Originally published February 12 2006
Rutgers study shows broccoli and turmeric afford men protection against prostate cancer
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Ah-Ng Tony Kong, a professor of pharmaceutics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, discusses prostate research that suggests turmeric and broccoli provide protection against prostate cancer.
The most common cancer in American men -- prostate cancer -- may be prevented and possibly treated by something as easy as eating certain vegetables, like broccoli and the curry spice turmeric, says a new study.
Sept. 23, 2005 - A new study shows that testing blood samples for antibodies that target prostate cancer cells may help identify patients with early stages of the disease, which primarily is found in senior citizens.
In the September 22, issue of New England Journal of Medicine, researchers report the findings may lead to a new test that could complement the prostate specific antigen (PSA) test in detecting early stage prostate cancer.
Sept. 8, 2005 - A new survey released today showed only half (50 percent) of men who suffer from late-stage prostate cancer would consider chemotherapy as a treatment option, the only available treatment to delay progression of prostate cancer for these patients.
Rutgers researchers tested turmeric, also known as curcumin, along with phenethyl isothiocyanate (PEITC), a naturally occurring substance particularly abundant in a group of vegetables that includes watercress, cabbage, winter cress, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, kale, cauliflower, kohlrabi and turnips.
The article is by Kong and his colleagues at Rutgers' Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy.
The authors noted that in contrast to the high incidence of prostate cancer in the United States, the incidence of this disease is very low in India.
For Kong's study, researchers used mice bred so that their immune systems would not reject foreign biological material and injected the mice with cells from human prostate cancer cell lines to grow tumors against which the compounds could be tested.
The researchers injected the mice with curcumin or PEITC, alone or in combination, three times a week for four weeks, beginning a day before the introduction of the prostate cancer cells.
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