Breast Cancer

Soy estrogens and breast cancer research reported

Published in Drug Week, June 1st, 2007

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 cancer, soy and dietary supplements that contain soy phytoestrogens this month at a conference on “Diet and Optimum Health” sponsored by the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University.

Helferich has spent a decade evaluating the health effects of isoflavones, a class of plant estrogens present in high concentrations in soy. Much of his work has focused...

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Source: Drug Week (2007-06-01)

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