What is cancer?
Cancer is not a single disease rather it is a general term used to describe various malignant tumoursthat affect all forms of higher organisms including plants and animals. More than a hundred types and
sub types of cancer are known to affect the human beings. Cancer can be defined as an abnormal
growth of cells in any tissue or organ of body. Cancer cells have potential to spread and grow in other
parts of body. Cancer preys on the host and continues to grow indefinitely competing with normal
cells of the body for nutrition.
Cancer had its origin since the evolution of multicellular organisms. Our knowledge of cancer goes
back to the dawn of civilisation. The evidence of cancer has been found in skeletons of pre historic
animals and Egyptian mummies. The earliest written records on cancer have been traced to the
ancient Egyptian, Greek and Indian writings. The word Cancer has its origin from the Latin word
Cancrum (Greek: Karkinos), which means crab. Ancient Indian surgeon, Sushruta, who used to
cauterise the tumours with red hot iron rods, described various types of tumour in his text ‘Sushruta
Samhita’ written in circa 600 B.C. Ancient Egyptians tried fire drill (insertion of heated metallic stick
into the tumour) to treat cancer. It is believed that the Greek surgeon, Leonides, was the first to
operate upon cancer with a knife.
"What causes Cancer?" was the most debatable topic during the twentieth century. After a prolonged
era of confusion over the genesis of cancer, this was finally established by end of the century that
cancer is caused by mutations in the growth regulatory genes & pathways including oncogenes and
tumour suppressor genes.
Treatment
Dr. S.P. Kaushal M.B.B.S., M.D. (Chinese medicine), Ph.D., D.Sc., contributed more than 25 years
along with a team of doctors in Sino Vedic Cancer Research Centre to identify various anticancer
herbs having antimutagenic, DNA repairing, proapoptotic, antitumourangiogenesis,
immunomodulatory, chemoprotective and radioprotective properties and develop various herbal
formulations including Oncotame, Cancertame and Immunotone.
Sino Vedic Herbal Formulations are better remedies, especially for those cancer patients who have
become resistant to chemotherapy and for those who are not fit for surgery, chemotherapy &
radiotherapy due to old age, marked weakness or any other factor including renal failure, hepatic
failure or cardiac dysfunctions and also for those who are detected in advanced stages of cancer.
Sino Vedic herbal formulations help to fight cancer at every step i.e., genesis, growth and spread of
cancer. These herbal formulations help to tame aggressive cancer cells by repairing damaged DNA,
inhibiting mutations in the genes, blocking cancer promoting enzymes & hormones, reviving the
process of apoptosis (programmed cell death) and inhibiting tumour angiogenesis (ability of cancer
cells to create new blood vessels). Sino Vedic herbs inhibit growth & spread of cancer by modulating
the activity of hormones, enzymes and other biological factors. Sino Vedic herbal formulations
minimise the incidence of recurrence of cancer and reduce side effects of chemotherapy &
radiotherapy including life threatening complications such as bone marrow suppression.
Research center
Sino Vedic Cancer Research Centre was founded by Dr. S.P. Kaushal M.B.B.S., M.D. (Chinesemedicine), Ph. D., D.Sc., in February 1985, by creating a team of doctors and scientists with the aim
to explore the role of herbs to fight cancer. Over a period of two decades, this team under the able
guidance of Dr. Kaushal identified more than 450 anticancer herbs having having antimutagenic,
DNA repairing, proapoptotic, antitumourangiogenesis, immunomodulatory, chemoprotective and
radioprotective properties properties and further developed various anticancer herbal formulations
including Oncotame, Cancertame and Immunotone that help to fight cancer without side effects. Sino
Vedic herbal formulations execute their therapeutic effect by complex synergistic interactions among
various phytoconstituents (active principles) of these precious anticancer herbs. Sino Vedic herbal
formulations are better remedies, especially for those cancer patients who become resistant to
chemotherapy and for those who are not fit to receive chemotherapy & radiotherapy due to old age,
marked weakness or any other factor including cardiac insufficiency, renal failure, hepatic failure,
severe bone marrow suppression and for those who are detected in advanced stages of cancer.