Olive oil protects against breast cancer

U.S. researchers said that olive oil may help in the prevention and treatment of breast cancer. This came in a study published in the journal Annals of Oncology U.S. in this month. The members of the research team Weinberg School of Medicine at the University of Northwestern series of laboratory experiments on cells derived from 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 carcinogenic gene that leads to the transformation of normal cells into cancer cells. According to Dr. Javier Menendez, who led the study, these results may explain the low rate of injury peoples of the Mediterranean breast cancer, heart disease and aging, and as a result of their followers food patterns include eating relatively large amounts of olive oil. The study pointed out that the oleic acid raise the efficiency and effectiveness of drug Hersiptin, a drug induces the immune system to attack cancer cells that contain a high percentage of carcinogenic gene. The research team is now working on trying to explore 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. As researchers are trying to get funding to conduct experiments to see whether eating larger quantities of olive oil leads to inhibition of gene carcinogenic in cancerous tumors mammary human cultured in laboratory animals, and whether it will lead to restrict the spread of these cancers, and then to explore the effect of taking food containing larger amounts of oleic acid on the work drug Hersiptin. Although there is strong evidence the protective role of fatty acids monounsaturated Khamad oleic reduce risk of breast cancer according to studies conducted on women from southern European countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea, the studies conducted on animals yielded results consistent with this evidence. Perhaps due to the fact that doses of olive oil that has been given to experimental animals, whether or not mixed with other ingredients. It is worth mentioning that earlier studies confirmed that the Her-2/neu gene resides in high proportions in 20% of women with breast cancer, as proven by its association with the types of fast-spreading tumors that are difficult to predict its behavior.

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