RESEARCH UPDATE

Ginger eases nausea in patients with cancer

Researchers found that people who took ginger capsules several days before chemotherapy had fewer and less severe bouts of nausea than those taking placebos.

The study’s results will be presented at the 2009 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting on May 30. The study involved 644 patients from cancer centres around the United States who had suffered nausea in a previous round of chemotherapy.

Source: 2009 ASCO Annual Meeting Abstracts