But as God's mercy would have it, a number of researches worldwide in the recent ( and the not so recent) past have shown /proved Melatonin --the sleep hormone produced in the body of humans and animals-- as one of the best anticancer drugs in existence. Whats more, it costs a 1000 times less than the other chemotherapeutic drugs in circulation !
Melatonin is found to inhibit the growth and proliferation of tumour cells in the body far more effectively than most other drugs in use. Researches have shown patients who are given melatonin along with radiation therapies have survived for far longer years than those given only radiation . Melatonin is also found to reduce many a side effect of radiation therapies. Researchers have say there is more than enough evidence for the anticancer effects of melatonin and this hormone/drug should now be brought into the mainstream for cancer cure.
Yet melatonin treatment has not been brought into the mainstream for cancer cure for the sole reason that if people start using this cheap hormone for cancer treatment, then all the pharmaceutical companies and industries that thrive on the sale of expensive chemotherapeutic drugs and make billions of bucks each year would have to shut down as they would suffer huge losses.
So they, and their representatives don't recommend the drug to the doctors and the doctors don't prescribe it. Yup, that's the way the world works.
cam.cancer.gov/cam/attachments/MelatoninSummary.pdf
Not just preventing or treating cancer, melatonin has a number of other health benefits too being an antioxidant and free radical scavenger and an immune booster .
Melatonin has hardly any side effects. It is also very good for treating insomnia and regulating the sleep- wake cycle . And though it is a sleep hormone, you cannot overdose on it even if you take a 100 times more melatonin than what is produced inside your body every day. It wont kill you unlike other hypnotic drugs. It just leaves you with a big hangover the next day. Health experts say that cancer patients can even be given 100 mg melatonin ( that's about a 1000 times more than whats produced in human body) every day. Its cheap and safe and effective.
As for the doctors, most of them are ignorant of the benefits of melatonin in cancer cure and some are hands in glove with these pharmaceutical companies. Either way its the common man who is going bankrupt and also dying inspite of all the expensive drug therapies.