Extract Of Bitter Melon May Slow Breast Cancer

Extract Of Bitter Melon May Slow Breast Cancer.
A accepted nutritional end-piece - extract of bitter melon - may help conserve women from breast cancer, researchers say. Bitter melon is a common vegetable in India, China and South America, and its essence is used in folk remedies for diabetes because of its blood-sugar lowering capabilities, according to the researchers. "When we employed the extract from that melon, we saw that it kills the breast cancer cells," said conduct researcher Ratna Ray, a professor of pathology at Saint Louis University. But their have a job was done in a laboratory, not in humans.

The bitter melon extract killed only the cancer cells, not the healthful breast cells. "We didn't see any death in the normal cells". However, these results are not facts that bitter melon extract prevents or cures breast cancer. "I don't maintain that it will cure cancer. It will probably delay or perhaps have some prevention."

The come in was published online Feb 23 in advance of print publication March 1 in Cancer Research. For the study, Ray's body treated human breast cancer cells with mordant melon extract, which is sold in US health food stores and over the Internet.

The deduce slowed the growth of these breast cancer cells and even killed them, the researchers found. The next imprint is to see if the team can repeat these findings in animals. If so, weak trials might follow.