Olive oil may protect against breast cancer

Olive oil may protect against breast cancer

Male U.S. researchers that the benefits of olive oil, which recently reached the prevention and treatment of breast cancer, according to news magazine Annals of Oncology American in the number of recently released, the research team Medical College Weinberg at Northwestern University conducted a series laboratory experiments on cells derived from cancers of the breast tumors and found that the oleic acid found in abundance in olive oil has led to low levels of carcinogenic gene and gene code name of Her-2/neu by almost 46%, and this gene leads to the conversion of normal cells into cancer cells.
According to team head researcher Dr Javier Menendez, the conclusion reached by the research team explain why low rate of injury peoples of the Mediterranean breast cancer, heart disease and aging, and as a result they follow patterns food include eating relatively large amounts of olive oil.
This study showed that the benefits of acid oleic found in olive oil Increase the efficiency of drug Hersiptin, and this property stimulates the immune system in humans to attack cancer cells that contain a high proportion of the gene carcinogenic, but the research team is trying to know the exact mechanisms at the molecular level to work oleic acid and its role in the inhibition of gene carcinogenic, it was found that the inhibitory effect works according to a mechanism different from that which works out drug Hersiptin.
For their part, have said the research team they are currently seeking funding for further testing to know the effect of eating large amounts of olive oil on the inhibition of gene carcinogenic private tumors mammary human being cultivated in experimental animals Will restrict the spread of cancer where, as well as come to know effect of eating foods that contain larger amounts of oleic acid on the work drug Hersiptin.
Mention here that the Her-2/neu gene resides in high proportions in 20% of women with breast cancer, as proven by its association with other types of tumors.