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• Curcumin, the ingredient that gives curry seasoning its distinctive yellow color, could destroy malignant cells that cause melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, a new study finds.
• Researchers led by Razelle Kurzrock of the University of Texas Anderson Cancer Center in Houston treated three melanoma cell lines with curcumin at different doses and for different duration.
• Results show that curcumin treatment decreased cell viability in all three cell lines in a dose-dependent manner.
• Moreover, curcumin induced apoptosis in tumour cells at high concentrations for short periods of time and low concentrations for long periods of time - a new finding in the study of curcumin, said the researchers.
• The study is the latest to suggest that curcumin is a potent suppressor of cell viability and inducer of apoptosis in melanoma cell lines.
• However, they said, tests of cells in labs don't necessarily predict what will happen when tried in people.
• The study is to be published in the August 15, 2005 issue of the journal Cancer, but available on line on Monday, July 11.

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