Another Benefit of Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Extra Virgin Olive Oil Helps To Combat Breast Cancer, According To Spanish Scientists is an article published at Medical News Today. Quoting from the article:

UGR News Researchers of the Catalonian Institute of Oncology (Spain) and the University of Granada (Spain) have discovered that extra virgin olive oil may help to combat breast cancer, according to a paper published in the last issue of the renowned scientific journal BMC Cancer. The scientists have confirmed the bioactivity of polyphenols (natural antioxidants) present in olive oil in breast cancer cell lines.

The study has proved the anti-HER2 effect of fractions of phenolic compounds directly extracted of extra virgin olive oil in breast cancer cell lines. They have used solid-phase extraction methods of semi-preparative liquid chromatography to isolate fractions of commercial oils and, later, separation techniques (capillary electrophoresis and liquid chromatography connected to mass spectrometry) to check the purity and composition of the fractions.

Study findings indicate that antioxidants in olive oil called polyphenols may combat breast cancer types dubbed positive HER2 and negative HER2. It may be possible to use polyphenols as a base from which new anti-carcinogenic drugs would be designed.