Soy Products and Breast Cancer.Focuses on the study of the use of soy products in the prevention of breast cancer.EBSCO_bspWall Street Journal Eastern Edition
"For years, I've been trying to dispel the myth about soy and breast cancer. And it seems that the message still isn't out because almost every day, every patient I see is worried about consumingsoy products," says Dr. Mussallem. Soy is packed with isoflavones, which is a type of p...
Are soy products healthy additions to a person's diet, safe alternatives to hormone-replacement therapy or cancer-causing agents" The answer, according to University of Illinois food science and human nutrition professor William Helferich, is, "It depends." He reviews the science linking breast can...
"For women with hormone-receptor-negative breast cancer, soy food products may potentially have a beneficial effect and increase survival. Women who did not receive endocrine therapy as a treatment for their breast cancer had a weaker, but still statistically significant, association." The investigato...
ContextSoy foods are rich in isoflavones, a major group of phytoestrogens that have been hypothesized to reduce the risk of breast cancer. However, the
Soy beans, tofu and other soy products are inexpensive protein sources. Soy controversy: The controversy around soy stems from the fact that it is a source ofisoflavones. Isoflavones are a type of phytoestrogen, a compound in plants that has a chemical make-upsimilar(not the same) to estrogen...
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...
The association of fermented soy products, separately from total soy products, with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and total cancer has not been reported. We examined this association in a population-based prospective cohort study in Japan. We studied 79,6
Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer in women worldwide, resulting in a high mortality rate and high costs for public coffers. Increasing evidence has shown that lifestyle factors, including diet, may modify the risk for BC. For example, dietary
Current evidence suggests soy products may reduce the risk of breast cancer and breast cancer recurrence. The American Cancer Society supports these findings. They find that eating traditional soy foods may lower the risk of breast cancer. Soy foods are also linked to lower rates of heart disease...