Pomegranate juice may help improve prostate cancer treatments A study has found that men undergoing treatment for prostate cancer who consumed an eight-ounce glass of pomegranate juice daily experienced an almost fourfold increase in the length of time their PSA levels remained stable1.
“Doubling time” refers to the length of time it takes PSA levels to double, an important marker of prostate cancer progression and survival risk. Patients with shorter doubling times have an increased chance of dying from cancer – in this study average doubling times ranged from 15 months up to 54 months on average.
Research conducted to date has suggested that pomegranate extract may reduce prostate cancer cell proliferation by inducing apoptosis and ultimately killing off cells, thus slowing their proliferation and proliferating less rapidly.
