Flaxseed-fed chickens shed light on ovarian cancer
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - 12:24
in Health & Medicine
URBANA -- In the race to find answers about ovarian cancer, researchers now have something to cluck about. For five years, University of Illinois researchers have been using the chicken as a model to study this deadly disease and have recently discovered that a diet enriched with flaxseed decreases severity of ovarian cancer and increases survival in hens.