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Author: Reilly Capps/Wednesday, August 14, 2013/Categories: Archive Pick of the Week
[Aristolochia baetica, one member of a cancer-causing genus long used in alternative medicine.]
“A lot of people in the lay public assume that if something is herbal or natural that it is necessarily healthy,” said Marc Ladanyi, an investigator in the human oncology and pathogenesis program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York who was not involved in the studies. “But this work very clearly shows that this natural plant product is extremely genotoxic and carcinogenic.”
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