Day 8: Aronia in cancer patients undergoing therapy
Effects of the commercial extract of aronia on oxidative stress in blood platelets isolated from breast cancer patients after the surgery and various phases of the chemotherapy
Kedzierska et al. Fitoterapia. Volume 83, Issue 2, March 2012, Pages 310-317
Researchers tested extracts from aronia berries in cells taken from breast cancer patients before and after surgery, and after 1 phase of chemotherapy to determine if the berry extracts have any positive effect.
chemotherapies and treatments for cancers are successful tools in treating cancers, but they come at a cost in terms of the damage they can do to patients own healthy tissues
ways to combat and exploit the positive aspects of chemotherapies while counteracting any negative effects are actively being researched
This type of data shows in groups that are marked with p<0.05, indicate cases in which aronia extract had an effect that is likely “real” or more than just due to random chance (statistical analyses).
The two graphs represent a part of the data from this study, and represent markers of cellular damage that increased with cancer, surgery, and with chemotherapy.
TAKE HOME: Aronia extract was impactful in reducing some cellular damage, at least on the markers that researchers used to estimate, in cancer patients and during chemotherapy. This is promising.
