Oral milk thistle extract stops colorectal cancer stem cells from growing tumors
Monday, April 20, 2015 - 15:30
in Health & Medicine
A new study shows that orally administering the chemical silibinin, purified from milk thistle, slows the ability of colorectal cancer stem cells to grow the disease. When stem cells from tumors grown in silibinin-fed conditions were re-injected into new models, the cells failed to develop equally aggressive tumors even in the absence of silibinin.