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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / April 2005Flax Seed and Prostate Cancer
My doctor recommended me for a randomized trial that involves ground flax seed. Has anyone else been involved in a study, and do you have any comment about doing so positive or negative? I felt like I was doing something helpful, so everyday I take 30 grams of ground flax seed. Supposedly this stuff has the highest natural source of something called "Omega 3 fatty acids". From what I have read, this may slow the progression of prostate cancer, and metastasis, but it is not a cure by any means. It is a little bit of a problem to get down because it does not mix well, especially in milk. It lumps up. I ended up using plain tap water and just drinking it down. The flavor is not bad. The closest I can come to for a comparison would be Grape Nuts. Just curious if I was the only guinea pig out here? Thank you. David. > My doctor recommended me for a randomized trial that involves ground > flax seed. Has anyone else been involved in a study, and do you have any [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Thank you. > David. Also great stuff for your diet in general... us Atkins users have been using it for years.  SignatureJK Sinrod Long Island NY Sinrod Stained Glass www.sinrodstudios.com Coney Island Memories www.sinrodstudios.com/coneymemories David I have been taking Omega 3 for a number of years. For a couple of years I was taking ground flax seed mixed with orange juice. I've been taking omega 3 to help with my clogged arteries. I don't want to rain on your parade, but I was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer that has spread to my bones. Jim > My doctor recommended me for a randomized trial that involves ground >flax seed. Has anyone else been involved in a study, and do you have any [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Thank you. >David. Jim Sorry to hear the bad news. Fight it fiercefully and best of luck in winning that battle. Reuben >David >I have been taking Omega 3 for a number of years. For a couple of [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >> Thank you. >>David. Gotta ask: has flaxseed kept you on the toity doing paperwork for 10 minutes at a time many times a day because it produces pretty much a continuous gooey extrusion? (No WONDER so few hecklers bother this forum.) My TP consumption increased at least 500% on even just a few grams of flaxseed. OTOH, I also realized within the following year that I had become lactose intolerant. I now wonder whether THAT explains the flaxseed problem. I.P. > Jim > Sorry to hear the bad news. [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] >>> Thank you. >>>David. That seems to be the experience of most people here. Regardless of how well or poorly we've eaten in our lives, we all get Prostate Cancer. Do have the numbers? PSA? Gleason? I assume the stage is T4. SignaturePSA 16 10/17/2000 @ 46 Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c RRP 12/15/2000 G7 (3+4), T3cN0M0 Neg margins PSA .1 .1 .1 .27 .37 .75 EBRT 05-07/2002 @ 47 PSA .34 .22 .15 .21 .32 Lupron 07/03 (1 mo) 8/03 (4 mo), 12/03, 4/04, 09/04, 01/05 PSA .07 .05 .06 .05 non Illegitimi carborundum > David > I have been taking Omega 3 for a number of years. For a couple of [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Thank you. > >David. > That seems to be the experience of most people here. Regardless of how well > or poorly we've eaten in our lives, we all get Prostate Cancer. > ... It's clearly true that dietary prescriptions haven't prevented people from getting cancer. Still, I'm glad they're doing trials like this. It may be that the treatment group has a small but statistically significant improvement in getting cancer, in the delay until onset, the delay until symptoms, or in the delay until death. If any of those are true, it's something worth knowing about. Most of the dietary studies done are "in vitro", i.e., in test tubes and petri dishes. Without clinical trials like these we don't know for sure whether the in vitro studies are giving us useful information or not. So I'm glad that David is participating in this trial. Alan On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 20:45:44 GMT, "David Detchemendy" <DDETCHEMENDY@nc.rr.com> wrote: > My doctor recommended me for a randomized trial that involves ground >flax seed. Has anyone else been involved in a study, and do you have any [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Thank you. >David. David, What is interesting is that flax seed (and soy) will definitely prevent prostate cancer. However, if you already have prostate cancer cells, then it will cause the cancer to undergo apoptosis at a lower rate, resulting in an increased overall rate of prostate cancer growth. Ordinarily, this increase is very minor, but for individuals taking 5AR2 inhibitors or individuals with AIPC lacking function iAR, then the increase is significant. Ed Friedman |
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