Ginseng Consumption Possible Effect on Liver Cancer: A Meta-Analysis
A partir d'une revue systématique de la littérature publiée jusqu'en décembre 2019 (9 études, 13 766 individus), cette méta-analyse évalue le rôle d'une consommation de ginseng dans la prévention du cancer du foie et lors d'un traitement par chimiothérapie
Introduction: Ginseng is associated to the reduction of the risk of liver-cancer and some time is used as adjuvant therapy to treat liver-cancer, but its outcome remains uncertain. Hence, the present study aimed to determine the association between Ginseng consumption and liver-cancer. Methods: By a systematic-literature search up to Decamber-2019, 9-studies included 13,766 subjects, 9235 Ginseng consumer. Odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) was determined comparing Ginseng consumption and liver-cancer relationship using the dichotomous method with a fixed-effect or random-effect models. Results: Subjects consuming Ginseng had a significantly lower risk of developing liver-cancer than those not consuming Ginseng (OR, 0.46; 95% CI, 0.40-0.52, p?<?0.001). Also, there was a significant relationship between Ginseng consumption as adjuvant-therapy and disease control rate (OR, 4.47; 95% CI, 2.41-8.28, p?<?0.001), Karnofsky Performance Scale (OR, 4.31; 95% CI, 1.80-10.36, p?=?0.001), response to chemotherapy rate (OR, 1.79; 95% CI, 1.05-3.02, p?=?0.03) and decline of leukocyte count (OR, 0.17; 95% CI, 0.07-0.42, p?<?0.001). However, there was no significant effect, but relatively favoring Ginseng consumption, between Ginseng consumption as adjuvant-therapy and one year survival rate (OR, 1.48; 95% CI, 0.78-2.81, p?=?0.23), two year survival rate (OR, 1.69; 95% CI, 0.87-3.25, p?=?0.12) gastrointestinal dysfunction (OR, 0.55; 95% CI, 0.17-1.79, p?=?0.32), and the hepatic dysfunction (OR, 1.15; 95% CI, 0.59-2.22, p?=?0.68). Conclusions: Ginseng may have an independent relationship with reducing liver-cancer incidence when administrated to healthy subjects as a supplement and with reducing cancer-chemotherapy related outcomes risk when administrated with chemotherapy as adjuvant therapy.
Nutrition and Cancer 2020