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A Pediatrician's Experience Using Transfer Factor with Children
TF and TF+ Support in Malignancy in Childhood
ID is an eleven year old with a complex leukemia history. He was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia at age 2 with a relapse several years after chemotherapy. Next came a bone marrow transplant and THREE more relapses after the transplant. To add insult to injury, the last relapse was diagnosed as Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia, a VERY difficult cancer to treat. On to a very toxic course of chemotherapy and a slow definitive road to remission. ID was started on TF initially at month 5 of chemotherapy to help support his immune function and hopefully, reduce the chances of infectious complications. TF+ was added 2 months later. His oncologist (my medical partner) has been very pleased and impressed with the results. First, ID "breezed through his therapy" tolerating very low blood counts, with no febrile (or infectious) episodes, and always in very good spirits. When last seen in early 9/99, ID was "thriving" and continues in full remission, with no infectious disease, enjoying a full life as a vigorous 11 year school kid. The "way life should be". How has TF and TF+ impacted this young man? It most likely spared him the life-threatening complications of infectious disease. It apparently improved his tolerance of a very toxic course of chemotherapy. And it may be helping him in his daily immune fight against relapse and infectious stresses. Unquestionably, the fact that ID is alive is a miracle, one dictated by a "Higher Authority": The quality of his life may just be because of immune boosting with 4LR products... and his spirit and his will to live.


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Transfer factor and cellular reactivity to varicella-zoster antigen in childhood leukemia.
Cell Immunol. 1980 Mar 15;50(2):282-9. No abstract available.
PMID: 6244113 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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Steele RW, Myers MG, Vincent MM.
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Transfer factor for the prevention of varicella-zoster infection in childhood leukemia.
N Engl J Med. 1980 Aug 14;303(7):355-9.
PMID: 6248780 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
N Engl J Med. 1980 Aug 14;303(7):355-9. Related Articles, Links

Transfer factor for the prevention of varicella-zoster infection in childhood leukemia.

Steele RW, Myers MG, Vincent MM.

Sixty-one patients with leukemia and no immunity to chickenpox were given dialyzable transfer factor or placebo and followed for 12 to 30 months in a double-blind trial designed to examine the clinical efficacy of transfer factor. Sixteen patients in the transfer-factor group and 15 in the placebo group were exposed to varicella zoster, and most of them had a rise in antibody titer. Chickenpox developed in 13 of 15 exposed patients in the placebo group but in only one of 16 in the transfer-factor group (P = 1.3 x 10(-5)). In the patients treated with transfer factor and exposed to varicella without acquiring chickenpox the titer of antibody to varicella zoster was equal to that in the patients given placebo who became infected with chickenpox. Transfer factor converted negative results on skin tests for varicella zoster to positive in approximately half the recipients. Passive immunization with dialyzable transfer factor appears useful in nonimmune persons.

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Infect Dis. 1985 Dec;152(6):1324-7. Related Articles, Links

Immunologic and clinical responses to varicella-zoster virus-specific transfer factor following marrow transplantation.

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Bowden RA, Siegel MS, Steele RW, Day LM, Meyers JD.

PMID: 2415645 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Addendum 5/8/99: More great news, this time using Transfer Factor in an 8 year old with recurrent leukemia on harsh chemotherapy. Since using Transfer Factor the last three months, this young man has has NO untoward side-effects due to chemo and has had no fever episodes requiring admission to hospital and antibiotic use. And he is doing very well with his leukemia as well. Soon he will start on the new T Factors Plus product (June 1999). Will update as progress becomes available.
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Br J Haematol. 1993 Jul;84(3):423-7. Related Articles, Links

Effect of transfer factor on myelosuppression and related morbidity induced by chemotherapy in acute leukaemias.

Fernandez O, Diaz N, Morales E, Toledo J, Hernandez E, Rojas S, Madriz X, Lopez Saura P.

Hospital Universitario Dr. Carlos J. Finlay, Marianao, Cuba.

