date:Aug 06, 2012
The study showed that consumption of soy food products postdiagnosis was associated with significantly reduced risk of recurrence and moderately decreased risk of death from breast cancer.
The study was conducted by S.J. Nechuta of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, TN and colleagues.
The researchers wrote in their study report that soy isoflavones possess antiestrogenic and anticancer properties but also estrogen-like properties, which make it difficult to tell whether s