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2008-7-3  |     NEWSPAPER EDITION

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-- Adverstisement --

JUST a few more portions of broccoli each week may protect men from prostate cancer, researchers reported yesterday.

It is believed a chemical in the food sparks hundreds of genetic changes, activating some genes that fight cancer and switching off others that fuel tumors, said Richard Mithen, a biologist at Britain's Institute of Food Research.