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www.turmericcancer.com The goddess of turmeric brings color in life It is the ornament of married woman And any woman who puts turmeric in her purse Her purse will never be empty An old Indian folk song praises turmeric, the golden spice from the East, for its power to bring beauty, good health and good luck to those who use and carry it.But in Indian medical lore, the pungent, woody-tasting powder is more precious still. Curcumin has long been known for its anti-cancer properties. Curcumin is the yellowish component of turmeric that gives curry its flavor. I am not a fan of dishes that use curry. However, if cooked just right I may actually like it. My mother's version of chicken curry (not too pungent but not bland either) is one of my favorites. ANTI-CANCER COMPOUND - Researchers at Rutgers University have found that the curry spice turmeric appears to possess significant cancer-preventive qualities, at least in cell cultures and lab mice. The golden years,  Turmeric: An antioxidant to add to the power-food list Have you had your turmeric today? You might want to think about getting more of the pungent yellow spice into your diet.An increasing body of research shows curcumin, the main active ingredient in turmeric root, is a powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory that could fight or help prevent cancer and ease other human ailments, from arthritis to Alzheimer’s disease.One of the most recent studies at the University of Missouri found that curcumin could reduce the risk of cancer.

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Posh spice Cheap, accessible curcumin appears to have cancer-fighting properties. Government should support research on this and other unpatented substances.

FOR roughly 6,000 years, when a little girl or boy in India scraped a knee, a relative likely dusted the wound with turmeric. Familiar to Westerners as the spice that gives curry its glow, turmeric is thought by Indians to be a medicine as well as food. The Indians are right. Last week, researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center here announced that curcumin, the powdered root found in both turmeric and curry powder, seems to have exceptional cancer-fighting powers.

Can eating more spices like turmeric really lower my cancer risk?A. There is laboratory evidence to suggest that curcumin, the compound that gives turmeric its yellow color, might reduce formation or growth of cancer cells. However, we have very little evidence of its effects in humans. Small studies suggest that it may protect against cancers of the breast, colon and more. But in some cases, benefits are only seen from amounts of curcumin that far exceed what is normally consumed in diet.

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India has one of the lowest incidence of cancer (particularly of breast cancer). This is despite high rates of tobacco and arecanut consumption in India. Moreover Alzheimer's disease is considered very rare in India. This is called as the Indian Paradox similar to the popular term French Paradox. French have very low incidence of coronary heart disease despite consuming a diet very rich in saturated fats. This is mainly due to the high consumption of red wine by the french. A constituent of red wine, a poly phenol known as resveratrol is believed to cause such beneficial effect. Similarly turmeric is a part of cuisine in India almost on daily basis. A constituent circumin in the turmeric is believed to have this beneficial anti cancer property.

Turmeric is the major ingredient in the Indian curry type food. Indians consume curry almost on daily basis right from the age of 4 years. Circumin if one of the component of turmeric. Circumin content is around 3.4% by weight in best quality turmerics.

Researchers at the Cork Cancer Research Center in Ireland have successfully treated esophageal cancer cells with curcumin -- the molecule found in turmeric. The scientists have found that circumin started to kill cancer cells within 24 hours. They have found that the cancer cells on being treated with curcumin began to digest themselves. Turmeric can suppress tumors and those who eat lot of curry type food are less prone to tumors.

There are hundreds of studies and researches by various universities and laboratories that do seem to confirm the anti cancer properties of turmeric. So next time you come across an Indian restaurant be sure to book your table.

