Does Intake Of Omeprazole Help In Curing Cancer?

Posted on Mon, 25 Jan 2016

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Question : I have stage 4 kidney cancer, 11/14 right kidney removed, XXXXXXX 15 came in upper lung and lymph nodes in chest. then a month later 2 spots in the brain. the spot were removed with cyber knife. 12/28 two more showed up although evidence they might have been starting to grow when the first two were found. Two weeks later scan fro the next cyber knife was done. Spots were gone ( no explanation ). to the question. Will PPI's make cancer cells to acidic and die ?

Answered by Dr. Grzegorz Stanko (40 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Omeprazole can have some effect against cancer cells.

Detailed Answer:
Hello!

Thank you for the query.

There are some reports that Omeprazole (PPI) can do that. Actually there is a trend to retest well known old drugs effect against cancer cells. It is proven that some old drugs can become new method of cancer treatment. Omeprazole is on such list.
Unfortunately we do not know how it works and if it works. But for sure it is worth to try. Especially in your case.

I suggest you to see also this article: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/0000

and consider Doxycicline effect on cancer cells. In some cases it is surprisingly effective.

Hope this will help. Feel free to ask further questions.
Regards.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar