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Dietary Supplements Not for Prostate Cancer Patients

by Trilok on March 10, 2010 at 2:49 PM Cancer News

During radiation therapy treatments prostate-specific dietary supplements should not be taken as they increase the radio-sensitivity of normal prostate cell lines, leading to normal tissue complications, has been suggested by researchers from William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan.

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The finding has been published in the March issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).

Many prostate cancer patients choose to take nutritional supplements to improve or increase sexual potency and alleviate symptoms associated with poor prostate health. Some studies show that about half of prostate cancer patients use an herbal or dietary supplement and most do so without discussing it with their doctor.

Researchers at William Beaumont Hospital sought to determine if three widely used commercial prostate-specific dietary supplements changed the radio-sensitivity of normal prostate and/or androgen-positive and -negative prostate tumor cell lines. There have been published reports of negative clinical effects for some tumor sites from the use of certain dietary supplements after chemotherapy, but the effect of dietary supplements on radiation therapy treatments is not well-known.

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