Pink Girl - One of `those coincidences' I came across this doing a spur of the moment search on google on flax and HER2 - it was my first pick on the 1st page and had no mention of the Princess Margaret hospital in the title (see above post) !
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The results of this clinical trial are in agreement with previous clinical and preclinical studies showing antitumor effects of flaxseed in prostate cancer patients (53), carcinogen-treated rats (32), athymic mice with established ER-positive (33), or ER-negative breast cancers (34, 35), and tumor-bearing transgenic mice (54). The 5% or 10% flaxseed diet used in the animal studies is approximately equivalent to 25 to 30 g of flaxseed given to patients with breast or prostate cancer, depending on the amount of other foods consumed. Our results are also in line with epidemiologic studies showing that high levels of lignan intake (26), plasma or urinary excretion of mammalian lignans (23–25) or high levels of {alpha}-linolenic acid in adipose tissues (28) are associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer."
Dietary Flaxseed Alters Tumor Biological Markers in Postmenopausal Breast Cancer
Lilian U. Thompson1, Jian Min Chen1, Tong Li2, Kathrin Strasser-Weippl2 and Paul E. Goss3
Authors' Affiliations: 1 Department of Nutritional Sciences, 2
Princess Margaret Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and 3 Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
http://clincancerres.aacrjournals.or...ull/11/10/3828