date:Jan 24, 2013
a research instructor at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, said in a statement.
Specifically, researchers found that giving mice this compound -- which is found in high-fiber diets -- prevented new blood vessels from being formed. Without these blood vessels, the tumors were unable to gain the energy needed to grow and progress.
Even though this finding was in animals, other studies in humans have also suggested that fiber ha