[norseman53]

I am a 53, soon to be 54 year old man that was diagnosed with prostate cancer last December 2009...I went in for a routine physical, had a PSA test and it came back at a 14...had a second, it also came back at a 14...had a biopsy, came back Gleeson 4+4 (8).

I went to 3 urologists, all of whom wanted to cut out my prostate and not spare the nereves, rendering me incontinent and impotent...

I had read a previous post from a man on here who had taken massive doses of cayenne pepper based upon the results of a study he read about...I am not sure I can mention it, or post a link to it....so, I also started taking massive doses of cayenne (90,000 heat units).

Two days ago, I went to a large Cancer Treatment Center in Tulsa, OK...and they did another PSA test....and it came back at a 9.5...a drop of 4.5 points after only 3 months on the cayenne...

I am not selling anything, not a scientist, just a guy who took a chance...and am giving you the results...I had a CT scan, a bone scan and an MRI of my pelvic area...nothing in the seminal vesicles, nothing on the bones, lymph or wherever...

Just thought you would like to know....

[ohno]

Congrads!!! great news, thanks for the post, beats the heck outta surgery ~ eh?? Can you give some comparison of the dosages that you take and the guy below take?

....here's the story you will appreciate:
Several years ago (2006 to be precise) it was reported — by Mori et al. and by Sánchez et al. — that capsaicin (the strong-smelling, active component of chili peppers) was able to kill prostate cancer cells in mouse-based cell cultures.

In an article published in February, Jankovic et al. have described what they claim to be “the first case” of PSA stabilization in a patient with prostate cancer, who had biochemical failure after radiation therapy. The stabilization appears to have been a consequence of treatment with capsaicin.

The patient in question was a 66-year-old man with clinical stage T2b prostate cancer (Gleason score 3 + 4 = 7). When he first presented in April 2001, with a PSA of 13.3, he was treated with 3D conformal radiation therapy to the prostate and the pelvis, followed by a prostate-specific radiation “boost.”

Radiation therapy was completed in May 2001, and by January 2002 his PSA had dropped to a nadir level of 0.57 ng/ml. However, his PSA gradually started to rise again, and in July 2005, when the PSA level had reached 38.5 ng/ml, he was treated with bicalutamide and leuprolide acetate (“total” or “maximal” androgen deprivation therapy). The patient did not tolerate androgen ablation well and so he discontinued treatment, deciding to start taking 2.5 ml of habañeros chili sauce, containing capsaicin, 1 to 2 times a week, starting in April 2006, with the following consequences:

His PSA doubling time increased from 4 weeks (before capsaicin treatment) to 7.3 months between April and October 2006.
Between October 2006 and November 2007, he stayed on capsaicin (at 2.5 to 15 ml daily) and his PSA was stable (between 11 to 14 ng/ml).
Between November 2007 and January 2008, his PSA rose to 22.3 ng/ml and he has subsequently has maintained a PSA doubling time between 4 and 5 months.
Because of the patient’s continued PSA rise, he has been restarted on bicalutamide (12.5 mg daily). However, he is still free of all signs or symptoms of recurrence of his prostate cancer — with the exception of the rise in his PSA.

Now The “New” Prostate cancer InfoLink is not recommending that every man with progressive prostate cancer rushes out to the supermarket and starts downing large amounts of habaneros sauce on a daily basis, but … It certainly does appear that capsaicin does something that may impact the rate of growth of prostate cancer cells in at least some men, which leads one to wonder whether it may really be possible to develop some form of capsaicin derivative as a drug that can be used to delay the growth of prostate cancer prior to the need to initiate hormone therapy.