Antioxidants in grape skins and red wine can kill pancreatic cancer cells by getting into the center of the cell’s energy – the mitochondria- thereby disabling its function.
Such were the findings of a team from University of Rochester Medical Center.
The new study also showed that when the pancreatic cancer cells were doubly assaulted — pre-treated with the antioxidant, resveratrol, and irradiated — the combination induced a type of cell death called apoptosis, an important goal of cancer therapy.
Although red wine consumption during chemotherapy or radiation treatment has not been well studied, it is not “contraindicated,” Okunieff said. In other words, …read more