Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer treatment enhanced by a bioactive component of soy isoflavones
Published in Cancer Weekly, August 29th, 2006
According to a study from the United States, "Pretreatment with genistein, a bioactive component of soy isoflavones, potentiated cell killing induced by radiation in human PC-3 prostate cancer cells in vitro.
"Using an orthotopic xenograft in nude mice, we demonstrated that genistein combined with prostate tumor irradiation caused greater inhibition of primary tumor growth and increased control of spontaneous metastasis to para-aortic lymph nodes, increasing mouse survival."
"Paradoxically," wrote Y. Wang and colleagues at Webber Cancer...
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