First Department of Pathology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Department of Food Science and Nutrition, School of Environment, University of Aegean, 81400 Lemnos, Greece.
Int J Mol Sci. 2023 May 17;24(10):8918. doi: 10.3390/ijms24108918.
Phytotherapy has long represented a widely accepted treatment alternative to conventional therapy. Bitter melon is a vine with potent antitumor effects against numerous cancer entities. To date, no review article has, however, been published on the role of bitter melon in breast and gynecological cancer prevention and therapy. The current work constitutes the most comprehensive, up-to-date review of the literature, which highlights the promising anticancer effects of bitter melon on breast, ovarian, and cervical cancer cells and discusses future research recommendations.
植物疗法长期以来一直是一种被广泛接受的替代传统疗法的治疗方法。苦瓜是一种具有强大抗肿瘤作用的藤本植物，可对抗多种癌症实体。然而，迄今为止，尚无关于苦瓜在预防和治疗乳腺癌和妇科癌症中的作用的综述文章。目前的工作是对文献的最全面、最新的综述，强调了苦瓜对乳腺癌、卵巢癌和宫颈癌细胞的有前途的抗癌作用，并讨论了未来的研究建议。
