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Breast cancer is the second highest cancer killer of American women after lung cancer. It was responsible for around 40,580 deaths in 2004 and contributes significantly to cancer's overall cost to society of $219 billion yearly. Many treatments still rely heavily on chemotherapy. However, now a new study has found that DHA, a fat in fish oil, might help improve the result of breast cancer chemotherapy.
25 breast cancer patients who were in the process of getting chemotherapy were given either a placebo or 1.8 g of DHA daily. The researchers then measured DHA blood levels and kept an eye on their survival over an average of 31 months. Those with high DHA (blood levels above 2.5% DHA) had a 47% longer (34 months vs. 18 months) survival time compared to those with low DHA (blood levels below 2.5%). The higher group also took 148% longer for progression of cancer than the low DHA group (8.7 months vs. 3.5 months).
Researchers concluded that DHA used during chemotherapy did not have adverse side effects and could actually improve the results of chemotherapy.
SOURCE: Bougnoux P. Improving outcome of chemotherapy of metastatic breast cancer by docosahexaenoic acid: a phase II trial. Br J Cancer 101: 1978-1985; advance online publication, November 17, 2009;
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