Natural Killer Cells: Innate vs Acquired Immune protection

Although there are many Chinese and Japanese reports of the use of immuno-stimulants in treating cancer, the Western medical profession is generally unfamiliar with them. This is partly due to the Western preference for rather more aggressive Western techniques and partly due to a lack of awareness. When I recently asked a well-known UK cancer expert his views on immuno-stimulants, he said he was not interested because there was ‘no data’. In fact, there are nearly a hundred papers in the scientific literature that document the effects of beta glucans and similar molecules on cancer cells in vitro, in animal models and in clinical trials.