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Eating Vegetables Can Reduce Your Bladder Cancer Risk

December 12, 2007
A recent study shows that eating broccoli or cabbage three times each month may reduce your risk of developing bladder cancer by 40%.  To learn more, click here.

AUA Releases New Guidelines on Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder

December 12, 2007
The American Urological Association (AUA) recently published new guidelines on the treatment of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.The Guideline reviews a number of current treatments and reaches conclusions on issues such as immunotherapy versus chemotherapy for low risk disease, the need for repeat resections, and maintenance BCG therapy.  For more details, click here.

RESEARCHERS FIND BROCCOLI PREVENTS OR SLOWS BLADDER CANCER

October 25, 2007
Researchers at Ohio State University believe that consumption of cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts and kale, may help prevent or slow the progression of bladder cancer. The researchers hypothesized this effect and confirmed it in laboratory experiments using compounds found in cruciferous vegetables. Interestingly, the compounds had the strongest effect on the most aggressive forms of bladder cancer cells. The researchers presented their findings at the July 18, 2005 annual meeting of the Institute of Food Technologists, held in New Orleans. The full text of this announcement may be found by clicking here. In a separate but related report, Discover Magazine, in its January, 2005 issue, listed the finding that "Broccoli Kicks Cancer" as one of the top 100 science stories of 2004. In that report, scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign isolated a substance called sulforaphane from cruciferous vegetables and conducted in vitro tests against breast cancer cells. Within hours, the cancer cells stopped dividing.  Sulforaphane was found to work by interrupting the cell division process of cancerous cells, while leaving normal cells untouched. The lead researcher, Keith Singletary, cautioned that what happens in the test tube may not be what happens in the body, and that further research is needed.

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