Wish your friend the best, it’s hard watching someone you care for fight these battles. I know the feeling of it all to well.
Hopefully some of these terpenes and flavonoids may help you formulate a specialized tincture/ topical for them that will help from both sides.
I’d run it alongside side a cannabinoid cocktail just like the one @shattertramp has offered as well since it will only help further the properties of the compounds.
(numbers are just site links from the white papers these were sourced with)
Elemene -
**Induced cell cycle arrest [**216,221,222,223,224,225].
Induced apoptosis [216,221,222,223,224,225,226].
Inhibited MAPK and PI3K/Akt/mTOR signalling [226].
Reduced invasion and metastasis [226].
Inhibited angiogenesis [226].
Enhanced sensitivity to several chemotherapeutic agents [227,228,229,230,231].
Increased sensitivity to paclitaxel, colchicine, and vinblastine through ABCB1 inhibition [232,233**].**
Eudesmols -
Exhibited cytotoxic effects [236,237].
Inhibited cell proliferation [238].
Inhibited superoxide production [238].
Inhibited adhesion and migration [238].
Induced apoptosis [239,240].
Induced cell cycle arrest [239,240].
Enhanced cytotoxicity of 5-fluoruracil [241].
Enhanced anti-migratory effects of doxorubicin [241].
Reduced tumor growth [237,242].
Increased survival [242].
Reduced metastasis [242].
Guaiol -
Reduced cell proliferation [278,279].
Reduced metastasis [278].
Inhibited mTORC2-Akt signalling to induce autophagy [280].
Reduced cell growth [279].
Camphene -
Inhibited cell proliferation [281].
Induced apoptosis [281].
Reduced subcutaneous tumor growth in a syngeneic model [281].
p-Cymene- Anti-tumor effects when found in essential oils from Nigella sativa [295].
Ruthenium11(p-Cymene) complexes were effective and selective against several cancers [296,297,298]
Geraniol -
**Reduced cellular proliferation [**270,271].
Induced apoptosis [270].
Induced cell cycle arrest [271,272].
Downregulated Blc-2 and upregulated Bax [270,271**].**
Kaempferol -
Inhibited cell viability in a dose-dependent manner [327,328,329,330,331,332,333,334,335].
Induced cell cycle arrest at the G2/M or G0/G1 phase [329,335,336,337,338,339,340].
Reduced migration and invasion [340,341,342,343,344,345,346].
Inhibited the EMT and reduced resistance to chemotherapeutic agents [343,347].
Altered expression of VEGF [348].
Induced apoptosis and autophagy [330,340].
Kaempferol + Luteolin inhibited cell proliferation, induced cell death, inhibited migration and invasion [349].
Kaempferol + TRAIL induced apoptosis [350].
Kaempferol + 5-fluorouracil had synergistic anti-proliferative effects and re-sensitized resistant cells to chemotherapeutic agents [341,351].
Increased mouse survival [339,352,353,354,355].
Reduced tumor growth and metastasis [339,352,353,354,355,356].
Caused degranulation and accumulation of mediators in leukemia cells [357,358].
Cannaflavin B -
Increased apoptosis [366].
Delayed local and metastatic tumor progression [366].
Increased survival [366].
Luteolin-
Increased apoptosis [366].
Delayed local and metastatic tumor progression [366].
Increased survival [366].
Caused cell cycle arrest [362,374,375,376,377].
Decreased cell viability and proliferation [378,379,380,381,382,383].
Inhibited the EMT [376,381,384].
Inflicted double-stranded DNA breaks and prevented nonhomologous end joining [385].
Induced apoptosis [374,375,382,386,387,388].
Reduced migration and invasion [378,379,388,389,390].
Luteolin + Oxaliplatin inhibited proliferation, induced apoptosis and altered the cell cycle [391].
Inhibited cell growth [378].
Reduced migration, invasion and metastasis [384].
Inhibited angiogenesis [387].
Decreased tumor volume and dimension [377].
Quercetin-
Decreased cell viability and proliferation [407,408,409,410].
Induced apoptosis [407,409,411,412].
Reduced migration [413].
Increased the radiosensitivity of cells [414].
Reversed docetaxel resistance [411,415].
Inhibited the EMT and downregulated expression of MALAT1 [412].
Quercetin + Paclitaxel reduced cell proliferation, migration, and induced apoptosis and cell cycle arrest [416].
Quercetin + Doxorubicin caused increased cytotoxicity and induced apoptosis [417,418].
Quercetin + Gemcitabine caused increased apoptosis in gemcitabine-resistant cancer cells [419].
Inhibited cell proliferation and tumor growth [408,411,412].
Delayed appearance of lung adenocarcinoma [420].
Reversed docetaxel resistance [411].
Inhibited breast cancer resistance protein [421].
Quercetin + Paclitaxel increased anti-cancer effects of paclitaxel [416].
Quercetin + Doxorubicin decreased tumor growth [418].
Quercetin + Docetaxel decreased tumor growth