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Preview- It seems that, several researchers are investigating these mechanisms and finding that, although the exact mechanism was not what they had assumed, the monoterpenes, limonene and perillyl alcohol, have a profound anti-tumor (i.e., neoplasm) activity on pancreatic cancer. Tumor is an abnormal mass of tissue that results when cells divide more than they should or do not die when they should. Tumors may be benign (not cancer), or malignant (cancer). Also called neoplasm (i.e., new growth, or tumor). Pancreatic, having to do with the pancreas. Pancreatic cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells are found in the tissues of the pancreas. Also called exocrine (i.e., eccrine) cancer.
- You can recognize, chemotherapy of pancreatic cancer with the monoterpene perillyl alcohol. Chemotherapy, treatment with drugs that kill cancer cells.
- It appears that, in an article published in Cancer Letters, perillyl alcohol was shown to reduce the growth of pancreatic tumors injected into hamsters to less than half that of controls.
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