Flaxseeds & Breast Cancer Survival: Clinical Evidence
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2013-04-10

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DESCRIPTION: A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial of flaxseeds in breast cancer patients finds flax appears to have the potential to reduce tumor growth in just a matter of weeks. The population data I mention at the beginning is from the previous video Flaxseeds & Breast Cancer Survival: Epidemiological Evidence (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/flaxseeds-breast-cancer-survival-epidemiological-evidence/). And before that, the role lignan phytonutrients may play in prevention: Flaxseeds & Breast Cancer Prevention (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/flaxseeds-breast-cancer-prevention/).
 
I have some more videos coming up on the role diet plays in angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels to enable tumors to grow, but I have touched on it already in Cancer as an Autoimmune Disease and How Tumors Use Meat to Grow: Xeno-Autoantibodies.
 
The results here are similar to what was found with the other class of phytoestrogens found in soy (Breast Cancer Survival and Soy). A study similar to this was carried out in prostate cancer patients: Flaxseed vs. Prostate Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/flaxseed-vs-prostate-cancer/). This is the final video of a series on flax. Also feel free to check out the ones on diabetes (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/flaxseed-vs-diabetes/) and sensitive skin (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/flaxseeds-for-sensitive-skin/).

Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/flaxseeds-breast-cancer-survival-clinical-evidence/ and he'll try to answer it!

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