Leeks Kill Breast Cancer Cells in Vitro

Cancer is a class of diseases in which a group of cells growing and multiplying disorderly and uncontrollably in our body.

Breast cancer is a medical and chronic condition caused by cell growth irregularly and uncontrollably in the breast tissue. At the early stage, in most cases, breast cancer starts in the cells of the inner lining tissue of milk ducts (Ductal carcinoma) or the lobules (Lobular carcinoma) that supply the ducts with milk.

At the advanced stage, breast cancer cells caused by the alternation of DNA can travel far away from the primary site to infect other healthy tissue and organs.

Most patients at the early may have a lump when touching with no symptoms.

Patients who inherited the genetic preposition of BRCA1 and 2 are associated with over 60% of the risk of breast cancer.

The findings for effective treatments are ongoing with some successes, but the discovery of effective ingredients prevention and treatment of breast cancer with little or no side effects have proven difficult.

Detection of tumorigenesis through self-observation is still the best approach to discover breast cancer in an early stage.

According to statistics, in 2010, over 250,000 new cases of breast cancer were expected to be diagnosed in women in the US alone and the risk of getting invasive breast cancer during the lifetime of a woman is 1/8.

Genetic preposition, one of the prevalent risk factor associated with the increased risk of breast cancer has been under intensifying study in scientists over the world over a few decades ago, suggested that women who carry the mutated genes BRCA1 and 2 have 60% most likely risk to develop breast cancer before the age of 70.

Another prevalent and most mentioned risk factor associated with the risk of the disease is obesity.

According to statistics, the risk of getting invasive breast cancer during the lifetime of a woman is 1/8.

Leek is a genius of Allium, belonging to the vegetable family vegetable Alliacaea, the same as onion and garlic. Leeks are easy to grow from seed and usually reach maturity in the autumn months, and have few pest or disease problems.


On finding a potential plant that processes anti-cancer activity researchers examined the effects of leek extracts on MCF-7 human breast cancer cells.

According to the crude extracts of ethanol, methanol, and water of leek obtained by maceration that were applied to MCF-7 cells in complete media at 37 °C and subjected to different treatments that involved varying concentrations (10, 50, and 100 μg/mL) of leek extracts for 24, 48, and 72 h of incubation, leeks showed a strong effect on cell viability and the concentration of extracts on MCF-7 cells.

The water leak extract proved to be the most effective extract at 50 μg/mL,

The efficacy of leek was attributed to the significant inhibition ability of the main chemical entadamide A-β-D-glucopyranoside found in the vegetable.

However, the mechanism of phytochemicals associated with the causes of breast cancer cell death was not identified in the study.

Taken altogether, leeks may be considered a functional food for the prevention and treatment of breast cancer, pending to the confirmation of the larger sample size and multicenter human study.


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Sources
(1) Comparative Study of Onion (Allium cepa) and Leek (Allium ampeloprasum): Identification of Organosulphur Compounds by UPLC-QTOF/MS and Anticancer Effect on MCF-7 Cells by Zamri N1, Hamid HA. (PubMed)