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04-19-2006, 05:31 PM

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w00t ginger kills cancer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4876056.stm

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Ginger may help to fight ovarian cancer, US scientists believe.

University of Michigan researchers announced at the American Association of Cancer Research that tests show ginger kills cancer cells.

The study also found that the spice had the added benefit of stopping the cells from becoming resistant to treatment.

But UK cancer experts said that, while ginger may in the future form a basis of a new drug, more research was needed to corroborate the findings.

Ginger is already known to ease nausea and control inflammation, but the findings by the US team offer cancer patients new hope.

This study doesn't mean that people should dash down to the supermarket and stockpile ginger
Henry Scowcroft

Researchers used ginger powder, similar to that sold in shops, which they dissolved in a solution and applied to ovarian cancer cells.

They found it caused the cells to die in all the tests done.

But it was the way in which the cells died which offered even more hope. The tests demonstrated two types of death - apoptosis, which is essentially cell suicide, and autophagy, a kind of self-digestion.

Report author Rebecca Liu said: "Most ovarian cancer patients develop recurrent disease that eventually becomes resistant to standard chemotherapy, which is associated with apoptosis.

"If ginger can cause autophagic cell death in addition to apoptosis, it may circumvent resistance to conventional chemotherapy."

The researchers warned the results were very preliminary and they plan to test whether they can obtain similar results in animal studies.

Side-effects

But they added the appeal of ginger was that it would have virtually no side-effects and would be easy to administer as a capsule.

Henry Scowcroft, science information officer for Cancer Research UK, said previous research had shown that ginger extract can stop cancer cell growing so it was possible that ginger could form the basis of a new drug.

But more work was needed before firm conclusions could be drawn, he added.

"This study doesn't mean that people should dash down to the supermarket and stockpile ginger.

"We still don't know whether ginger, in any form, can prevent or treat cancers in animals or people."

YES YES ITS A GOOD DAY, AND ITS NOT AN EXPENSIVE ASS MEDICINE. GOD bless Ginger

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04-19-2006, 05:32 PM	#2
Coconut Can has custom title? Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 15,975	Pfft, ovarian cancer. Give me some info I can use.

04-19-2006, 06:59 PM	#3
Daisy It's only appropriate. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Nowhere Posts: 30,682	I cook with ginger quite frequently and drink lots of ginger ale, so looks like I'm all good! __________________ Follow us on Facebook!

04-19-2006, 07:11 PM	#4
Chrono See Emily Play! Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Free Games For May. Posts: 5,876	I wish this applied to me

04-19-2006, 07:12 PM	#5
Xavius Sabor de Soledad Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: NM Posts: 32,274	I love Ginger from Gilligan's Island. I know my ovaries feel great. __________________ I was young and confused and your mom didn't want me around no more. Now pass me dem damn collard greens!

04-19-2006, 07:14 PM	#6
LinKami Deschain RIP Yoshito Usui :-( Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: anywhere the greenville scene is not Posts: 6,027	i wish i had a pair of ovaries. Then i could hit people with them.

04-19-2006, 07:20 PM	#7
Xavius Sabor de Soledad Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: NM Posts: 32,274	Daisy how big are ovaries actually? In diagrams they seem like you could use them as bolos, but they're probably like as big as a paperclip. __________________ I was young and confused and your mom didn't want me around no more. Now pass me dem damn collard greens!

04-19-2006, 07:26 PM	#8
Daisy It's only appropriate. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Nowhere Posts: 30,682	2.5-5 cm in length, and 1.5 to 3 cm. in width and depth __________________ Follow us on Facebook!

04-19-2006, 07:42 PM

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I cook with ginger quite frequently and drink lots of ginger ale, so looks like I'm all good!

You realize the compounds may not get... down there... intact right? It seems like it has to be directly applied to the cells to be effective. I think they need further study to see if ingesting ginger actually helps.

04-19-2006, 07:42 PM	#10
Coconut Can has custom title? Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 15,975	You can see a single ovum with the naked eye O_o

04-19-2006, 08:12 PM	#11
Pokemorpher1 Gehl Powah!!! Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Virginia Posts: 2,061	I totally thought that Ginger Spice (a.k.a. Geri Halliwell) had suddenly opened fire on cancer or . . . some . . . thing. On her resume: model (.Y.), sexy superstar, goodwill ambassador, cancer assassin . . . fairly balanced, I'd say. Good news, either way __________________ MGM Bill and End RIC

04-19-2006, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Daisy

I cook with ginger quite frequently and drink lots of ginger ale, so looks like I'm all good!

I think that it only works if you cut your self open and sprinkle the ginger directly on the cancerous cells.

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I totally thought that Ginger Spice (a.k.a. Geri Halliwell) had suddenly opened fire on cancer or . . . some . . . thing.

On her resume: model (.Y.), sexy superstar, goodwill ambassador, cancer assassin . . . fairly balanced, I'd say.

Good news, either way

Wich one was ginger spice?

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04-19-2006, 08:28 PM	#13
Bucket There's only one 64 Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: PA, USA Posts: 5,218	Yeah, I really hate that ass medicine. Especially when it's expensive.

04-19-2006, 08:36 PM	#14
ZGMF-X20A I'm a white Jamaican Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Parkland Florida Posts: 2,370	I first thought that being a ginger(red hair, pale) helps with not getting ovarian cancer __________________ Brawl code: 4511-0151-6840

04-19-2006, 08:39 PM	#15
Crunchy to jue Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: the "Employee of the Month" parking spot Posts: 7,246	Whew. Anyone ever eat raw ginger? Phew...

04-19-2006, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by BEan

I think that it only works if you cut your self open and sprinkle the ginger directly on the cancerous cells.

Hmm . . . Daisy filet?

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Originally Posted by BEan

Wich one was ginger spice?

Geri Halliwell

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04-19-2006, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Pokemorpher1

Hmm . . . Daisy filet?

Geri Halliwell

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I like that ginger too.

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04-19-2006, 09:09 PM

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I like that ginger too.

I knew you would.

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04-19-2006, 09:31 PM	#19
PaperSamus Yo Momma's On My Lips Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: FL Posts: 3,379	Meh, these freaking scientists probably have the cure for all the cancers, but America would rather get more money from us by not giving out the cure for'em so easily... __________________ FIE DOLLA PEE-SAH!

04-19-2006, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by PaperSamus

Meh, these freaking scientists probably have the cure for all the cancers, but America would rather get more money from us by not giving out the cure for'em so easily...

That's one problem I have with drug/medical companies, why develop something that will cure for an affliction and get one-off payment when can make something that will prolong a person's life and they will have to take drugs everyday for the rest of their lives(and they become a regular source of income for the said drug companies).

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