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Not just four cups of coffee, as new research suggested this week, just a daily cup-full of the cranberry super fruit can also combat colon cancer.
To reach this conclusion, researchers fed cranberry extracts to mice with colon cancer and found that their tumours diminished in size and number.
Identifying the therapeutic molecules in the fruit could lead to a better understanding of its anti-cancer potential, they said.
“Colon cancer may offer a particularly good target for a dietary treatment. Cranberry extracts may also afford protection toward other cancers,” said Catherine Neto from University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Neto and colleagues found that chemicals derived from cranberry extracts could selectively kill off colon tumour cells in laboratory dishes.
This is approximately equivalent to a cup a day of cranberries if you were a human instead of a mouse,"
The Statesman: A cup of cranberries daily can fight off colon cancer too
To reach this conclusion, researchers fed cranberry extracts to mice with colon cancer and found that their tumours diminished in size and number.
Identifying the therapeutic molecules in the fruit could lead to a better understanding of its anti-cancer potential, they said.
“Colon cancer may offer a particularly good target for a dietary treatment. Cranberry extracts may also afford protection toward other cancers,” said Catherine Neto from University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Neto and colleagues found that chemicals derived from cranberry extracts could selectively kill off colon tumour cells in laboratory dishes.
This is approximately equivalent to a cup a day of cranberries if you were a human instead of a mouse,"
The Statesman: A cup of cranberries daily can fight off colon cancer too
