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I'm not sure the National Cancer Institute would endorse a product like this. Being in the medical field, I see stuff like this frequently, products with no proven benefits that are marketed in such a way that possibly termially ill people may obtain false hopes of cure or improvement. Read the real scoop on this Xango, there is tons of stuff, just Google it. Ususally stuff that appears too good to be true.....IS too good to be true.

Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia...

The Mayo Clinic said in October 2005 that "there are no published clinical trials showing evidence that either the fruit or its juice - marketed under the name XanGo juice - is an effective treatment for arthritis, cancer or any other disorder in humans."[36]

In February 2006, the U.C. Berkeley Wellness Newsletter, sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley, said that "Mangosteen marketers make farfetched and unsubstantiated claims for their products." The newsletter notes that "there are no clinical trials, and what happens in a test tube or animal may not occur in a human. Any reported benefits in humans have been anecdotal. No one even knows if the processed fruit juice and capsules retain the potentially beneficial compounds. What's more, the juice is typically a mix of fruit juices - with an undisclosed amount of mangosteen in it." [37]

Dr. Ralph Moss, author of several natural remedy books, has said of mangosteen juice:

In my opinion, what we have here is simply an overpriced fruit drink. Fruit drinks are often healthful beverages. But the only reason I can see that the promoters of mangosteen can get away with charging $37 for this product is that they are playing on patients' hopes and fears in a cynical way. Without the health claims, open or implied, the product could only be sold for at most $5 or $6 (which, for example, is the cost of antioxidant-rich pomegranate juice).[38]

In an article published in February 2007, Paul M. Gross, PhD (physiology), and Ian Crown, a mangosteen grower, said, "As mangosteen's supposed health claims are not supportable by sufficient nutrient density or a complete research process allowing conclusions about human health benefits, it has not met standards to be a superfruit. Research on xanthones is only at a preliminary stage from which no conclusions regarding lowered disease risk are valid at this time." [39]

When assessed by four criteria for superfruit status -- nutrient density, antioxidant strength, research intensity and commercial success -- mangosteen ranks lowest among five other exotic plant foods.[40]