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...favorite leafy tonic, green tea, may in fact be everything Granny said it was. A joint research team from the University of Murcia in Spain and the John Innes Centre in England has found that green tea is loaded with a compound, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), that has demonstrable cancer-fighting properties...
...conclusions of the study, published in the American medical journal Cancer Research, lend weight to previous surveys that found lower cancer rates among populations of heavy green tea drinkers. This may be because EGCG blocks an enzyme that is a catalyst to cancer growth; in fact, it has properties similar to those of methotrexate, a drug that has been used for decades in the treatment of cancerous breast, head and neck, and lung tumors. "For the first time we have a scientific explanation of why EGCG inhibits the growth of cancer cells at concentrations which are found in the blood...
...need all those microbes if the bad-bug approach turns out to be as successful as early trials suggest. Like AIDS cocktails and cancer chemotherapies, microbe-based therapies may require a multidrug approach. For example, combining the modified clostridium bacterium, which attacks a tumor at its anaerobic core, with the altered measles virus, which destroys the periphery of the tumor, could be a potent new way to fight cancer. Add some radiation or chemotherapy to mop up any lingering cancer cells, and doctors could find themselves closing in on a cure...
Just a few years ago, it seemed as if vitamin E could be the cure for nearly everything. Observational studies suggested that moderately high doses (400 International Units, or IUs) could prevent heart disease, cancer and dementia--and make your skin glow too. But lately scientists, using more rigorous tests, have had trouble substantiating some of those benefits...
...useless. There is strong evidence from other studies that moderately high doses of vitamin E may delay the onset of macular degeneration and boost the immune system in the elderly. Also, the National Institutes of Health is testing whether vitamin E, with or without selenium, may delay prostate cancer...