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Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on April 29, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2008 100(9):616-617; doi:10.1093/jnci/djn141
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Curry Compound Fights Cancer in the Clinic

Andrea Carter

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Kavita Chopra recalls the way that her grandmother would dissolve a teaspoon of the Indian curry spice turmeric in water each morning to promote good health. Today, Chopra takes an 8-g pill of curcumin—the molecule that gives turmeric its bright yellow color—to fight the follicular lymphoma she was diagnosed with 2 years ago.

Chopra learned about curcumin from a newspaper article that described research by Bharat Aggarwal, Ph.D., which showed that curcumin slows cancer growth in the lab and in mice. After speaking with Aggarwal, a professor of cancer medicine at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, she started taking curcumin even though her oncologist doesn’t believe it will do any good.

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