Red Grape Compound May Assist in Prostate Cancer Battle

Red Grape Compound May Assist in Prostate Cancer Battle

Red Grape Compound May Assist in Prostate Cancer Battle

Men’s Health and Human Growth Hormone

Found abundantly in red grape skins and red wine, the antioxidant compound resveratrol has been shown by a number of studies to exert benefits ranging from cardiovascular health to stroke prevention. Michael Nicholl, from the University of Missouri (Missouri, USA), and colleagues report that resveratrol makes prostate tumor cells more susceptible to radiation treatment, potentially increasing the chances of a full recovery from all types of prostate cancer, including aggressive tumors.   The team observed that the introduced of resveratrol into prostate tumor cells greatly increased the activity of both perforin and granzyme, proteins that have been shown to kill cancer cells.  Following radiation treatment, the researchers found that up to 97% of the tumor cells died, which is a much higher percentage than treatment with radiation alone.

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Red Grape Compound May Assist in Prostate Cancer Battle

When you dine on curry and baked apples, enjoy the fact that you are eating something that could play a role starving — or even preventing — cancer.

New research from The University of Texas at Austin identifies several natural compounds found in food, including turmeric, apple peels and red grapes, as key ingredients that could thwart the growth of prostate cancer, the most common cancer afflicting U.S. men and a key area of focus during Men’s Health Month, which public health advocates celebrate in June.

Published online this week in Precision Oncology, the new paper uses a novel analytical approach to screen numerous plant-based chemicals instead of testing a single agent as many studies do, discovering specific combinations that shrink prostate cancer tumors.

“After screening a natural compound library, we developed an unbiased look at combinations of nutrients that have a better effect on prostate cancer than existing drugs,” says corresponding author Stefano Tiziani, assistant professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and Dell Pediatric Research Institute at UT Austin. “The beauty of this study is that we were able to inhibit tumor growth in mice without toxicity.”