Lijnzaad tegen borstkanker.*

Volgens een wetenschappelijk onderzoek blijkt dat 25 gram lijnzaad per dag een zeer “positieve” invloed heeft op borstkankercellen bij middelbare vrouwen. De celdeling werd afgeremd, de celdood versneld en er was een duidelijke verminderdering van een bepaald eiwit dat kankercellen produceren te weten c-erbB2. Dit laatste is wel zo belangrijk omdat hoe meer van dit eiwit geproduceerd wordt hoe agressiever de kanker is.

A study in the medical journal Clinical Cancer Research looked at how adding ground flaxseed to the diet of postmenopausal women with breast cancer would affect the "behavior" of their breast cancer tumor cells. Researchers can measure various aspects of how cancer cells are "behaving" by looking at factors such as how fast the cells are reproducing or whether the cancer cells are dying. This study found that adding 25 grams (approximately one ounce) of ground flaxseed to the diet, in the form of a flaxseed muffin, significantly decreased the rate at which the tumor cells were dividing and reproducing (cell proliferation), significantly increased the rate at which the tumor cells were dying, and significantly decreased the amount of a specific protein, called c-erbB2 (HER2/neu) that the cancer cells were producing. This last result is important because cancer cells that produce more of the c-erbB2 protein appear to be more aggressive and may be more difficult to treat. Review of Clin Cancer Res. 2005;11(10):3828-35. ( Sept. 2005)