[Christine MH-UK]

The Nurse's Study looked into this matter and unfortunately found no link between the omega3 to omega6 consumption and breast cancer survival. Now, perhaps the problem is that they didn't divide up the women into different groups, since omega3 to omega6 seems to be more strongly linked to hormone non-responsive cancers, which are in the minority (in the west at least). I don't think anyone has looked at her2 incidence, survival and diet.

As usual, more work is needed on this to determine whether the best diet for different her2+++ patients is low-fat (which worked well in node-negative er-,pr- women in a recent trial), high omega3 to omega 6 or high omega 9+3 to omega 6.

Avoiding foods high in omega 6 is probably a good idea anyway because it is hard on the heart.