A mushroom used for centuries in Chinese medicine would be able to increase the effects of a chemotherapeutic drug, doxorubicin, used to treat prostate cancer.
Dr. Chang-Yan Chen of the School of Medicine, Boston University (USA) has published the results of a study of the mushroom Phellinus linteus and its effects on cancer cells. He added extracts of this fungus at doses of doxorubicin normally too low to affect cancer cells. Results: The tumor cells were destroyed without any healthy cell is damaged.
In the conventional chemotherapy anti-tumor substances are not able to differentiate between diseased cells and those without. Many normal cells are killed as well, entered? Ing side effects more or less restrictive: fatigue, hair loss, etc..
The combination of Phellinus linteus to doxorubicin may reduce the doses of chemotherapeutic compounds used in therapy. The effect would be the same trainer, but treatment is less toxic and therefore less burdensome to follow.
Dr. Chang-Yan Chen of the School of Medicine, Boston University (USA) has published the results of a study of the mushroom Phellinus linteus and its effects on cancer cells. He added extracts of this fungus at doses of doxorubicin normally too low to affect cancer cells. Results: The tumor cells were destroyed without any healthy cell is damaged.
In the conventional chemotherapy anti-tumor substances are not able to differentiate between diseased cells and those without. Many normal cells are killed as well, entered? Ing side effects more or less restrictive: fatigue, hair loss, etc..
The combination of Phellinus linteus to doxorubicin may reduce the doses of chemotherapeutic compounds used in therapy. The effect would be the same trainer, but treatment is less toxic and therefore less burdensome to follow.
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