{"id":1382,"date":"2007-01-09T19:41:59","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T23:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2007-01-09T20:23:08","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T00:23:08","slug":"can-cer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1382","title":{"rendered":"Can-cer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">E<\/span>arlier this morning, I was reading two (BBC) articles about cancer: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/6244715.stm\">&#8216;Spicy foods can kill cancers&#8217;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/6241845.stm\">&#8216;Hope over tumour fighting therapy&#8217;<\/a><sup>1<\/sup>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The first article rings a bell: I think I read something about the magical effects of <em>jalapeno peppers<\/em> before. That was something about mice, if I recall correctly. At this stage, while the results of the research look promising, only cancers grown in labs have shown to be vulnerable to this specific ingredient<sup>2<\/sup> in jalapeno peppers.\n<\/p>\n<p>The second article discusses a total different approach in attacking tumours, using tiny nano-particles that target (and block) the &#8216;blood&#8217; supply to cancerous cells. The results (on mice) look so promising that researchers think that these nano-particles should also be able to deliver chemotherapy-related drugs to tumours.\n<\/p>\n<p>Not related, I prefer my nasi goreng extra hot (as in spicy).\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small><sup>1<\/sup> That second article has a neat picture of cancer under attack by white bloodcells<br \/><sup>2<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Capsaicin\">Capsaicin, that is<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this morning, I was reading two (BBC) articles about cancer: &#8216;Spicy foods can kill cancers&#8217; and &#8216;Hope over tumour fighting therapy&#8217;1. The first article rings a bell: I think I read something about the magical effects of jalapeno peppers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1382\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}