Modified citrus pectin (MCP) is given before and after cancer biopsies, surgeries, and colonoscopies to prevent dislodged cancer cells from seeding new tumors. It stabilizes the body's environment during these invasive procedures, reducing metastatic spread.
modified citrus pectin. The reason that it's used in oncology, one of the main reasons, is to protect the body during invasive procedures from seeding cancer cells into other parts of the body, creating metastases potentially. It's often given, say, before and after a biopsy, or before and after your surgery for your cancer. It could even be done, say, around a colonoscopy where they might be doing biopsy samples, any other type of procedure that might stir the cancer up. If possible, what we normally do with modified citrus pectin is dose it, as I said before, before and then after that procedure to stabilize the system so that if some of the cancer cells are stirred up and released, they have less of a chance of finding a new home somewhere else in the body. There's usually a better time and place and a worse time and place to use particular supplements, and with modified citrus pectin, that's no different. It has a very unique action, and as I said, it's usually used in very specific instances, but it's very commonly used nowadays.
