Chemical compound may help fight cancer

On TV, science is wicked fast.

Take an episode for CSI, for example: DNA tests, fingerprint analysis, and blood work all takes about a minute. Stuff that takes a week in real life can be done in seconds on the boob tube.

Ask Dr. Rajesh Agarwal. He’s been working with the same compound for the last 15 years.

Agarwal has been using silibinin, a chemical compound naturally produced in the body, to try to prevent and treat different kinds of cancers.“First I started with prostate cancer, then went to colorectal cancer, and then lung cancer,” Agarwal said. And at the time of the interview, he was writing another grant proposal to work with skin cancer; literally, it was on his desk.

Agarwal already has five different grants for studying silibinin in various cancers, adding up to a cool $1,572,772.

So far, silibinin has worked great for preventing cancer and treating it. “It’s been very effective in different model studies,” Agarwal said.

His studies aren’t to the point where they could be used to simply scrub the body clean of cancer, but the results look good, Agarwal says.
If only he’d hurry it up a little.
 

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