Sri Vijaya Puram, Dec. 15: Padma Shri awarded renowned scientist Dr Ajai Kumar Sonkar told that nowadays there is a flood of knowledge on social media for the treatment and elimination of cancer. Which can prove fatal for anyone. As an example, he told that turmeric is very useful for eliminating cancer.

Dr Ajai, a scientist who has studied Cancer and Nutrition from Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands, told that an active component called Curcumin is found in turmeric which is cytotoxic which means that it has the ability to kill cells, experiments have found that Curcumin is particularly effective against cancer stem cells which are aggressive and resistant to treatment.