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• National Cancer Institute (US National Institute Of Health) define "Circumin as a yellow pigment of the spice turmeric that is being studied in cancer prevention"http://www.cancer.gov
• Medline Plus of US National Library Of Medicine mentions the uses of Turmeric (Curcuma longa Linn.)/ Circumin , based on scientific evidence. It mentions "Several early animal and laboratory studies report anti-cancer (colon, skin, breast) properties of Circumin. Many mechanisms have been considered, including antioxidant activity, anti-angiogenesis (prevention of new blood vessel growth), and direct effects on cancer cells"  Turmeric has also been found to treat stomach and duodenal ulcers"http://www.nlm.nih.gov
• British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has extensively reported on the beneficial uses of turmeric especially in preventing alzheimer's disease. "Turmeric a spicy ingredient of many curries may be an effective treatment for Alzheimer's disease. The finding may help to explain why rates of Alzheimer's are much lower among the elderly in India than in their Western peers." http://news.bbc.co.uk
• Reuters the world leading news broadcasting organization reports that  " Researchers at the Cork Cancer Research Center in Ireland treated esophageal cancer cells with Circumin -- a chemical found in the spice turmeric, which gives curries a distinctive yellow color -- and found it started to kill cancer cells within 24 hours" Study showed curcumin caused the cancer cells to die "using an unexpected system of cell messages." http://reuters.com
• Drugs.com mission is the Internet's most trusted resource for drug and related health information. According to it "circumin and its analogs have been reported to inhibit cancer at multiple stages of development, including initiation, promotion, and metastasis. Curcumin is thought to act through a variety of mechanisms including the ability to induce apoptosis, inhibit angiogenesis, and modulate tumor suppressor genes. Studies have also indicated that curcumin has a radio sensitizing effect on cancer cell cultures" http://www.drugs.com

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The decision by an advisory committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to recommend the approval of the drug tamoxifen to prevent cancer shows we are finally learning how to attack the disease before it occurs.This marks a breakthrough in medicine that doctors and researchers have been working on for decades.Women with a high risk, including those with a history of breast cancer in their families.

GOOD HEALTH HEDGING THE BET AGAINST CANCER IN 1981, writer Max Lerner, developed two life-threatening cancers: a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and prostate cancer that had spread to the lungs. He was a vibrantly alive 78-year-old man, but he was not given long to live.I HAD BEEN EXPLORING mindbody health and complementary, or alternative, therapies professionally for 10 years. So I started to study whether any might be of benefit to him, and have now spent another decade studying complementary cancer therapies.

CANCER PREVENTION: CHOICES ARE OURS If we want to prevent most human cancers, we must stop using tobacco and eating high-fat, low-fiber food. That is why there is an increasing emphasis on research programs for cancer prevention, the only truly definitive "cure."Although there has been a major national effort in cancer treatment research over thepast three or four decades, the gains made against established human cancers are less than was expected.

BREAST CANCER: THE TREND IS AWAY FROM MASTECTOMIES There is good news: A new study indicates that breast-cancer surgery that removes the malignant lump but saves the breast is often as effective as a disfiguring total mastectomy for controlling this major killer of women But there is bad news.Dr. Merrill Feldman, a radiation oncologist at University Hospital in Boston who participated in the study, said, ``The bottom line is that breast cancer is predominantly a systemic disease, and that what is done locally (breast surgery).

Nearly 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008. More than 40,000 of them will die. Approximately 2,000 men will also be similarly diagnosed and more than 20 percent will die. And those are only the statistics reported to the American Cancer Society.Frightening numbers? Yes. And it sometimes seems like a fruitless crusade to stay ahead of the numbers.But if you talk to two women who are battling in the midst of the fray, you'll find combatants.

Fight Breast Cancer with Fruits and Vegetables For anyone who has had breast cancer, this is important news. A recent study finds that certain breast cancer survivors who load up on fruits and vegetables, eating far more than current U.S. guidelines, can slash their risk the tumors will come back by nearly a third. The finding only held for women who did not have hot flashes after their cancer therapy, the researchers said, suggesting that the fruits and vegetables act on estrogen.Their analysis may explain why some studies have shown...

Breast Cancer: Facts and Fiction A simple pink ribbon serves as a constant reminder of the millions of women struggling with breast cancer. Yet despite the high visibility, confusion still surrounds some important basics about the disease. For instance, if your sister gets breast cancer, are there things you can do to avoid getting it yourself? If you find a change in your breast that's not a lump, could it be cancerous? "Most women think all breast cancers are the same,

Please don't call me a survivor Until there's a cure found, I'm actually `living with breast cancer' I was diagnosed with breast cancer for the first time in 1993, and then a second time in 1996. Obviously, I'm still alive, but I do not call myself a breast cancer survivor. There are several reasons why. One is that the term "survivor" suggests--wrongly--that breast cancer is curable. It is true, thank goodness, that many of us will live long enough to die of something else. But most women diagnosed with breast cancer live with the threat

An actress. An athlete. A Supreme Court justice. They come from many walks of life, but breast cancer made them all simply victims. Happily, they shared the determination and good fortune to conquer their illness Olivia Newton-John Once she learned she had cancer, the singer acted quickly and never looked back Olivia Newton-John didn't have second thoughts--or seek second opinions. She had had several benign lumps in her breasts over the years, but when her doctor discovered a malignant tumor in her right breast in July 1992, he recommended swift action. "He wanted to remove all the tissue," she says. "I'd done a lot of reading; it seemed.

