Your site is really of value to all senior citizens has lots of great
information for Senior living.  Other than your mother, I didn't see much of
a relationship to cancer.

Hello readers of alt.support.cancer.
Bob's been posting here, from time to time, in the past year.
He never replies to our comments/replies to his posts, but he probably
reads them, because his "story" about his mother was hopelessly garbled
(before) and he's since "clearned it up"
We're taking his word that his mother had ovarian cancer - no proof biopsy
or scans on his webpage); never posted here before for support.
One of the things he attributes to his mother's "cure" is Resveratrol
because her swollen stomach improved.
That happens to be one of the signs of possible ovarian cancer; however she
was also treated with carboplatin and germ cell cancers can respond very
well to chemos....so there's no proof that Resveratrol played a role at all
in his mother's "cure".  God bless his well-meaning, but possibly misguided
ideas about that.

There are/were two clinical trials.

This one's closed. Phase I - measuring for toxicity - 40 patients
http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/CCUM-2004-0535

This one's expected enrollment 40 patients.
Phase I/II
"In this proposal, studies will be performed to define the actions of
resveratrol on the Wnt signaling pathway in a clinical trial in which
patients with colon cancer will receive treatment with resveratrol and
correlative laboratory studies will examine its effects directly on colon
cancer and normal colonic mucosa."
<whatever that means>
Still recruiting..in wine country...the product happens to come from
grapes.
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00256334?order=1

So if you're interested and can't get to the clinical trial, have a glass
of good quality wine, from time to time, if it does not disagree with your
gastro or your oncologist's opinion, about that..
I can't promise it'll change anything re: your cancer (until the next sets
of trial results, if they happen), but a little wine, from time to time,
might improve your quality of life.
J
PS She passed away a ~year later. He says from stroke.

Just who do you think you're kidding?

You may not be making any money from your article, but you may be
generating the false hope that Welch's grape juice will somehow
perform a miracle in any cancer patient. You may also be pitching a
bit of Christian faith... which is not bad, but at least be honest
about it.

My own take is that this lady is one of those "fringe" cancer victims
who somehow survive. There is always a very small percentage who will
survive the worst diagnoses. My brother in law's brother  is one such
case. The oncs gave him no hope either. In fact they told the family
to call their priest for the last rites. Well, the next day he got
better, and the day after a little better yet. That was 20 years ago.
Today he is cancer free. He was not given ANYTHING - no juice, no
resveratrol, no royal jelly honey, NO NOTHING that could explain it.

I'm all for hope. God knows I need some myself from time to time (I
have a terminal diagnosis), but let it be tempered with wisdom and
common sense.

Well my my! I have never seen such a lively response to my posting. If
you read the article carefully, you will see that I do not know what
caused the cure. Like I said, the blind man said "All I know is I was
blind, but now I see."

Why do I post my mother's story? I believe she would be proud that I am
telling her story in an effort to give hope to others. She did that in
life, and now I enable her to continue it in her story.

Follow the links at the end of her story. You will see studies
everywhere on the efficacy of resveratrol on several types of cancer.
This kind of treatment was slow to be studied because there is no great
drug profit in it. I don't know if it would help me, but after watching
my mother's illness, if I had cancer on a hangnail, I'd guzzle the
stuff. Am I selling it. No. Would I use it----you bet.

A word of caution, a reader emailed me to say that her oncologist said
resveratrol should not be tried if a woman's cancer is considered
"estrogen sensitive". I have no idea what that is, but your oncologist
will know.

Thanks for all your comments. I suspect you will see my post again in
the future. As new folks need hope, I will try to supply a little bit
of it. Best to all who are fighting the battle with cancer.

Bob Fassbach, editor, www.seniorark.com