{"id":126024,"date":"2021-08-09T08:22:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T15:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/frequent-peanut-consumption-may-increase-cancer-spread-in-patients"},"modified":"2021-08-09T08:22:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T15:22:35","slug":"frequent-peanut-consumption-may-increase-cancer-spread-in-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/frequent-peanut-consumption-may-increase-cancer-spread-in-patients","title":{"rendered":"Frequent Peanut Consumption May Increase Cancer Spread in Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/frequent-peanut-consumption-may-increase-cancer-spread-in-patients.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The possible impact of heavy peanut consumption by cancer patients on survival will need to be investigated in further population-based epidemiological studies.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong><em>Summary: <\/em><\/strong><em>A new study reports cancer patients who frequently eat peanuts may be at increased risk of their cancer spreading. Researchers found Peanut agglutinin (PNA), a carbohydrate-binding protein that enters blood circulation after a peanut is eaten, interacts with endothelial cells to produce cytokines. Some of the cytokines are recognized promoters of cancer metastasis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source: <\/em><\/strong><em>University of Liverpool<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A study by University of Liverpool researchers has identified new factors accompanying previous findings that frequent consumption of peanuts by cancer patients could increase risk of cancer spread.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The study, published in <em>Carcinogenesis<\/em>, shows that Peanut agglutinin (PNA) \u2014 a carbohydrate-binding protein that rapidly enters into the blood circulation after peanuts are eaten \u2014 interacts with blood vascular wall (endothelial) cells to produce molecules called cytokines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The possible impact of heavy peanut consumption by cancer patients on survival will need to be investigated in further population-based epidemiological studies. Summary: A new study reports cancer patients who frequently eat peanuts may be at increased risk of their cancer spreading. Researchers found Peanut agglutinin (PNA), a carbohydrate-binding protein that enters blood circulation after [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}