Broccoli Helps Against Ulcers, Cancer
(Washington, MSNBC News, 5/28/2003)

Jed W. Fahey of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and colleagues have found that, in lab experiments on mice, sulforophane, a chemical in broccoli, kills Helicobacter pylori, a bacteria associated with both ulcers and stomach cancer. The investigators say that it is significant that this plant-based chemical can kill the bacteria whether it is outside or inside a cell; whereas conventional antibiotics typically cannot reach this type of bacteria when it "hides" within the cells that line the stomach.