Diet & Nutrition

Excess dietary omega 6 speeds breast cancer by altering gene activity

Published in Women's Health Weekly, November 11th, 2004

Experiments carried out by scientists at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) on experimentally-induced breast cancer tumors in laboratory rats show that an excess of certain fats in the diet, commonly known as omega-6, accelerates breast cancer, increasing the malignancy of the disease.

The research team at the Departament de Biologia Cellular, de Fisiologia i d'Immunologia of the UAB has identified four genes, one which has a completely unknown function, whose expression may be involved in this effect caused by dietary lipids. More extensive research into these genes is required to discover whether the mechanism discovered works in the same way in human breast...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2004-11-11)

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