Researchers at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Carbondale are trying to determine how flaxseed helps prevent deaths from ovarian cancer in chickens, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on Jan. 19, 2012.

Turns out chickens and women have a lot in common, physiology department chair Dale “Buck” Hales has discovered.

Hales began searching more than 10 years ago for an animal model to study the link between inflammation and ovarian cancer in women. He focused on the 2-year-old hen, which he found has ovulated about the same number of times as a woman who has reached menopause, when ovarian cancer manifests.

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