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# Lignan Reduces Risk of Breast Cancer Death
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/lignan_reduces_risk_of_breast_cancer_death_1110100745/
- Published: 2010-10-11T08:44:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T15:43:22.000Z
- Description: Among 112 women with breast cancer, postmenopausal patients in the highest quartile of dietary lignan intake were 71% less likely to die of breast cancer and 51% less likely to die of any cause than those in the lowest quartile. High dried bean intake tracked with 39% lower breast cancer death risk.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Phytochemicals, Nutrition, Breast Cancer, Lignan, #vivvo-import

A new study suggests that high intake of dietary lignan may help breast cancer patients reduce their risk of dying from breast cancer.

The study led by Susan E. McCann from Roswell Park Cancer Institute in New York shows that of postmenopausal women, those who had the highest quartile of lignan intakes were 51 percent less likely to die from all causes and were 71 percent less likely to die from breast cancer compared with those who had the lowest quartile of lignan intakes.

For the study, McCann et al. examined the association between dietary lignan intakes and survival in 112 women with breast cancer diagnosed between 1996 and 2001.

The researchers also found high intakes of dried beans were associated with 39 percent reduced risk of breast cancer death. The association was not found with fruits, vegetables or grains.

The findings suggest, according to the authors of the study, that higher lignan intakes may be associated with improved survival among postmenopausal women with breast cancer.

Flax seed is one of the plant seeds that contain highest amounts of lignans.

More reports will be published here on foodconsumer.org in the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month to help readers to better understand the disease.

Breast cancer is expected to be diagnosed in more than 200,000 people and kill about 50,000 in 2010 in the United States, according to the National Cancer Institute. One in eight women are expected to develop the disease in their lifetime.

David Liu

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