How a glass of red wine can help cancer drugs more effective
How a glass of red wine can help cancer drugs more effective
Feb 14, 2011 6
A glass of red wine for women with breast cancer could boost the success rate of treatment.
The ingredient resveratrol which naturally occurs in red wine enhances the effects of a drug used to combat the disease.
Laboratory tests found the ingredient can prevent cancer cells from developing resistance to the drug, called rapamycin.
Although cancer trials show the drug works against tumours, the cells start to grow again after resistance sets in.
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