Research findings: cabbage or cabbage can prevent bladder cancer

Eating cabbage or cabbage more than three times a month can reduce the risk of bladder cancer by about 40%, US researchers say The researchers investigated 275 bladder cancer patients and 825 healthy people, focusing on whether they had the habit of eating cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage These vegetables are rich in isothiocyanates, which are believed to be effective against cancer The results showed that people who did not smoke and ate cabbage and other vegetables more than three times a month had a 73% lower risk of bladder cancer, and those who ate cabbage and other vegetables more than three times a month, whether smokers or not, had a 40% lower risk of bladder cancer The study also found that cooked cabbage has no anti-cancer effect Cooking destroys 60 to 90 percent of isothiocyanates in cabbage Another team at the roswepark Cancer Institute conducted experiments with cabbage leaves and mice These mice were genetically engineered to develop bladder cancer The researchers fed them extracts from the tender leaves of cabbage, and the results showed that the more cabbage the mice ate, the less likely they were to develop bladder cancer In the experiment, the researchers found that the compounds contained in cabbage may protect the bladder from the inside: "the bladder is like a storage bag Bladder cancer mostly occurs in the epithelial cell layer inside the bladder, which is in direct contact with the urine and always faces the erosion of toxic substances in the urine."