October 4/Stockholm/University of Lund -- A group of scientists in Sweden found that a milk protein with known health effects reduces the growth rate of colon cancer cells over time.
According to Medical News, the protein in the milk is the lengthy named lactoferricin4-14 (Lfcin4-14). The protein appears to prolong the period of the cancerous cell cycle before chromosomes are replicated, thereby slowing the rate of the cancer spreading.