1. Myth: All soy foods raise your risk for breast cancer. There’s no need to banish tofu and edamame from your diet. “For years, soy got a bad rap because of its isoflavones,” says Marleen Meyers, MD, director of the Perlmutter Cancer Center Survivorship Program at NYU Langone Medica...
Oncology Soy and breast cancer THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM Tim R. Nagy Virk-BakerMandeep KThe incidence of breast cancer is lower in Asia as compared to Western countries. However, the breast cancer risk among Asian immigrants living in Western countries reaches nearly as high as ...
Soy contains isoflavones, which are plant estrogens. High estrogen levels have been linked to an increased risk of breast cancer. However, studies show that soy products don't contain high enough levels of estrogen to increase the chances of developing breast cancer. Ad Dr. Dawn Mussallem, a ...
The incidence of breast cancer is lower in Asia as compared to Western countries. However, the breast cancer risk among Asian immigrants living in Western countries reaches nearly as high as the Western country, suggesting environmental factors (e.g. diet and lifestyle) may be important for this...
ContextSoy foods are rich in isoflavones, a major group of phytoestrogens that have been hypothesized to reduce the risk of breast cancer. However, the
For years, one of the things that breast cancer survivors have been the most fearful of is soybeans and soy products. Somehow many years ago there came the belief that soy because it contains “phytoestrogens”, could stimulate the recurrence of breast cancer. The word estrogen has scared ever...
Epidemiological studies have noted an inverse relationship between dietary soy and breast cancer.1-3 However, in vitro and animal studies on selected isoflavones have found that they stimulated cell division and tumor growth rates.4-5 Cell studies have also shown positive6-7 and ne... 年份: 201...
WASHINGTON, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Soy foods are not only safe for women diagnosed with breast cancer, but may even help some patients live longer, a new study said Monday. It has long been controversial as to whether women diagnosed with breast cancer should be advised to eat more or less...
Although isoflavones, such as those found in soy, have been shown to inhibit breast cancer in laboratory studies, associations between consumption of isoflavone-containing foods and breast cancer risk have been inconsistent in epidemiologic studies. We evaluated the relationship between isoflavone consumptio...
Breast cancer outcomes and soy intakeThe article presents a study conducted on Chinese breast cancer survivors provided by the Shanghai Breast Cancer Survival Study which showed that soy intake lowered the risk of mortali...