Curcumin has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and anti-tumor properties.[64] The mechanisms proposed are that curcumin induces apoptosis in both androgen-dependent and androgen-independent prostate cancer cells, inhibits proliferation and angiogenesis of LNCaP prostate cancer cells and inhibits tyrosine kinase activity of epidermal growth factor receptor and depletes the protein. Here, EGFR is linked to prostate carcinoma.