Table 1.

Completed clinical trials with curcumin in patients affected by cancer

Subjects	Cancer type	Dose	References
10 volunteers	Healthy	500 mg/day for 1 week	Soni and Kuttan [103]
25 patients	Pre-malignant lesions	500–12,000 mg/day for 3 months	Cheng et al. [23]
15 patients	Advanced colorectal cancer	18 mg	Plummer et al. [83]
15 patients	Colorectal cancer	36–180 mg	Sharma et al. [95]
15 patients	Advanced colorectal cancer	450–3,600 mg/day for 4 months	Sharma et al. [94]
12 patients	Hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer	450–3,600 mg/day for 1 week	Garcea et al. [45]
12 patients	Colorectal cancer	450–3,600 mg/day for 1 week	Garcea et al. [46]
24 volunteers	Healthy	500–12,000 mg/day	Lao et al. [63]
17 patients	Advanced pancreatic cancer	8,000 mg/day for 2 months	Dhillon et al. [34]