Pomegranate Fruit Extract Slows Spread of Breast Cancer

Not surprisingly, pomegranate is also shown to impair the ability of breast cancer cells to invade and spread. To quote this paper published in Integrative Cancer Therapies, this "...suggests a role for these defined extracts in lowering the metastatic potential of aggressive breast cancer species." Interestingly, the mechanism examined was the same as the recent post for prostate cancer, the NF-kB pro-inflammatory agent. The pomegranate fruit extract "dose-dependently inhibited NF-kB—dependent reporter gene expression associated with proliferation, invasion, and motility in aggressive breast cancer phenotypes."