Colorectal cancer includes cancerous growths in the colon, rectum and appendix. It is the third most common form of cancer. Many colorectal cancers are thought to arise from polyps in the colon. Diagnosis is by colonoscopy. Therapy is usually through surgery, with many cases also requiring chemotherapy.
Grape seeds - cancer fighter in colorectal tumors
Colorectal Cancer :: Grape seeds - cancer fighter in colorectal tumors
Grape seed extract significantly inhibited the growth of colorectal tumors in both laboratory cell cultures and in mice, U.S. researchers report. A team from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver says mice given the extract displayed a 44 percent reduction in the size of advanced colorectal tumors.The findings were published Wednesday in Clinical Cancer Research.
"With these results, we are not suggesting that people run out and buy and use grape seed extract. That could be dangerous, since so little is known about doses and side effects," Rajesh Agarwal, a professor in the department of pharmaceutical sciences, said in a prepared statement.
"The value of this preclinical study is that it shows grape seed extract can attack cancer, and how it works, but much more investigation will be needed before these chemicals can be tested as a human cancer treatment and preventive," he said.
Agarwal and his colleagues had previously demonstrated the cancer-fighting effects of grape seed extract in other types of tumors. Grape skin and seeds are a rich source of antioxidant flavonoids called proanthocyanidins.
(Colorectal Cancer :: Grape seeds - cancer fighter in colorectal tumors published at SpiritIndia on Friday, October 20, 2006)
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