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'''Prostate cancer: Daisies may hold the key to treating disease, Flinders Medical Centre researchers hope''' | |||
*Source:http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/prostate-cancer-daisies-may-hold-the-key-to-treating-disease-flinders-medical-centre-researchers-hope/news-story/3b23acf99a9cdbe0737af1ed1ac75f58 | |||
:By BRAD CROUCH (HEALTH REPORTER, The Advertiser) | |||
FLOWER power may hold the key to treating cancer. | |||
Flinders Medical Centre researchers using daisies to deal with prostate cancer hope to move from mice to men after trials on rodents using a chemical found in daisies showed promising results. | |||
In a happy turn of fate the flower’s power holds a double whammy — researchers believe the chemical parthenolide can attack the tumour while also protecting nearby healthy cells from the effects of radiotherapy. | |||
Feverfew is a medicinal herb from the daisy family with anti-inflammatory qualities that has been used for centuries to treat everything from migraine headaches to rheumatoid arthritis, stomach aches, toothaches, insect bites and infertility. | |||
Researchers at the Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer say results treating mice with cancer are so promising they hope to move to clinical trials. | |||
First, though, they plan to use human tissue from men who have undergone prostate cancer surgery to test the properties of the chemical on the remnant of tumours and surrounding healthy tissue. | |||
Professor Pam Sykes is working on the research with PhD student Katherine Morel and an international research team including Professor Chris Sweeney from the Dana Faber Cancer Institute in the United States. | |||
“We are getting promising preliminary data and are now seeking funding to pursue it further,” Prof Sykes said. | |||
“We hope we can use it with radiotherapy to kill more tumour cells while also protecting nearby healthy cells in the bladder and colon — a two-in-one effect would be lovely. | |||
“Once we can show it does have a good protective effect we can potentially go to clinical trials. | |||
“It is non-toxic outside tumour cells compared to other drugs, and while we are looking at prostate cancer it would be relevant to any other type of cancer being treated with radiotherapy including brain cancer.” | |||
Radiotherapy is often used to treat prostate cancer and while it is effective in killing cancer cells, it can damage normal tissue surrounding the tumour which can lead to long term side effects including incontinence, impotence and infertility. | |||
Ms Morel said the chemical may help avoid such side effects. | |||
“We know that radiotherapy could kill more cancer cells if higher radiation doses were given, but the expected damage to the normal cells limits the amount of radiation that can be given to that organ affected by cancer,” Ms Morel said. | |||
“The aim of this research is to test whether the chemical compound found in feverfew, parthenolide, can specifically protect normal cells during radiotherapy while increasing the ability of the radiation to kill cancer cells. | |||
“Making the cancer cells more sensitive to the radiation would also increase cure rates; and reducing the radiation damage to the normal cells would reduce the risk of a subsequent cancer caused by the radiation therapy.” | |||
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'''Natural Supplements for Migraine Prevention: Butterbur and Feverfew''' | '''Natural Supplements for Migraine Prevention: Butterbur and Feverfew''' | ||
*Source:http://www.dynamicchiropractic.com/mpacms/dc/article.php?id=54885 | *Source:http://www.dynamicchiropractic.com/mpacms/dc/article.php?id=54885 | ||