Breast Cancer: Flax seed meal could be “the risk of death by 40 percent”
By Claire Bates
Last modified at 03:31 on 14 September 2011 update
Food flaxseed may increase the risk of death from breast cancer later in life to help increase an average of 40 percent, scientists say.
Foods, seeds, grains and vegetables contain special herbal ingredients called phytoestrogens are lignans are most important.
researchers found these compounds to kill cancer cells and prevents secondary tumors by stopping the growth of new blood vessels.
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Food for thought: Flaxseed lignans enterolactone are rich in turn, into the intestine. Scientists thought they had a protective effect against breast cancer
Once in the body, these phytoestrogens estrogen lay, the female sex, and is believed to protect against cancer.
German researchers analyzed blood samples from more than 1,000 premenopausal women with breast cancer diagnosed over a period of three years.
They analyzed the level of enterolactone, which is what phytoestrogens when they reach the intestine.
The results showed that women can be reduced with the highest levels of enterolactone their two fifths mortality compared to women with the lowest of the same substance.
You have also shown that high enterolactone also the same level of protection against the spread of cancer and the formation of secondary tumors.
A radiologist assesses a mammogram: The researchers looked at postmenopausal women
There is also a clue as to why Asian women affected by breast cancer less frequently.
The soy diet contains large quantities of a different type of phytoestrogens called isoflavones.
Study author Professor Jenny Chang-Claude, the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg said: “We now have the first clear evidence that lignans not only the risk of developing breast cancer after menopause, but also the mortality risk
‘This is reason to believe that enterolactone protects against cancer, not only for its hormone-like effect.
“In fact, the studies on cells and animals is already evidence that the substance acts independently on the growth of cancer cells by estrogen.
” Well, it promotes cell death and prevents sprouting of blood vessels. “
“By eating a diet rich in whole grains, seeds and vegetables is a benefit to health, everyone is already enough lignans can,” she said.
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