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# This humble veggie may help prevent prostate cancer
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/this-humble-veggie-may-help-prevent-prostate-cancer/
- Published: 2012-05-30T22:52:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T15:46:27.000Z
- Description: Aleksandra Wiczk's team showed sulforaphane, the isothiocyanate from cruciferous vegetables, inhibits protein synthesis in PC-3 human prostate cancer cells in a dose- and time-dependent way, accompanied by less phosphorylation of mTOR substrates.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Nutrition, #vivvo-import

By David Liu

Wednesday May 30, 2012 (foodconsumer.org) -- Eating cruciferous vegetables may help prevent prostate cancer, according to a new study in the Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Cell Research released online 25 May 2012.

Specifically, the study shows that sulforaphane, a cruciferous vegetable-derived isothiocyanate, inhibits protein synthesis in human prostate cancer cells, which suggests that sulforaphane (SFN) may have an anticancer effect against prostate cancer.

Aleksandra Wiczk of University of Gda?sk in Gda?sk, Poland and colleagues, the authors of the report, said that sulforaphane found in cruciferous plants has been found for long to be able to fight prostate cancer cells in vitro and animals.

The authors said sulforaphane "inhibits cell proliferation, induces apoptosis, autophagy, and sensitizes cancer cells to therapies."

The authors demonstrated in their laboratory study that "SFN inhibits protein synthesis in PC-3 cells in a dose- and time-dependent manner which is accompanied by a decreased phosphorylation of mTOR substrates."

Prostate cancer is diagnosed in about 200,000 men in the United States each year, and the disease kills about 37,000 men each year in the country, according to the National Cancer Institute.

The following is a list of cruciferous vegetables

horseradish

land cress

ethiopian mustard

kale

collard greens

Chinese broccoli (gai-lan)

cabbage

brussels sprout

kohlrabi

broccoli

broccoflower

broccoli romanesco

cauliflower

wild broccoli

bok choy

komatsuna

mizuna

Rapini (broccoli rabe)

flowering cabbage

chinese cabbage, napa cabbage

turnip root; greens

rutabaga

siberian kale

canola/rapeseed

wrapped heart mustard cabbage

mustard seeds, brown; greens

mustard seeds, white

mustard seeds, black

tatsoi

arugula (rocket)

field pepperweed

maca

garden cress

watercress

radish

daikon

wasabi