Breast Cancer (Therapy)

Component of Oil of Lavender Is a Natural Cancer Fighter

Published in Women's Health Weekly, October 9th, 1995

Can perillyl alcohol, a substance produced naturally in lavender flowers and other common plants, prove effective against advanced breast cancer and other advanced tumors'

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center (UWCCC), Madison, impressed by the substance's performance in laboratory studies, have secured federal approval to launch the world's first study of the drug's activity in cancer patients, reported Dr. Howard Bailey, of the University of Wisconsin (UW) Medical School.

Perillyl alcohol, one of a family of natural drugs called monoterpenes, studied since 1982 in the laboratories of UWCCC researcher Michael N....

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