Abstract

Cancer is one of the common diseases observed in our country and worldwide with a high mortality rate. Although cancer has been treated with different applications such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgical operation, the exact remedy of this disease has still not been found, yet. The fact that current treatment methods have severe side effects on patients has increased the interest in natural anticancer agents that are accepted easily and considered as safer by society. The aim of this study is to investigate the anticancer activity of whitebeam (Sorbus aria) that grows in the Central Anatolia Region in Turkey, extract on PC-3 human prostate cancer cells in vitro. The anticancer activity of the ethanol extract obtained from whitebeam fruits evaluated using MTT cell proliferation assay. Also, Folin-Ciocalteu assay and CUPRAC method were performed to determine total phenol content and antioxidant capacity of whitebeam fruits, respectively. Whitebeam fruit extract showed strong anticancer activity on prostate cancer in vitro. The obtained ethanol extract is found to be a promising natural anticancer agent in vitro, and our findings need to be verified with in vivo studies and clinical trials.

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