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A fruit in supermarket aisles is gaining credibility in Western medicine for its anti-cancer powers. The papaya's dramatic anti-cancer effects have been studied in a wide range of lab-grown tumors. University of Florida researcher, Doctor Nam Dang and his colleagues in Japan have studied the papaya and how it works with cancerous tumors of the cervix, breast, liver, lung and pancreas. The researchers made a tea with an extract from dried papaya leaves. The larger the doses of the tea that were given, the stronger the anti-cancer effects. Dang says the papaya extract did not show any toxic effects on normal cells, which is common and harmful in many cancer therapy treatments. For the next step in researching this anti-cancer fruit, Doctor Dang will identify the specific compounds in the papaya extract that actively work against the cancer cell lines.