Abstract

Cancer is a group of over 100 different types of malignancies and there are several potential substances in green leafy vegetables GLV and cruciferous vegetables CV that my exhibit anticancer effects 1 GLV are leaf vegetables greens vegetable greens leafy greens or salad greens They come from a very wide variety of plants all over the world with nearly one thousand species of plants with edible leaves are known Table 1 shows 11 of these GLV and some of the elements and phytochemicals that may reduce the incidence of cancer and these same GLV are high in Vitamin C Vitamin E Vitamin K and Vitamin A 2