CAPE from beehive propolis arrests Prostate Cancer cells

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Not long time ago we wrote an article about how Honey bees self-medicate using plants, more exactly how they were able to fight bacterial and viral infections reaching the beehive using Propolis, a  mixture of resinous products collected by bees from tree buds that was already used by Greeks, Egyptians and others to treat different diseases and affections and actually the source of Caffeic Acid Phenethyl Ester (CAPE), a substance derived from Propolis found in honeybee products, that was able to inhibit growth of breast cancer stem cells.

Now, in their search for new properties of bee by-products as propolis, and more exactly Caffeic Acid Phenethyl Ester(CAPE), researchers the University of Chicago Medicine presented a paper on what it seems to be a high step forward in the search for a cure to Prostate cancer, the ability exerted by CAPE to arrest early-stage prostate cancer by shutting down the system used by tumor cells to detect sources of nutrition, causing the consequent cancer cell arrest. Image: Bluemenbiene under CC license (CC by 2.0).