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Resveratrol and Prostate Cancer: The Power of Phytochemicals

Journal

CURRENT MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 28, Issue 24, Pages 4845-4862

Publisher

BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.2174/0929867328666201228124038

Keywords

Prostate cancer; resveratrol; stilbenoids; metastasis; clinical trials; drug combination

Funding

  1. Fondazione I. Monzino (Milano, Italy)

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Prostate cancer is the fifth leading cause of tumor-related deaths in men globally, with its long latency period making it ideal for chemopreventive studies. Resveratrol, a natural compound, has shown promise as a chemopreventive agent and enhancer of antitumor activity in prostate cancer. Ongoing clinical trials are exploring the potential of resveratrol as an antimetastatic agent in prostate cancer treatment.
Prostate cancer is the fifth cause of tumor-related deaths in man worldwide. Due to its long latency period, this pathology represents an ideal type of disease for chemopreventive studies. Among the drugs considered thus far for the treatment of prostate cancer, the natural compound resveratrol emerged as very promising. Resveratrol is widely recognized as a chemopreventive agent and was shown to potentiate the antitumor activity of conventional chemotherapeutics in several tumors, including prostate cancer. Here, we overview the literature of the last five years and summarize the recent achievements of resveratrol and its derivatives as antimetastatic agents in prostate cancer. Moreover, drug combination studies as well as nanomedicine approaches proposed to improve resveratrol activity and to overcome delivery drawbacks are addressed. The last part of the review discusses the clinical trials containing resveratrol ongoing on cancer patients.

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