Cranberry has been used for centuries by natives to treat urinary tract infections. Chances are you've heard of this health benefit. Drinking cranberry juice, say medical experts, and will keep your urinary system healthy. Now, not only blueberries fight infection, but can also play a vital role in the fight against cancer.
Drinking a glass of cranberry juice could greatly increase the sensitivity of an ovarian cancer patient to chemotherapy. The researchers found that when pretreated ovarian tumor cells with cranberry juice, something extraordinary happened. It seems that the juice increased the cancer-killing power of drugs as much as six times! Treatment of chemotherapy using drugs to kill tumors, but many women develop resistance to these drugs during the course of treatment.
This unfortunately means that they require higher doses of medications, putting them at risk of nerve damage and kidney failure. U.S. National Institutes of Health funded the study. The research team collected the cancer cells of patients who had developed resistance to drugs against cancer. They then exposed the cells to a store-bought cranberry drinks contain only 27 percent juice. All cancer cells were treated with chemotherapy. That's when researchers discovered that cancer cells were killed at a rate that was equal to six times higher than that of cells not receiving cranberry juice.
They also found that the juice appeared to slow the growth and spread of some cancer cells. Cancer-killing power of antioxidants The research team believes that cranberry is the cancer that kills the antioxidant power comes from a special called "proanthocyanidins". This antioxidant is not found in other fruits. It appears to block the activity of the tumor proteins found in ovarian cancer cells, bringing their sensitivity to chemotherapy.
The researchers cautioned that remains to be seen whether the cranberry was so effective lab environment. It also mentions that cranberry compounds should not be considered a cure for cancer. However, they may very well make an excellent partner for more toxic chemotherapy drugs. Dr. Robert Morgan Jr., section head of medical gynecologic oncology at the City Center of Hope in Duarte, CA, it was agreed that the study "cranberry effect" warrants further. "Of course, blueberries are not toxic and the compounds they contain are part of the family of flavonoids found in grape seeds, which have proven to be potentially beneficial in breast cancer," Morgan said in conclusion.
Meanwhile, a glass of cranberry juice with breakfast. You at least are giving a boost antioxidant, that future studies have to say about cranberries and cancer prevention. The press of the medical health is the publishing division of the health of Lombardi Publishing Corporation, one of the largest publishers of consumer information in the world. The press of Health publishes monthly bulletins health physicians for a wide range of topics of natural health and alternative healing such as food, homeopathic medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, cures for common diseases, hidden, natural self and -healing.
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