The talk will focus on a recently concluded extensive research on Honey and its anti-cancer properties. Results showed the rate of experimentally-induced breast cancer progression is reduced in animals in the honey-treated groups compared to the pos…
The talk will focus on a recently concluded extensive research on Honey and its anti-cancer properties. Results showed the rate of experimentally-induced breast cancer progression is reduced in animals in the honey-treated groups compared to the positive control group. The number of tumors developed was reduced and the size was found to be smaller than those not given honey. The histological grading was also better.
The mechanism by which honey exerts cancer-preventive and cancer-therapeutic effects is multifold:
- via improvement of immunological, hematological, serological response and
- by activation of the apoptotic mechanism pathway
The pro-apoptotic proteins are up-regulated and the anti-apoptotic proteins are down regulated. Results show that honey has the characteristics of a vaccine against cancer with great potential to be used as a preventive and therapeutic anti-cancer agent.
Speaker 1: Professor Emerita Dr. Nor Hayati Othman
Professor Emerita Dr. Nor Hayati’s research interests are in cancer prevention especially on the pathology of gynaecological cancers, including the effects of honey as a cancer preventive agent. Together with electronic and electrical engineers from the USM engineering campus, she invented NeuralPap [a diagnostic software to diagnose cervical cancer], DataPap [management system for cervical cancer] and Neuralmammo [diagnostic software to diagnose breast cancer]. These 3 inventions won several awards at national and international invention competitions.
In 2021 and 2022, University of Stanford listed Professor Dr. Nor Hayati among the top 2% scientists in the world under category ‘Citation Impact in Single Year 2020 and 2021’ in separate publications in Elservier. In 2022, she was conferred Professor Emerita by Universiti Sains Malaysia.
