Leading researcher, Ajay Goel, PhD, discusses the potential cancer-fighting and cancer-preventing properties of curcumin extract. He also describes his latest study involving curcumin BCM-95 for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Goel explains why curcumin is effective and how it benefits overall health.

Ajay Goel, PhD, is director of epigenetics and cancer prevention at the Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Lab at Baylor Univeristy Medical Center in Dallas. He has spent 20 years researching cancer and has been the lead author or contributor to more than 100 scientific articles published in peer-reviewed international journals and several book chapters. He is currently researching the prevention of gastrointestinal cancers using integrative and alternative approaches, including botanical products. Two of the primary botanicals he is investigating are curcumin (from turmeric) and boswellia. Goel is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research and the American Gastroenterology Association and is on the international editorial boards of World Journal of Gastroenterology and World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology. He also performs peer-reviewing activities for almost 50 scientific journals, as well as serves on various grant funding committees of the National Institutes of Health.