Fruit 'could provide cancer hope'

From: Roman Bystrianyk (rbystrianyk_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: 27 Jan 2005 08:56:40 -0800

http://www.healthsentinel.com/news.php?event=news_print_list_item&id=571

Jayne Elliott, "Fruit 'could provide cancer hope'", BBC News, January
27, 2005,
Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/4211223.stm

Chemicals used by plants as a defence against fungal infection could
benefit cancer sufferers, researchers say.

Experts from research company Nature's Defence told a conference in
Lincolnshire a product based on fruit skin extracts "may have
benefits".

They claim salvestrols, a compound found in food, can induce cell
death, particularly targeting an enzyme found only in cancer cells.

Cancer Research UK said they did not endorse products awaiting trial.

Full clinical trials on Fruit Force are expected to take place next
year.

The compounds were discovered when experts from Nature's Defence and
the Cancer Drug Discovery Group, headed by professor Gerry Potter,
investigated the link between diet and cancer prevention.

They looked at how the body protects itself from cancer, and disposes
of cancer cells as they are forming.

Professor Potter said salvestrols are "a wolf in sheep's clothing"
referring to the potency of substances that were previously thought to
be only mildly active.

Max Drake, medical herbalist at Nature's Defence, in Leicester, told
the conference: "It is likely that we have discovered a mechanism that
can tackle cancer cells whether they are formed or forming.

"Whether this could lead to a cure or not, we do not know."

Researchers found salvestrols destroyed the CYP1B1 enzyme which is
present in both pre-cancerous and cancerous cells.

Experts said anecdotal evidence was "promising" but full clinical
trials have to be carried out to confirm the treatment's benefits.

Ed Yong, of Cancer Research UK, said: "Cancer Research UK does not
endorse any supplement or drugs which have not been rigorously tested
in clinical trials.

"Until this supplement has passed these trials, we cannot say if it has
any preventive effects against cancer or any harmful side effects."

A spokesman at Grimsby's Diana Princess of Wales Hospital said: "There
are many forms of cancer and tumours and they all need treating in
different ways."

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