Table 5 The beneficial effects of kefir for preventing and treating sarcoma

Type of cancer	Type of culture media or animal model	Type of study design	Type of treatment by Kefir	Effected discovered after treatment
Sarcoma	Sarcoma tumor cell	Experimental	Oral administration of milk and soy milk kefirs or distilled water	Inhibition of tumor growth
	Sarcoma tumor cell	Experimental	Intraperitoneal administration of kefir or saline	Significant decrease in tumor size
	Sarcoma tumor cell	Experimental	Oral/intraperitoneal administration of KGF-C	Inhibition of growth No or little cytotoxicity

Source : Shiomi et al., 1982; Cevikbas et al., 1994; Liu et al., 2009