Avoid The Head And Neck Cancer With Curcumin

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Avoid The Head And Neck Cancer
With Curcumin





The natural substance such as
yellowish orange Indian spice turmeric, used to flavor curries, contains a
remarkable phytochemical known as curcumin .Curcumin has shown remarkable
promise in helping the human body in a wide variety of ways.it may prevent
Alzheimer's Disease and type 2 diabetes as well as fight breast and colorectal
malignancies .





Now research just released at the
2009 American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation
(AAO-HNSF) annual meeting in San Diego shows curcumin may block
nicotine-induced head and neck cancers, even in people who smoke.In a study
presented at the AAO-HNSF meeting, researchers pointed out that HNSCC is a
serious problem, taking the lives of about 13,000 Americans annually.So the
researchers looked for a safe food compound that could be used as a bioactive
agent to both prevent cancer and to also block the harmful effects of
nicotine.They investigated the effects of curcumin on malignant growths by
using a variety of head and neck cancer cell lines. The HNSCC cells were
pre-treated with curcumin in the laboratory and then exposed to nicotine. The
results showed the curcumin stopped nicotine from activating cancer-causing
cells.


the NCI web site states, head and
neck cancers account for three to five percent of cancers in the US, with about
40,000 new cases diagnosed each year. The vast majority, approximately 85
percent of these cancers, are linked to tobacco use.





Scientists from the Escuela
Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas in Mexico City also published a review in the
journal Liver International recently pointing out that along with documented
anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial and anti-cancer
properties, curcumin also appears to have the ability to heal liver injuries.





And others researchers at the
Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta
just reported in the journal Breast Cancer that curcumin "could provide a
novel, non-toxic therapy, which could lead to improved survival for patients
with triple negative breast cancer." Currently, this type of breast cancer
is only treated by traditional western medicine with cytotoxic chemotherapy --
and when this treatment fails, as it often does, no other mainstream therapy is
available.