Pomegranate Juice & Prostate Cancer
October 13th, 2008 Posted in alternative treatmentsBiologically active compounds in pomegranate juice, known as ellagitannins, are known to have powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. These powerful dietary antioxidants are related, chemically, to the antioxidants also found in green tea, which is another area of intense focus in cancer prevention research.
Previous studies, looking at human prostate cancer cells growing in cell cultures, have suggested potential cancer prevention and cancer treatment roles for pomegranate juice extracts. In a recently published clinical study, pomegranate juice supplements were found to slow down the progression of recurrent prostate cancer in patients who had previously undergone treatment with surgery or radiation therapy. Moreover, when the serum of these patients was added to cell cultures containing human prostate cancer cells, the serum collected after patients consumed pomegranate juice both slowed down the growth of the prostate cancer cells and increased the death rate of these same cells.
A new research study, just published in the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics by scientists at UCLA, adds important new information about the possible role of pomegranate juice in the prevention and treatment of prostate cancer.
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