Thursday, September 17, 2015

Spicy chili Can Kill Prostate Cancer Cells

The chili is a food that can give a spicy taste sensation. Moreover, in a study published by the American Chemical Society's Journal of Physical Chemistry, chili believed to help kill prostate cancer cells.

Researchers found that the compound capsaicin can kill cancer cells. Capsaicin is a compound that causes the chili was hot and spicy in the mouth.

A study published in Cancer Research found that these compounds can reduce the size of the tumor when conducted experiments on mice. Previously, genetic engineering has been carried out on mice, so have cells of human prostate cancer.

Research shows, hot sensation on capsaicin can tear the cell membrane so that the cancer cells will eventually die. However, to get an effect in humans, estimated to need a dose high enough or consumption of chili so much in one day.

This finding makes the doctor and the doctor Ashok Mishra Jitendriya Swain from the Indian Institute of Technology wanted to examine further how capsaicin may help kill cancer cells, which then can be used in the form of new drugs.

This study does not mean the presence of prostate cancer patients can be cured with only consume a lot of chili. Medical treatment remains to be done every cancer patient.

Prostate cancer is a type of cancer that occurs in men. According to the World Cancer Research Fund, there are more than 1.1 million cases of prostate cancer in 2012 worldwide. Previous research in the past year, eating chili can also reduce the risk of colon cancer.

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