The herbal gingko biloba may lower the risk of developing ovarian cancer, US researchers say. A Boston-based team, led by Dr Bin Ye and Dr Daniel Cramer at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, studied a population of women that included 600 ovarian cancer cases and 640 healthy, matched controls. Women who took gingko supplements for six months or longer were shown to have a 60 per cent lower risk for ovarian cancer, the scientists told those attending the American Association for Cancer Research’s annual Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research meeting in Baltimore last week.
