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Apigenin Evidence by Cancer Type

Cancer settings with the strongest dedicated apigenin signals, plus shorter notes on thinner evidence areas.

This page maps the cancer types where apigenin has enough independent evidence to justify closer review. Additional pages can be added as the literature grows.

Dedicated pages

Cancer Type

Why It Matters

Evidence Level

Colorectal Cancer

PKM2 glycolysis, BCL-2 family pressure, Wnt/β-catenin, cisplatin resistance, colitis-associated cancer models

One of the strongest settings

Hepatocellular Carcinoma

PI3K/AKT, sorafenib and doxorubicin sensitisation, anti-metastatic activity in animal models

Strong in vivo signal

Prostate Cancer

Akt inactivation, IKKα/NF-κB, androgen-refractory models, xenograft data, EMT suppression

One of the most mechanistically developed settings

Ovarian Cancer

MCL-1 downregulation in cisplatin-resistant cells, specific resistance-reversal mechanism

Clinically interesting

Haematological Malignancies

Topoisomerase inhibitor sensitisation in leukaemia, ferroptosis in myeloma

Early, but mechanistically distinct

Other cancer types overview

Several additional tumour types show consistent cell-line signals but do not yet justify standalone pages:

  • Lung cancer (NSCLC): TRAIL potentiation, PI3K/AKT effects, and early anti-metastatic signals in animal models

  • Melanoma: PD-L1 suppression, STAT3 involvement, and one of the strongest immune-oncology signals across the apigenin literature

  • Breast cancer: p53-dependent apoptosis, SASP suppression, and IL-1α/NF-κB relevance. This could justify a dedicated page if the evidence base continues to grow.

  • Endometrial cancer: ferroptosis and autophagy data. Early, but mechanistically interesting.

  • Pancreatic cancer: gemcitabine sensitisation and NK-cell cytotoxicity data. Very early and still thin.

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