30 January 2013 A recent study in the journal Cancer compared patients with early stage breast cancer who underwent lumpectomy with radiation to patients who underwent mastectomy, and found that the patients who underwent lumpectomy had a better overall survival. It is important to realize that this is an “observational study”, meaning the researchers went back to older data and…
Read more15 January 2013 Much has been written regarding the role of soy and breast cancer, but much confusion remains. While research in this area is active, here is what we know: Soy is an isoflavone, a class of chemical that has weak estrogen-like activity. We know that women in Asian countries, following a traditional diet, have a lower incidence of…
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