The Cure, It has been Found!

[RedSonikku37]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8328377.stm
The cure for cancer Is.... Curry?
Well, not really a cure, but more like a breakthrough. It's still in the alpha stages of testing, so If they keep researching it might end this fight for cancer.

[jp01cf01]

Before I believe anything at least 95%, I'm going to need some statistics. But if it does end up working, that would be so awesome.

[Megalodon]

I've always been wondering that the cure for cancer has been under our very noses. Might not be true, but that'd be pretty unfortunate if it is.

[Lingering_Legacy]

<3 I'm gonna not die from cancer. *loves curry*

[Garc16160]

Hooray for curry!

[Platinum attack]

It is a proven fact that I am really the cure for cancer. >.>
Anyways, nice article, and breakthrough.

[bluejay100]

I want to know how it works. I don't think an oncogene can be fixed easily.

[magicpandaren]

time to go ask my indian friends for some curry

[haymaker]

Will it cure cancer: no.
I can tell you that allready, it won't cure cancer.
Can it help in curing cancer: yes. In many foods, anti-tumor components can be found. In apples for example such a component can be found as well.
When these components are found, they can be brought together, chemically improved and perhaps within 20 years we might have a cure that works for certain cancers.

As to the explanation for curry.
Cancer cells divide rapidly, that's why tumors grows. They cells divide and multiply uncontrolled and rapidly.
The multiplying is, among other reasons, induced by a transcription factor. It is that transcription factor that is blocked by curcumin.

For those interested: the component of apples that helps in curing cancer is phloretin. This is a glucose transporter inhibitor. Since cancer cells need a lot of glucose, because they have high energy requirements, blocking the glucose transport results in the death of those cancers.
(I'm actually doing research for this at the moment)

[Blastoise]

Will it cure cancer: no.
I can tell you that allready, it won't cure cancer.
Can it help in curing cancer: yes. In many foods, anti-tumor components can be found. In apples for example such a component can be found as well.
When these components are found, they can be brought together, chemically improved and perhaps within 20 years we might have a cure that works for certain cancers.

As to the explanation for curry.
Cancer cells divide rapidly, that's why tumors grows. They cells divide and multiply uncontrolled and rapidly.
The multiplying is, among other reasons, induced by a transcription factor. It is that transcription factor that is blocked by curcumin.

For those interested: the component of apples that helps in curing cancer is phloretin. This is a glucose transporter inhibitor. Since cancer cells need a lot of glucose, because they have high energy requirements, blocking the glucose transport results in the death of those cancers.
(I'm actually doing research for this at the moment)

Exactly. It would be extremely hard to stop any cancer. Without chemo or other external procedures. Simple foods will help stop cancer from growing, but it won't cure cancer. Experts are saying coffee can PREVENT cancer, but it won't cure it. Cancer has an EXTREMELY high mitotic rate. The stuff in curry, coffee and other foods that supress tumors only supress them, not kill them. The best thing to do is to see a doctor if you every have any signs of a cancerous tumor. Waiting can kill you.
If you need any other info, I have a whole set of lecture notes from my anatomy class on all the types of cancers and the ways you can get cancer. If you knew, it might just scare you.
Proto-oncogenes are just plain dangerous, and they're made by our bodies. Not normally, of course, but they can be made whether you take all the right steps to stop cancer or not.