date:Dec 29, 2012
Eating a lot of asparagus may help prevent breast cancer ortreat the disease that is diagnosed in more than 230,000 women each year in the United States, accordingto a new study in Indian Journal of Pharmacology.
S. K. Mitra from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences in Bangalore, Karnataka, India and colleaguesconducted the research and found compounds known as shatavarins isolated from the roots of Asparagusracemosus possess anticancer activity in vivo and in vitro against human breast c