Latest Trustworthy News from Dr. Mercola - delivered straight to your inbox!
My New Book is Now A Best Seller | Order Now My New Book is Now A Best Seller | Order Now

Synthetic Lycopene Slows Prostate Cancer

  • September 30, 2004

In another needless case of trying to improve on a healthy, natural means to treat disease, Dutch researchers are testing a synthetic version of lycopene after finding it slowed the growth of human prostate cancer tumors in mice. In their research, scientists found a low dose of the synthetic lycopene slowed the growth of human prostate tumours implanted in the mice by more than 50 percent by day 42 of the study, compared to mice who had not had the treatment. And when the lycopene...