Question, did you ever do an Iron Panel with Ferritin? It’s a pretty cheap and simple blood test. Iron is elevated, and likely causal, in cancer and all other degenerative diseases. To boot, the main iron lowering strategy (phlebotomy, aka blood donation) is cheap, easy, and very safe. Zacharski did many trials with iorn lowering, and found it reduced cancer, both in total incidence and aggressiveness-
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18612130/
Not only that, but high iron seems to cause lots of diseases. So while an iron lowering strategy would lower cancer risk, it will also simultaneously be lowering heart disease risk and diabetes risk. You wouldn’t simply be trading off one degenerative disease for another.
I would strongly recommend an iron panel. You can buy it from sites like Direct Labs, and do it yourself. The lab range is way too high for men, and the higher end of the range (the so called “high normal”) is a big reason men tend to get cancer and heart disease at a higher rate than women. If you have your doctor do it, be sure to look at the results. The best results came from getting ferritin to near deficiency on the low end.
I would think you would want to work with your doctor on this, but if your iron is high or even high normal, it should be a relatively easy sell. You would likely need a phlebotomy prescription (if you’ve just been diagnosed with cancer or are under treatment, they can’t use your blood with another patient, so it would have to be discarded). If I were to go this route, I would show the doctor the iron lab, the Zacharski study linked, and the relevant sections of the E.D. Weinberg book “Exposing The Hidden Dangers of Iron” (entire chapter on cancer), and ask for a the prescription to get it near deficiency quickly, to see if it has an effect. The Weinberg book also has recommended frequencies, depending on the ferritin level. It should be a fairly easy sell, since it carries very few risks, has lots of research to show it’s effective, and shouldn’t interfere with any other treatments, and is effective on it’s own.
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