By: Paula Akana
From: kitv.com
HONOLULU – The UH Cancer Center is taking on prostate cancer. It’s the most common cancer among men in Hawaii, and the center hopes noni extract can help make cancer no more. The noni is that pungent fruit found throughout Polynesia and Asia. The trial involves low or very low risk patients prostate cancer.
Jeffrey Huang is the Principal Investigator for the study.
“So generally, the treatment for these patients is either active surveillance or what we call waiting. So we don’t necessarily have to treat these patients with toxic chemo and that sort of thing. So it gives us a very good opportunity to be able to use a noni product, a more natural product, herbal remedy to see if there are any changes in their prostate cancer,” he said.
In this trial, patients take daily noni capsules. The amount needed per dose was already determined during past trials.
“So our patients would be taking noni about a year and then we’ll see if there are any signs of genetic changes within a year,” said Huang.
There will be monthly checkups including blood draws to detect any changes. Past research has found anti-cancer properties in the extract. The noni extract for the capsules comes from a Big Island company called Healing Noni.
The company has been farming noni for 17 years and is excited about the clinical trials and what they might prove regarding the health benefits of noni.
The clinical trial began a few weeks and they are hoping to get more patients involved. If you are interested, contact your primary care physician or oncologist.
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