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Curry Spice Could Kill Cancer Cells

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Denver : CO : USA | about 1 month ago  
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Eating Thai and Indian food might help people fight a painful kind of cancer. Irish scientists have found that turmeric a spice used in curries contains a chemical called curcumin that kills oeseophageal cancer cells in the laboratory.
Curcumin started to kill the cancer cells within 24 hours of application, researchers at the University College Cork’s Cork Cancer Research Centre found. Scientists theorize that the chemical might switch on a protein that causes the cancer cell to die. So far curcumin hasn’t been tested on animals or human patients. Scientists didn’t say if curcumin could kill kinds of cancer cells. The study was reported in the British Journal of Cancer.
Oesephaegal or esophageal cancer affects the esophagus the tube that connects the throat to the stomach. This cancer is usually deadly and normally affects men over sixty years of age who’ve had a history of smoking and heavy alcohol use. The rate of this cancer has been increasing in Britain since the 1950s.

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