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Breast Cancer TrendsFrom a screening controversy to the latest treatments, find out the breast cancer

developments of the past year.A New Controllable) Risk Factor Identified

Breast cancer research is heavily invested in more accurately identifying factors that

can raise a woman's risk for developing cancer. Health professionals hope that by isolating risk

factors, they can give women and their doctors better information to determine a course for

breast cancer screening and, in some cases, to take steps towards disease prevention.

AdvertisementOne important study, presented at the American Association for Cancer Research's 2010

Annual Meeting, discovered that breast density is a fairly accurate indicator of breast cancerrisk. Specifically, women who have a mammographic density of 75 percent or higher have four

to five times greater risk of developing breast cancer than women with a lower density. Perhaps

more importantly, the study found that women who take steps to decrease their breast density

can significantly decrease their risk for breast cancer. Breast density now takes its place among

a few lifestyle factors that make up the limited number of controllable risk factors for breast

cancer.

New Light on Alternative TreatmentsMany women happily survive breast cancer; the ACS estimates that there are more than

2.5 million breast cancer survivors in the United States, and, as stated previously, incidence

rates are declining. The traditional treatment optionsradiation therapy, surgery

(mastectomyin particular), and chemotherapyare still the primary means of fighting breast

cancer, but researchers continue to study other potential treatments. For example, a study

published in the June 2010 issue of theJournal of Agriculture and Food Chemistryfound that

two phenolic compounds in plum and peach extracts were effective in killing offcancer cells.

Even better, they could destroy cancer cells without harming normal cells in the process. This

property makes these fruit extracts an attractive potential alternative to chemotherapy andradiation.

A Special Report from Victor Marchione, MDHere are some deliciously promising results in a study on breast cancer. Texas

researchers have found that extracts from peaches and plums killed breast cancer cells, even
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the most aggressive kinds. Not only did the cancerous cells die, but also no nearby healthy cells

were affected. A targeted kill by fleshy fruit.

The study suggests that two polyphenols (plant-based chemicals) are responsible for the

cancer cell deaths. It was published recently in the Journal of Agriculture and Food

Chemistry. The phenols are organic compounds that occur specifically in fruits. They areslightly acidic and may be associated with traits such as aroma, taste or color.

Researchers originally studied the antioxidants and phytonutrients in plums and found

them to match or exceed those in the blueberry a powerful fruit previously considered

superior to other fruits in those categories.

The next step was to see if these antioxidants had any anticancer properties. They chose

breast cancer, which is a major problem (to put it mildly), as it is one of the most common

cancers for women. According to the National Cancer Institute, there were 192,370 new cases

of breast cancer in females and 1,910 cases in males in 2009. That year, 40,170 women and440 men died from breast cancer. The World Health Organization reports that breast cancer

accounts for 16% of the cancer deaths of women globally.

Researchers used extracts from two everyday fruits: the Rich Lady peach; and the

Black Splendor plum. The extracts killed even the most aggressive cancer cell, but leftnormal

cells alone, which is very significant. In regular chemotherapy, normal cells are killed along

with cancerous ones, causing major side effects.

A closer look determined that two specific phenols chlorogenic and neochlorogenic

were responsible for this targeted kill. Both are very common in fruits, the researchers said,

but stone fruits such as plums and peaches have especially high levels.

The team said laboratory tests also confirmed that the compounds prevented cancer from

growing in animals as well. The researchers want to see how these compounds could be

incorporated into the growing of peaches and plums.

For now, it would certainly not hurt breast cancer patients to eat several peaches or

plums each day. You never know what might happen.

Even the most aggressive types of breast cancer cells couldn't stand up to treatments with peach

and plum extracts. That's the outcome of a natural fruit-derived treatment tested in the Texas

AgriLife Research Lab which resulted in cancer cells dying while normal cells were not harmedat all." It was a differential effect which is what you're looking for because in current cancer

treatment with chemotherapy, the substance kills all cells, so it is really tough on the body," Dr.

David Byrne, an AgriLife Research plant breeder and scientist, said in a press statement. "Here,

there is a five-fold difference in the toxic intensity. You can put it at a level where it will kill

the cancer cells -- the very aggressive ones -- and not the normal ones."


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So what could be in peaches and plums (fruits known as "stone" fruits because of their large,

stone-like seeds) that zaps even the most deadly breast cancer cells? In their study, which was

published in theJournal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry , Dr. Byrne and fellow AgriLife

food scientist Dr. Luis Cisneros-Zevallos concluded two phenolic compounds were responsiblefor the cancer cell deaths. Phenols are organic compounds that occur in fruits. Slightly acidic,

phenols are associated with the color, smell and taste of specific fruits. In a statement to the

media, Dr. Cisneros-Zevallos explained that two specific phenolic acid components -- known

as chlorogenic and neochlorogenic compounds -- were responsible for killing the breast

cancer cells in the AgriLife study. Although very common in fruits, stone fruits such as plums

and peaches are especially rich in these types of phenols.

In addition to their successful research showing the stone fruit phenols killed

breast cancer cells, the research team also found that animal studies provided even moreevidence that the fruit extracts have power anti-cancer properties. The compounds prevented

cancer from growing in animals given the fruit treatments.

As NaturalNews has reported, researchers are zeroing in on how a host of phytonutrients in

foods are potent breast cancer fighters. For example, University of Michigan (U-M)

Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists recently discovered that a natural component of

broccoli and broccoli sprouts has the remarkable ability to target cancer stem cells -- the

specific cells responsible for fueling the growth of cancerous breast tumors

(http://www.naturalnews.com/028822_broccoli_b...). In addition, University of Missouri

scientists have found that curcumin, a popular Indian spice derived from the turmeric root,

could reduce the risk of breast cancer risk in women exposed to hormone replacement therapy

(HRT).

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