Medical News Summary: Zinc supplementation may prevent some cancers

About: Zinc supplementation may prevent some cancers
Date: 8 January 2005
Source: New Kerala
Medical News Summary (summary of medical news story as reported by New Kerala): Philadelphia researchers have discovered that oral zinc supplementation in rats can reverse the development of precancerous conditions in cancers such as esophageal and oral cancer in. It also reduces to production of COX-2 production. Zinc deficiency and COX-2 over production are linked to esophageal and oral cancer and thus zinc supplementation. It is hoped that humans would also benefit from the preventative action of zinc supplementation and maybe even consumption of low amounts of celecoxib.
URL: http://athens-olympics-2004.newkerala.com/?action=fullnews&id=57159
Related Disease Topics: Zinc deficiency, Cancer, Esophageal cancer, Oral cancer

---

Related Medical News Channels: This medical news summary article refers to the following medical channel categories:

• Medication
• medication and zinc deficiency
• medication and cancer
• medication and esophageal cancer
• medication and oral cancer
• cause of cancer
• cause of esophageal cancer
• cause of oral cancer
• Research
• research and zinc deficiency
• research and cancer
• research and esophageal cancer
• risk and zinc deficiency
• risk and cancer
• risk and esophageal cancer

Medical Tools & Articles:

Next articles:

• Risk Factor Center
• Medical Statistics Center
• Medical Treatment Center
• Prevention Center
• Medical Tests Center

Medical Articles:

• Disease & Treatments Search
• Online Diagnosis
• Misdiagnosis Center
• Full list of interesting articles