Flaxseed no help for hot flashes during breast cancer or menopause, study finds

Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - 16:30 in Health & Medicine

A study by Mayo Clinic physician and North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG) researcher Sandhya Pruthi, M.D., and colleagues found that flaxseed provided no benefit in easing hot flashes among breast cancer patients and postmenopausal women. The study is in the current online version of the journal Menopause.

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