Prostate cancer: Therapeutic prospect with herbal medicine

Current Research in Pharmacology and Drug Discovery

Joyita Hazra¹  Vinod K. Nelson²  Suvranil Ghosh³  Mahadeb Pal³  Koustav Pal⁴ 

[1] Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Tamil Nadu, India;Department of Pharmacology, Raghavendra Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Andhra Pradesh, India;Division of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India;JIPMER, Puducherry, India;

关键词: Prostate cancer;    Chemotherapy;    Radiation therapy;    Natural products;    Phytochemicals;    Plant extract and compounds;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Prostate cancer (PCa) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in men worldwide. A geographic variation on the burden of the disease suggested that the environment, genetic makeup, lifestyle, and food habits modulate one's susceptibility to the disease. Although it has been generally thought to be an older age disease, and awareness and timely execution of screening programs have managed to contain the disease in the older population over the last decades, the incidence is still increasing in the population younger than 50. Existing treatment is efficient for PCa that is localized and responsive to androgen. However, the androgen resistant and metastatic PCa are challenging to treat. Conventional radiation and chemotherapies are associated with severe side effects in addition to being exorbitantly expensive. Many isolated phytochemicals and extracts of plants used in traditional medicine are known for their safety and diverse healing properties, including many with varying levels of anti-PCa activities. Many of the phytochemicals discussed here, as shown by many laboratories, inhibit tumor cell growth and proliferation by interfering with the components in the pathways responsible for the enhanced proliferation, metabolism, angiogenesis, invasion, and metastasis in the prostate cells while upregulating the mechanisms of cell death and cell cycle arrest. Notably, many of these agents simultaneously target multiple cellular pathways. We analyzed the available literature and provided an update on this issue in this review article.

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