Eating Broccoli Could Cure Breast Cancer

Do you remember when your mom told you to eat your vegetables because they make you healthy and strong? Well, maybe she was on to something. There was a recent study tested on mice, that a compound found in broccoli could help prevent and even treat breast cancer according to researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. The miraculous compound is sulforaphane, which was studied before but in this study the compound was extracted and targeted the cancer stem cells which showed to actually inhibit the cancer stem cells from growing.

To test this study, different concentrations of sulforaphane were injected into the mice to test whether the number of cancer cells had decreased using different methods to count the number of cancerous cells in the tumors. What was shown was that the number of cancerous cells was reduced, and not only that, but the cells were also unable to grow new tumor cells and sulforaphane had little negative effects on normal cells. So the experiment was moved to test sulforaphane on human breast cancer cell cultures which had the same result.

So the best way to defer the onset and potentially avoid cancer is to eat more broccoli, right? The only downfall to this study is that the concentration of sulforaphane used is much higher than what we, as humans can eat from broccoli but the concentration needed to affect cancer cells can be absorbed but the side effects are uncertain and are available as supplements. This test hasn’t been tested in patients with cancer but researchers are developing a way to preserve sulforaphane and create a clinical trial to test this compound to help prevent and treat breast cancer.

This article was very interesting because almost everybody has access to broccoli, which is inexpensive and readily available, but the possibility that it has the potential to be a cure for breast cancer is quite astounding.

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