Curcumin Impedes Breast Cancer Metastasis

A study found that curcumin, a substance in the spice turmeric, prevents breast cancer from spreading to the lungs of mice given the compound.

Researchers injected 60 mice with human metastatic breast cancer cells. When the tumors reached the size of 10 millimeters, they were surgically removed. Upon examination of the animals’ lungs five weeks after removal of the tumors, 96% of the mice in the control group had visible metastases. While paclitaxel alone elicited a modest reduction in visible metastases, curcumin produced a significant reduction, and the combination of curcumin and paclitaxel prevented the macrometastases entirely.

Read further study results here.