New drugs bring hope in breast cancer fight A revolution in the fight against breast cancer is well under way. The decision by an advisory committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to recommend the approval of the drug tamoxifen to prevent cancer shows we are finally learning how to attack the disease before it occurs. This marks a breakthrough in medicine that doctors and researchers have been working on for decades.Women with a high risk, including those with a history of breast cancer in their families

Closing In on the Cancer Vaccine After long frustration, researchers are finally learning how to enlist the immune system to destroy tumors. More than a century ago doctors noticed a curious coincidence: Cancer patients' tumors sometimes shriveled after the patients contracted bacterial infections. That inspired the idea of cancer vaccines, which would stir the body's immune system to attack tumor cells as if they were germs, replicating what seemed to have happened in the lucky patients. Unlike the familiar preventive shots we get to ward off the measles, flu, and other infectious ills, cancer vaccines would.

PROSTATE CANCER, Issues and statistics THE BIG NEWS in prostate cancer doesn't concern advances in surgery, medications or radiation therapy, although those are all out there for men. Rather, it's the quandary over when and if to start PSA blood tests to screen for the disease and what to do about the tumors that early detection uncovers.Already a can of worms for men and their doctors, these decisions took on a new urgency last month when results from two major studies showed that routine PSA blood...

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Cancer Update Last month's global report on cancer estimates that approximately 45 percent of colon cancer cases and 38 percent of breast cancer cases in the United States are preventable through making changes in our diet, physical activity and weight maintenance.The overall message of the report, Policy and Action for Cancer Prevention, published by World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research, is that society and individuals need to make public health, and cancer.

Breast-cancer preventive drug offers new hope-- Millions of women at high risk for breast cancer should consider taking prescription drugs that can prevent some cases of the feared disease, even though the medicine may give them other serious medical problems, a prestigious federal panel recommended Monday. It was the second official recommendation on breast cancer in four months. Like the earlier one, on mammography screening, the statement made it clear that women can no longer rely on doctors to give them simple, one-size-fits-all...

Children and cancer: No cases are the same, Youths have varying experiences when it comes to the disease Neuroblastoma, a form of cancer, is treated using often painful techniques that can leave a patient sick and weak. But it was one of the best things ever to happen to Nikki Mosier. "To me, it wasn't cancer. It was a fun little trip to a hotel," said Nikki, who is nearly 19. "It might be too upbeat an outlook, but I would be a really different person if I never had cancer."Diagnosed at age 3, Nikki was one of the... Purchase Complete Article, of 705 words 4014. THE ORLANDO SENTINEL - June 23, 2002 CANCER-FIGHTING THERAPIES INCREASE More than 1,600 cancer cases in Lake County resulted in more than 600 deaths, according to the latest American Cancer Society figures.Persons 65 or older have 10 times the risk of cancer as those under 65.Often the treatment has been nearly as cruel as the disease.But Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach is on a mission to change the course of cancer. Why? Because von Eschenbach is the new director of the National Cancer Institute. He is also president-elect of the American Cancer Institute...

CANCER CENTER EARNS BOARD APPROVAL FOR QUALITY CARE The John Smith Jr./Dalton McMichael Cancer Center at Morehead Memorial Hospital has received approval from the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons.Most people don't really know what The Commission on Cancer's approval means to them as patients.It's kind of like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval for household products.That's a simplified analogy, but the approval ensures that Morehead's patients...

THE DOCTOR'S WORLD Expanding Horizons, and Expectations, in Cancer Care New findings that excite cancer researchers often ring hollow to cancer patients. The reason is that the two groups have different expectations. For researchers, an exciting development may mean that a drug undergoing early trials delays the progress of an advanced cancer for an extra month or two in 30 percent of a small group of dying patients. For patients, an exciting development means that the new drug will provide extra years of life.

