"The leading cause of death in all cancer patients continues to be the resistance of tumor cells to chemotherapy, a form of treatment in which chemicals are used to kill cells."Of course, it could never be that "The leading cause of death in all cancer patients" is poor, ineffective chemotherapy agents.
"Now a study by UC Riverside biochemists that focuses on cancer cells reports that ingesting apigenin - a naturally occurring dietary agent found in vegetables and fruit - improves cancer cells' response to chemotherapy...Clearly these conclusions are wrong/unsupported.
'In therapy you want to kill cancer cells,' explained Cai, the first author of the research paper. 'But to stop cell growth and to kill the cell, p53 first needs to be moved to the cell's nucleus to function. Apigenin is very effective in localizing p53 this way.'
Apigenin is mainly found in fruit (including apples, cherries, grapes), vegetables (including parsley, artichoke, basil, celery), nuts and plant-derived beverages (including tea and wine)...
'Our study advocates the inclusion of vegetables and fruit in our daily diet to help prevent cancer,' said Liu, the research paper's coauthor."
If they want to get a handle on whether eating fruits and vegetables improves the response to chemotherapy, they could analyze the real world outcomes of true vegetarians (not the trendy who eat fish, for example, and label themselves "vegetarian" - so-called pisco-vegetarians) and omnivores/carnivores.
Further, they do not translate the amount of this miracle substance used in the study, into kilotons of fruits and veggies per day, assuming that the digestive process does not alter the stuff rendering it even less useful than is claimed.
And, there is not a mention of how this stuff helps "to prevent cancer," in this article of their authorship.
This is, in a word, bulls**t that they expect you to swallow whole.
Watch out for the pits.
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