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# Bitter melon may help prevent colon cancer
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/bitter_melon_may_help_prevent_colon_cancer_0807160539/
- Published: 2016-08-07T06:37:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-15T14:39:49.000Z
- Description: A citation for a 2013 paper by Kwatra and colleagues reporting that methanolic extracts of bitter melon inhibited colon cancer stem cells by affecting energy homeostasis and autophagy.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Food, Nutrition, #vivvo-import

### [Methanolic extracts of bitter melon inhibit colon **cancer**stem cells by affecting energy homeostasis and autophagy](http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/2013/702869/abs/?ref=foodconsumer.org)

[D Kwatra](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=E5EBo3IAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra&ref=foodconsumer.org), [D Subramaniam](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mg3J8TwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra&ref=foodconsumer.org), P Ramamoorthy… - Evidence-Based …, 2013 - hindawi.com