Ortenau Klinikum Offenburg-Kehl, Ebertplatz 12, 77654 Offenburg, Germany.
Ortenau Klinikum Offenburg-Kehl, Ebertplatz 12, 77654 Offenburg, Germany.
Complement Ther Med. 2020 Jun;51:102390. doi: 10.1016/j.ctim.2020.102390. Epub 2020 May 1.
Apitherapy, a method from the field of complementary and alternative medicine, promises better survival and even cure in cases of cancer.
129 books on apitherapy in English, French and German languages were analysed regarding the recommendations concerning cancer. The recommendations were compared to the results from clinical studies in the literature.
Eighteen books recommend apitherapy for cancer prevention, thirty-nine for complementary cancer treatment and seventeen books considered apitherapy able to cure cancer. Pollen and Propolis were mainly recommended in order to stimulate the immune system and/or to improve cancer nutrition. Interestingly, few books provided specific information and no book provided adequate information in comparison to what is known from clinical studies on bee products. Data on relevant aspects of cancer treatment were not mentioned. This especially refers to data of bee products and radiotherapy, chemotherapy and radio-chemotherapy-induced oral mucositis, radiotherapy-induced skin toxicity, radiotherapy-induced xerostomia, cancer-related fatigue, febrile neutropenia, cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity, tyrosine kinase inhibitor-induced toxicity, side effects of antihormonal treatment and cancer-related wounds.
Apitherapeutic books are not good advisors regarding all aspects of cancer. However, the potential of some bee products justifies further trials, especially on cancer prevention and complementary treatment.
蜂疗是一种来自补充和替代医学领域的方法，它承诺在癌症病例中能提高生存率甚至治愈。
分析了 129 本关于蜂疗的英文、法文和德文书籍，其中涉及癌症的相关建议。将这些建议与文献中的临床研究结果进行比较。
18 本书推荐蜂疗来预防癌症，39 本推荐用于癌症的辅助治疗，17 本认为蜂疗能够治愈癌症。花粉和蜂胶主要被推荐用于刺激免疫系统和/或改善癌症营养。有趣的是，很少有书籍提供具体信息，与临床研究中对蜂产品的了解相比，没有一本书提供足够的信息。关于癌症治疗相关方面的数据也未提及。这尤其涉及到蜂产品以及放疗、化疗和放化疗引起的口腔黏膜炎、放疗引起的皮肤毒性、放疗引起的口干、癌症相关疲劳、发热性中性粒细胞减少症、顺铂引起的肾毒性、酪氨酸激酶抑制剂引起的毒性、抗激素治疗的副作用和癌症相关的伤口。
蜂疗书籍并不是癌症各方面的好顾问。然而，一些蜂产品的潜力证明了进一步试验的合理性，特别是在癌症预防和辅助治疗方面。
