期刊
CHEMICO-BIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS
卷 171, 期 2, 页码 122-132出版社
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbi.2007.03.001
关键词
prostate cancer; chemoprevention; EGCG; lupeol; pomegranate; ODC; COX-2
资金
- NCI NIH HHS [R01 CA 101039, R01 CA 78809] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [P50 DK065303-01] Funding Source: Medline
One practical way to control cancer is through chemoprevention, which refers to the administration of synthetic or naturally occurring agents to block, reverse or delay the process of carcinogenesis. For a variety of reasons, the most important of which is human acceptance, for chemopreventive intervention naturally occurring diet-based agents are preferred over synthetic agents. For a long time, the prevailing mantra of cancer chemoprevention has been: Find effective agents with acceptable or no toxicity and use them in preventing cancer in relatively healthy people or individuals at high risk for developing cancer. In pursuing this goal many naturally occurring phytochemicals capable of affording protection against carcinogenesis in preclinical settings in experimental animals have been described. However, clinical trials of single agents have yielded disappointing results. Since carcinogenesis is a multistage phenomenon in which many normal cellular pathways become aberrant, it is unlikely that one agent could prove effective in preventing cancer. This review underscores the need to build an armamentarium of naturally occurring chemopreventive substances that could prevent or slow down the development and progression of prostate cancer. Thus, the new effective approach for cancer prevention building a customized mechanism-based chemoprevention cocktail of naturally occurring substances is advocated. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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