But because metformin may stem cancer through several different channels — by lowering insulin, directly slowing tumor growth, or promoting
suicide by cancer cells — it could potentially prove useful in many types of cancer.
Not exact matches
It looks like capsaicin is able to pull this off
by instructing the mitochondria in
cancer cells to undergo apoptosis,
cell suicide.
This kills the
cell by liberating proteins that order it to commit
suicide (
Cancer Research, DOI: 10.1158 / 0008 - 5472.
• Studies have shown EGCG to literally kill off
cancer cells, especially skin, breast, lung, colon, and bladder
cancers,
by turning the
cells into
suicide cells.
The drugs used in chemotherapy are designed to be toxic to
cancer cells usually
by inhibiting
cell division or causing
cell suicide (apoptosis).
They also act aggressively against
cancer by preventing
cancer cell proliferation, inducing apoptosis — or
cancer cell «
suicide» — and inhibiting the formation of new blood vessels that nourish tumor growth.
In a 2013 study, researchers had found that quercetin inhibited the growth of pancreatic
cancer cells by inducing apoptosis, or «
cell suicide.»