right behind it. In fact, they all think it’s quite funny – and Dad’s told his friends.”

 

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Tim was diagnosed with cancer in July 2007, a week before Georgia’s wedding. He had an operation to remove a tumour and a year of chemotherapy put the disease in remission.

 

But it returned when Georgia was pregnant. Baby Monty was just a month old when she saw a TV documentary on the benefits of breast milk.

 

She said: “This man with prostate cancer swore that drinking breast milk every day had reduced his tumours. Dad agreed it was a worth a go.”

 

Tim’s doctors support the odd concoction. But although scans show that his condition has improved, it cannot be proved if it is down to the milk or chemotherapy.

 

World Cancer Research Fund UK said: “We are not aware of any evidence that breast milk brings any benefits to cancer patients.”

 

Georgia said: “I’d do anything to give my dad more time.”

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If it works, why not?

[soccermom 0]

Yeah I read this a couple of weeks ago. The headline sounded outrageous but on the whole, I think its great, dunno how much of it is actually helping him, but if it makes him and his feel more positive about his condition then thats fab. Theres an awful lot to say about positive thinking when it comes to ill health. I've seen it and I truly believe it can buy you time.

 

I'd do it if it was my dad. Who wouldn't. No worse than giving them a kidney imo.

 

good on em.

[Kid Dynamite 7327]

If it works, why not?

 

Erm. . . . cos it comes out of his daughter tit

[Jimbo 175]

[khay 10]

 

 

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The thing is, I wonder who thought of this in the first place??

 

Surprised to see their from Bristoww and not Smogland or hicksville sur wear.

[Matty 0]

The thing is, I wonder who thought of this in the first place??

 

Surprised to see their from Bristoww and not Smogland or hicksville sur wear.

 

 

Have you ever been there? My top suspect when I read the headline tbh.

[Renton 22490]

If it works, why not?

 

 

But although scans show that his condition has improved, it cannot be proved if it is down to the milk or chemotherapy.

 

My money is ever so slightly on the chemotherapy.

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If it works, why not?

 

 

But although scans show that his condition has improved, it cannot be proved if it is down to the milk or chemotherapy.

 

My money is ever so slightly on the chemotherapy.

 

[Fop 1]

If it works, why not?

 

 

But although scans show that his condition has improved, it cannot be proved if it is down to the milk or chemotherapy.

 

My money is ever so slightly on the chemotherapy.

 

It will be if "his condition" means the cancer itself, but as the milk is supposed to help his immune system, that may well be exactly what it's doing and helping in a more general context of "his condition".

 

 

Although most of these "cancer diets" tend to be evil fuckers marketing at increasingly desperate people.

[ChezGiven 0]

If it works, why not?

 

 

But although scans show that his condition has improved, it cannot be proved if it is down to the milk or chemotherapy.

 

My money is ever so slightly on the chemotherapy.

 

It will be if "his condition" means the cancer itself, but as the milk is supposed to help his immune system, that may well be exactly what it's doing and helping in a more general context of "his condition".

 

 

Although most of these "cancer diets" tend to be evil fuckers marketing at increasingly desperate people.

 

Immunotherapy is part of the modern approach to treating cancer, they use unusual elements of the cancer cell (which is really your own cells therefore the immune system doesnt recognise it as foreign) to eliminate the fucked up cell replication process (which is what cancer is).

 

This is what monoclonal antibodies do more or less.

 

So, the idea is well established in cancer care but getting the immune system to look at the cancer as foreign is the trick. Boosting the immune system cant really do any harm though.

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If it works, why not?

 

 

But although scans show that his condition has improved, it cannot be proved if it is down to the milk or chemotherapy.

 

My money is ever so slightly on the chemotherapy.

 

It will be if "his condition" means the cancer itself, but as the milk is supposed to help his immune system, that may well be exactly what it's doing and helping in a more general context of "his condition".

 

 

Although most of these "cancer diets" tend to be evil fuckers marketing at increasingly desperate people.

 

Immunotherapy is part of the modern approach to treating cancer, they use unusual elements of the cancer cell (which is really your own cells therefore the immune system doesnt recognise it as foreign) to eliminate the fucked up cell replication process (which is what cancer is).

 

This is what monoclonal antibodies do more or less.

 

So, the idea is well established in cancer care but getting the immune system to look at the cancer as foreign is the trick. Boosting the immune system cant really do any harm though.

 

They are talking about the wrong thing regarding "boost his immune system" then, if he's taking it for the potential alpha-lactalbumin effect?