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Chemopreventive and Antitumor Efficacy of Curcumin in a Spontaneously Developing Hen Ovarian Cancer Model.
Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1 Jan 2018
Sahin Kazim, Orhan Cemal, Tuzcu Mehmet, Sahin Nurhan, Tastan Hakkı, Özercan İbrahim Hanifi, Güler Osman, Kahraman Nermin, Kucuk Omer, Ozpolat Bulent
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the effect of daily dietary curcumin intake on the development and progression of spontaneous ovarian cancer in a galline (hen) model, as the chicken is the only nonhuman animal in which ovarian cancer spontaneously develops with a high prevalence. At the end of 12 months, ovarian cancer had spontaneously developed in 39% (35/90) of control hens not fed curcumin (n = 90). In comparison, it...
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