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Vegetable Compound PEITC May Fight Cancer Stem Cells

Medicine & Technology Your mother was right: eating your green veggies, not to mention your apple a day, might keep the oncologist away. Researchers have found that chewing up cruciferous vegetables transforms a precursor compound and enzyme they contain into a powerful cancer-preventing compound called phenethyl isothiocyanate (PEITC).

Could Your Immune System Be to Blame for the Spread of Breast Cancer?

For years researchers have been quite confused as to the contrary correlation between immunological responses and the spread of cancers. Though a strong immune system is often an indicator of a healthy attack against disease, in some forms of cancer it can also indicate civil war that will undoubtedly aid the cancer in the course of its infection. In particular, researchers investigating lethal forms of breast cancer have found shockingly active immune systems causing metastases of the cancer to other regions of the body, and now they think that they understand why.
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