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Honey Bee propolis has long been known for it's healing properties
and propolis has now been found to contain the latest FDA approved
drug for fighting colon cancer.
The full article is pasted below and can also be viewed on the
CBS
Healthwatch website
Food Is
Medicine in Colon Cancer Fight
Christopher Wanjek, Medical Writer
The latest FDA-approved drug for fighting
colon
cancer may be sitting in your kitchen. Rosemary, turmeric, grapes,
a honey bee product called propolis: These all contain chemicals similar
to a drug used to prevent the growth of cancerous cells in the large
intestine; they work much in the same way.
"It's gene therapy with food," says Dr. Andrew Dannenberg,
professor of medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
"People lack an appreciation for the way the food they eat
acts like drugs. We have known for decades that eating fruits and
vegetables has health benefits. There's a reason for this."
Although studies have yet to link eating rosemary with lowering
your colon cancer risk, Dr. Dannenberg says that in laboratory cell
cultures, many natural food products work just like synthetic drugs
in controlling the processes that lead to cancer.
Gene
Therapy With Food
Exercising and eating a high-fiber, low-meat diet, the experts say,
can reduce your risk of developing colon cancer, the second deadliest
cancer in the United States. Although two studies reported in April
2000 failed to prove a connection between a change in diet and colon
cancer--results that surprised the scientists conducting the studies--the
National Cancer Institute (NCI) still says that there is a great deal
of evidence that diet influences colon cancer risk. The average person
has about a 5% chance of developing this disease over his or her lifetime,
according to the NCI. Colon cancer is nearly a sure thing, however,
for individuals with a hereditary disease called familial
adenomatous polyposis (FAP). People with FAP develop hundreds
and even thousands of potentially cancerous polyps in their colon
and rectum. In December 1999, the FDA approved the drug celecoxib
(brand name Celebrex) for the treatment of FAP.
Celecoxib helps prevent polyps from growing and turning cancerous
by regulating a gene called COX-2. Rosemary, turmeric, and other
foods work just like celecoxib by preventing COX-2 from making a
particular protein associated with cancer growth, Dr. Dannenberg
says. COX-2's "purpose" for being in the body is unknown.
It seems to stimulate the growth of new blood vessels and inhibit
a cell's natural "self-death" mechanism. This encourages
cancer growth.
Medicine
Wed to Nutrition
According to Dr. Dannenberg, the similarities between a food like
rosemary and a drug like celecoxib are one example of how science
is close to marrying the fields of nutrition and molecular medicine.
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"It is irrefutable that
making a mouse deficient of the COX-2 gene will protect it against
intestinal tumors," says Dr. Dannenberg. "It is also irrefutable
that in cell culture, these natural substances found in the diet prevent
[COX-2] from being turned on. We just haven't proven that feeding
these substances to a human can prevent the gene from turning on ...
and therefore prevent cancer."
Food
Chemistry, Fiber, Selenium
According to the NCI, up to 35% of all cancers may be related to what
we eat: Some foods may increase cancer risk; others may lower it.
As with the COX-2 inhibitors, it is a matter of how a given food,
composed of chemicals just like pharmaceutical drugs, interacts with
the body.
Meat cooked at high temperatures creates chemicals that are not
present in uncooked meat, and some of these chemicals may increase
cancer risk, according to the NCI. Dietary fiber, however, is
linked to lowering cancer rates. This may be due to the way the
chemicals in vegetable fiber interact with bile acid and metabolism,
according to Dr. Carolyn Clifford, acting chief of nutritional science
at the NCI Division of Cancer Prevention.
The Arizona Cancer Center conducted a study on the benefits of
selenium in fighting cancer. Supplements of selenium, a trace essential
mineral found in brewer's yeast, reduced the incidence of colon
cancer in the Institute's 5-year study. The reason why is not yet
clear.
Sharks
and Polar Bears
Some of the more interesting studies being done on the relationship
between natural substances and lower cancer rates involve sharks and
polar bears. Sharks (along with rays and other cartilaginous fish)
may have a very low risk of developing any type of cancer. Although
new studies have cast doubt on this notion, researchers are investigating
the benefits of shark cartilage in cancer treatment.
Polar bears do not develop colon cancer, according to Dr. David
Alberts, director of Cancer Prevention and Control at the Arizona
Cancer Center. And you couldn't find a diet lower in fiber and higher
in fat than a polar bear diet.
The reason for the apparent absence of colon cancer, Dr. Alberts
says, seems to be a naturally occurring acid called UDCA, which
exists in high concentrations in polar bear bile but in low concentrations
in human. Dr. Alberts would like to investigate this relationship
further.
And just how does one go about screening polar bears for colon
cancer? Very carefully.
May.2000
© 2000 by Medscape Inc. All rights reserved.
Christopher Wanjek is a Washington, DC-based science and health
writer.
Reviewed for medical accuracy by physicians
at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Harvard Medical
School. BIDMC does not endorse any products or services advertised
on this Web site.
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