HOT PEPPERS TORCH CANCER CELLS.

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Capsaicin the pungent ingredient that gives hot peppers their kick causes prostate cancer cells to self-destruct, a finding that opens the possibility of a new treatment for the most common cancer in Canadian men.

Reporting today in the journal Cancer Research, scientists from the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at the University of California at Los Angeles found the pepper extract enhances apoptosis, a kind of celluar suicide, in prostate tumours.