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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Soya can prevent prostate cancer

NEW
YORK: A chemical compound establish in soys looks to forestall spreading of human prostate
cancer, according to the latest
research. Researchers state that
the measure of the chemical, an antioxidant known as genistein, used in the
experiments was what a human would normally eat in a soyabean-rich
diet. Investigators from
Northwestern University establish that Genistein was establish to diminish metastasis of
prostate malignant neoplastic disease to the lungs by 96 percent, compared with mice that did not eat
the chemical compound in their chow, Science
Daily reported. "These impressive
results give us trust that genistein might demo some consequence in preventing the
spread of prostate gland malignant neoplastic disease in patients," said the study's senior investigator,
Raymond C. Bergan of the Northwestern
University. "Certain chemicals
have good personal effects and now we have got got all the pre-clinical studies we necessitate to
suggest genistein might be a very promising chemo-preventive drug," said
Bergan. Bergan and his team
have previously demonstrated in prostate gland gland malignant neoplastic disease cell civilizations that genistein
inhibits withdrawal of malignant neoplastic disease cells from a primary prostate tumour and represses
cell invasion. It makes this by
blocking activation of p38 map kinases, molecules which modulate nerve pathways that
activate proteins that loosen malignant neoplastic disease cells from their tight clasp within a
tumour, pushing them to migrate. Investigators fed genistein to
several groupings of mice before implanting them with an aggressive word form of
prostate cancer. The amount of genistein in the blood of the animate beings was
comparable to human blood concentrations after ingestion of soybean foods, Bergan
said. The research workers found
that while genistein didn't cut down the size of tumors that developed within the
prostate, it stopped lung metastasis almost completely. They repeated the
experiment and establish the same
result. These determinations have
been published in March issue of Cancer
Research

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