Bitter melon fights breast cancer cells

Bitter melon (Ku Gua, Momordica charantia), a vegetable commonly used in Chinese cooking and medicine, shows promise as an anti-breast cancer agent. Studies carried out by US scientists have shown that treatment of human breast cancer cells with bitter melon extract trigger a chain of cellular events that induce apoptotic cell death and result in a significant decrease in cell proliferation. (Bitt ...

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