Patients receiving virtually all types of chemotherapy have been advised not to take fish oil supplements because they can make chemotherapy drugs ineffective, researchers from the University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands wrote in the journal Cancer Cell. Fish oils contain two fatty acids which make the tumors resistant to treatment. These fatty acids are also produced by stem cells in the blood, the authors add. The authors explained that chemotherapy commonly loses its effectiveness over time, and scientists are not completely sure why this happens...
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