Garlic - The Whole Food Medicine for Reduced Risk and Treatment of Breast Cancer

Garlic is a species in the onion genus, belonging to family Amaryllidaceae, native to central Asia. It has been used popularly in traditional and Chinese medicine in treating common cold and flu to the Plague, blood pressure cholesterol levels, natural antibiotics, etc.

Breast cancer (malignant breast neoplasm) is cancer that starts in the tissues of the breast either from the inner lining of milk ducts (Ductal carcinoma) or the lobules (Lobular carcinoma) that supply the ducts with milk. there are also rare cases that breast cancer starts in other areas of the breast. In 2010, over 250,000 new cases of breast cancer were expected to be diagnosed in women in the U.S. alone and the risk of getting invasive breast cancer during the lifetime of a woman is 1/8.

Fresh Garlic Extract beside inhibited colon and gastric cancer in 2 previous articles, it also is found to arrest the growth and alter the morphology of MCF7 breast cancer cells.

Also in MCF7 human breast cancer cells, garlic constituent diallyl trisulfide has highly effective antitumor effects by the suppressing viability of cultured MCF-7 and MCF-12a cells, through decreased the percent of cells in G(2)/M and induced apoptotic cell death.

According to the study by 201 South University Street, diallyl trisulfide, inhibited the expression of MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7 breast cancer cells, regardless to the state of estrogen in the tumors.

In a total of 285 women (aged 25-65 years old) newly diagnosed with histopathologically confirmed breast cancer, dietary Allium Vegetables has a negative association between the consumption of raw onion and the risk of breast cancer.

Dr. Roy N., the lead author at the Kerala Agricultural University, said, "Docking studies and ADMET evaluation revealed twelve compounds (isolated from garlic) to be active against the targets(breast cancer cell lines). All the compounds displayed highly negative dock scores which indicated good interactions".

Therefore, the effectiveness of garlic in reduced risk and treatment of breast cancer is probably due to the existence of many phytochemicals found in the herb. Women who increased intake of garlic every day may see the risk of breast cancer reduced substantially.


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Sources
(1) Fresh Garlic Extract Induces Growth Arrest and Morphological Differentiation of MCF7 Breast Cancer Cells by Modem S1, Dicarlo SE, Reddy TR.(PubMed)
(2) Garlic constituent diallyl trisulfide induced apoptosis in MCF7 human breast cancer cells by Malki A1, El-Saadani M, Sultan AS.(PubMed)
(3) Diallyl trisulfide, a chemopreventive agent from Allium vegetables, inhibits alpha-secretases in breast cancer cells by Kiesel VA1, Stan SD2.(PubMed)