Sentences with phrase «colon tumor growth»

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Cancer: Flaxseed may protect against breast cancer, prostate cancer, and colon cancer by inhibiting tumor growth and blocking enzymes that are involved in the spread of tumor cells.

Avastin, from Genentech, and Erbitux, from ImClone Systems, are the first drugs to reduce tumor growth from colon cancer that has spread to other parts of the body.

A UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center discovery of just how a certain tumor suppressor molecule works to prevent tumor growth could lead to a personalized treatment approach for colon cancer.

The substance vigorously inhibited the growth of cultured tumor cells from colon, lung, and breast cancers, the team reports in the 20 January issue of Angewandte Chemie.

miR - 184 is known to suppress tumor development by regulating a variety of genes involved in cancer growth, while SND1 has been shown to play a significant role in the development of breast, colon, prostate and liver cancers.

Other studies have found that nutrients in dark, leafy greens may inhibit the growth of tumor cells in breast, skin, lung and stomach cancers and that green tea may thwart cancer development in colon, liver, breast and prostate cells.

Myc is a proto - oncogene or master cancer gene that spurs tumor growth in a variety of cancers including breast, lung, colon, brain, skin, leukemia, prostate, pancreas, stomach and bladder.

Blood vessel development is critical for the growth of any solid tumor, such as breast, colon or lung cancer.

«Study could explain link between high - cholesterol diet and colon cancer: Fats spur cells to divide faster, speeding tumor growth.»

Additionally, overexpression of POSTN in human mammary epithelial and breast cancer cells resulted in enhanced tumor growth and metastasis (Wang et al., 2013), which is similar to a colon cancer cell model where overexpression of POSTN resulted in an increase in the number and size of liver metastases (Bao et al., 2004).

The glands lining the inner wall of the colon are the sites for most abnormal cell behavior such as uncontrolled cell growth, which results in polyps (non-cancerous growths) and later on in adenocarcinomas or tumors.

Lycopene, which is found in tomatoes, has actually been shown in some studies to reduce tumor growth, and can help protect against lung, stomach, colon, oral, breast AND cervical cancers!

Flaxseed is also a great source of lignans, plant compounds that have been shown to inhibit the growth of colon tumor cells.

Interleukin - 8 (IL - 8), a well - known tumor - growth promoting inflammatory cytokine104 is «substantially increased» in a number of different types of cancer cells.105 «We found for the first time that caprylic acid and MCT suppress IL - 8 secretion by Caco - 2 cells [colon cancer cells],» reported Japanese researchers in 2002.106

Polyunsaturated fats such as corn oil and soybean oil are highly unstable and vulnerable to oxidation — and oxidation, in turn, is linked to cancer — while the omega - 6 fatty acids that predominate in vegetable oils have been shown to accelerate the growth of tumor cells.6 As Fallon and Enig explain, 4 excessive consumption of toxic polyunsaturated oils — not red meat — represents a known mechanism for colon cancer: «Colon cancer occurs when high levels of dietary vegetable oils and hydrogenated fats, along with certain carcinogens, are acted on by certain enzymes in the cells lining the colon, leading to tumor formation» [Emphasis adcolon cancer: «Colon cancer occurs when high levels of dietary vegetable oils and hydrogenated fats, along with certain carcinogens, are acted on by certain enzymes in the cells lining the colon, leading to tumor formation» [Emphasis adColon cancer occurs when high levels of dietary vegetable oils and hydrogenated fats, along with certain carcinogens, are acted on by certain enzymes in the cells lining the colon, leading to tumor formation» [Emphasis adcolon, leading to tumor formation» [Emphasis added].

One animal study found that diets rich in walnuts were able to suppress the growth of breast cancer tumors better than even omega - 3s alone (Source) Another animal study found that walnuts, along with flax, was able to inhibit the growth of colon cancer.

A 2012 Japanese study found the pulp and juice from satsuma mandarin oranges inhibited tumor growth in cancers of the colon, lung and tongue.

Curcumin has been clinically shown to inhibit growth of various cancer cells including: Bone Cancer, Breast Cancer, Brain Tumors, Colon, Liver, Pancreatic, Stomach, Bladder, Kidney, Prostate, Leukemia, Ovarian, Melanoma, and more!

They used extracts from the baked potatoes in their in vitro studies (lab cultures) and in vivo with animals that had colon cancers with positive results that reversed tumor growths.

They have been linked to lower cancer risk and have shown to have the ability to stop the growth of cancer cells for tumors in the breast, lung, colon, liver, endometrium and cervix according to the American Institute for Cancer Research.

Phytates have been shown to inhibit the growth of human leukemia cells, colon cancer cells, both estrogen receptor - positive and negative breast cancer cells, voicebox cancer, cervical cancer, prostate cancer, liver tumors, pancreatic, melanoma, and muscle cancers.

Curcumin is a powerful antioxidant agent that has been directly linked with a reduction in colon cancer cells and is also a direct inhibitor of a protein that is essential for tumor growth.

And lab experiments have shown that estrogen may inhibit tumor development in the colon by affecting cell growth, or by lowering levels of a cancer - linked hormone called IGF - 1.