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C URCUMIN AND C ANCER
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called angio genesis. Curcumin slows the ability of these tumors to
create their blood supply, eventually starving and killing the abnor-
mal clusters of cells.
Convinces cancerous cells to die: As Dr. Goel points out, “sleeping
genes” interfere with the cancer cells’ natural life and death cycle
called apoptosis. Cancer cells quite literally turn off the signal that
it is time to die. Curcumin actually turns on that signal, telling the
cancer cells to die, so the tumors eventually die, too. Dr. Goel is cur-
rently engaged in more research on the sleeping gene mechanism.
These are the basic ways that curcumin works to prevent and
stop cancer. There are literally dozens of studies that show cur-
cumin’s effectiveness against specific types of cancer.
Here’s a list of types of cancer for which curcumin has been sci-
entifically validated as a preventive or treatment:
Breast Head and neck Oral
Cervical Leukemia Ovarian
Colorectal Lung Prostate
Gastrointestinal Lymphoma Sarcoma
Genitourinary Melanoma Squamous cell
As a final word, even the famed Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
is on the curcumin bandwagon, endorsing an anticancer cocktail
mixed with another known cancer preventive, green tea.
As yet unpublished animal studies show strong evidence that
curcumin, administered in tandem with more traditional anticancer
drugs, reduces the toxicity of those drugs and improves their effec-
tiveness. Three human studies are now underway combining cur-
cumin with certain types of chemotherapy drugs commonly used to
treat breast and colon cancers. I’m eagerly awaiting more informa-
tion on this exciting development. However, there have been sever-
al promising studies on the ability of curcumin to improve the
effectiveness of many types of chemo and radiation therapy by