Medicinal Mushroom - Cancer Research

This report was made as a publication by the British government - Cancer research UK has contributed to this research and was written by the following gentleman:

JOHN E SMITH BSc MSc PhD DSc FIBiol FRSE
Emeritus Professor of Applied Microbiology, University of Strathclyde
Chief Scientific Officer, MycoBiotech Ltd, Singapore

NEIL J ROWAN BSc MSc PhD MIBiol MIFST
Lecturer, Department of Bioscience, University of Strathclyde

RICHARD SULLIVAN BSc MD PhD
Head of Clinical Programmes, Cancer Research UK

If you wanted information relating to cordyceps sinensis and how cordyceps sinensis is used to treat cancer, Chapter 3 Part c (1.8mb pdf) might be of informational use to those researching cordyceps sinensis and was wondering whether cordyceps sinensis is able to help - in this case it would seem that cordyceps sinensis is very efficient in a range of treatments but chapter 3 Part C can explain alot more about cordyceps sinensis - we only wish to bring this to your attention as our earlier articles have talked about cordyceps sinensis and its ability to heal and restore the human body, this is just another piece of supporting evidence which is although doesnt talk about cordyceps sinensis explicitly, it does mention cordyceps sinensis and a range of medicinal mushrooms  which can help or even provide greater effect when used in combination with cordyceps sinensis.

Executive Summary (33KB)
Front page (13KB)
Preamble (16KB)
Index (9KB)
Chapter 1 - Introduction (37KB)
Chapter 2 - Nature of fungi with special emphasis on mushrooms (1,451KB)

Chapter 3 - Medicinally important mushrooms

Part A (1.61MB)

Part B (1.68MB)

Part C (1.8MB)

Part D (3.1MB)

Chapter 4 - Technology of mushroom cultivation (339KB)
Chapter 5 - Extraction, development and chemistry of anti-cancer compounds from medicinal mushrooms (400KB)
Chapter 6 - Immunomodulatory activities of mushroom glucans and polysaccharide-protein complexes in animals and humans (217KB)
Chapter 7 - The role of polysaccarides derived from medicinal mushrooms in cancer (134KB)
Chapter 8 - Additional medicinal properties (85KB)
Chapter 9 - Regulatory and safety criteria for functional foods and dietary supplements and pharmaceutical medicines; the role for medicinal mushrooms (68KB)
Chapter 10 - Conclusions (50KB)
Appendix 1 (604KB)
Appendix 2 (13KB)
Appendix 3 (18KB)
Biographies (10KB)
Acknowledgements (7KB)

Although this report has not specifically contentrated on cordyceps sinensis - this is proof that cordyceps sinensis is able to play a big part in treatment of a range of diseases including cancer, this report states cordyceps sinensis's importance as a medicinal mushrooms as is exemplified in Chapter 8. if you read the additional medicinal properties you will find that cordyceps sinensis has much more effects than just anti cancer or anti tumor - we have documeted this in our articles about cordyceps sinensis should you wish to find out more.