June Pruitt
10.29.95

1929 / Class of '73 / Lived with MM 22 years; used alternative medicine / Died 10-29-95

[This report was prepared by her husband, Ves Pruitt. Additional comments about her medical treatment are from phone conversations that June Brazil had with her during 1993/94.]

CurCumin in multiple myeloma
Myeloma Today in conversation with Dr. Bharat Aggarwal
Please tell us about the use of natural products in
cancer therapy.
The use of natural products in cancer therapy is noth-
ing new. Between the years 1981 and 2002 almost
74% of all drugs approved by the US Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) were either natural products,
were based thereon, or mimicked them in one form or
another. Many of the active chemical entities in these
natural products have already been identified. So it is