Extract Of Bitter Melon May Slow Breast Cancer

Extract Of Bitter Melon May Slow Breast Cancer.
A accepted nutritional extend - extract of bitter melon - may help preserve women from breast cancer, researchers say. Bitter melon is a common vegetable in India, China and South America, and its wrench 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 main researcher Ratna Ray, a professor of pathology at Saint Louis University. But their toil was done in a laboratory, not in humans.

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

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

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