According to a recent research, progression of prostate cancer and reduction in efficacy of anti-cancer drugs can be stimulated by hormonal components in over-the-counter dietary supplements.

This discovery by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center appeared in an issue of Clinical Cancer Research and reaffirmed that people visiting the doctors’ offices must inform them about any herbal or hormonal dietary supplements they are taking or considering taking.

From News-Medical.Net:

“Physicians need to ask their patients not only about the prescription drugs they may be taking, but – perhaps even more importantly – about the over-the-counter drugs and supplements, which may have a profound impact on certain health conditions,” said Dr. Claus Roehrborn, chairman of urology  at UT Southwestern and one of the study’s authors.

The researchers began their investigation when two patients being seen by UT Southwestern doctors developed aggressive prostate cancer within months of starting daily consumption of the same dietary supplement. Both men purchased the same product, one to develop stronger muscles and enhance sexual performance, the other to gain muscle.

Dr. Roehrborn, Dr. Shahrokh Shariat, a resident in urology and the study’s lead author, and their colleagues analyzed the supplement, which is not named in the study. They found that the product’s label listed ingredients that were not present, misrepresented the concentrations of the ingredients present and failed to list all the steroid hormones contained in the product.

It was recommended by the researchers that documentation of supplement use becomes part of routine health assessment for all patients, especially cancer patients.

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