Combination herbal supplement for recurrent prostate cancer

In 2008, approximately 900,000 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer [2]. Some of them got joyfully cured after treatment and surgery while some others experienced a recurrence, an incidence of prostate cancer after this one was treated, these were patients diagnosed with the so-called recurrent prostate cancer.

In the search for active constituents and phytochemicals, medical industry and biochemists tried many herbs and plants, some of them with very good results as Apigenin [3,4], a natural flavonoid found in many herbs and fruits, as for example Chamomile (Anthemis nobilis), apples, celery and also some spices as oregano, tarragon, cilantro, basil, parsley, onions, oranges, tea, chamomile and wheat sprouts. Vitamin D is another example of one of those elements tested for the treatment of recurrent prostate cancer.

However not many of this herbs and active constituents have been used together as an anti-prostate cancer cocktail, but now in the 2012 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, a new herbal cocktail containing some of these herbs and vitamins have showed incredible results on the treatment of recurrent prostate cancer. Do you want to know which herbs does this cocktail contain?

In the 2012 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, Tanya B. Dorff, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Keck School of Medicine, at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, together with a group of doctors and scientists presented the results of their Prostate Health Cocktail (PHC), a cocktail of Vitamins D & E, Saw Palmetto, Lycopene, Green tea and Soy extracts tested on patients of recurrent prostate cancer that experienced a recurrence of prostate cancer after curative local therapy failed to avoid prostate cancer recurrence.

The study group, 28 men with an average age of 67 years old, had a rising Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA), with doubling time and no evidence of metastases.They were treated with the Prostate Health Cocktail (PHC). The outcome showed PSA declines in nearly a third of cases without significant toxicities [1], something that proves once again the power of nature and the wisdom of Hippocrates when he said:

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

REFERENCES:

[1] A combination herbal supplement for biochemically recurrent prostate cancer. 2012 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium. J Clin Oncol 30, 2012 (suppl 5; abstr 24). Authors: Tanya B. Dorff, Debra Hawes, Denice D. Tsao-Wei, David I. Quinn, Amir Goldkorn, Gary Lieskovsky, Nicholas J. Vogelzang, Susan G. Groshen, Jacek K. Pinski; University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA; University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA; Institute of Urology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA; US Oncology Research, LLC, McKesson Specialty Health, The Woodlands, TX, and Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV.

[2]  Ferlay J, Shin HR, Bray F, Forman D, Mathers C and Parkin DM GLOBOCAN 2008 v1.2, Cancer Incidence and Mortality Worldwide: IARC CancerBase No. 10. Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer, 2010. Via (http://www-dep.iarc.fr/).

[3] Apigenin Attenuates Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I Signaling in an Autochthonous Mouse Prostate Cancer Model. Shukla S, Maclennan GT, Fu P, Gupta S. Department of Urology, Case Western Reserve University, 2109 Adelbert Road, Wood Research Tower, RTG01, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106, USA.

[4] Plant flavone apigenin inhibits HDAC and remodels chromatin to induce growth arrest and apoptosis in human prostate cancer cells: In vitro and in vivo study. Pandey M, Kaur P, Shukla S, Abbas A, Fu P, Gupta S. Department of Urology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

[5] Promoting calcium and vitamin D intake to reduce the risk of osteoporosis in men on androgen deprivation therapy for recurrent prostate cancer. Davison BJ, Wiens K, Cushing M. College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, #310-1121 College Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0 W3, Canada.