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Article: Pygeum africanum extract prevents prostate cancer.(IN THE NEWS)(Brief article)(Clinical report)
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- Life Extension
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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New research adds further credence to the notion that it may be possible to prevent the occurrence of prostate cancer through the regular use of botanical extracts.*
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Scientists at the University of Missouri-Columbia showed that an extract of Pygeum africanum is capable of inhibiting growth and inducing cellular suicide in two standard human prostate cancer cell lines in tissue culture. Furthermore, the extract was shown to sharply reduce the incidence of prostate cancer in laboratory mice genetically engineered to develop the disease.
Extracts of the bark of the Pygeum africanum, or African plum, tree have been used for the control of benign ...