Food therapy - Mushroom and Ovarian cancer

Mushroom is a standard name of white button mushroom, the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus produced above ground on soil or on its food source, It is a genus A. Muscaria and belong to the family Amanitaceae and has been cultivation in many cultures all over the world for foods and health benefits.
Nutrients 
1. Carbohydrates
2. Protein
3. Thiamine (Vitamin B1)
4. Riboflavin (Vitamin B2)
5. Niacin (Vitamin B3)
6. Pantothenic acid (Vitamin B5)
7. Calcium
8. Phosphorus
9. Potassium
10. Sodium
11. Selenium
12. Iron
13. Copper
14. Zinc
15. Etc.
Chemical constituents
Astraodorol, Psilocybin, Lectin, adustin, ribonuclease, nicotine, 2-hydroxy-4-methoxy-6-methylbenzoic acid, orsellinic acid, melleolide, ergosterol, genistein, daidzein, daucosterol, genistin, uracil and D-mannitol(a).


1. Button Mushroom and Ovarian cancer
Ovarian cancer is defined as a condition of abnormal cells growth of ovarian cells as that have become cancerous. It is one of most common cancer in US, according to the statistics adapted from the American Cancer Society's publication, Cancer Facts & Figures 2010, an estimated 21,880 women in the United States will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer and 13,850 deaths.
button mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus), in scientific literature suggests that dietary components may exert cancer preventive effects(1). According to the Curtin University and National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi, Vietnam, high levels of intake mushroom is associated to  reductions in cancer risk, especially in the incidence of epithelial ovarian cancer in southern Chinese women, in the study of 500 incident patients with epithelial ovarian cancer and 500 controls(2), But some researchers concerned that minerals of nutritional value are common constituents of mushrooms collected from natural habitats, the problem is however their co-occurrence with some hazardous elements including Cd, Pb, Hg, Ag, As, and radionuclides(3).



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References
(a) [Chemical constituents from fungus Armillaria mellea]. by [Article in Chinese] by Yuan XL¹, Yan LH, Zhang QW, Wang ZM.(PubMed)
(1) The cancer preventive effects of edible mushrooms by Xu T¹, Beelman RB, Lambert JD.(PubMed)
(2) Mushroom intake and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer in southern Chinese women by Lee AH¹, Pasalich M, Su D, Tang L, Tran VD, Binns CW.(PubMed)
(3) Macro and trace mineral constituents and radionuclides in mushrooms: health benefits and risks. by Falandysz J¹, Borovička J.(PubMed)