The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has awarded $6 million over five years to the University of Chicago Medical Center to study the anti-cancer properties of herbal medicines.

Researchers at the center will study the anti-tumor effects of different preparations of the herbs American ginseng and notoginseng, which are widely used but little-studied herbal therapies for a variety of ailments, including prevention and treatment of colon cancer.

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