The aim of this study is to determine the safety and efficacy of Transfer Factor (TF) in accelerating the haematopoietic recovery in patients with acute leukaemias (AL), following intensive therapy to induce remission of the disease. Twenty-two patients with different types of AL (16 AML, three BC-CML and three ALL) were studied. The patients were divided in two groups. Group 1 (eight AML, two BC-CML and one ALL) received, after myelosuppression induced by chemotherapy, TF (1 unit daily, subcutaneous) until leucocyte count was > 2.5 x 10(9)/l and platelet count > 80 x 10(9)/l. Group 2 was considered the control group and did not receive TF. Treatment with TF accelerated the recovery of neutrophils, leucocytes, platelets (P < 0.001) and haemoglobin (P < 0.01). As a logical consequence, incidence and severity of infection and haemorrhage were lesser in the TF group than in the control group. There was no evidence that TF accelerated the re-growth of leukaemic cells. It seems that TF is safe in AL, accelerating haematopoietic recovery. However, it should be used with caution until results of additional trials become available.

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PMID: 8217793 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Specific transfer factor with activity against Epstein-Barr virus reduces late relapse in endemic Burkitt's lymphoma.

Neequaye J, Viza D, Pizza G, Levine PH, De Vinci C, Ablashi DV, Biggar RJ, Nkrumah FK.
University of Ghana School of Medicine, Accra.
Twenty-seven children with abdominal Burkitt's lymphoma (stage III), who had achieved complete remission, were entered into a prospective controlled trial of adjunct treatment with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-specific transfer factor (TF). Two patients treated with TF and 2 controls relapsed early (less than or equal to 12 weeks). Two out of 12 TF-treated patients and 5 out of 11 controls subsequently suffered relapses. Time to first late relapse was longer among TF-treated patients (p = 0.08), and no late relapse occurred while a patient was receiving TF treatment. Thus it seems that specific TF might be useful in the management of endemic Burkitt's lymphoma and also in the treatment of other virus-associated cancers and diseases.
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Exp Pathol. 1987 Summer;3(4):463-9. Related Articles, Links

Transfer factor in prevention of Burkitt's lymphoma relapses.

Nkrumah FK, Pizza G, Neequaye J, Viza D, De Vinci C, Levine PH.

Burkitt Tumour Project, Univ. of Ghana Medical Sch. Accra.

Twenty-two African children with endemic Burkitt's lymphoma entered a study to evaluate the possible efficacy of a transfer factor (TF) with specific activity against Eptein-Barr virus in preventing disease relapses. Five of eleven patients have so far relapsed in the non TF-treated group as against two of eleven in the TF-treated group. The patterns of relapse and observable increased disease free remission duration in the TF-treated group strongly suggest a beneficial effect particularly in the prevention of late relapses. A larger series of patients treated with this specific TF are needed to confirm these observations in endemic Burkitt's lymphoma.

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Arch Intern Med 1981 Mar;141(4):533-7
Transfer factor therapy for histoplasmosis in a patient with Hodgkin's disease.
Catanzaro A, Spitler LE, Campbell GD, Moser KM.
A patient with recurrent chronic histoplasmosis was diagnosed also as having Hodgkin's disease. Studies of cell-mediated immunity (CMI) demonstrated no reaction to histoplasmin by skin test, lymphocyte transformation (LT), or leukocyte inhibition factor (LIF) assay. Clinical and immunologic studies were performed during treatment with 19 doses of dialyzable transfer factor (TF) prepared from a normal donor with strong CMI against histoplasmin. Transfer of CMI to the patient was demonstrated by all three tests. All tests reverted to nonreactive during the period of observation. Repeated doses of dialyzable TF were followed by reconversion of skin tests. The LIF assay was most reactive. Reactivation of histoplasmosis occurred during antimetabolic therapy for Hodgkin's disease; however, the lesions cleared rapidly when TF was added to amphotericin B. Amphotericin B was administered at a dosage of 25 mg three times each week during the entire study.

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Improvement in delayed hypersensitivity in Hodgkin's disease with transfer factor: lymphapheresis and cellular immune reactions or normal donors.

Khan A, Hill JM, MacLellan A, Loeb E, Hill NO, Thaxton S.

Passive transfer of delayed hypersensitivity was achieved, with normal transfer factor, in patients with Hodgkin's disease in remission. The cellular immune responses of the recipients improved. It is suggested that, in addition to specific effect the transfer factor (or factors) has a nonspecific effect causing improvement in the state of delayed hypersensitivity of the recipient in general. The average number of E-rosette T lymphocytes was 46.3% after the transfer factor treatment in Hodgkin's disease. The control patients with Hodgkin's disease, not receiving transfer factor, had a value of 37.8%. Removal of 4.9 X 10(9) to 1.08 X 10(10) lymphocytes did not diminish the delayed hypersensitivity of the donor. Side effects attributable to transfer factor were not seen.

PMID: 1081903 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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