An orange a day can keep cancer away: researchers

An orange a day can keep cancer away: researchers

Despite its potential toxicity (if taken in excess)‚ orange juice has many

 potential positive effects when it comes to cancer.

Orange could prove to be crucial in the prevention of cancer.

In a forthcoming review article from Nutrition and Cancer: 

researchers reviewed available evidence that links orange

 juice with cancer chemoprevention.

Despite its potential toxicity (if taken in excess)‚ orange

 juice has many potential positive effects when it comes 

to cancer‚ particularly because it is high in anti-oxidants.

Evidence from previous studies has indicated that orange 

juice can reduce the risk of leukemia in children‚ as well 

as aid in chemoprevention against mammary‚ hepatic‚ 

and colon cancers.

Green tea extract kills childhood cancers

Green tea extract kills childhood cancers

Cancer researcher says a modified antioxidant called catechin can kill 

50 per cent of cells from neuroblastoma cancers within 3 days in 

laboratory studies.

A green-tea extract could help
destroy deadly childhood cancers
that are resistant to traditional
chemotherapy.

Cancer researcher Orazio Vittorio
said that a modified antioxidant
called catechin

 can kill 50 per cent of the cells from
neuroblastoma cancers within 3 days in 

laboratory studies.

Neuroblastoma is the most common
 cancer to strike infants‚ and has the
lowest

 survival rate of all childhood cancers.

Catechin‚ extracted from green tea‚ is thought to be a promising cancer treatment‚ but its instability
when it enters the body limits its effectiveness.

Dr Vittorio‚ from the Children's Cancer Institute Australia and the Lowy cancer research center at
UNSW said that the modified form of catechin is effective at destroying neuroblastoma cells that are
highly resistant to conventional chemotherapy.