Reishi and Improved Tumor Response

• Ganoderma lucidum (Reishi mushroom) for cancer treatment.

  • 2016-04-05
  • Meta-Analysis
  • The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2019(1)
  • • Xingzhong Jin
    • Julieta Ruiz Beguerie
    • Daniel Man-Yeun Sze
    • Godfrey C F Chan

  • PubMed: 27045603
  • DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd007731.pub3

  8 Insights on

  • Improved Tumor Response

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  patients who had been given G. lucidum alongside with chemo/radiotherapy were more likely to respond positively compared to chemo/radiotherapy alone (RR 1.50; 95% CI 0.90 to 2.51, P = 0.02)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  No