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Cancer Cure

The document discusses evidence that soursop fruit and graviola tree leaves may be effective in treating cancer. Studies show graviola extracts can target and kill cancer cells, including breast, liver, and pancreatic cancer cells, without harming healthy cells. However, more clinical trials are still needed before it can be confirmed as an alternative cancer treatment.

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Cancer Cure

The document discusses evidence that soursop fruit and graviola tree leaves may be effective in treating cancer. Studies show graviola extracts can target and kill cancer cells, including breast, liver, and pancreatic cancer cells, without harming healthy cells. However, more clinical trials are still needed before it can be confirmed as an alternative cancer treatment.

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Cancer Cure: Soursop Shows Strong Evidence in Studies

Mrs.Anitha V N. Asst.Professor, Medical Surgical Nursing Department ,JSS College Of


Nursing, Mysore.

Cancer has touched many of us in some way. Whether we know of or have


overcome cancer ourselves, or know someone who has passed from it, we can all draw some
form of intimate connection to the disease. The subject of cures and treatment has been of great
debate within the industry as the generally accepted methods of chemotherapy and radiation
come with moderately effective results and incredibly tough side effects. The search
for alternative cures and treatments has been ongoing for many years. While many claim they
have come up with effective ways to treat the disease, very little seriousness is put towards these
claims by mainstream medicine.
One alternative treatment of cancer that has been used in the past, especially in countries where it
grows well, is Soursop. A flowering evergreen tree native to tropical regions, this fruit is said to
kill cancer more effectively than chemotherapy drugs and does not produce the same
undesirable side effects, but may not be fully clear of any adverse effects.

The active ingredient in Soursop that is proving to be effective is called Annona muricata or
Graviola. Currently it exists on the market under the brand name of Triamazon but licensing of
the product is not generally accepted in all countries due to the potential profit loss
for pharmaceutical companies. The long, prickly fruit comes from the graviola tree, an evergreen
native to Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. It's also known as custard
apple, guanabana, Brazilian paw paw and Mullanchakka in Malayalam.

Graviola is not just a cancer treatment, it has also displayed anti-parasitic, antimicrobial, antiinflammatory, antirheumatic and cytotoxic properties, according to Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center. In some cases, Graviola has also been used as a pain killer and the results were
positive. Practitioners of herbal medicine use soursop fruit and graviola tree leaves to treat
stomach ailments, fever, parasitic infections, hypertension and rheumatism. It's used as a
sedative, as well.

But claims of the fruit's anti-cancer properties have attracted the most attention.
A study published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry in 1997 suggests that soursop
compounds tested on breast cancer cells in culture were more effective than chemotherapy in
destroying the cells. But, without clinical trials, there is no data to support the claim.
In an assessment of Graviola, published in the December 2008 issue of the Journal of Dietary
Supplements by U.S. researchers Lana Dvorkin-Camiel and Julia S. Whelan, multiple in-vitro
studies determined that Graviola is effective against various microbial and parasitic agents.
Graviola displayed specific effectiveness on parasites Leishmania braziliensis, Leishmania

panamensis, Nippostrongylus braziliensis, Artemia salina and Trichomonas vaginalis, as well as


against the Herpes simplex virus.
As it relates directly to cancer, test-tube and animal research demonstrates that Graviola may be
an anti-cancer agent. However, no human clinical trials have been performed as of yet.
According to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, MSKCC, Graviola extract proved to
be effective against liver cancer and breast cancer cells. Naturopath Leslie Taylor, author of The
Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs, notes that studies show Graviola has an inhibitory effect on
enzyme processes in some cancer cell membranes. Graviola only destroys the affected cancer
cell membranes and not those of healthy cells. This research may lend support to the herbs
traditional use against cancer.
Research done over 20 laboratory tests by one of Americas largest drug manufacturers suggests
that the extracts were able to demonstrate the following:

Effectively target and kill malignant cells in 12 types of cancer, including colon, breast,
prostate, lung and pancreatic cancer.

The tree compounds proved to be up to 10,000 times stronger in slowing the growth of
cancer cells than Adriamycin, a commonly used chemotherapeutic drug

Whats more, unlike chemotherapy, the compound extracted from the Graviola tree
selectively hunts down and kills only cancer cells. It does not harm healthy cells.

References:
1.http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf9018239?prevSearch=Soursop%2BCancer&searchHistoy
Key
2. http://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/herb/graviola
3.Journal of Dietary Supplements; Tropical American Plants in the Treatment of Infectious
Diseases; Lana Dvorkin-Camiel and Julia S. Whelan; December 2008
4.African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines; Antihyperglycemic Activities of Annona Muricata (Linn); D.O. Adeyemi, et al.; October 2008
5. http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/02/13/soursop-graviola-cancer-cure-strongevidnce/#sthash.OuLe9D1e.dpuf

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