Use of honey in cancer prevention and therapy

Abstract:

Information obtained from traditional use and scientific studies can help establish the value of honey in cancer treatment. Animal models and clinical trials with honey administered alone or in combination with other natural products or targeted therapy, are often difficult to interpret because honey contains major sugary and watery plant components, polyphenols, organic acids, and other secondary metabolites and structures, collected and/or transformed by the bees from thousands of plants. Similarly, cancer includes over 100 forms of metastitized tumors. Antiproliferative action of pot honey from Frieseomelitta, Melipona, Scaptotrigona, and Tetragonula on human ovarian cancer cell lines, reported here from our recent work, suggests cisplatin resistance in ovarian cancer may be effectively diminished by honey.

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2013

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scopus