Prostate cancer and ginger extract:
Ginger extract, previously shown to display anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and anti-proliferative activities, might be useful for prostate cancer. Feeding mice 100 mg/kg of ginger extract/day inhibited growth of prostate cancer xenografts (the transmission of living organs, tissues, or cells from one species to another) in nude mice by approximately 56%, as shown by measurements of tumor volume. This finding suggests that whole ginger extract has promising cancer-preventing activity in prostate cancer by stopping the growth of cancer cells, as well as in inducing cell death in prostate cancer cells. Of great importance was that the extract did not show significant toxicity to normal tissues, such as bone marrow. (18)