Beehive extract shows potential as prostate cancer treatment

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http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/2012/20120504-beehive.html

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[font size=4]Proteomics reveals how ancient remedy slows prostate tumor cell proliferation[/font]

May 4, 2012

[font size=3]An over-the-counter natural remedy derived from honeybee hives arrests the growth of prostate cancer cells and tumors in mice, according to a new paper from researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine.

Caffeic acid phenethyl ester, or CAPE, is a compound isolated from honeybee hive propolis, the resin used by bees to patch up holes in hives. Propolis has been used for centuries as a natural remedy for conditions ranging from sore throats and allergies to burns and cancer. But the compound has not gained acceptance in the clinic due to scientific questions about its effect on cells.

In a paper published in Cancer Prevention Research, researchers combined traditional cancer research methods with cutting-edge proteomics to find that CAPE arrests early-stage prostate cancer by shutting down the tumor cells' system for detecting sources of nutrition.

"If you feed CAPE to mice daily, their tumors will stop growing. After several weeks, if you stop the treatment, the tumors will begin to grow again at their original pace," said Richard B. Jones, PhD, assistant professor in the Ben May Department for Cancer Research and Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology and senior author of the study. "So it doesn't kill the cancer, but it basically will indefinitely stop prostate cancer proliferation."

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[Ian David]

1. Like Eddie Murphy said, "Put bees in your butt." n/t

[trotsky]

2. If this works in humans, it would make a great treatment to go along with a vaccine.

Arrest the tumor's growth, enlist the body's immune system to destroy it.

Exciting times we live in, to be sure.

[benld74]

3. There go the rest of the bees,,,,,,,