Blackburn, 60, who holds U.S. and Australian citizenship, is a professor of biology and physiology at the University of California, San Francisco. It's the first time two women have shared in a single Nobel science prize. Elizabeth H. Blackburn revealed the workings of chromosome features called telomeres, which play an important role in the aging of cells. Their work, done in the 1970s and 1980s, showed how features at the tips of chromosomes — telomeres can keep them from getting progressively shorter as cells divide. It's been compared to the way plastic tips on the ends of shoelaces keep the laces from fraying.

Blackburn discovered an enzyme, telomerase that maintains the lengths of the telomeres. Later research has shown that telomerase is switched on in almost all cancers. Telomerase is active before birth, when cells are dividing rapidly. By age 4 or 5 it's basically shut off in almost all cells. That means the telomeres degrade over time, leading those cells to age and eventually stop dividing. But scientists have shown that adding telomerase to human cells can extend their lifespan indefinitely.

Telomeres are caps at the end of chromosomes, protecting the precious strands of genetic code that contain the chemical recipe for life. Australian-American cell biologist Elizabeth Blackburn likens them to "tips of shoelaces" - when you lose the little plastic end, the lace starts to fray. The length of your telomeres, a repetitive sequence of the chemical code TTAGGG, and the repair job played by the enzyme telomerase, are unseen yet vital players in the ageing business.

Such research spurred speculation that telomerase might turn out to be a fountain of youth. But experts say that aging is more complicated than just changes in telomeres. Scientists are still studying what impact telomeres might have; perhaps they will reveal ways to ward off some aspects of aging, researchers say.

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Daily Star (England) - May The Daily Star: HEARS TO RED WINE A GLASS of red wine a day could stave off deafness in old age.The tipple protects tiny hairs inside the ear that are vital for hearing.It is the latest health benefit linked with the drink after claims it protects against some cancers and heart disease. Experts say the hairs ofthe inner ear can be damaged by disease-causing chemicals called free radicals.An antioxidant called resveratrol, which is found in red wine, green vegetables and green tea, helps to destroy these damaging... . (TX) - November , Handy list of everyday flu fighters can help keep virus at bay as season approaches A vaccine might be the first line of defense against avian flu, but there's an inconvenient little catch: We don't have one yet. Meanwhile, the bird-flu virus is showing resistance to Plan B, or the antiviral flu drug called Tamiflu.Worried? Then take action. The government might be unprepared for a possible flu pandemic, but you can fortify your immune system and prepare for a garden variety of cold and flu viruses.Here's a list of everyday flu... . Times, The (London, England) - September Drink a glass of red wine a day to reduce your chance of getting prostate cancer, Doctor's orders Drink a glass of red wine a day to reduce your chance of getting prostate cancer. A study in The International Journal of Cancer found that men who drank four to eight glasses of red wine a week reduced their chance of developing the condition by per cent, and its more aggressive strains by per cent. The researchers believe that the active ingredient is the antioxidant resveratrol, which is also found in peanuts and raspberries.... . (PA) - May RECIPE BOARD VERY VERY Fine wine Cabernet Sauvignon, a top choice for many discerning drinkers, may also be one of the best varieties of wine for a healthy heart.Jean-Paul Broustet of Haut Leveque Hospital in Pessac, southern France, said Cabernet Sauvignon grapes have high levels of resvera trol, a potent ingredient that increases good cholesterol and limits the production of artery-blocking bad cholesterol."The highest concentrations of resveratrol are found in red wines,... . - June Peanuts may help keep heart healthy Next time you're enjoying a glass of wine - for health reasons, of course - you might grab a handful of peanuts.High-fat goobers have gotten a bad rap lately, but they actually may be good for the heart.That's what U.S. Department of Agriculture researcher Timothy H. Sanders told the USA Peanut Congress in Amelia Island.Research shows that peanuts - a major cash crop in Georgia ontain resveratrol. That is the same compound behind red wine's... . USA TODAY - January Report juices up sales of red wine Salud -- to your health, and maybe your heart.Reports that a glass of cabernet a day could keep the cardiologist away have people running to liquor stores.Sales of cabernet sauvignon wines rose % in the four weeks after a Nov. Minutes report on the French diet, according to Information Resources Inc. The French indulge in high-fat foods, wash them down with red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks. Resveratrol, an ingredient found in the wine, may be a natural cholesterol... . 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