Flaxseed may slow prostate cancer

Better Nutrition, Oct, 2007

NEW RESEARCH FROM Duke University indicates flaxseed may slow the growth of prostate cancer tumors. A month before 160 men were scheduled to have surgery for prostate cancer, researchers divided the men into four groups: Subjects received either 30 g of ground flaxseed, flaxseed with a low-fat diet, a low-fat diet without flaxseed, or no diet change or supplement intake.

The men underwent surgery as planned. Researchers then examined the tumors and found that the cancer cells grew 30-40 percent slower in men with flaxseed in their diets.