%0 Journal Article %T Clinical Characteristics of Gynecologic Cancer Patients who Respond to Salvage Treatment with Lingzhi %J Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention %I West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), APOCP's West Asia Chapter. %Z 1513-7368 %D 2014 %\ 10/01/2014 %V 15 %N 10 %P 4193-4196 %! Clinical Characteristics of Gynecologic Cancer Patients who Respond to Salvage Treatment with Lingzhi %K Ganoderma lucidum %K gynecologic cancer %K salvage treatment %R %X Lingzhi or Ganoderma lucidum is a popular medicinal mushroom used as a health promotion herb in Chinaand other Asian countries for thousands of years. There have many previous studies about the anti-cancereffects of lingzhi especially in vitro. The present study reports the clinical data of 5 gynecologic cancer patientswho achieved stability in the disease after ingestion of lingzhi in the form of fruit body water extract and sporesin a salvage setting. This report has been written to enhance the data describing the effect of lingzhi in cancerpatients. %U https://journal.waocp.org/article_29222_26e3ad041a7015d9bdf15628e47929f3.pdf