Zare ommolbanin - MCS of Midwifery, Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Sciences, University of IslamicAzad Babol branch

BACKGROUND and OBJECTIVE:Walnuts contain bioactive molecules that may contribute to their beneficial effects , including alphalinolenic acid and phytosterols.MATERIAL and METHOD: To present this review article, researcher used Walnut and breast cancer as key words and searched the google scholar, Cochrane library ,Up-to-date and Pub-med sites, and the result was 15 articles, that after study all of them carefully we selected 5 of them, and use their data in this article. Findings: Several studies suggest that regular consumption of nuts, mostly walnuts, may have beneficial effectsagainst oxidative stress mediated diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer . Walnuts contain several phenolic compounds which are thought to contribute to their biological properties. Discussion and Conclusions: The results obtained herein strongly indicate that walnut tree constitute an excellent source of effective natural antioxidants and chemopreventive agents.

Walnut and Breast Cancer