Frozen strawberries, key to the throat cancer screening in China

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In a country where the highest incidence of neck or esophageal cancer, Chinese researchers have found that simple strawberries may one affordable and often found prevention tool prevent this deadly disease. Frozen berries are even better because you remove the water from the berries, increase the concentrate of preventive substances of almost ten-fold.

Follow researchers Chen Tong, m.d., PhD., Assistant Professor, Department of medical oncology, Department of internal medicine at the Ohio State University and a member of molecular carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention Comprehensive Cancer Center, explains program in the Ohio State University:

"We concluded from this study, that six months eating strawberries safe and easy to consume." "In addition our preliminary data suggests, that strawberries to reduce histological grade precancerous lesions and cancer in events can reduce connection related diagnosis."

Study participants consumed 60 G freeze dried strawberries daily for six months and completed a dietary diary chronicle their Strawberry consumption.

The researchers obtain biopsy samples before and after the strawberry consumption. The results showed that 29 of 36 participants experienced a decline in the histological grade of precancerous lesions during the study.

Chen continues:

"Our study is important because it shows that strawberries can slow down the progression of precancerous lesions in the esophagus." The cancer can an alternative or chemopreventive together with other drugs to prevent strawberries. "But we need to test this in randomized, placebo controlled studies in the future."

If the cancer is diagnosed in its earliest stages, free patient's chances of living and cancer is five years after the treatment is significantly improved. Most cases of esophageal cancer are only discovered when the patient to their doctor because of the difficulty that until the later stages cancer growth does not happen the swallow. The prognosis is very poor.

Esophageal cancer is a relatively rare form of cancer, but some areas of the world have a significantly higher incidence than others: seem Belgium, China, Iran, Iceland, India, Japan, United Kingdom, to have a higher incidence, as well as the region on the Caspian Sea. The American Cancer Society estimates that around 16,000 esophageal cancer incidence in the United States will be diagnosed in the year 2011.

Since the 1960s, Chinese researchers at the cancer have Institute, Chinese Academy of medical sciences, which was tracing factors that cause esophageal cancer.

Esophageal cancer is the eighth cancer and the fifth most common cause of cancer deaths in the world. About 250,000 are esophageal cancer every year in China, half the world's total diagnosed.

Once diagnosed, survival rates for cancer are arm: 75% of patients die within a year, and the five year survival rate is only 5% to 10%.

Esophageal cancer occurs more frequently in certain regions. Most of the victims living in the "cancer belt," in the northern Iran from the central part of which North China to the West of Central Asia.

In China the Taihang of mountains is esophageal cancer in areas south on the border of the provinces of Hebei, Henan and Shanxi.

Source: press release and China daily

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