{"id":386916,"date":"2010-03-03T22:01:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T03:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/study-bitter-melon-extract-may-prevent-breast-cancer-cell-growth\/"},"modified":"2010-03-03T22:01:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T03:01:49","slug":"study-bitter-melon-extract-may-prevent-breast-cancer-cell%c2%a0growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/386916","title":{"rendered":"Study: Bitter Melon Extract May Prevent Breast Cancer Cell\u00a0Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/wp-content\/themes\/redesign\/images\/breast_cancer_300.jpg\" alt=\"Study: Bitter melon extract may prevent breast cancer cell growth\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">Results of a recent study have suggested that bitter melon extract, a common dietary supplement, may help protect women from breast cancer cell growth.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Our findings suggest that bitter melon extract modulates several signal transduction pathways, which induces breast cancer cell death,&quot; said lead researcher Ratna Ray, professor in the department of pathology at Saint Louis University. &quot;This extract can be utilized as a dietary supplement for the prevention of breast cancer.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>In the study, researchers found that bitter melon extract, which is commonly used in the East as a folk remedy for diabetes because of its blood sugar-lowering properties, was capable of decreasing cell growth and division, and even induced death in some breast cancer cells without harming healthy tissue. <\/p>\n<p>Although Ray believes that the supplement will not cure cancer, she does feel that it may delay or even prevent cancer cell metastasis. <\/p>\n<p>However, the researchers stress that their findings were established in a laboratory, and haven&#8217;t been tested on humans. They note that it is important to first establish the validity of their results in animal models before recommending the addition of bitter melon extract to a person&#8217;s diet. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19635877-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19635877\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results of a recent study have suggested that bitter melon extract, a common dietary supplement, may help protect women from breast cancer cell growth. &quot;Our findings suggest that bitter melon extract modulates several signal transduction pathways, which induces breast cancer cell death,&quot; said lead researcher Ratna Ray, professor in the department of pathology at Saint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}