Liquorice, a confectionery flavoured with the extract of the roots of the liquorice plant, may help prevent bowel cancer, a new study has found.
Love sucking up on a liquorice toffee? This much-popular confectionery flavoured with the root extracts of the liquorice plant,is not just great on the taste buds but may also help prevent bowel cancer.
Bowel cancer is the third most common type after breast and lung cancers.
Four Drinks a Day Drastically Increases Cancer Risk in Men
Drinking just four standard alcoholic drinks a day significantly increases a man's chances of developing breast, bowel, throat and mouth cancer, a new study has found.
Drinking just four standard alcoholic drinks a day significantly increases a man's chances of developing breast, bowel, throat and mouth cancer, a new study has found.
"We found that a chemical component of liquorice may offer a new approach to preventing it, without the adverse side effects of other preventative therapies," The Mirror quoted team leader Dr Raymond Harris, as saying.
With the help of glycyrrhizic acid - the main sweet-tasting component of liquorice -researchers blocked the enzyme in mice predisposed to the disease.
Aspirin a Day Can Keep Colon Cancer Away
Daily dose of common pain killer aspirin could cut the risk of getting bowel cancer by more than a third, says a new study
Daily dose of common pain killer aspirin could cut the risk of getting bowel cancer by more than a third, says a new study
Liquorice, extracted from the Glycyrrhiza glabra plant from southern Europe and Asia, has been important in Chinese medicine for centuries.
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Gene Test for Fighting Bowel Cancer
Australian oncologists have made a major breakthrough that would enable a gene test to predict how bowel cancer patients would react to the current drug therapies.
Australian oncologists have made a major breakthrough that would enable a gene test to predict how bowel cancer patients would react to the current drug therapies.
The study is published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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Bowel Cancer Drug Campaigner Dies After Surgery
Hayley Newbery, the 26-year-old mother-of-three who ignited a national newspaper campaign in order to procure an unapproved drug to treat bowel cancer, has died
Hayley Newbery, the 26-year-old mother-of-three who ignited a national newspaper campaign in order to procure an unapproved drug to treat bowel cancer, has died
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