Cancer Studies with Ganoderma lucidum
Laboratory studies in the US and China have shown that spore extracts can cause cancer cells to round up and die, inhibit tumor-induced blood supply development and prevent tumor growth
RECENT SCIENTIFIC STUDIES
Ganoderma spores - bladder
complete paper - pdf
Jian Yu Rao and colleagues at the Department Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, USA (2004) conducted experiments which revealed that preparations of Ganoderma spores can inhibit the growth of human bladder cells. By studying the effects of the preparations on actin proteins, they showed that Ganderma causes the proteins to polymerize excessively, leading to a blockage in the cell division.
Ganoderma spores - prostate
complete paper - pdf
Daniel Sliva and colleagues at the Cancer Research Laboratory and Department of Medicine, University of Indiana, USA (2005) showed that preparations of Ganoderma spores can inhibit the growth of the blood vessels that supply human prostate cancer cells with oxygen and nutrients, causing the prostate cancer to die. They also produced data which suggests that Ganoderma directly blocks secretions from the growth that help the prostate cancer cells to divide.
Ganoderma spores - breast
complete paper - pdf
Burton B. Yang and colleagues at the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Toronto, Canada (2005) showed that preparations of Ganoderma spores reduce the numbers of integrin proteins at the surfaces of malignant human breast cancer cells. These proteins cause cells to adhere. But when exposed to Ganoderma spores, the breast cancer cells used by the team separated and died.
Ganoderma spores - lung
complete paper - pdf
Qu-zehn Cao and Zhi-Bin Lin at the Peking University of Health Science and the Department of Pharmacology at Peking University, China (2005) showed that polysaccarides in Ganoderma spores inhibit the growth of the vascular cells that carry blood to human lung cancers cells. In doing this Ganoderma spores help to starve cancer cells of oxygen and nutrients, causing them to die.
Ganoderma spores - breast
complete paper - pdf
Burton B. Yang and colleagues at the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Toronto, Canada (2006) showed that preparations of Ganoderma spores cause malignant human breast cancer cells growing in culture dishes to separate from the dishes, round up and die. They discovered that the spores collected from Ganoderma grown on wood logs were most effective. (Our Purespores are grown on wood logs.)
Ganoderma spores enhance immune cell development
complete paper - pdf
Godfrey Chan and colleagues at the Department of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, China (2008)_ showed that preparations of Ganoderma spores could cause human leukemia cells to differentiate into other cells with immunotherapeutic activities. Somehow, compounds in the spores re-directed the leukemia cells to become cells able to enhance the function of the immune system
