Turmeric Extract Strikes To The Root Cause of Cancer Malignancy

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><img alt="http://wholespice.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/tumeric_0706.jpg" class="decoded" height="400" src="http://wholespice.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/tumeric_0706.jpg" width="338" /></div>Photo Credit: Whole Spice<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">'A new turmeric study published in <i>Cancer Letters</i> is paving the way for a revolution in the way that we both understand and treat cancer. Titled, "<b><a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/targeting-cancer-stem-cells-curcumin-and-clinical-applications">Targeting cancer stem cells by curcumin and clinical applications</a></b>," U.S. researchers evaluated the primary polyphenol in the Indian spice known as <b><a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/substance/curcumin">curcumin</a></b> for its ability to target cancer stem cells (CSCs), which are believed to be at the <b><a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/are-cancer-stem-cells-key-discovering-cure">root cause of tumor formation</a></b> and malignancy.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Whereas <b><a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/has-cancer-been-completely-misunderstood">conventional models of cancer</a></b> assumed that the majority of the cancer cells within a tumor possess self-renewal capacity to differing degrees, the CSC model proposes that, "[T]he initiation, maintenance, and growth of a tumor is driven by a minor population of cancer cells termed cancer stem cells (CSCs)," and that "These CSCs undergo continuous self-renewal and differentiate to heterogeneous cancer cells, yielding new tumors recapitulating the parental tumors, while the majority of cancer cells lack self-renewal capacity." '   </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Read <a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/turmeric-extract-strikes-root-cause-cancer-malignancy">more...</a></span>

Turmeric Extract Strikes To The Root Cause of Cancer Malignancy

  Photo Credit: Whole Spice 'A new turmeric study published in Cancer Letters is paving the way for a revolution in the way that we bot...

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