World Wide Web | Compound in broccoli could disable leukemia | You might not think that a drug to fight leukemia may exist on your plate. A study from Baylor College of Medicine suggests that a compound found in broccoli able to kill leukemia cells in the laboratory.
Compound called sulforaphane is known to kill cancer cells, but does not affect healthy cells in the body.
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia usually found in children and can be cured with a probability of 80 percent. Even so this discovery is important because some children sometimes are not affected by the cancer treatment. For that researchers need other treatment alternatives.
Although these compounds are able to kill cancer cells in the laboratory, researchers still need to figure out the dose used. Because the doses used in laboratory experiments is certainly not the same as those contained in the broccoli.
"Eating vegetables like broccoli are good, but the effect may not be the same as what we see in the lab," said Dr. Daniel Lacorazza, assistant professor at Baylor, as reported by the Huffington Post
Previous research published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research also shows that sulforaphane can kill breast cancer stem cells.
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