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Posted 12/28/2020 9:34 PM (GMT 0)
I have been taking a 1000 mg. Curcumin supplement for the past 4 months based on some literature and folks saying it can help with post primary prostate cancer treatment. I was wondering if anyone here is taking Curcumin as a daily supplement? I can't tell if it is doing anything or not. I had HDR Brachy on April 21 followed by 19 EBRT treatments ending on May 29. I am still on Lupron since February 14. I was diagnosed in January 2020 with Gleason 9, 4+5, PSA 18. My last two 3-month PSA......0.07 and 0.11. Just wondering if anyone else is taking Curcumin and if it actually matters with prostate cancer or just another supplement to pry more money from us.

Post Edited (WayneTX) : 12/28/2020 3:13:24 PM (GMT-7)

Posted 12/29/2020 1:22 AM (GMT 0)
Hi Wayne. I'm another post-treatment G9 (4+5) and I take a number of phytochemicals, including tumeric curcumin. I posted a recent review of its use with PCa in a thread here See also the other posts in the thread.

Djin
Posted 12/29/2020 2:01 AM (GMT 0)
I'm sort of neutral on it. I take a curcumin supplement, but for joint inflammation/aches. It seems to have helped for that, but for my PC no idea. I actually thought about dropping it at one stage - I had read one or 2 reports suggesting that while it may lower psa it may be more a disguise. ie it's more masking the number rather than helping against PC. I think if my psa was rising I'd stop the curcumin to make sure it wasn't masking a worse problem.
Posted 12/29/2020 3:09 AM (GMT 0)
Once you are on a supplement for a short period, you'll get all of its masking effect, if any. And the "masking effect" might not be that, but rather a slowing of malignant growth rate -- something highly desireable.

I would note that finasteride (for BPH) has a huge PSA-masking efect: it shrinks prostate tissue and lowers PSA by a whopping 50% ! Nonetheless, its effects are known and finite. PCa can still be detected by PSA rise after the new finasteride-induced PSA baseline is reached. And finasteride has been found to reduce the risk of low-grade PCa by 25%. Any PSA-masking effects of phytochemicals are no doubt considerably smaller than that of 5-alpha reductase inhibitors like finasteride.

The probable reduction in inflammation at the cellular level from phytochemicals is nothing to sneeze at. Inflammation is thought to be involved in the etiology of many diseases, including cancers.

I suggest that anyone interested read the Full Text of the above curcumin review.

Djin
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