, said: ‘If things keep on going as planned, we could start the first clinical trial in a couple of years.
The European Food Safety Authority and the World Health Organisation have previously declared it to be more carcinogenic than any other oil.Now a study has shed fresh light on the link – opening the door to therapies that prevent cancer migrating, or metastasising, to other organs.Experiments on mice found palmitic acid, the main saturated fatty acid in palm oil, promoted mouth cancers and deadly skin melanomas.
‘We are not concentrating on this direction of research. Instead, we are focusing on new potential therapeutic targets that we could inhibit and that could have a real therapeutic benefit for the patient irrespective of their diet.’ Cancer cells exposed to palmitic acid for a short period spread quickly – even once it was removed from the diet.Cancer cells exposed to palmitic acid for a short period spread quickly – even once it was removed from the diet.
Dr Helen Rippon, chief executive at Worldwide Cancer Research which part funded the study, said: ‘This discovery is a huge breakthrough in our understanding of how diet and cancer are linked and, perhaps more importantly, how we can use this knowledge to start new cures for cancer.
I always said that it wasn’t good for the human body!!!
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