A compound found in milk thistle, a natural remedy used in
traditional healing practices for more than 2,000 years, may offer a new
way to prevent skin cancer and heal damage that develops from two types
of ultraviolent radiation from sunlight or other sources.
Two University of Colorado Cancer Center studies published this
month found that the milk thistle extract, silibinin, kills skin cells
mutated by UVA radiation and also protects against damage by UVB
radiation.
"When you have a cell affected by UV radiation, you either want to
repair it or kill it so that it cannot go on to cause cancer,” said
researcher Rajesh Agarwal, a cancer prevention specialist at the CU
Cancer Center and professor at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and
Pharmaceutical Sciences. “We show that silibinin does both."
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