Ginger script

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GINGER FIGHTS CANCER (running time = 1:36)

SUGGESTED INTRO: MEDICAL RESEARCHERS IN CLEVELAND BELIEVE THAT CHEMICAL EXTRACTS OF GINGER ROOT MAY INHITIB THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOME FORMS OF SKIN CANCER. MORE ABOUT THEIR RESEARCH IN THIS REPORT:

VIDEO: Front entrance of CWRU medical research facility.

VOICEOVER: MEDICAL RESEARCHERS AT CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ARE STUDYING THE OIL OF GINGER ROOT TO SEE IF IT CONTAINS CANCER-FIGHTING PROPERTIES. HASAN MUKHTAR LEADS THE GINGER STUDY. HE BECAME INTERESTED IN GINGER WHEN HE DISCOVERED THAT ZINGERONE, A CHEMICAL FOUND IN IT, IS AN EFFECTIVE ANTIOXIDANT AND ANTI-INFLAMMATORY COMPOUND. MUKHTAR THEN BEGAN TO TEST GINGER EXTRACTS CONTAINING ZINGERONE FOR EFFECTIVENESS IN PREVENTING VARIOUS FORMS OF SKIN CANCER.

SOT & SUGGESTED SUPER:

HASAN MUKHTAR, CWRU PROFESSOR OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY

[pronounced: hah-SAHN MOOK-tar]

(OUTCUE: "... is affording protection against cancer.") (:16)

VIDEO: Mukhtar lab shots.

VOICEOVER: MUKHTAR'S RESEARCH TEAM TOPICALLY APPLIED GINGER EXTRACTS TO THE SKIN OF LABORATORY MICE AND CHALLENGED THEM WITH CANCER-CAUSING AGENTS. OTHER TEST GROUPS WERE CHALLENGED WITH CANCEROUS AGENTS WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF GINGER. THE GINGER-TREATED GROUP EFFECTIVELY RESISTED CANCERS, WHILE THE UNTREATED GROUPS DEVELOPED TUMORS.

SOUND BITE: Hasan Mukhtar

(OUTCUE: "protects mice from developing cancer.") (:15)

VIDEO: Lab shots

VOICEOVER: PROFESSOR MUKHTAR STRESSES THAT HOPES FOR GINGER'S CANCER-FIGHTING ABILITIES LIE IN PREVENTING SKIN CANCERS, NOT TREATING EXISTING ONES, AND THAT MANY MORE STUDIES ARE NEEDED BEFORE DOCTORS CAN BE CERTAIN OF ITS EFFECTIVENESS FOR HUMANS.

THIS IS TOM SHROUT REPORTING FROM CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, CLEVELAND.

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