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Clinical effectiveness
- Recently, several clinical investigations have proved that AHCC shows several effects.
AHCC is usually used as an adjuvant to cancer patients with other antitumor chemotherapeutics or as a preventive agent for the side-effects of chemical therapeutics in cancer treatment.
- In one study, AHCC was administrated for 300 progressive and end-stage cancer patients at doses of 3g/day or 6g/day, cancer disappeared completely in 25 patients and in 28 patients cancer decreased more than 50%.
Table 1 shows the results of AHCC effectiveness.
- AHCC is effective on keeping good QOL (quality of life) states such as increasing appetite, feeling good, sleeping well and recovering from fatigue at terminal treatment in cancer patients.
- AHCC is a functional food effective on the hepatocellular carcinoma combined with cirrhosis with ascites.
Table 1. Cancer Cases Change in Their Cancer Size
after Using AHCC
| Cancers |
Completely Disappear |
Decreasing size over 50% |
Total Cases
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| Cases |
| Tongue |
- |
1 |
1 |
| Lung |
1 |
5 |
6 |
| Hepatocellular carcinoma |
2 |
4 |
6 |
| Breast |
4 |
6 |
10 |
| Gastric |
5 |
- |
5 |
| Colon |
3 |
2 |
5 |
| Esophagus |
2 |
- |
2 |
| Testicular Carcinoma |
3 |
- |
3 |
| Ovarian |
3 |
2 |
5 |
| Prostatic Cancer |
1 |
5 |
6 |
| Renal Cancer |
- |
2 |
2 |
| Thyloid carcinoma |
1 |
1 |
2 |
| Total cases |
25 |
28 |
53 |
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