Lung cancer is the most common form of cancer worldwide—no other cancer causes more deaths. Although there are various treatment options available, they do not work for all patients. Researchers in the Department of Molecular Pneumology at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen have now shown that quercetin acts on lung cancer cells at several sites.
“Many drugs against lung cancer target a single molecule,” explains Dr. Susetta Finotto. “Quercetin, by contrast, attacked at several points simultaneously in our experiments.” For the study, the researchers examined the effect of quercetin on lung cancer cells in the lab, on mouse lung sections and in living mice.