Good evening,
I'm emailing on behalf of my mum who struggles with today's technology. My mum has bowel cancer. She has read about the benefits of Yangzheng Xiaomi and it appears that many studies have been conducted on it with positive outcomes but it doesn't appear you can buy it anywhere apart from seller on the internet outside of the UK. Can you advise give any information on this.
Thank you,
Rachel.
Hi Rachel,
Welcome to the Macmillan Online Community. I hope you find it a warm and welcoming place to ask questions and seek support. I’m Kirstine, one of the information nurses here in the Ask a Nurse platform.
I’m sorry to read that your mum has a diagnosis of bowel cancer. You didn’t write much on that and so it’s difficult for us to understand what that means for her and what treatments she may have had or is having. It’s important that she talk with her consultant if she is considering taking anything that has not been prescribed. They can advise on whether they think that might be safe to take with her health condition or in conjunction with any other medications she has previously had or is having now.
Sometimes people will look for options elsewhere if they feel they have no options left to try, or if they do not wish to take what is offered here. Anything that is prescribed in the UK health service is rigorously tested in extensive high quality clinical trials to fully understand how effective it might be, who can benefit from having it and how safe it is before it is given. There will always be many other potential drug compounds or herbal medicines of interest that are being explored but do not yet have adequate evidence about these factors which will be why they are not freely available to have.
Yangzheng Xiaoji appears to be a compound with its origins in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). You are right that there are a number of available papers about it but these do not add up to sufficient rigorous scientific evidence on efficacy and safety by current scientific standards. The ones I can see all point to more study being required, and perhaps it may become something helpful in future days, but that isn’t the broad thinking in the scientific community right now. This detailed systematic report highlights that a study on Yangzheng Xiaoji in colorectal cancer has only been tested in mice and not humans, and so this cannot be considered reliable information at this stage.
I’m sure you’ll understand that we can’t in any good conscience make any recommendations around buying substances online as there is no way to know what you might receive and how that might impact a person. Substances bought this way may even contain more than one thing and may include banned or restricted ingredients.
I hope this is helpful. We are happy to chat with you or your mum further if you’d like to talk over her situation in more detail. Our number is included below.
Best wishes,
Kirstine – Macmillan
Cancer Information Nurse Specialist
You can also speak with the Macmillan Support Line team of experts. Phone free on 0808 808 0000 (7 days a week, 8am-8pm) or send us an email. Ref KDf/ SMc
