Cancer's Secret

Cancer's Secret?
It is clear that, as Drs. Chen and Glazer of the Lombardi Cancer Center of Georgetown U. Medical Center, Wash., D.C., realize,* "A positive correlation between PKC (the body's prime signaling enzyme) activity and a biologically more aggressive (type of cancer cell) has been observed in several malignant 'cancer] cell lines." It is no secret among medical scientists, and countless others have observed the connection between this enzyme's activity and cancer.

However, while the above researchers have chosen to explore drugs to reduce PKC's action, others have chosen to do so with non-toxic foods instead, including Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Harvard Medical Center and Hospitals, and the U. of Texas' Medical Branch.

Meanwhile, can we use this information to ward off cancer? As the old saying goes, "It can't hurt." Prime examples are the use of green tea, soy foods, and fish oils.

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*Expressed at the April, l997 annual meeting of Amer. Assn. for Cancer Research.

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