Cancer and therapeutic with hive products

The comprehensive approach to cancer is today a challenge for patients, their families, health teams and society. In most countries of the world, cancer is the first or second cause of premature death only surpassed by cardiovascular disease (1). In spite of the efforts in the timely detection and research of new treatments for the different types of cancer, there are still many challenges to achieve its cure (2), for this reason the search for therapeutic tools aimed at healing, remission, control and achieving a better quality of life in patients suffering from the disease is fully justified. The different products of the hive such as honey, bee venom, pollen, propolis and royal jelly have been shown to have useful properties for the prevention and treatment of cancer in its different grades (3). It is precisely about the mechanisms of action of these products that will be discussed in this article.

There are more than 100 research articles that have been carried out and that directly explore the mechanisms of action of hive products in cancer. Many of them focus on their effects on breast, prostate, colon, liver and lung cancer, all of them high in the population. Below is a summary of the main mechanisms of action of bee venom, honey and propolis, useful in the treatment of cancer.

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