Animal Study

Lycopene linked to reduction in fibroid tumors

Published in Women's Health Weekly, May 20th, 2004

Lycopene, the antioxidant found in tomatoes that gives them their red color, may be able to reduce the size and incidence of fibroid tumors based on an animal study presented at the annual Experimental Biology meeting.

Fibroid tumors, also known as leiomyomas or myomas, are benign tumors of the uterus that affect millions of women.

Researchers from Firat University in Turkey, the University of Maryland, and the Karmanos Cancer Institute at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, supplemented the basic diet of Japanese quails with either 100 mg or 200 mg lycopene per kg of food. After 10 months, the supplemented quails had fewer leiomyomas...

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