Acquired Bleeding Diathesis in a Patient Taking PC-SPES
- 18 October 2001
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 345 (16) , 1213-1214
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm200110183451616
Abstract
PC-SPES is a commercially available nutritional supplement containing eight herbs that is used by many patients with prostate cancer. It has potent estrogenic activity and substantial antineoplastic effects in patients with prostate cancer.1,2 We describe a patient with profound bleeding diathesis after one month of unsupervised use of this compound.Keywords
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