Thank you for bringing this up.
My understanding is that it is high doses of benfotiamine (and I mean HIGH) that are to be avoided in certain people with specific cancers. I have not read that benfotiamine causes cancer but only enables an already present cancer to grow more quickly depending on how much is taken.
Thiamine supplementation to cancer patients: a double edged sword. - PubMed - NCBI
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The thiamine dependent TK pathway is the central avenue which supplies ribose phosphate for nucleic acids in tumors and excessive thiamine supplementation maybe responsible for failed therapeutic attempts to terminate cancer cell proliferation. Limited administration of thiamine and concomitant treatment with transketolase inhibitors is a more rational approach to treat cancer.
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of course this is an older paper, and there may be new guidelines.
Here is another article that discusses cancer and use of thiamine: (2015)
Introduction to Benfotiamine :: The Benfotiamine Project
It is always a good idea to discuss anything you read here with your doctor. But I will share that I have talked to oncologists a bit over the years and many are not up on supplement use.
Folate also has been discussed as a cancer flaring supplement and that still is going back and forth in medical studies. That was seen in young women taking 5mg a day to prevent neural tube defects in their babies. Colon cancers have been found in some of these patients and set up an alarm of sorts.
This is one reason I do not recommend really high doses of anything here. We have a medical suggestion/disclaimer here at NT which you can read in my signature.
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