Grape Seed Promising In Fight Against Bowel Cancer, University of Adelaide Study

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University of Adelaide research has shown for the first time that grape seed can aid the effectiveness of chemotherapy in killing colon cancer cells as well as reducing the chemotherapy's side effects. Published in the prestigious journal PLOS ONE, the researchers say that combining grape seed extracts with chemotherapy has potential as a new approach for bowel cancer treatment- to both reduce intestinal damage commonly caused by cancer chemotherapy and to enhance its effect.

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