The Role of Soy in Breast Cancer Prevention

Soy and soy isoflavones come up here. What are your thoughts on the inclusion of soy in someone's diet? We do know that certain estrogens or estrogen metabolites can be increased with increased consumption of soy. In the prevention or risk reduction stage that certain estrogen metabolites can actually be protective against breast cancer development. There was a study conducted by Dr. Jackie Bromberg where we looked at individuals who had been diagnosed with breast cancer and they volunteered to drink either a soy based shake before undergoing their breast surgery. And what we found were in the tumors of those individuals who consumed high doses of soy there were genetic programs that were turned on that would suggest that cellular replication cancer cell replication would

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