Fish Oil And Supplements Linked To Greater Chemotherapy Resistance
Thursday, April 2, 2015 - 12:00
in Health & Medicine
Patients with cancer often adopt lifestyle changes and those include being sold on the benefits of supplements, but there is growing concern about the use of supplements while taking anti-cancer drugs due to possible effect on treatment outcomes. A new study has found that consuming three kinds of fish oils, as well as the fish herring and mackerel, raised blood levels of the fatty acid 16:4(n-3), which experiments in mice have found may induce resistance to chemotherapy used to treat cancer. read more