Pooling four cohorts covering 18,312 women with invasive breast cancer, Vanderbilt's Xiao Ou Shu found those eating more than 23 mg of soy isoflavones daily were 9 percent less likely to die and 15 percent less likely to relapse. Neither result reached statistical significance.
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Soy Foods help Prevent Breast Cancer Recurrence - Studies
Among 524 patients followed 5.1 years after breast cancer surgery, postmenopausal women with the highest soy isoflavone intake were 33 percent less likely to have a recurrence than those with the lowest. Death rates did not differ significantly between the groups.
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Soy food prevents breast cancer
A case-control study of 597 women with breast cancer and 966 without, across three Asian-American groups, tied the highest childhood soy intake to 60% lower risk. Adolescent and adult intake showed weaker links that faded after adjusting for westernization.
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