http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080519092215.htm
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigella_sativa
http://m.voices.yahoo.com/is-there-cure-pancreatic-cancer-10211521.html
1) This link - says nigella sativa with gemcitabine made gemcitabine stop tumor growth by 60% to 80%. Where just gemcitabine alone, was only 15%!
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19549912
2) This link says nigella sative helps gemcitabine -"exhibit superior anti-proliferative activity, excellent chemo-sensitizing activity against pancreatic cancer in vitro and in combination with Gemcitabine."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23562242
3) Read the little paragraph below (it was from cancer.gov site... government site) - read the part in bold... the oil helps gemcitabine work better!!
http://cam.cancer.gov/newsletter/2009-fall/research_highlights_fall2009.html
Plant Compounds Show Anticancer Effects
Many studies presented at AACR examined compounds extracted from herbs and seeds for potential anticancer properties. Thymoquinone, a phytochemical compound extracted from the plant Nigella sativa, was tested against several cancer types. In laboratory experiments usingpancreatic cancer cell lines, investigators from M.D. Anderson Cancer Center observed that thymoquinone was able to increase the cell-killing effects of gemcitabine, a chemotherapy drug most commonly used in pancreatic cancer, possibly by regulating genes that would make the cancer cells more sensitive to gemcitabine treatment. Another set of experiments from the University of Miami suggested that the combination of thymoquinone and another compound, curcumin (which is found in the spice tumeric), had anti-inflammatory effects in benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Inflammation is thought to play a role in the development of some tumor types, such as prostate cancer.
4) Other random links... all are studies off from the government sites. published medical stuff.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19768141