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Cesium chloride is a salt sold as 'high pH therapy' on the claim that it makes cancer cells too alkaline to survive. There is no evidence for that claim, it causes dangerous heart rhythm problems and low potassium, and the FDA has warned people not to take it.
Non-radioactive cesium chloride (the radioactive isotope cesium-137 is a different thing, used in radiotherapy) is promoted on the theory that cancer cells take up cesium, become alkaline and stop dividing. Memorial Sloan Kettering's About Herbs summary states there are no data to substantiate these claims and describes a case series of people with terminal cancer using a cesium regimen in which half were alive after a year and a quarter died within the first two weeks, which MSK reads as evidence of serious toxicity. Reported harms in people with cancer include fainting, fast heart rate, prolonged QT interval with ventricular tachycardia, low potassium from urinary potassium loss, seizures and death. Low potassium is made worse by diuretics and corticosteroids. The FDA lists cesium chloride as a bulk drug substance posing significant safety risks in compounding and has warned against dietary supplements containing any cesium salt because of heart toxicity and possible death.
No anticancer mechanism has been shown; cesium displaces potassium in cells, which is the basis of its cardiac toxicity.
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