Systematic reviews on interventions with honey in cancer
VIT Patricia1,2*, HUQ Fazlul2
1Apitherapy and Bioactivity, Food Science Department, Faculty of Pharmacy and Bioanalysis, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida 5101, Venezuela.
2Cancer Research Group, Discipline of Biomedical Science, Cumberland Campus C42, The University of Sydney, 75 East Street, Lidcombe NSW 1825, Australia.
* Corresponding author: Patricia Vit, Received: September 2012; Accepted: January, 2013
Abstract
Interventions with honey in cancer were systematically reviewed based on three databases (AMED, CINHAL, MEDLINE), as a mandatory tool for evidence-based medicine. The information was categorized using hand search (number of articles in brackets) into three sets: 1. Supportive care for human cancer (4). 2. Therapeutical uses of honey in cancer models in vivo (3). 3. Experimental uses of honey and flavonoids in cultured cancer cells (7). Honey type, dosage, time sequence, organ with cancer, patients, intervention, conclusions, follow-up, authors and countries are presented for each study.
* THESE STATEMENTS HAVE NOT BEEN EVALUATED BY THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION. THIS IS NOT INTENDED TO DIAGNOSE, TREAT CURE OR PREVENT ANY DISEASE.